Liverpool vs Chelsea: Fabinho vs Jorginho and the battles that must be won

Liverpool march down to London to play Chelsea on Sunday as Fabinho is set for a huge role. Here are the other battles that must be won.

The Reds go into the game as favourites after overseeing an unbeaten start to their Premier League campaign, but Frank Lampard has his side playing good football and you never know with the London outfit.

Big games like the one on Sunday can often come down to moments between individual players and how they line up against each other will have an impact on the final result.

Chelsea have a few out while Liverpool can count on a pretty strong squad being available for Jurgen Klopp, although there may be some rotation after games against Newcastle and Napoli in a short space of time.

Big money summer signing Christian Pulisic has been in and out of Lampard’s plans over the past few weeks and he was recently panned by an ESPN panel of pundits for his underwhelming start to the campaign.

Whoever controls the midfield will be in with a great chance of winning the game, so scroll down and click through to read about Fabinho vs Jorginho and the other key battles that’ll decide the outcome.

Roberto Firmino vs Andreas Christensen

Chelsea youngster Andreas Christensen was frozen out under Mauricio Sarri but Lampard has invested in the young Dane, who will have a real battle on his hands to subdue Roberto Firmino on Sunday.

Firmino will drop deep to try and pull Christensen out of position, he’ll also play off the central defenders with his back to goal. Bobby is unselfish, he’s creative and he’s going to be a nightmare for the Blues to deal with.

Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah will want to run in behind the space Firmino makes if he can pull Christensen out of his zone – and with Chelsea’s awful record at the back this season it should mean some joy for the front three.

Bobby hasn’t scored the same amount of goals that Mane and Salah have, but with five assists and two goals he’s been in incredible form and is a major part of how Liverpool play. You could see that on Saturday when the Reds got so much better after he came on in place of the injured Divock Origi.