Football
Burnley ended
new champions Liverpool’s hopes of completing the season with a 100 percent
Premier League home record thanks to Jay Rodriguez’s second-half equaliser.
Clarets striker
Rodriguez swivelled and fired home from inside the box following a James Tarkowski
header to reward Sean Dyche’s side for their resilience and persistence in the
face of large periods of home dominance.
The visitors
could even have left Anfield with all three points, but Johann Berg Gudmundsson
fired an effort against the crossbar with just minutes remaining.
Andy Robertson
had given the home side the lead in the first half, but they also spurned a
number of good opportunities to score more, with Mohamed Salah and Curtis Jones
guilty of wayward shooting.
They also found
Nick Pope in superb form, with the England goalkeeper producing a string of
good saves to deny Salah and others.
Roberto Firmino
struck the inside of the post with a low shot as Liverpool poured forward to
try to capitalise on having more than 70 percent possession.
The draw means
Liverpool can now no longer beat the Premier League record for home wins in a
season; they need to beat Chelsea in their last game at Anfield to equal the
league-high of 18.
Liverpool
remain in good shape, though, to achieve a highest-ever Premier League points
haul; with three games left, they have 93, seven short of the record of 100 set
by Manchester City in 2017-18.
Burnley are now
five games unbeaten since they returned from the Premier League’s three-month
shutdown by losing 5-0 at Manchester City.
A draw leaves
them ninth and still firmly in the mix for a place in next season’s Europa
League.
AFP/NAN
Leave
your comment.
No comments:
Post a Comment