It allowed Burnley to post a first victory of the season with Sam Vokes thrashing home a shot inside two minutes and Andre Gray adding a second before the interval after debutant Steven Defour sauntered through half-hearted challenges.
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Klopp has made several signings this summer, including Sadio Mane, Georginio Wijnaldum and Ragnar Klavan, but he has so far failed to bring in a new left-back despite serious questions over Alberto Moreno’s form, with James Milner used in the position at Burnley.
However, he has insisted that the game will not change his thinking dramatically and force him to go out and panic buy as the transfer deadline fast approaches.
“It feels unreal to score my first Premier League goal”. I don’t know where [Burnley’s] 13% of possession came from.
“If we would have found the ideal fit then we would have made the transfer”, he said.
“Emre Can was on the bench, he had a back problem, Lucas Leiva is injured and you ask me for a hard midfield player?” It doesn’t look like we are 100% fine tuned, but it’s only the start of the season and I can see a lot of good things.
Jamie Carragher believes Jurgen Klopp needs to sign a natural defensive midfielder to improve his Liverpool side.
“Football is a game you can not play without making mistakes”.
Dyche was impressed with what he saw at the Emirates from Klopp’s men, and said it was a style of progressive football that he had been keen to implement with the Clarets when possible.
“We saw the situations coming around the goals but that doesn’t mean you should still concede the goals”, he said. But it’s not a defending problem, it’s an offensive problem. We should be ready in our development and these mistakes shouldn’t happen anymore, but our training drills did not include us playing the ball at the wrong time to the opponent.
‘The whole game is explained by the two goals’. We have to accept it.
“Even at half-time, I felt we still had the possibility of it”.
Basic defending as cost us there!Our corners have gone worse from last yr (if that’s possible) back to earth with a proper bump!
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It ended with the two forwards who did play for the newly promoted Premier League side punishing Benteke’s former club in the most clinical way imaginable.
