Despite Diego Costa pulling one back for the hosts on the hour mark, Liverpool supporters hailed midfielder Henderson for putting in a captain’s performance at Stamford Bridge as they deservedly took all three points.
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The two goals conceded in the first period, though classy, could have been defended a lot better. “When you make a mistake and don’t pay attention, particularly from the free-kick, you pay”, he added.
He blamed Liverpool’s first strike – a volley from Dejan Lovren – on poor defensive awareness.
The visitors started the match on the front foot, with Daniel Sturridge’s curling effort initially slipping from the grasp of Thibaut Courtois, but the Chelsea goalkeeper quickly recovered.
The reds did the majority of their good work in the first half – dominating possession, goalscoring chances and the goals in the first 45 minutes to take a 2-0 half-time lead.
Liverpool’s scintillating and eventually decisive first half display exposed a lack of determination and fight throughout the entire Chelsea team. We need this player there in the centre who we can play with and if theres a ball behind the line sometimes, so that we can go there and can push up in the last line.
“Liverpool are looking very good”.
Diego Costa gave Chelsea some hope earlier in the second half with his fifth goal in five Premier League games.
The Brazil worldwide suffered a bloodied nose against Jurgen Klopp’s side but played on, despite the injury, as Chelsea suffered the first defeat of Antonio Conte’s tenure. Last season was a bad season and I don’t want to repeat it.
“We have 10 points and that’s fantastic – really fantastic and I am really happy about it after these hard fixtures”.
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Conte, the Chelsea manager, appeared to brush Klopp’s forgetful moment off before trudging down the Stamford Bridge tunnel to conduct his post-match team talk. “We must pay attention and be focused”. We were losing 2-0 and it was hard. I put [on] fresh players to give freshness to try to change the result.
