Burnley 0-3 Liverpool: Sadio Mane incident is played down by manager Jurgen Klopp
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By Saj Chowdhury
BBC Sport
Liverpool director Jurgen Klopp played down striker Sadio Mane’s reaction after being substituted in the 3-0 win at Burnley, and then praised his line for helping the club reach a winning run from the Premier League.
The incident between the international occurred from the 85th minute. As Mane walked off he made a gesture and continued to be revived as he sat down frustrated at fellow forwards Mohamed Salah’s decision never to pass into him in the opposition area moments earlier.
The German boss laughed off the incident, and stated:”But it is good eh? He had been angry, it was evident.
No pre-season for your front three but they still deliver – so far, so good
“Sadio cannot hide his emotions, I like that. But all sorted. We talked about it and everything is fine.
“We’re individuals, we are emotional. It ended up being a situation in a game. What might have happened? It wasn’t a phone call.”
Mane, also a fluke own goal plus Roberto Firmino helped the Reds keep their 100 percent start for their Premier League campaign.
The Clarets had fought toe-to-toe with last season’s runners-up before the 33rd minute when Trent planned cross into the far post brushed the back of Chris Wood and sailed in goal.
Another bit of misfortune occurred soon after the restart. This time Burnley skipper Ben Mee accidentally found Reds forwards Firmino with a pass; Mane who fired low past Pope was then found by him.
There were few opportunities after the break, however, Liverpool transformed the majority of these after he was teed up from Salah when Firmino fired in from the edge of the area.
Klopp said he was amazed that since not one of his front three had a , the league leaders had extended their winning streak – while Firmino competed at the Copa America both Salah and Mane played at the African Cup of Nations.
“Should you ask me four weeks ago I would not anticipate it would happen,” said Klopp.
“We had a tricky pre-season. No pre-season to the front three but they deliver. Thus far, so good.”
His Reds go into the break using as many factors and at the exact identical position since the corresponding period last season.
Burnley, who have won only two of the 17 games against Liverpool in most contests, fall down to 11th in the table.
Not too many will begrudge a group like Liverpool the rub of the green today and again.
Since they were kept occupied by Burnley’s Aaron Lennon along with Dwight McNeil up before Wood target neither full-back Alexander-Arnold nor Andy Robertson had much of a chance to attack down the flanks.
On the other hand, the danger posed failed to deter Alexander-Arnold from pushing at any given opportunity, and just following the half-hour indicate his foray led to the opener. As his cross nestled in the back of the web, the England defender responded with fun that was sheepish.
There were, though scenes of parties moments after when Mane sent his drive .
Both he and fellow forward Firmino and Salah were limited to scraps from the match, but if the next chance arose after the split that they took it.
This time Egyptian Salah created among his familiar marauding runs ahead to see his progress stopped in the edge of the area. On the other hand, the cavalry arrived in the kind of Firmino, that struck the next for Liverpool.
Two errors in two successive games will tug on a Burnley aspect which prides itself on creating the opposition work.
It had been Danny Drinkwater’s mistake that led to Sunderland’s equaliser in the 3-1 Carabao Cup midweek conquer, also contrary to the Reds, skipper Mee endured a rare lapse at the wrong spot and against the wrong team.
That has been an unfortunate four moments for the Clarets, who up until the fluke opener looked great since they sparred against the European champions.
If a shot flashed which Spanish keeper Adrian pushed away, they came close to getting an early lead. And Alexander-Arnold stopped Barnes from an almost-certain fifth of this year when he cut out Aaron Lennon’s ball from the right.
Both first-half goals appeared to knock on some of the wind from Burnley, who failed to put much of a fight up after the break. Had James Tarkowski left a cross for Mee from a second-half corner, the captain might have atoned for his mistake. And in the game replacement Jay Rodriguez was denied by keeper Adrian – .
Having been aggressive in league games, Burnley boss Sean Dyche is not likely to be concerned about a second defeat in a few days.
Liverpool are at home to Newcastle on Saturday, 14 September (12:30 BST) and Burnley are in Brighton the exact same afternoon (15:00 BST).
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