Klopp hails warriors in cold war

Barcelona shirt with Coutinho’s name appearing on the website of Nike, the club’s kit manufacturer.

Klopp insisted Coutinho was genuinely injured and laughed off the Nike story.

“I heard about it,” he said. “But I couldn’t be less interested in anything in the world.

“Him and Mohamed Salah are injured – not massively – but enough for today and at least a doubt for Everton on Friday.” They greatly missed Coutinho pulling the strings in midfield and Salah’s pace. Liverpool needed Mane to step up and recapture his scintillating form of last season and, while he largely struggled, he provided a key moment of quality just after the hour.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain found Trent Alexander-Arnold and the full-back’s cross reached Mane in the centre of the box. He controlled the ball with his back to goal, turned and struck a shot past goalkeeper Nick Pope. Klopp said: “He scores a goal like this and it is like, ‘wow’. He comes into the dressing room and the whole team gives him a hand.”

Burnley equalised in the 87th minute when Gudmundsson headed past Simon Mignolet after Sam Vokes had flicked on Charlie Taylor’s cross.

But Liverpool scored again in added time when OxladeChamberlain’s free-kick was headed back across goal by Dejan Lovren to leave Klavan with the simplest of headers.

Burnley manager Sean Dyche said: “I thought we had done enough to earn another point so I’m frustrated with a soft goal but impressed with the mentality overall.

“We were superb physically, tactically very good, defensively so much to be pleased with but to lose like that is a horrible feeling.”

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