Knowing already what José Mourinho’s Tottenham, leader by goal difference in the Premier tied with Liverpool, will have done this Sunday afternoon in the North London derby against Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal, Jürgen Klopp’s team tonight receives the Wolves of Adama Traoré, former team of today’s ‘red’ Diogo Jota. Klopp will be watching what happens at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, thinking about, if Mourinho’s men did not win and if his Liverpool did hours later, they would be the sole leader of the Premier.
The Premier, of which Frank Lampard’s Chelsea is provisional leader after their 3-1 victory this Saturday against Leeds (the ‘blues’ have one point more than Mourinho and Klopp’s), offers this Sunday an exciting duel between Tottenham and Arsenal. Arteta, coach of the Gunners, said this Saturday that “it is still too early to say that Tottenham is a candidate for the Premier.” Arsenal is currently 14th, 9 points behind leaders Chelsea and 8 points behind Tottenham and Liverpool.
It is not just any day: Anfield and Tottenham Hotspur Stadium are two of the Premier League fields that will be able to host 2,000 fans for the first time since March (as a result of the coronavirus pandemic).
At Liverpool-Wolves, everything indicates that one of Liverpool’s key players will reappear, the already recovered Trent Alexander-Arnold, except that in the end Klopp prefers to delay his return and leave the starting side on the bench. On the list, another novelty is Naby Keita, also recovered from his muscle injury.
Another attraction of the game is that Diogo Jota will face his previous team, Wolves, although this time it may be that the Portuguese, the protagonist of a spectacular start at Liverpool, will stay on the bench and come out in the second part. Klopp can bet on the Salah-Firmino-Mané trident. On the other hand, the German coach took a position against Brexit on Friday: “I hope someone will tell me the first advantage.”
On the other hand, Nuno Espirito Santos, Wolves coach, has a very important loss, that of his scorer Raúl Jiménez, author of 4 goals in the present Premier and intervened for a skull fracture.
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