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Liverpool Echo
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Keifer MacDonald

'Ask Jurgen' - Brendan Rodgers reveals what he would change about Liverpool title heartbreak vs Chelsea

Former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has insisted Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp would have lined up in the same way he did during the infamous Premier League clash with Chelsea in April 2014.

As Liverpool chased down their first league title since 1990, having beaten Manchester City just two weeks prior, Jose Mourinho's Chelsea visited Anfield and played the role of party spoilers as they threw a spanner into the Reds' title pursuit.

Of course, club legend and captain Steven Gerrard would be cruelly punished late in the first half as he lost his footing when trying to control a Mamadou Sakho back-pass, which handed striker Demba Ba the freedom of Anfield to pick his spot and slot past the onrushing Simon Mignolet.

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