Reds look to spark season

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers insists his side have learned from last season’s crushing defeat to Chelsea and will go looking for the victory he hopes will kick-start their season.

Last April, Jose Mourinho, under whom Rodgers worked first time around at Stamford Bridge, came to Anfield with a tactical plan to stifle and frustrate and exploit any weakness.

It worked perfectly as the then free-scoring home side failed to break down a disciplined defence and were caught twice on the counter-attack — the first coming, now famously, after Steven Gerrard’s slip allowed Demba Ba race through to score.