Historic night for The Clarets as Barnes scores 100th
senior goal to end Liverpool’s near four-year dominance at Anfield
Burnley made history on Thursday night as they inflicted Liverpool’s
first defeat at Anfield in the league since April 2017 ending a run of 68 games
unbeaten at home courtesy of Ashley Barnes’s second-half penalty.
Barnes nearly opened the scoring on 13 minutes as he
controlled Chris Woods knockdown, which left Allison in a heap on the ground.
This meant that Barnes had a free shot at goal but the goalkeeper was able to swiftly
recover and keep his shot out.
Captain Ben Mee then left Burnley fans with their hearts in
their mouths as he miskicked a backpass to Nick Pope which sent Divock Origi through
on goal with 43 minutes gone. Origi only had the keeper to beat but his shot
clattered off the underside of the bar and rebounded into the arms of Pope.
Tempers flared on the half-time whistle as both sets of
players were involved in a melee when Fabinho made contact with the back of Barnes’s
leg in the final act of the half.
Mike Dean issued the Brazilian with a yellow card, but his
decision was overturned by VAR and order was quickly restored on the pitch.
However, Sean Dyche and Jurgen Klopp continued the verbal’s
as they exchanged heated words in the tunnel. Dyche played down the incident in
his post-match interview with Sky
Sports declaring that “It was just two managers fighting for their
teams, wanting to win a game”.
Burnley defended valiantly in the second half as they
attempted to keep Liverpool at bay. The Clarets had their goalkeeper to thank
as Pope was in fine form and pulled off a superb save from Mohamed Salah with
half an hour to play.
Georginio Wijnaldum bypassed Burnley’s midfield and played
in Salah who shot towards Pope’s near post, but the England goalkeeper was able
to get down low and get a strong hand to the ball to keep the score at 0-0.
His efforts were then rewarded as Burnley took the lead with
seven minutes to go. Fabinho cleared the ball out of the box but only as far as
Matt Lowton who headed the ball into the path of Barnes and he hooked the ball
over Allison. Allison then clipped Barnes as he tried to get to the ball and the
referee immediately pointed to the spot and Burnley had a chance to go in
front.
Barnes stepped up to take the penalty which he curled into
the bottom right corner to put Burnley ahead and score his 100th senior
goal.
Despite Liverpool’s best efforts, they were unable to find an
equaliser and Burnley secured their first victory at Anfield in 46 years to go
seven points clear of the drop zone.
Liverpool have now scored just once in five league games
since defeating Crystal Palace 7-0 in December and remain six points behind
league leaders Manchester United. Klopp’s men face United for the second time
in a week as both sides meet in the fourth round of the FA Cup on Sunday evening.
The Clarets are also in action in the FA Cup on Sunday against
Scott Parker’s Fulham at Turf Moor as they look to set up a fifth-round tie
with the winners of Bournemouth vs Crawley.
Sources
https://twitter.com/SkySportsStatto/status/1352371329329205249
https://www.premierleague.com/clubs/10/Liverpool/results
https://www.premierleague.com/tables
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