Burnley vs Liverpool LIVE: Premier League result, final score and reaction today

Fabinho’s fifth goal in eight matches helped Liverpool grind out a 1-0 victory over Burnley in testing conditions to maintain their pursuit of Manchester City.

With rain seemingly blowing around Turf Moor in three different directions at the same time, the conditions seemed ideal for an upset – one Jurgen Klopp’s side could ill-afford starting the game 12 points off the leaders.

But even though the visitors reunited their famed original front three of Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino for the first time since the end of October, it was their new-found goalscoring midfielder who made the breakthrough.

Over at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the rain fell on Antonio Conte during this miserable defeat to Wolves, as two thoughts would have drifted across the Italian’s mind.

One, which is a not a new realisation, is the scale of the task he faces to turn Tottenham into a side that looks even remotely capable of finishing in the top four, and two, that when things really go wrong at Spurs they invariably do so in spectacular and calamitous fashion.

Bruno Lage’s impressive Wolves side are now just two points behind Tottenham in the Premier League table but in truth, they did not require anything special to claim three points. Instead, they were gifted two opening goals that bordered on slapstick.

As Tottenham’s top-four bid suffered a damaging blow, it would have done so to the tune of laughter to those other sides in contention for the Champions League places.

Contrasting fortunes for the managers.

Newcastle have just completed their win over Aston Villa. It’s five games unbeaten now for Eddie Howe’s men and they’ve won the last three to take them out of the bottom three and give them a four point cushion in 17th.

Burnley have two games in hand on the Magpies but have to win both of them if they want to close that seven point gap.

That defeat means Burnley could end the day seven points away from safety. Newcastle are currently winning at home to Aston Villa but there is a big chunk of stoppage time to play and the game is still going on.

Liverpool have cut the gap on Man City back to nine points. They remain second and are keeping the pressure on the Premier League champions.

90+3 mins: Fabinho’s fourth goal of the season for Liverpool is enough to give Jurgen Klopp’s men all three points. It was another decent performance from Sean Dyche’s men but they couldn’t score.

That’s been their main problem for the majority of the season and once again it’s come back to haunt them.

90 mins: Three minutes of added time to play at Turf Moor. Liverpool have managed the last 10 minutes pretty well. They haven’t let Burnley put together any sort of attack and have penned the home side into their own half.

It looks as though the Reds are going to pick up another three points here.

86 mins: Into the last five minutes at Turf Moor. Liverpool win a corner after Diogo Jota sees an effort deflected wide of goal. Andy Robertson heads over to take it. He whips the ball into the box but Connor Roberts it there to work it clear for Burnley.

83 mins: Close! Maxwel Cornet is slid into the box by Josh Brownhill and has a great chance to equalise for Burnley. He’s met by Alisson who forces Cornet to drag the ball wide and fire his eventual shot into the side-netting. The offside flag goes up after the shot so it wouldn’t have counted even if Cornet had a scored.

80 mins: Chance! Trent Alexander-Arnold drifts inside and makes a run into the middle of the box as Roberto Firmino lifts the all into the area. Alexander-Arnold brings it down and cuts a pass into the six-yard box. The ball strikes Ben Mee and ricochets wide of the back post!