Substitute Batshuayi equalised in the 80th minute with his first goal for the club before Costa, who scored a late victor against West Ham United on Monday, finished calmly three minutes from time after being found by another sub, Cesc Fabregas.
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“Still it does not feel good”.
“We’ve analysed Burton and, I have to say, the Championship-I really like this league”, he explained. “The answer is I don’t know – we will see”.
Since Jurgen Klopp took over, only Aston Villa (12) and West Ham (10) have had more errors leading to goals in the Premier League than Liverpool (9). The first game was very good from this point and the second not – so what’s the truth now?
The Wales global missed the first half of Burnley’s previous top-flight campaign with a knee injury which hampered his progress when he eventually came back but, after a confidence-boosting Euro 2016, the big frontman took Burnley’s first Premier League goal against Liverpool – and their first in the league in six matches – well.
Klopp added: “When we conceded the first goal, we had a lot of time to win the game”.
“We spoke to the players about the realities of the division – they’re a fine side, make no mistake, they have players who keep the ball, their pressing”.
“Possession doesn’t win you games”, Dyche said.
‘If one game changed my mind then I would be a real idiot, ‘ said the German bluntly. “Emre Can was on the bench, he had a back problem, Lucas Leiva is injured and you ask me for a hard midfield player?” “But there are different ways to play football, that’s absolutely OK”.
“It takes concentration and focus from the players to see through that and see they’re not hurting us that much and that we will have breakaways and counters”. They still look like a Europa League qualifying side to me, and Saturday brought a result that was not even befitting that status.
He continued: ‘I thought actually after 75 minutes that Burnley would vomit on the pitch, but they didn’t. Although most of his passes were in the final third, there really was no attacking outlet for him and Daniel Sturridge often ended up with the ball out wide, which greatly cut out his ability to threaten the goal. It was good [to have possession] but we have to use it better and we did it better already in pre-season, in the sessions, in a lot of moments last season.
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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. But in the end you have to make the decision yourself. “But then we have to use our skills in the most decisive area”.
