Hello and welcome to LIVE updates of what could well be a highly significant encounter in the battle to finish in the top four. Champions Liverpool will be desperate to end their recent Anfield woes and pick up three vital points against one of their main rivals for the Champions League berths. However, fifth-placed Chelsea are proving a tough nut to crack under Thomas Tuchel and will be confident they can enhance their own late season surge. Kick off 20:15 GMT.
Premier League / Matchday 29
Anfield / 04.03.2021
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Updated 04/03/2021 at 22:28 GMT
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Liverpool are looking for a high ball down the left for Robertson quite a lot. Kabak has launched a couple already. Mane drifting infield to free the space for the left back to maraud.
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CLOSE! Werner takes a high ball out of the sky just outside the Liverpool area and in an instant swerves a shot just wide of Alisson's left-hand post.
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STAT: Klopp is unbeaten in his five home league matches against Chelsea. The German has won two and drawn three.
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Indeed!
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Robertson seizes upon an error from James. He lays it across to Salah, who turns down Alexander Arnold's overlap. He looks back to Robertson who skews well wide from 22 yards out.
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Alert goalkeeping from Mendy as he charges out of his box to hack clear with Salah lurking.
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League head to head at Anfield: Liverpool 48 wins, 18 draws, Chelsea 11 wins.
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Liverpool with most of the ball early on. They need to set a much higher tempo here. In recent defeats on home turf they've been far too slow-paced. Chelsea will look to get in-behind the high line with Werner and the German has already made one promising run into the right-hand channel.
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1st Half
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KICK OFF! Chelsea get us underway after a minute of applause in memory of Ian St John. RIP Saint.
20.10
N’Golo Kante on Tuchel: "He’s very demanding. He asks the team to play in a certain way and insists on some little details but there are many ways to do things. We want to achieve some good things at the end of the season. We are in three competitions and if we can get one or two trophies then it will be very good for us."
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20.05
Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish is 70 today. He’ll be hoping the Reds can give him the birthday gift of a win and has spoken of Liverpool’s huge faith in Klopp: A tape is not long enough to measure what belief we have in Jurgen. He has been fantastic for the football club. This is the time, after it had all been going so well, when he really needs people around him. He's got things in perspective. When he was getting success he was sharing it with everybody else, cuddling the players and waving to the crowd. He never got carried away.”
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TOP FOUR UPDATE: Everton's match at West Brom has just finished and the Toffees have moved into fourth spot on 46 points courtesy of a 1-0 victory. West Ham are fifth on 45 points, Chelsea are fifth on 44 and Liverpool are down in seventh on 43. They have all played 26 games. Liverpool or Chelsea would go fourth with a win later tonight though.
19.55
Good news for Liverpool - but bad for Chelsea? Today's paper round suggests Erling Haaland would consider a move to three PL sides.
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Werner: “You can always learn more from the bad situations. I learned to trust in myself, to give everything on the pitch, not only think about goals and fight for the team. Now I hope this period is gone and I score a few more goals until the end of the season."
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Klopp: “We are still a good team but a lot of things have happened this season and if you want to win the league in England you have to play a nearly perfect season. You can see that now with City. They did not start perfectly but they obviously now are in a mood where it looks like perfection. Results wise, one hundred per cent. Performance wise, not far away. That is the season you have to play to become champions in England."
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'We cannot make everybody happy' - Klopp on letting players go for international duty
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Tuchel on Liverpool and Man City: “For me, those two teams are still the benchmark. We want to close the gap and the gap is not too big that we cannot close it in weeks and months. This is the target." He added: They (Liverpool) dropped points, sometimes deserved but many times not deserved, and there was also a streak of very unlucky results. It is one of the strongest teams in Europe. One of the best managers in Europe, but we are confident enough."
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Thomas Tuchel full of praise for 'outstanding' Jurgen Klopp ahead of clash
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A perfect pre-match piece from Eurosport's very own Pete Sharland. Here he takes a closer look at the Klopp-Tuchel rivalry.
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Meanwhile, Liverpool also make two changes. Notably, Alisson is back in goal after missing the win at Sheff United due to his father’s death. Fabinho also returns following injury. He replaces Nat Phillips who is not in the squad. Diogo Jota is on the bench following a lengthy injury lay off.
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