Jamie Carragher has explained how Romelu Lukaku can be stopped when Liverpool and Chelsea go head-to-head on Saturday afternoon.
Lukaku got off to the perfect start upon his Premier League return, finding the back of the net as Thomas Tuchel's side eased to victory away to Arsenal on Sunday.
The £97.5million man ran the Gunners' defence ragged and will now be hoping to inflict similar damage when visiting Anfield this weekend.
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Carragher has insisted that Liverpool will not change their usual approach in order to thwart Lukaku and expects Virgil van Dijk to relish this physical battle.
Assessing the recent performance of the former Manchester United striker on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football, he said: "The best way to describe Arsenal is they tried to play like Man City or Liverpool would do, but they haven’t got the players.
"Liverpool won’t change for Chelsea but Van Dijk is the one player, certainly in the Premier League, who will fancy his chances up against Lukaku.
"It’s going to be a great battle but Liverpool, I have no doubt, will be looking to push up to the halfway line.
"What we saw yesterday from Lukaku doesn’t mean he’s going to do that to every defender.
"It was bad organisation. He’s a handful, he’s a top striker and he will score lots of goals but a lot of that was caused by Arsenal.”
Chelsea were on top for much of the game against their London rivals at the weekend - an encounter which Liverpool can certainly learn lessons from.
As well as failing to deal with Lukaku, Carragher believes Mikel Arteta's side were unable to cope with the 'system' deployed by Tuchel at the Emirates.
"There’s a lot of talk about Lukaku but that’s not the only problem, it’s how you deal with their system," stressed the former Liverpool defender.
“[Rob] Holding’s job was to look after Kai Havertz, [Pablo]Mari was in the middle with Lukaku and Mason Mount was deeper with Granit Xhaka.
"They almost went man-to-man, maybe a touch naive. You see them sticking with those men and, when the ball goes wide, Kieran Tierney’s job is to get out to the full-back, Reece James, and Xhaka’s job is to get into a left-sided centre-back position, almost a back three."
