Newly promoted Burnley shocked Liverpool’s travelling Kop and their manager Jurgen Klopp by running out 2-0 winners at Turf Moor on Saturday.
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The Reds crashed to their first loss of the 2016-17 Premier League campaign after first-half goals from Sam Vokes, inside just two minutes, and Andre Gray gave the hosts a deserved victory.
Midfielder James Milner, who replaced the under-fire Alberto Moreno, looked understandably uncomfortable as a stand-in left-back.
“If one game should change my mind then I would be a real idiot”, he said.
“To come off their result last week and then for us to win 2-0 I think is a coupon-buster for most people”. “Emre Can was on the bench, he had a back problem, Lucas Leiva is injured and you ask me for a hard midfield player”, he said. ‘But the answer is I don’t know’.
The German also insisted that he has no need to be angry with his players when cool analysis of the moments that cost them against the Clarets is needed.
“I want to offer a honest and unreserved apology to anybody I may have offended in relation to these tweets”, he said.
“If I feel I have to put the finger on the spot I can do it”.
Coaches from these shores aren’t often credited with such footballing wisdom but Dyche’s troops knew their opponents well and had a clear plan in place in order to overcome them. “We lose the ball at the wrong moment and they go (clicks fingers)”.
The result sees Antonio Conte claim his second win from his first two top-flight games, and sees the Blues move level with early leaders Manchester United.
“This is information I didn’t want”. Yes, you work on stuff through the week, but when you keep losing the ball, you’re not quite at it, it’s windy and Burnley are on the front foot, you can’t keep giving the ball away like that. We’ve done that against a very good side. If you tell me previous year we could have played at Burnley like this, not ideal of course, I would be really surprised. “We can say that they scored two and we could have scored five. It’s not an off day, just an experience that we didn’t want”.
“It is not a defending problem it is an offensive problem”, said Klopp, testily.
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“When Jurgen Klopp came to the Premier League we thought he would be a direct coach, get the ball forward and play fast, attacking football”.
