Liverpool legend John Aldridge says Jurgen Klopp's team lacks "football intelligence".
Aldridge wrote for the Sunday World: "Klopp needs his back-up players to contribute when they are called upon because they cannot rely on Sadio Mane, Georginio Wijnaldum and Philippe Coutinho to carry them week after week.
"What was encouraging from against Spurs was a step forward in their game management, with their success in nullifying Tottenham's attempts to get back into the game evidence of progress from Klopp's side.
"Chelsea are going to win the league this season because they have a manager and a set of players that know what is needed when they get in front in a game.
"Antonio Conte (below) and his team see games out, whether it is ugly or not, and don't give their opponents any encouragement.
"I'm not advocating going down the Jose Mourinho route of cancelling out the opposition, diving when the time is right, disrupting the flow of the game and generally running football matches to get results.
"That has worked for Mourinho down the years and he served up the perfect version of that brand of clinical football when his Chelsea team stopped Liverpool winning the title at Anfield back in 2014.
"Yet you sometimes need to have a bit of football intelligence about you to get success in this game and Liverpool have lacked that at times this season."