Liverpool made it consecutive wins to start the new Premier League season on Saturday.
Following the comfortable 3-0 victory over Norwich on opening weekend, Jurgen Klopp’s side triumphed again in front of the first full crowd seen at Anfield since March 2020.
Diogo Jota has two goals in as many games after heading in Kostas Tsimikas’ first-half cross, with the three points sewn up courtesy of a brilliant team goal involving Virgil van Dijk, Harvey Elliott and Trent Alexander-Arnold that was expertly finished off by Sadio Mane.
18-year-old Elliott made his first Premier League start for Liverpool, who gained revenge for January’s shock 1-0 defeat by Burnley that ended their long unbeaten home run at 68 matches and sparked a dreadful sequence of six straight home defeats for the first time in club history.
Captain Jordan Henderson also returned on a positive day for the Reds, who host Chelsea on Merseyside next weekend.
For Burnley, their sixth successive season in the top-flight has brought opening back-to-back losses ahead of a Carabao Cup clash with Newcastle in midweek.
