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Liverpool boss Klopp delighted with 'big' win over Chelsea

Jurgen Klopp was delighted with Liverpool's 'big win' over Chelsea.

Trent Alexander-Arnold's venomous free-kick opened the scoring after 14 minutes, with Roberto Firmino making it two before half-time with a fine header.

Chelsea had chances to get back into the game, with N'Golo Kante taking one of them in the second-half to give the hosts a chance.

But Liverpool staved off the Blues fightback to maintain their perfect record for the season.

Speaking after the match, Klopp said: "Very good in moments, in a lot of moments I would say, in periods. Chelsea had their moments, of course, because they are just a good team.

"Two wonderful goals, a lot of brilliant pressing situations where we won the ball in the perfect space but then we didn't use the ball and that situation well enough; we could have had much [more] chances in these situations.

"After half-time, two big chances, could have been three and four, but we didn't score so it was clear the game was still open and when Kante scored his wonderful goal then it was clear 'game on, let's go for it'.

"Chelsea did that, we had to defend it and that's a job to do. It is a difficult place to come, it is a while ago we won here, so it feels big, to be honest. It's a big one."

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