Liverpool vs Burnley LIVE: Result and reaction from Premier League fixture today
Follow all the action from Anfield as Liverpool close in on Premier League history
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Your support makes all the difference.Liverpool are taking on Burnley at Anfield today as the close in on the Premier League points record set by Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City.
The new champions began the day on 92 points, and with four games remaining they can set a new benchmark for top-flight points. However they will have to do it without their captain Jordan Henderson after he was ruled out for the rest of the campaign, and face a Burnley side in good form since the restart.
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When is the game?
Liverpool vs Burnley kicks off at 3pm on Saturday 11 July.
How can I watch on TV?
The match will be broadcast live in the UK on BT Sport 1, BT Sport Extra 1 and BT Sport Ultimate, available to all BT Sport customers.
Can I stream the game online?
BT Sport customers can stream the game on the BT Sport website or via the BT Sport app.
Predicted line-ups
Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson, Wijnaldum, Fabinho, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Mane, Salah, Firmino
Burnley: Pope, Bardsley, Long, Tarkowski, Taylor, Pieters, Westwood, Brownhill, McNeil, Rodriguez, Wood
Prediction
Burnley are in good form right now, and Liverpool are without their captain, but even Sean Dyche will struggle to come up with a way to stop Liverpool in full flow. Liverpool 2-0 Burnley.
22 min: Mane and Salah try to play a one-two on the edge of the box but the latter's pass is too heavy. Liverpool's front three look on good form so far, though.
23 min: Taylor is played down the left by McNeil but can't keep his cross in play. That brings up the first-half drinks break.
27 min: McNeil gives Burnley some respite, charging down the left and winning a corner. The set piece is sent in dangerously by Westwood, dropped right underneath Alisson, who's under pressure from the visitors' biggest players. Van Dijk, towering above everyone, gets his head to it.
28 min: From the next corner, Liverpool clear and look to break quickly through Mane. Salah and Firmino stream forward on either side of him but Taylor makes a crucial intervention.
31 min: Burnley are struggling to get a foothold in midfield. Liverpool are probing, with Jones and Firmino looking to create. For now, the away side are standing firm, but it's going to be a long afternoon if it continues like this.
33 min: Big chance! Mane nicks the ball in Burnley's box and finds Salah, who moves the ball onto his left foot and has just Pope to beat. The goalkeeper, so impressive this season, makes another good save, this time with his left foot.
GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Burnley (Robertson) 34 min
Superb from Robertson! The left back is picked out by a long diagonal ball and guides a lovely header over the head of Pope and into the far corner. Liverpool needed something special to beat the Burnley goalkeeper and Robertson's provided it.
37 min: Liverpool are consistently beating Burnley's press and running at the away side's back four. It's a problem for Dyche's side, who've had no answer to anything the champions have done in this first half.
39 min: A rare loose pass at the back from Van Dijk sells Gomez short and McNeil gets away down the left. Gomez is back to clear the low cross that comes in.
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