Chelsea team news: We will be without Christian Pulisic and Kurt Zouma for this trip, with the former finishing out his COVID isolation protocol and the latter finishing up his transfer to West Ham United. Ruben Loftus-Cheek has recently returned to training, and young Harvey Vale has been pulled up from the U23s to make up some numbers — though I doubt either would feature in this game.
Chelsea’s perfect start has been powered by most of the same things we saw last season under Tuchel, though the addition of Romelu Lukaku does change the attacking outlook for the better. And we certainly saw that against Arsenal last week, even if that match also confirmed that our midfield is just not the same without N’Golo Kanté. Both of those guys will have to be at the top of their games to get all three points at Anfield.
Previously: It was early days for Tuchel, but our 1-0 win back in March was also indicative of the successes we would achieve a few months later. Mason Mount got the game’s only goal after rinsing Fabinho, while Hakim Ziyech had one cleared off the line and Timo Werner saw one ruled out for a microscopic armpit offside that probably would not be called offside by this year’s version of VAR. (Probably.)
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