Liverpool vs Chelsea LIVE: Super Cup 2019 stream, score, penalty shootout goal updates, result
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Your support makes all the difference.Liverpool and Chelsea clash tonight in the Uefa Super Cup and you can follow LIVE coverage from the match in Istanbul below.
Liverpool beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in June to win the Champions League for a sixth time. The Reds have meanwhile won the Super Cup more than any other English side with three wins, with their last title coming in 2005, when they beat CSKA Moscow 3-1 in the Netherlands.
Chelsea, who beat Arsenal to win the Europa League last season, are looking to win the Super Cup for the second time. Their only previous success came when they beat Real Madrid 1-0 in Monaco in 1998. Follow the latest updates below:
Match preview
Odds
- Liverpool 11/17
- Chelsea 51/10
What time does it start?
The game kicks off at 8pm BST.
What channel is it on and how can I watch online?
The match will be shown on BT Sport 2 in the UK, and you can watch it on the BT Sport app.
Good evening and welcome to our live coverage of Liverpool vs Chelsea in tonight's Super Cup final.
We expect to have team news in around two hours time.
In the meantime, here is how we predict the two teams will line-up this evening:
Liverpool will enjoy what feels like a home advantage this evening.
The Reds have taken 5,973 tickets for the game at the Vodafone Park, which holds 41,000 spectators. Liverpool also enjoy a strong local fan base in Turkey.
Chelsea have meanwhile taken just 1,314 tickets – although that didn’t seem to harm how the team played in Baku, Azerbaijan at the end of last season.
Some pre-game Chelsea reading: this excellent interview with the man who Frank Lampard says will play a crucial role for the Blues this season once fit, Reece James.
Frank Lampard has said that he is "optimistic" ahead of tonight's match, even after a heavy defeat to Manchester United last weekend.
"The clear lesson for everyone was if you make defensive errors against good teams it will cost you.
"The second message to the players was they did so many good things in the game, in terms of how we played in the game - if you take out the mistakes for the goals there were lots of good things."
News just coming in that Naby Keita is out of tonight's game due to a hip injury. He was set to start, it seemed, but not any more. It seems even more likely we will see Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain start tonight, I suspect.
Well this is awkward. Our man in Istanbul, Miguel Delaney, has sent us this from tonight's match programme in which Frank Lampard describes Arsenal's David Luiz as "important". We're guessing this interview was conducted a little while ago...
Tonight will be Chelsea's fourth appearance in the Super Cup. They won the trophy on their first attempt, defeating Real Madrid 1-0 in 1998 but lost their next two games in 2012 and 21013 with teams that both featured Frank Lampard.
On his desire to win tonight Lampard said: "It means a lot to the club, I know that because I lost two finals.
"I understand the feeling of when you work hard to get into this game, that you give your all to try to win it.
"It's another trophy for the club and will give us a feeling that if we can beat Liverpool and win a cup, we can go on from there."
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