Here’s Will Unwin’s match report from Turf Moor.
Key events
Virgil van Dijk also spoke to Sky: “A well deserved win but if I am Burnley it is never nice to concede a penalty. At the end of the day it was a penalty and Mo scored it perfectly. He is a world class player and we know he can deliver in these moments.
“Key today was not to get frustrated. It could have been a draw as well but we take the three points and move on to Wednesday.”
Mohamed Salah spoke to Sky: “It was tough but I am glad we managed it. We have a few new players in the starting line up and it takes time to adapt to our game and we try our best to make them confident in our game. We don’t give up. We try and push ourselves to the limit and as team we did that.”
Here’s Will Unwin’s match report from Turf Moor.
Liverpool will end the weekend top of the Premier League. Burnley are in 17th.
A Nonymous writes in: “Liverpool yet to play well in their four PL games yet sit top of the table with four wins. is that the mark of future champions or is their luck going to run out at some point?”
Andrew Flintoff again: “The way you originally described it sounded like Hannibal just ‘made himself unnaturally bigger’, with his arm/elbow by his side, but that was a half-turn with a full chicken-wing elbow. The only question would be whether it was inside the box or not, but probably just on the inside of the line.”
It was definitely in the box. Stupid boy. Him, not you.
“Football won,” writes in David Wood. Burnley have the right to play how they like, surely. And played their part in the game. Liverpool were hardly Ajax Amsterdam in 1971, either, lots of hoiks into the box.
Mohamed Salah climbs to fourth in the all-time Premier League scoring record, climbing above Andy Cole on 188. Cole, let us recall, never took penalties.
Full-time: Burnley 0-1 Liverpool
They did not play at all well but another late goal rescued Liverpool once more. Hannibal is close to tears. Burnley gave it all but collapsed at the end. Salah stepped up to score the decisive penalty when if he was anyone else he would have been subbed off. Talking of subs, Rio Ngumoha was again crucial to victory.
90+6 min: The boos ring out but that was a blatant handball. Burnley are denied.
Goal! Burnley 0-1 Liverpool (Salah, 90+5)
He couldn’t hit a barn door all afternoon but that is a perfect penalty. Smashed into the top right, un-saveable.
Penalty to Liverpool!
Hannibal handles…Ngumoha Frimpong smashes the ball and Hannibal throws out an elbow. He’s distraught.
90+3 min: Ngumoha opens up space with a feint and pass. Frimpong shoots, but the angle is too acute.
90+2 min: Gakpo down and low, and Dubravka holds on, and for the full eight seconds he is now allowed.
90+1 min: All 10 Burnley players back now. Broja wins a flick on the edge of the box but the ball keeps coming back and back.
90 min: Into the last minute of normal time. Five minutes will be added on.
89 min: Burnley kill more time. On comes Armand Broja for his first appearance. Jaidon Anthony goes off.
88 min: Those Liverpool arrivals happen, Konate and Wirtz going off. Arne Slot agonises at another Salah miskick. He really has had a dog’s dinner of a night.
86 min: Burnley make changes – Joe Worrall for Lyle Foster. That’s the former Forest player, not the 79-year-old former ref from Warrington. Szoboszlai slashes the free-kick from that red card offence into the stands.
Red card for Ugochukwu
84 min: Two more Liverpool subs are coming on: Frimpong and Ngumoha. But first, as Wirtz jinks away, Ugochukwu slides in, and makes a rash challenge. A second yellow, though many Liverpool fans will say he should have gone in the first half.
82 min: Foster and Hannibal gang up on Konate and Bradley, evasive action required. The ball goes to Szoboszlai, on the edge of a packed area, trying to find his way through. To little avail.
80 min: Another Liverpool corner, with Florentino blocking a Gravenberch shot. The corner is cleared. Sack the set-piece specialist? Call in Austin McPhee?
78 min: Lovely, “ave it” hoof from Kyle Walker to clear his lines. This man learned at the feet of Neil Warnock. Hannibal can’t keep it in.
77 min: Rick Harris gets in touch: “Watching Liverpool toil it occurs to me that they probably need to sign a proven PL goal scorer. Maybe that guy who no longer wants to play for Newcastle? Alexander the Great Big Jessie my disappointed Toon fan mate Steve calls him. Salah may just be suffering from the curse of the colossal new deal.”
Tim Stappard: “Salah hasn’t been good since his massive new contract. Still I’m waiting for him to fall over soon and score a pen.”
76 min: Bradley, who likes a tackle, and gets a few bookings, smashes into Anthony and gets a yellow. The damage is shown off by the victim. Nasty one.
74 min: Another Szoboszlai stinger, but it spins wide.
Mac Millings gets in touch: “Ekitike may be a palindrome, but is he, like Quilindschy Hartman, and anagram of ‘Hint archly, Squidman’?”
72 min: A near-instant chance for Chiesa, from a Robertson cross. It’s headed wide.
71 min: Michael Oliver feels the burn of a Szoboszlai stinger and play stops. That brings off Ekitike for Chiesa, as Liverpool sing his song.
69 min: Federico Chiesa, not in the Champions League squad, is due on soon. He’s a man for the late occasion. They need to find one. Salah to go off? Or Wirtz?
68 min: Florentino, on his debut, looks a player. He almost gets Anthony away, and is a physical competitor.
66 min: Dubravka punches clear when the ball is lobbed, rather aimlessly, into the sky by Robertson. Liverpool knocking on the door, rather bluntly.
Source From: Premier League | The Guardian
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