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80 million.
Every pound that has cost
Kepa Arrizabalaga
to the
Chelsea
resonates strongly at
Stamford Bridge
for too many months ago.
The Spanish goalkeeper faced
Liverpool's
visit
more discussed than ever and with the London team closing the incorporation of Frenchman
Edouard Mendy
while the match was being played.
"The
announcement will be next week,
" said the renowned Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano just as
Sadio Mané
crossed in a pass from Kepa to Jorginho and easily beat the Spanish to put a 0-2 that sentenced Chelsea.
The match was already uphill for the Londoners, with one player less since the end of the first half, but
that failure of the goalkeeper
just after the 0-1 dug the grave of the 'blues'.
Chelsea came out to try to match Liverpool's football proposal, and they did it at times during the
first 45 minutes
.
The 'reds' dominated during some sections thanks to the vision of Alexander-Arnold and the electricity of Mané and Salah, but they did not see the door with much ease.
Those of Lampard, crouched back and
vertical to the counter with Havertz and Werner
, their new faces, were able to get ahead in several arrivals of the German attackers, but they were not successful.
The local midfield, made up of
Kanté, Jorginho and Kovacic
, seemed at times superior to Klopp's Wijnaldum-Keita-Henderson, so the German coach
sent Thiago Alcántara
to
warm up after
half an hour of play.
The Spanish midfielder knew that he would take to the field in his debut with the obligation to change the tonic of the game and filter balls to Mané, Salah and Firmino, a circumstance that the 'red' team was not finding.
What Thiago did not imagine is that it would be easier than it seemed.
On the
edge of the break
, Mané went ahead of
Christensen
on a long ball and, faced with Kepa's doubts at the start, forced the Danish defender to miss him.
The Senegalese would have arrived before the central defender and the Spanish goalkeeper and would have been alone in front of goal.
Light red after revision of the VAR and I find it unbalanced.
It was the perfect excuse for
Klopp, who took advantage of the intermission to change Henderson for Thiago
and gave gallons to the Spanish, who began to distribute the game.
In one of the first plays, a good wall between Firmino and Salah would end in a center that
Mané headed to the net.
0-1
and one more man.
Liverpool began to amass possession, to
press
Chelsea's
ball exit
and to manage spaces, aware that the 'blue' fatigue would end up leaving a gap in their defense or causing an error.
Thus came the 0-2.
Kepa received at the feet and his attempted short pass to Jorginho was intercepted by Mané
who, inside the area and without opposition, sentenced the crash.
An error that could cause the
substitution of Kepa
, who was no longer the "ideal" goalkeeper for Lampard and that with this could see his position at the club compromised.
From that second on, both the meeting was sailing in the eternal possessions of Liverpool, with
Thiago as master of ceremonies
moving the attack as he pleased.
The 'reds' could expand the account, but failed to hit.
And they even went through some fear when Alcántara, also a protagonist in his own area,
made a
mistake and
took a penalty to Werner
that, luckily for the Spanish midfielder Jorginho, he sent into the hands of Alisson.
Liverpool adds two out of two and leaves Stamford Bridge confident, yet to include
Diogo Jota
, who has just arrived from the Wolves,
in their rotation
.
Chelsea, for their part, falls in the first important test of their new project, but on a date that will be marked with an asterisk due to the expulsion of Christensen, Kepa's error and the absences of their new signings:
Ziyech, Thiago Silva and Chilwell
.
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