Did Liverpool’s performance at Chelsea show they are willing to challenge for top four this season?

A viable display from Klopp’s side.

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00:00 Will, just looking at Liverpool's game, were there any signs that they've been challenged for the top four during the 1-1 draw at Chelsea?

00:07 And what sort of expected from the Bournemouth game as well?

00:10 I think in the first half an hour, yeah, you'd have to say Liverpool dominated the game from foot.

00:16 Luiz Diaz scores a great goal and Mo Salah has one.

00:19 Martin Liverpool's out, hit the bar as well and I'd say Liverpool looked a potent force going forwards.

00:25 They were decent at the back as well for the first half an hour as well, didn't give Chelsea too much in midfield.

00:32 McAllister was neat and tidy in playing in an auxiliary role, holding the midfield.

00:38 And Dominic Subboslai showed plenty of physicality in there in his first Premier League game.

00:43 A couple of concerns, obviously, with the defence still struggling.

00:48 Once that goal went in, Liverpool just couldn't shift the momentum really,

00:53 and that's probably because they didn't have a real destroyer in the midfield, just to slow things down and break play up.

00:58 And, yeah, just underlining how much they need a defensive midfielder.

01:03 Going into Bournemouth, you're probably looking at a similar team.

01:06 Maybe Curtis Jones might come into the midfield, potentially, because it's a home game.

01:11 You can move Gappo back there beforewards then, and Joel Diossa didn't have his best of games, I don't think, at Chelsea.

01:19 But I think Liverpool should be expected to win that one.

01:24 They slipped up far too much in the last season, especially at home, in the pursuit of a top-four finish early in the season.

01:33 They got beat by Leeds, you think about that, and they got beat by Forrester in the season.

01:37 So, we'll be expecting Liverpool to win, but a couple of changes, potentially, as I say.

01:42 Curtis Jones, I can see, coming back in.

01:44 Harvey Elliott in too, too bad, when he came off the bench, showed plenty of energy.

01:47 energy so maybe you'd be in your own thoughts thinking.