Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-1 in English Premier League

They then showed their defensive mettle to hang on for a deserved 2-1 victory after Diego Costa halved the deficit.

“The beginning was brilliant”, Klopp said.

“I played against Klopp’s teams for four-and-a-half years in the Bundesliga”, former Hoffenheim forward Firmino told The Daily Mail on Thursday.

Boss Antonio Conte confirmed Luiz would make his first appearance for Chelsea since his B£34million deadline-day switch from Paris St Germain in Terry’s absence.

They should have dealt better with Philippe Coutinho’s cross, which could have been put in by any one of four unmarked Liverpool players with Lovren doing the honours.

“And then we scored the goals in other moments”.

The away side registered two shots on target inside the first two minutes, Thibaut Courtois saving from Georginio Wijnaldum and Daniel Sturridge, and they took the lead in the 17th minute. They began their campaign in style beating West Ham United at home 2-1 and overpowered Watford and Burnley before dropping two points against Swansea City.

Antonio Conte has warned Chelsea not to repeat the mistakes of last season.

“Chelsea are too strong not to have space throughout the game, but in the beginning we were brilliant”.

“I know what he wants from a player”.

For Henderson, it was a further illustration of his renaissance this season with his superb effort capping a powerful overall display.

“Since we worked together it’s always getting better”.

But despite Conte sending on Cesc Fabregas, Victor Moses and Pedro, it was Liverpool who came closest to scoring again, substitute Divock Origi’s header drawing a fine goal-line stop from Courtois. He has perhaps not been as comfortable as I would’ve thought since coming back from injury, but I would probably have him as the second best goalkeeper in the Premier League behind David de Gea. On Friday’s evidence, his team are title contenders.

“We have to reflect a lot on this game because it is important to understand the situation if we don’t want to repeat another bad season like last season”. It’s a complex game, football – one big question – and you need to have plenty of answers. I see him in every training session with great seriousness and if he continues in this way it will be very hard choice for me.

He wasn’t helped by the presence – in the loosest sense – of Nemanja Matic beside him in midfield, while Branislav Ivanovic appeared to see the return of David Luiz as some sort of challenge and set out to give a performance full of indiscipline and casual play. “We just have to do it every week, every three days”.