“The first goal came early and settled us down”, Vokes said.
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“We lost in a game in which we had in both halves about 80 per cent possession, but there are different ways to play football, that’s absolutely OK”. We don’t expect every game to keep possession as much as some of the other teams – at times Liverpool had six in midfield. At half time I felt there was still something in the game for us so again we tried but we lost our timing and patience.
The Reds suffered a surprise setback in their bid to challenge for the Premier League this season at Turf Moor after Jurgen Klopp’s side were 4-3 winners against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium last weekend.
Dyche could take particular pleasure, not only in securing a first victory of the campaign at just the second time of asking, but also in seeing his two forwards get off the mark ― in the case of Vokes, ending a 27-game run without a Premier League goal dating back to 2009. “Life is not over”, the German added.
Last season’s Championship winners nearly doubled their lead a minute later as George Boyd played Gray into the visitors’ area and Dejan Lovren was forced to make a well-timed covering tackle.
“I saw some really good crosses into the box where no-one was in the box”.
In response to Burnley’s opener, Liverpool saw long-range shots from Daniel Sturridge and Georginio Wijnaldum sail harmlessly over the Burnley goal.
“Our timing and decision-making today was not really good. That may have been forced by the result (score) and the passion of the opponent”.
Burnley boss Sean Dyche made no excuses for his counter-attacking tactics after his side stunned Liverpool 2-0 on Saturday.
“We spoke to the players about the realities of this division”.
“Make no mistake, they’re a fine side”.
“I hope Jurgen Klopp got in Sean Dyche’s ear to buy their centre-half Michael Keane, thought he was vast today and last season #20 mil”, Thompson wrote on Twitter. “That myth came out a few years ago and Leicester proved it was a myth last year”. We will work on it 100%.
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He said: “We could analyse this pretty quickly, and say “we lost 2-0 here and that is not allowed” but that is not the way I like to do it”. “I think on an occasion when you’re playing a club like Liverpool it’s even more important for give belief to everyone”.
