The Clarets sealing a convincing victory at home to Jurgen Klopp’s side in their 3pm kickoff, with goals from Sam Vokes and Andre Gray grabbing the three points.
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“We must move on to the next game and not make the same mistakes we made today, and look forward with confidence”, he concluded.
Gray said it felt “crazy” to hit the back of the net for the first time in the top flight, after netting in the 2-0 win over Liverpool, but the goal was soon overshadowed when it came to light that he had posted homophobic tweets four years ago.
“The first half was not for growing self-confidence and we lost timing and patience and it was not our best timing offensively”. It was not good.
Despite boasting an astonishing 81 per cent possession during the game, Liverpool failed to force home keeper Tom Heaton into a noteworthy save but, of far more concern, on the odd occasion that Burnley crossed the halfway line, they looked perfectly capable of scoring.
After the thrilling 4-3 opening win over Arsenal, Liverpool were expected to go to Turf Moor and roll over last season’s Championship winners but found a team resilient in defence and ruthless in attack, whereas the Merseysiders were pensive, indecisive and lacklustre.
But the £25 million summer signing explained that they struggled because they “play differently” to Arsenal, whom they had beaten in their opening game the previous weekend, declaring that Burnley play “with lots of long balls” and by constantly “trying to win the second ball”. “Life is not over”, the German added. But it’s only the start of the season and I can see a lot of good things.
“We finished eighth last season. That may have been forced by the result (score) and the passion of the opponent”. “It is not the pass we want to play, when angriness helps, I am angry”. “They (Liverpool) are a fine side and have players everywhere who can keep the ball”, he said.
“We are here for a reason and it’s a big task – we know that – particularly against these kind of sides because I think they’re excellent”.
If the myth of possession football winning you games – as Sean Dyche called it on Saturday – was starting to be debunked, then surely it was buried once and for all at Turf Moor. We thought we might have to work on the counter and get good pressing on their keeper, which we did.
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“For the life of me, I can’t understand why players can’t make their own decisions sometimes”.
