Diego Costa pulled one back for Chelsea in the 61st minute, but they failed to register a shot on target after the Spain worldwide fired straight at Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet four minutes later.
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“We have so many players here on the bench that can make a difference, we have a brilliant squad, the 25 players here, even those in the stand are top players”.
“They (Liverpool) are in a false position in the league as well”, said Pearce on Sky Sports News.
Willian turned to his lovely wife to help him get over Friday night’s disappointing 2-1 loss to Liverpool ahead of Chelsea’s trip to Arsenal next weekend. The goals we concede are unusual.
– Chelsea haven’t kept a clean sheet in any of their last seven home Premier League games against Liverpool, last doing so in October 2009.
They have also hammered reigning champions Leicester and were good value for this victory as Chelsea simply did not turn up before the interval.
“We’re acting like a team and the spirit around the club is flawless”.
As anticipated, it was a thoroughly electric encounter between Liverpool and Chelsea Friday evening at Stamford Bridge, where two first half goals from Liverpool saw them secure a vital three points away from home, despite a surge from Chelsea in the second half. I don’t want to repeat a bad season like a year ago.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp refused to countenance the suggestion his side might be Premier League title contenders following their impressive 2-1 victory at Chelsea.
“The second half we did well after they scored the goal, it was deeper passionate defending”.
Roberto Firmino missed out for Liverpool with a slight groin issue as Daniel Sturridge led the line.
Chelsea was punished for twice switching off at a free-kick on the Liverpool left. Now it’s not enough because it’s not the first time this happened.
Just two minutes later and the Spain global could have levelled the match but his instinctive effort was saved well by Simon Mignolet.
AC Milan managed to get past Sampdoria after Carlos Bacca scored a late victor to give the former Serie A champions their first win of the season.
“It was nice, really nice”, was Klopp’s verdict on the goal.
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“Jordan did well and got the benefit of all the hard work in the last few weeks with a wonderful strike”. “It was well deserved”. The Blues couldn’t manage to salvage a point this time around though, as the Reds dominated the first half and gave the home side a mountain to climb in the second.
