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Sunday marked the Premier League debuts for Liverpool new boys Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai.
There aren't many harder away games to kickstart your campaign than at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea. While there is change ongoing in West London following the arrival of Mauricio Pochettino, there is quiet optimism amid their free-spending summer so far.
Both midfielders were brought in amid the rebuild at Anfield but in the summer months that have followed have had to deal with uncertainty. James Milner, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Naby Keita were among the departures at the end of last season but the extra sales were coupled by the exit of Jordan Henderson and Fabinho.
Jurgen Klopp was forced to field something of a makeshift midfield for the trip to Stamford Bridge with Mac Allister in the middle of the engine room three, alongside Szoboszlai and Cody Gakpo.
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The German manager made it clear that the formation for their curtain-raiser would not be for the rest of the season and merely for their encounter with Chelsea. While the Reds struggled in parts after taking the lead, there were positives and negatives from the two debutants.
For the former Brighton & Hove Albion midfielder, stepping foot at Stamford Bridge wasn't entirely new for him. However, he found himself in a position that isn't his strongest.
Klopp named an unchanged side from the team that beat SV Darmstadt for Sunday's encounter. Mac Allister came up against his World Cup-winning compatriot Enzo Fernandez, with his opposite number scooping the Player of the
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