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The Reds boss believes the Blues have a strong team and are playing good football, making them strong contenders for the title this year.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes Chelsea are the current favorites to win the Premier League this season.
The Blues are first in the English top flight after beating Leeds 3-1 on Saturday and have a one point lead over reigning champions Liverpool and Tottenham, who play on Sunday.
Klopp believes the London team is the biggest threat to his team’s title defense, but was quick to emphasize that the Reds remain focused on themselves.
“If I watch games, I see that Tottenham are obviously doing quite well, that Chelsea for me at the moment seems the favorite,” he told reporters.
“They have the biggest team, great players, they’re playing well. Now they are full and they have incredible opportunities to change.” [the team] between games and from game to game. That’s.
“The pressure is there, but it’s about yourself. The pressure is there to win the game and we want to win against the Wolves. [on Sunday]. We’re only playing Lobos this weekend and no one else, so everyone else can play against each other or not and then they will rack up points.
“It’s always like this. It’s too early to think who’s ahead of whom or whatever. It’s just the situation.
“I said it before, this season is not about setting a goal and going for it, it’s about getting over it with the best possible football you can play, and that’s what we try to do.
“That differs from the weekend to the middle of the week sometimes due to some circumstances, but it is still the goal for us all the time. Focus fully on the next game, the next opponent, especially not so early on other results.” .
Diogo Jota has been in incredible shape since joining the Reds from Wolves in September, scoring nine goals in 15 appearances for the Anfield team.
Klopp has been impressed by the form of the 24-year-old and is happy with the way he has mingled with fellow stars Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino.
“He’s doing exceptionally well right now, absolutely,” he said. “But to maintain that standard we have to work very hard, we have to keep him in good shape, score goals because other guys usually do that. That’s clear.
“For us, the most important thing was that we don’t have to bite our nails practically every game and hope that they somehow come out ahead and we can bring them back to the next game, especially not this season.
“That is not a real lateral situation because it is a single player and, as I said, it is the only line, the front line, where we have more players than we can line up in a game, I would say.
“All the other positions are more or less, who can walk will play or be a child. Both are fine. But there is nothing wrong with that situation. Who they are, they wouldn’t be where they are if they couldn’t deal with a situation like that.
“They are completely fine with Diogo and Diogo is fine with them. They are too happy that he got off of that brilliant start, as obviously I am. But now that is gone and we have to continue.”
