Jurgen Klopp Liverpool EPL
Jurgen Klopp Liverpool

Liverpool will have a big chance of getting back into the top-four of the Premier League if they can beat Chelsea at home on Thursday. But by the looks of it, Jurgen Klopp is too weary of how Thomas Tuchel will set up his side at Anfield.

While talking to the press, Jurgen Klopp tried to explain what his players will need to do to stop Chelsea from scoring and then pick up a win. But at the same time, the Liverpool boss had hinted that Tuchel is still experimenting with his starting line-up and this is something which could cause a few headaches to his own setup.

He said in his pre-match press conference: “I think, first and foremost, it’s quite difficult to get more possession than Chelsea. I think they changed maybe slightly since Frank [Lampard]. But the full package [is] required, let me say it like this.

“So you have to defend because they let the ball roll, let me say it like this. You have to work a lot and then there are situations [where] it’s not that you have the ball all the time and face a deep block.

“There will be a deep block when we can be dominant but in other moments they are just defending in the right way and use then the space you give them for counter-attacks. Patient you always have to be but I don’t think this is a game where [you have to be] specifically patient. You have to be patient in moments, you have to be lively in other moments.

“You have to be creative in moments and you have to show your desire for defending in all the moments because this is a top team and they will ask for a lot, and we should try to make sure that we have all the answers.

“I think a lot of the things we saw already in the games they played so far. They were very successful. Obviously a clear philosophy, clear idea, absolutely possession-based, different formations. He used the time and got immediate results but used the time as well to get more knowledge about the squad.

“He changed quite a lot and that’s normal with the amount of games we have, but he really changed a lot. I think pretty much all three left-backs played – Emerson played, Alonso played, Chilwell played. Centre-half maybe didn’t change that often. Up front, a lot of options, changed them, tried them all.

“Just Mason Mount, Kovacic and Jorginho are sort of like the fixed points, maybe I missed now one, but all the other positions he changed a lot, just to get all the information you need about the squad. I think now they are a step further and we will face them now. So, yeah, it will be interesting.”

Jurgen Klopp has numerous injuries to deal with so makes to many changes to his starting line-up is a luxury he just can’t afford. But as far as Thomas Tuchel is concerned, the new Chelsea boss has only one major injury concern going into this game and over the past few weeks, he has been continuously rotating his players.

Against Man United, players like Jorginho and Werner were kept on the bench but given the Blues face Liverpool just four days later, a few substitutes from Sunday’s game could feature in the first XI at Anfield.

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