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Jurgen Klopp regards Chelsea as the favorite to win the Premier League, but insists Liverpool are once again ignoring their title rivals.
After 10 games, the Reds are behind Tottenham Hotspur on goal difference at the top of the table ahead of Sunday’s visit from Wolverhampton Wanderers.
While Liverpool were six points clear at the same stage last season, this season they have had to deal with a condensed match roster and a series of injuries.
However, Klopp believes his players maintain the attitude that served to end the club’s 30-year wait for the title in July.
“I don’t feel like we’re chasing anyone right now or that someone is chasing us,” the Reds boss said.
“I see Tottenham are doing quite well. Chelsea is for me at the moment looking like the favorite with a bigger team and after a bit of a rusty start they are now fully in. They have incredible opportunities to change the team from game to game. other”. .
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“We watch them but we don’t chase them. We play them when we play them. That’s how we saw it last season as well.
“The pressure is there, but it’s about you, how much you think about it. The pressure is there to win a game.
“Our pressure is that we want to win against the Wolves, but we only play against the Wolves and no one else.”
For the first time since 2017, no club has made an early breakthrough to the top of the Premier League table.
And Klopp believes the unique circumstances surrounding the season mean it doesn’t make much sense to evaluate qualification until much further into the season.
“It is too early to think who is ahead of whom,” he said.
“It’s just a situation this season, it’s not about setting a goal and trying.
“It’s about getting through it with the best possible football you can play and that’s what we try to do.
“Sometimes it differs from weekday to weekend due to some circumstances.
“But the goal for us is to always be fully focused on the next game and the next opponent and not think, especially not so early in the season, about other results.”
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