Chelsea needed a late goal by Diego Costa, who can’t stop scoring at the moment, to save a draw in their last game away at Swansea.
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Lovren capitalised on terrible defending to put Liverpool ahead.
Chelsea have a bunch of really good players that Conte knows are really good, but still hasn’t figured out yet.
Liverpool defence held sway, warding-off all attacks from Chelsea, carting home three maximum points. We stopped playing how we needed at some points and Chelsea got back into it.
As the game wore on Klopp beat his chest like a maniac under the bright lights as he urged his players to give their all for victory.
On Jordan Henderson’s goal: “It was nice, really nice”.
Courtois had no chance with Henderson’s screamer.
The Brazilian impressed, but Liverpool were able to capitalise on the missing leadership in the Blues’ backline, and Conte conceded the 35-year-old’s absence was felt. His 5th goal in the 5 games this season.
The forward owed a huge debt to Nemanja Matic, who wriggled into space on the byline and put in a pinpoint cross. Expect fireworks tonight at Stamford Bridge.
The goal should have given the hosts a lease of life, but it was Liverpool that regained control by slowing the game down and keeping possession shrewdly. And we had maybe the biggest chance with Divock’s header – a brilliant save.
Home or away, this squad showed today how they mean to go on: a heart-pounding, defiant style of football, against which not even the crème of the Premier League will be safe.
Having beaten Arsenal, champions Leicester City and a rejuvenated Chelsea team, Liverpool must be considered title contenders, even at this early stage in the campaign. We know we can play football and we are convinced in our quality, that is all the truth.
For Conte, this was a wake-up call. – Dejan Lovren ended a run of 64 games without a Premier League goal, last netting for Southampton against Sunderland in January 2014.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp appeared to forget to shake hands with Antonio Conte after his side’s win over Chelsea.
Klopp paid tribute to the efforts of his players.
“It was satisfying of course, the first half especially was brilliant – we played football like hell”, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp told United Kingdom broadcaster Sky Sports after his side went level on 10 points with third-placed Chelsea.
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“But when you give away two goals in this way, i think it’s very hard. After their goal, we managed it well”. “We must feel the danger and today we didn’t”. “He is such a hard worker, there was a lot of pressure on his shoulders, we try to help him to learn and handle it and he is getting better and better”.
