• Burnley v Liverpool, Saturday, 6pm
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Liverpool travel to nearby Burnley on Saturday eager to prove their opening weekend 4-3 win away to Arsenal was no flash in the pan.
Raising their game against English football’s established powers has been something successive Liverpool teams have had no problem in doing.
But the five-times European champions have, remarkably given their once entrenched domestic dominance, yet to be crowned champions of England since the advent of the Premier League, with the last of their once record 18 championships coming back in 1990 — still the days of the old First Division.
However, it is matches at clubs such as newly-promoted north-west rivals Burnley that have often proved Liverpool’s undoing in pursuit of title glory.
They could make the journey to Turf Moor without Sadio Mane, who suffered a shoulder injury on Wednesday after marking his Liverpool debut with a goal against the Gunners.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp does have the likes of Divock Origi and Daniel Sturridge standing by to take Mane’s place at Turf Moor.
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