Liverpool 3-1 Burnley: post-match analysis
Will Rooney reports from Anfield.
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00:00 Full-time era, Anfield ended Liverpool 3-0, Burnley 1-0, a hard-fought win for Liverpool
00:06 and one they'll definitely take as they're back to the summer to the Premier League now.
00:10 The police had options for Jürgen Klopp to be quite frank, he said in his pre-match press conferences
00:16 that there was illness going around the camp and Joe Gomez and Nelson Becker were the players that were missing because of that
00:22 and they already had injuries, obviously Mo Salah still not back, Dominik Subboszlaj still sidelined for hamstring problem.
00:28 Ibrahim Okanate out of suspender, so Liverpool's numbers were depleted, they really were.
00:34 They had to battle to beat a Burnley side who looked destined to go down this season
00:40 but Burnley struggled a little bit, they probably started the better side and Grian Keller who came in for Alisson in goal
00:46 made a couple of good early saves from David Fofana and then Liverpool started to get on top.
00:54 That was a couple of efforts, Trent Alexander-Arnold put one over the bar, so did Curtis Jones.
00:58 Then he broke the deadlock midway through the first half, Trent Alexander-Arnold whipping in the corner
01:04 and Burnley keeper James Trafford came off his line, it was in no-man's land and there was Jota to instinctively head home into an empty net.
01:12 Liverpool were going to kick on there, he hit the post, Lewis Diaz hit the post for the Reds and he was put through by Darwin Newlands' cross.
01:20 They won the stroke at half-time, Burnley got themselves back into it through poor enough goal for Liverpool to concede
01:28 because they've been stronger set-pieces this season.
01:32 The Burnley captain, David O'Shea, was just left in a little bit too much space and managed to head home.
01:38 The second half, Liverpool were forced into a change, Trent Alexander-Arnold suffered a knee injury, they ruled them out of four games recently.
01:46 That meant that Liverpool didn't have any other real defenders on the bench, only Costa Simicas who's just come back from a broken collarbone.
01:55 That meant Curtis Jones had to fill in at right back and Harvey Ellie had come on to be first.
02:00 Harvey Ellie's amazing, an electric impact, notching himself to assist.
02:05 First came in the 52nd minute when Liverpool pressed Burnley high and he won the ball back.
02:10 Ellie got to the byline, put a cross in and there was Lewis Diaz, stupid header, to restore Liverpool's lead.
02:20 Liverpool had a couple of chances then, Diogo Jota was denied by the goalkeeper so it was Darwin Nunes.
02:26 But then Burnley really should have taken their chance, they had two real, Gilted shots, Juno seems to get back into it.
02:35 It was over for Fafana, he was put through on goal, Kelleher off his line to save, then the rebound was Spurns and then Fafana again a couple of minutes later.
02:43 This time he beat Kelleher but the ball went the wrong side of the post and Liverpool got back on top and reasserted the whole policy in 10 minutes left.
02:53 Darwin Nunes finally got his goal, great cross from Elias and there was Nunes to head in at the back stick.
02:59 Overall, if you were a neutral and you saw the 1-3-1, you wouldn't think, people would be shrugging their shoulders.
03:06 But this is going to be important in the tight race course, every victory is and you only get to see it in clutch celebrations.
03:12 At the end there was customary piss pumps, not just to the cock but to the Anfield Road ends.
03:18 And the main stands of course are record breaking.
03:21 There's a league attendance here at Anfield with the Anfield Road Ends expansion opening up even further, there's still a few more seats to go in there.
03:29 So just shy of 60,000 here in attendance and Liverpool's big win considering what happened at Arsenal last week and now they've got to carry on this momentum at Brentford next weekend and at Liverpool 3-1.