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Chelsea will give Liverpool a guard of honor before the two teams play each other in the Premier League on Sunday.

Last weekend, the Reds wrapped up the league title by hammering Spurs at Anfield.

Liverpool still has Chelsea, Arsenal, Brighton and Crystal Palace left to play, with Virgil van Dijk set to lift the Premier League trophy after the final game.



In the meantime, it is an English tradition for the champion to be clapped onto the pitch before the game once the league title has been confirmed.

"I've been fortunate enough to receive a guard of honor and be on the receiving end of it, and both are quite awkward.

They won the Premier League, so they deserve it."

However, the Chelsea boss refuted the suggestion that it would give his players some added motivation to improve next season and put themselves in a position to win the title soon.

"I don’t think we need to give a guard of honor to understand how good it is to win the Premier League," he said.

And also in terms of experienced players who know how to win games and these kinds of things, I think they have something more compared to us."

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