Liverpool vs Burnley

Liverpool will be looking to exact revenge on Burnley for last season’s 1-0 defeat at Anfield as they are set to launch their 2021/22 Premier League home campaign.

Virgil van Dijk’s return to Premier League action for the first time since October 2020 saw Liverpool register a third consecutive top-flight win by over 1.5 goals ‘to nil,’ as they hammered newly-promoted Norwich City 3-0 on Matchday 1. A comfortable victory at Carrow Road to start the new season stretched Liverpool’s unbeaten Premier League streak to 11 straight matches (W9, D2), with the ‘Reds’ winning the last six in a row. That run is likely to be extended here, considering the Merseysiders have lost their first home Premier League game of the new season only three times in the previous 55 seasons, winning their first top-flight match at Anfield in the last eight. Despite succumbing to an underwhelming 1-0 loss in this exact fixture in 2020/21, Liverpool boast a solid overall H2H record against Burnley (W9, D2, L2).

In the meantime, Burnley squandered a 1-0 half-time lead to end up on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline against Brighton at Turf Moor on the opening weekend. Another victory at Anfield looks like a long shot, especially given they have won their first away league matches of the new season only twice in the last 14 campaigns (D3, L9). Alarmingly, Sean Dyche’s men have suffered eight defeats in their previous ten Premier League outings (W2), losing the last four in a row by an aggregate score of 10-1. If they go down here, it will be the first time in Burnley’s history that they have lost five consecutive matches in England’s top tier. Curiously, none of Burnley’s 12 away Premier League games in 2021 have ended as a draw (W5, L7), with 75% of those results (win/loss) seeing the victor keep a clean sheet.