Chelsea will give Liverpool a guard of honor ahead of the two teams' Premier League clash at Stamford Bridge this weekend.

My feeling is we are (moving) in the right direction and hopefully this gap can be smaller and smaller and smaller.

“I don’t think we need that (giving a guard of honor) to understand how good it is to win the Premier League.



But for sure, when you are there (giving Liverpool a guard of honor), probably in their mind, our players are thinking, ‘I would like one day to be there.'”

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Among the Chelsea stars who will give Liverpool's players a guard of honor are two former Liverpool targets in Moises Caicedo and Romeo Lavia.

The Reds registered interest in Caicedo and Lavia during the 2023 summer transfer window but were blown out of the water by Chelsea.

Their moves to Chelsea saw Liverpool turn to Wataru Endo two years ago, and ironically it will be he who ends up receiving a guard of honor first.

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The acquisitions of the likes of Alisson, Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah in 2017 and 2018 helped to establish Liverpool as one of the top teams in Europe.

“For sure, if you want to close the gap with these kind of clubs then, you have to do things," Maresca said
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