Liverpool 2-0 Burnley (26 Dec, 2023) Game Analysis\u060c<\/p>\n
Liverpool returned to the top of the Premier League as Darwin Nunez's first league goal in almost two months helped them to a 2-0 win at struggling Burnley on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Nunez's precision after six minutes gave Liverpool a strong start at Turf Moor, but Jurgen Klopp's side were unable to kill off the hosts as the second goal would not come.<\/p>\n
– Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n Mohamed Salah was denied by the crossbar and Cody Gakpo and Harvey Elliott were denied goals as Burnley hung on, but Diogo Jota's 90th-minute effort sealed the points.<\/p>\n Nineteenth-placed Burnley had chances of their own in the second half and almost managed to equalize when Jacob Bruun Larsen's shot went agonizingly wide of the post.<\/p>\n Liverpool's first win in three league matches put them above Arsenal as they reached the halfway point of the season on 42 points. Arsenal, who have 40, host West Ham United<\/a> on Thursday. <\/p>\n There was a sense of relief when substitute Jota fired from a tight angle for his 50th Liverpool goal after a radical move, as the points should have been in the bag long ago.<\/p>\n “We put obstacles in front of us and finally we find a way to overcome them, but it's incredible,” Klopp told Amazon Prime. \u201cWe played an incredible game but it was only 1-0 and then they realized something was possible.<\/p>\n \u201cThey could have equalized in a crazy way and, in the most difficult situation of the whole match, we made it 2-0.\u201d<\/p>\n Liverpool, held to a draw by Manchester United and Arsenal in their last two games, totally dominated the early stages and Nunez produced a silky finish to curl an effort inside goalkeeper James Trafford's post after Gakpo.<\/p>\n Salah should have made it 2-0 after good work from Gakpo and Nunez but his shot was well saved by Trafford.<\/p>\n Gakpo then put the ball into the net, but his effort was disallowed due to a foul by Nunez in the build-up.<\/p>\n