The Chelsea midfielder is exactly the type of player missing from Jurgen Klopp’s XI and looks likely to be out of work soon
For half an hour Liverpool owned west London. Thereafter they handed the keys back to Chelsea, and until a raft of substitutions later in the game Liverpool had no idea where they were. So dishevelled were they, it is difficult to properly assess the merits of either team, save for highlighting the imbalance of the Reds’ midfield and the sense of purpose instilled in the Blues.
In the latter regard, Mauricio Pochettino demonstrated his immediate influence. Whatever qualities his players might lack, each player knew his role and delivered it with a sense of unity that Graham Potter was unable to engender. With so many new additions to the Chelsea squad since his arrival in May that takes some doing, and if you were to identify a player that embodied this new will to power it would be the indefatigable Conor Gallagher.
