Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville is apparently not in favour of David Luiz’s return to Chelsea, and used a rather curious metaphor to describe the new Odd Couple at Stamford Bridge.
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Chelsea’s goal-keeper Thibaut Courtois jumps but fails to save a long-range shot from Liverpool’s Jordan Henderson to score his team’s second goal during the English Premier League match at Stamford Bridge in London.
Their schedule doesn’t get any easier as they face Arsenal next weekend and if they fail to plug the holes that Liverpool exploited, the like of Alexis Sánchez could have a field day against their newly formed defence.
It had been with a 3-1 victory on this ground that Klopp recorded his first win as Liverpool manager 11 months ago. You can imagine the conversations Conte must have had with emissaries of the club’s Russian owner: Sorry, but if you want to win the title, we must address the elephant in the room.
The Uruguay striker’s performance helped PSG end a three-game winless streak and move to the top of the league standings, level on points with Monaco.
Antonio Conte was not loving it, though, after suffering his first defeat.
The rest of the squad also appeared to still be on a high from their 2-1 win over Chelsea on Friday night. I don’t want to repeat a bad season like a year ago. For this reason, we must pay attention in every single moment of the game, in every minute.
It’s hard to compare my role here to the one I played at Newcastle. I’m the coach, so I must work more on this aspect. I have no idea, but I think it makes football much more enjoyable when you really feel this togetherness because we are often enough alone. Because this is not the first time this has happened.
Away games at Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea and Burnley have seen the Reds take seven points from a possible 12, with only the defeat to Burnley spoiling a very good start to the term.
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‘Their second goal was awesome, the first one was a quick free-kick and we must pay attention to this sort of thing because they started better than us.
