Jurgen Klopp opted to make seven changes to the side that had come from behind to beat Leicester City 2-1 on Saturday, with Roberto Firmino on the bench and Phillipe Coutinho and Mo Salah not even in the squad.

Adam Lallana ballooned an early chance for the visitors over the bar and, when Burnley responded, Ashley Barnes blazed his shot from a tight angle high and wide.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s low long-range shot was then gathered by Nick Pope as Klopp’s team edged the opening exchanges.

Scott Arfield flicked a header goalwards from Steven Defour’s cross that Simon Mignolet saved as the Clarets began to get a foothold in the match.

Burnley went close to breaking the deadlock five minutes before the interval when Barnes set up Arfield whose curling effort rolled just wide of Mignolet’s goal while, at the oth...
