Liverpool’s first game is at Arsenal on 14 August.
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Antonio Conte’s Chelsea reveolution continued with a 1 – 0 win over Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool thanks to Gary Cahill’s first-half header in their International Champions Cup fixture. The resultant collision was certainly worythy of a red card.
“In general the biggest problem for me is that Marko Grujic is in hospital”, Jürgen Klopp said after the match. He came by us in the dressing room and said sorry.
“In this period the fatigue can sometimes bring a bit of going too late”, he said. That’s how it was.
“The ref thought from the beginning he would show yellow cards”.
Michy Batshuayi looked to be bonding with his new Chelsea team-mates as Antonio Conte’s squad prepare for their pre-season fixture against Liverpool on Thursday. And we had the problem that 80 per cent of our passing game was absolutely OK, 20 per cent not. The Merseyside club suffered plenty of times last season by conceding goals from set pieces.
The last pass is a very important pass. So we had a long way to go back to defend and not create real chances.
“That’s a challenge that can happen and is unlucky, but not too good for us”.
With the Blues 1-0 up, Fabregas lunged in for a ball that had run free.
But Klopp, who has made seven signings this summer including the £32m capture of Sadio Mane and £25m deal for Georginio Wijnaldum, is happy to adopt an all-round approach to sourcing and securing targets.
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Grujic – who was otherwise having a good game for the Merseyside club – is worrying his manager with not being able to recollect a lot of recent events. We saw a competitive game between two teams that didn’t want to lose. “And it’s probably a more exciting time in the Premier League than before because we now have seemingly the top managers in the world there and a really exciting season ahead”.
