Liverpool return to Premier League motion this afternoon with a visit to Burnley within the first fixture of this Sunday’s motion of the English prime flight. Crimson’s summer season signing Alexander Isak may make his debut.
Arne Slot will hope all the eye on the Sweden worldwide doesn’t show to be a distraction as his Liverpool facet bid to proceed their good begin to the season.
Slot’s males are massive favorites to take all three factors, not solely due to the inferiority of their opposition, however as a result of they’ve added to an already-lethal assault, by signing Alexander Isak for £125m on deadline day.
Liverpool have already scored in 37 straight Premier League matches, their greatest ever streak, and after spending near half-a-billion kilos in the summertime, it’s powerful to see any defence stopping them at current.
That is comfortably Liverpool’s best fixture on paper over the approaching week, with Atletico Madrid and rivals Everton making the journey to Anfield within the subsequent seven days, so Slot will hope his gamers can replicate an analogous efficiency to the one Liverpool produced the final time they face Scott Parker, beating his Bournemouth facet 9-0 in 2022.
The current historical past makes a Liverpool victory much more possible, as a result of the Reds have received on eight of their final 9 journeys to Turf Moor, together with every of the final six, which means Burnley may turn into simply the fourth facet in historical past to lose seven successive matches towards Liverpool at house.
Within the Premier League period, Burnley as anticipated have struggled towards Liverpool, dropping 14 of the 18 conferences between the 2. When going through the reigning champions within the prime flight, Burnley have misplaced on 10 of the final 11 events, conceding 30 objectives within the course of, however the one exception in that run was towards Liverpool, when Sean Dyche masterminded a win at Anfield in 2021.
It’s powerful to gauge the place Burnley are at after three video games, as a result of they have been handed two daunting away journeys to Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United, which each resulted in valiant defeats as reported by Softfootball, however they beat fellow newly-promoted facet Sunderland of their solely house outing.
Burnley have been famous for his or her astonishing defensive document within the Championship final season, conceding simply 16 objectives in 46 video games, however after simply three video games within the Premier League, they’ve let in six, which means in the event that they conceded two or extra right here, they are going to turn into simply the second staff in English soccer historical past to concede not less than half of their earlier season’s complete tally within the first 4 matches of the next marketing campaign.
The Clarets are unbeaten in 25 house league matches, however that may definitely be put to the check right here by Liverpool, and it doesn’t get any simpler, as a result of the next three matches are additionally towards sides from final season’s prime seven Nottingham Forest, Man Metropolis and Aston Villa.
Burnley Crew Information
Burnley may welcome Jordan Beyer and Connor Roberts again from knee accidents very quickly, however this recreation seems to be like it is going to come too quickly for the pair of them.
Zeki Amdouni is out for the long run with a critical knee damage, however Hjalmar Ekdal ought to be tremendous after sustaining a slight knock on worldwide obligation with Sweden.
Florentino Luis was Burnley’s solely late addition within the switch market, and the Benfica loanee may make his debut on this one.
Burnley Confirmed line up: Dúbravka, Walker, Hartman, Estève, Ekdal, Ogochukwu, Cullen, Laurent, Tchaoouna, Foster, Anthony
Sub: Weib/Worrall/Edwards, Humphreys/Florentino, Fleming/Pires, Broja/Hannibal.
Liverpool Crew Information
All eyes will probably be on Liverpool’s teamsheet at midday to see whether or not Isak will make his full debut, however the chances are high that he’ll begin on the bench, having solely performed 18 aggressive minutes this season, for Sweden away in Kosovo on Monday.
The type of Hugo Ekitike and Cody Gakpo additionally makes it powerful for Slot to drop both to make approach for Isak, and the latter continued his tremendous begin on the worldwide stage too, scoring for the Netherlands in Lithuania final week.
On the damage checklist, Ibrahima Konate will probably be tremendous after that includes for France throughout the break, however Jeremie Frimpong continues to be recovering from a hamstring subject and Curtis Jones can also be absent.
Reds Confirmed line up as seen on Liverpool X deal with: Alisson, Van Dijk, Konate, Kerkez, Wirtz, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Salah, Gakpo, Ekitike, Gravenberch.
Subs: Mamardashvili, Gomez, Endo, Bradley, Chiesa, Robertson, Frimpong, Nyoni, Ngumoha.
Prediction
An away win is broadly anticipated right here, with Liverpool heading to Burnley with unbeatable document intact. Arne Slot’s males have began this season in the identical approach they completed final, and they are going to be title challengers as soon as extra. Burnley, in the meantime, are going to have their work lower out for them over the course of the marketing campaign.
