Terrace Talk: Chelsea - Time club showed more faith in special Conte

Jurgen‘s angry. Apparently, he’s angry cos that nasty old referee stopped him making the substitution that would put a man exactly in the spot that would have prevented Willian’s goal.

So it was Michael Oliver’s fault Liverpool didn’t collect all three points and had nothing to do with the fact that Klopp decided to leave two of his best players on the bench. After all, it wasn’t as if Chelsea had been threatening a goal for at least 20 minutes before the Brazilian ensured the teams shared the points. Klopp could/should have made some changes then but failed to do so. But what do we know — he’s the genius, allegedly.

That said, I was disappointed Chelsea couldn’t seem to cause them more issues despite two of their most influential players being on the bench. Conte still seems unsure how to handle a team that throws pace in our faces right from the off — we weathered the storm but only just. Some Chelsea fans will argue that only Bakayoko losing the ball cheaply (again) led to the goal (scored inevitably by Salah) but neither did we look like scoring until those final 20 minutes — when Pedro and Willian bought us pace and Fabregas provided a bit more invention to share the load with the heavily marked Hazard.