Liverpool beats Bournemouth 1-0 in Premier League

Mark Hughes meanwhile believed otherwise by saying, “I do not think any team deserved the win, a draw would have been the fair result”.

Promoted Bournemouth are still waiting for their first English Premier League points after succumbing to a controversial Christian Benteke goal in a 1-0 defeat at Liverpool.

When Jose Mourinho returned to the Premier League for the 2013-14 season, journalists all over England played up the mentorship relationship between the Portuguese manager and his former protégé Brendan Rodgers every time Chelsea and Liverpool met that season. Brendan Rodgers will be hopeful that his new skipper will be fit for the trip to Arsenal next Monday.

“I can’t profess to be any sort of genius, it was fortunate he stayed on and he scored the victor and we won the game“.

“Why not [can’t it be better than the 2013/14 team]?”

Goalkeeper Simon Mignolet was the furthest player away from Coutinho, as he was lining up his shot, but he gave his attacking teammate some real-time advice, nonetheless. Eddie Howe’s side opted to press high and were able to restrict Liverpool to long-range efforts for the majority of the first 45 minutes.

And they’ve gone head-to-head with Rodgers twice previously in the last two seasons, showing their quality on both occasions, despite a lack of clinical finishing in their last meeting. He’s done a magnificent job.

“I thought Ibrahim Afellay was superb for us, but he exhausted towards the end, Marco van Ginkel produced a good performance too and Glen Johnson just reminded everybody what he has been for a long, long time, a very accomplished full-back”, he said. He did a magnificent job at Swansea, I think he’s doing a great job at Liverpool. “The more important thing is the clean sheet”, Benteke said.

However, while it seems possible that Enrique, Balotelli, Borini and Leiva may leave the club if offers uitable to all parties come in, Rodgers is keen to retain the services of Moreno and Markovic who arrived last summer for £12m and £20m respectively.

“This league is very physical, you’re up against really fast and incisive players”.

“It is quite young team, full of talented players that I can learn from, and the manager’s philosophy is all about developing young players. As they’ve just come up, they’ll be anxious to get those points and that could drive them on even more, so it’s going to be a hard game for us”.