I know a lot of people are afraid of what Liverpool might turn up against Burnley (and rightly so given our record), but let's not forget Burnley have only 2 points away from home. They're by far the worst visiting team in the league, and the only reason they're not in the bottom 3 is that they perform incredibly well at home - 5th in league in that respect, if I recall correctly. We should have no problems with them
Let's not forget that one of their two away points was was at the mancs. And let's not forget that Arsenal needed a lucky penalty to beat them in injury time, and they gave City lots of trouble away as well. Swansea also beat them in injury time at the weekend. So I'm ready for another long afternoon.
I wasn't worried about this game. Even though this was just our second win at home against them in 10 years, Arsenal won't park a bus, so we could play as we liked, and could pick them off any time we wanted, which we did. Mane probably couldn't believe his luck to have the freedom of Liverpool before scoring his goal. Credit also to Matip who blocked their effort, which looked goalbound on the replay, to set up the third on the counter. But we deserved at least 3, probably more, even though the goal difference relative to our rivals is healthy.
Next week is the test though, as everything is back to normal. We attack, they defend. It certainly promises to be every bit as frustrating as the reverse fixture. We're the only one of the top six to play next weekend, so a win is the only result that will do.
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