Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club in Liverpool, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Domestically, the club has won nineteen League titles, seven FA Cups, a record eight League Cups and fifteen FA Community Shields. On the other hand Burnley Football Club is an English association football club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Founded on 18 May 1882, it was one of the first to become professional (in 1883), and subsequently put pressure on the Football Association to permit payments to players. Today we will discuss about Liverpool vs Burnley: Highlights| H2H| Man of The Match.
Liverpool vs Burnley: Highlights| H2H| Man of The Match…
Liverpool F.C. was founded following a dispute between the Everton committee and John Houlding, club president and owner of the land at Anfield. After eight years at the stadium, Everton relocated to Goodison Park in 1892 and Houlding founded Liverpool F.C. to play at Anfield. While the Burnley Football club was founded on 18 May 1882 by members of rugby team Burnley Rovers, who voted for a shift to association football, since other sports clubs in the area had changed their codes to football. The suffix “Rovers” was dropped a few days later. The team played their first-ever match on 10 August against local side Burnley Wanderers at home ground Calder Vale and won 4–0.
Highlights
Liverpool appeared to lack their shooting boots as chances went begging for all of the front three, as well as Thiago and Nathaniel Phillips from close range.
But the Reds finally made their mark just before the break as Roberto Firmino got on the end of Andy Robertson’s ball into the box and found the back of the net to make it 1-0 at half-time.
H2H
Liverpool is in good form in England Premier League and they won 10 home games at Anfield. Burnley did not win any of their last five matches in Premier League and they won three away games.
Liverpool won 10 times in their past 14 meetings with Burnley.
| LIVERPOOL | MATCHES | WIN | DRAW | LOSE |
| Overall | 38 | 18 | 8 | 12 |
| Home | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 |
| Away | 19 | 8 | 3 | 8 |
| BURNLEY | MATCHES | WIN | DRAW | LOSE |
| Overall | 38 | 7 | 12 | 19 |
| Home | 19 | 4 | 7 | 8 |
| Away | 19 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
Man of the match
Liverpool defeated Burnley 0-3 and kept their top four hopes alive in the process. Nathaniel Phillips was named Man of The Match after his impressive performance. Liverpool defeated Burnley 0-3 this evening at Turf Moor to keep their top four hopes alive. The Reds saw goals from Roberto Firmino, Nathaniel Phillips and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. Although there were several impressive performances for The Reds, one stood out.
