Long-time captain John Terry is set to leave the club, but he can not enjoy a public farewell as his red card in Chelseas last encounter against Sunderland meant he was suspended for the clubs final two games.
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Win that silverware and Jurgen Klopp’s team will qualify for the Champions League group stage, but should the Spanish club clinch a hat-trick of Europa League trophies it changes the picture for the Reds. In all of the (pre-season) games we will play we will play out full training. Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp has asked his players to gear up for a challenging pre-season schedule, as the German looks to build up the squad’s fitness ahead of next season. It was his ninth league goal of the season.
A good pre-season, a few good signings, and Liverpool would be in a good position to at least challenge for a top-four finish in the Premier League during the 2016-17 campaign. “We lost patience and when you lose patience in football, it’s always hard”.
Incoming manager Antonio Conte must ensure that Hazard remains at the club next season – and that he gets the best out of him – if the Blues are to once more become title contenders. We showed in the first 15 minutes what we were capable of. We lost formation because we had lost patience.
“I’d say my mind says that I can be ready but the body has to follow, so we’ll see”.
“You just want to go into the final with confidence and the only way to do that is by putting in performances”, the Liverpool goalkeeper said.
“We should have killed it off and I’m disappointed not to have the three points”.
Klopp praised Chelsea’s showing and accepted that the result could have gone in the other direction, but for a strong second-half defensive showing from his side. Maybe they could have scored the second one but Simon Mignolet did brilliantly and Kolo [Touré] and Dejan [Lovren] saved our life at this moment.
“We didn’t defend really compact but we invested a lot and it makes you exhausted”. Then in the last minute we got the sucker punch and conceded.
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“You have something like four weeks and in four weeks you can not sleep for the whole time, so you have two weeks completely off and you have a plan and you have to do it”.
