Liverpool are heading into the contest against Burnley on the back of successive Premier League draws against Arsenal and Manchester United.
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Burnley will hope to build on their impressive weekend victory when they welcome Liverpool to Turf Moor in the Premier League. The stadium will be buzzing for the Boxing Day contest on the back of Burnley’s impressive 2-0 win away to Fulham in their last match. Hence, the Clarets will be confident of getting a similar result at home in the coming game but it will not be easy against a well-drilled Liverpool side.
Liverpool are heading into the contest against Burnley on the back of successive Premier League draws against Arsenal and Manchester United. Hence, they will be eager to get back to winning ways in the league. However, Jurgen Klopp is fully aware of the challenge that awaits them. “I don’t need the Fulham result to understand Burnley’s quality. I think Burnley could have easily had much more points because they had so many good spells in the games where they then don’t finish these situations off. Young players in some positions. In the moment they finish these situations off, they can win football games, definitely,” Klopp, quoted on the club’s website, said ahead of the game.
He added: “It was very often that they were really good in the game and I respect Vinny [Kompany] a lot for [the fact that] he keeps pushing his idea through. I knew before that they are much better than the position and the points they have. I have watched quite a few Burnley games and I am pretty impressed by what they are doing – and on Saturday they got then the reward. We all know if you win once and you have a chance to play in three days again then you will want to win again and that’s exactly what we expect – and a pretty good atmosphere as well. We better be, and will be, ready.”
Klopp then gave an update on Diogo Jota’s fitness situation and whether he could return against Burnley. “I don’t want to rule out anybody now. We will see. He didn’t train with the team yet and we have only one proper session, so it would be a surprise – but maybe I will be surprised and all fine. I don’t know. I saw him [on Friday]; he didn’t train with the team but the session I saw was really intense, but I didn’t ask yet who will be available. The medical department will tell me and then I will know more,” he explained.
With Andy Robertson and Kostas Tsimikas out injured, it would be interesting to see who will fill the vacant left-back role at Liverpool. When asked whether Joe Gomez could fit in there, Klopp replied, “We will see. Can Joey play all the games coming up now until – I don’t know when – Robbo will be back? Kosti is now definitely out for a while, so I don’t know, we have to see. I didn’t have time now to think it through, but somebody will play the position I am pretty sure.”
He added: “It is for us obviously really tough, it’s really tough. You have injuries sometimes and we accept all of them, but a broken collarbone is really bad because it just takes long. Same what Robbo had: a different injury but that takes long as well, how we all know. We all know we need luck in these moments to get through and now we will have Joey there and just have to make sure we put him in cotton wool and we have to make sure he is always ready for the games.”
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