Liverpool not only kept up their 100 per cent record this season with a fourth successive victory, in beating Burnley by a comfortable margin to return to the top of the Premier League table they set a new club record of 13 successive wins. Jürgen Klopp and his players really are writing themselves into the club’s history books, since not even the great sides assembled by Shankly, Paisley or Dalglish ever managed that.Impressive as the achievement is, however, there is no doubt that fortune favoured the visitors in the first half. Burnley gave a good account of themselves for half an hour, until the complexion of the game was altered by two Liverpool goals in quick succession, the first a ludicrous own goal, the second a defensive gift. Liverpool will not mind, their only priority at the moment is staying ahead of Manchester City for as long as possible, and they can now spend the international break looking forward to Newcastle at home when the domestic programme resumes. Continue readingreadfullarticle
