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Captain Jordan Henderson will miss his third game in a row for Liverpool as he continues to struggle with a foot injury.

Daniel Sturridge is ruled out with a hip injury, while Roberto Firminho and Dejan Lovren are doubts.

Midfielder Steven Defour and Johann Berg Gudmundsson remain out for Burnley, but Tom Heaton is fit after illness.

Joey Barton is available after recovering from a hamstring strain.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp on playing the ‘smaller’ sides: “People say I don’t have a Plan B or whatever. Yes, we know how to play. (We) have to cover specific spaces and make the right decisions.

“We can’t just say we can only concentrate on counter attacks, set pieces, whatever. It’s an all-round challenge.

“My job, how I understand it, is to help them find the right decisions easier. That’s what training is for. We have to prove it on the pitch.

“In this moment I’m not sure we will win against Burnley but I’m quite optimistic. We’re ready for the fight.”

Burnley manager Sean Dyche on reports linking Andre Gray and Michael Keane with transfer moves: “I’ve said many times it’s that balance between people looking at your players and wondering where that will go, then equally the respect where it shows that people are taking Burnley Football Club seriously.

“That’s good for the club that people are recognising that.

“It’s certainly good for myself and the staff to realise that we do work with these players and they do develop and improve. The more we do that, the stronger the team gets, and I think that’s been shown over a long period now.”

Head-to-head

• Liverpool have played Burnley five times in the Premier League, winning the first four by an aggregate score of 11-0.
• However, Burnley beat the Reds during their last meeting, a 2-0 victory at Turf Moor in August.
• Their last win at Anfield was in September 1974. They’ve drawn one and lost eight of their nine visits there since, scoring once and conceding 19 goals.
• They could do the top-flight double against Liverpool for the first time since 1929-30.

Liverpool

• The Reds are looking for back-to-back wins in the league for the first time this year.
• They have only won three of their last 13 matches in all competitions.
• Liverpool have scored 19 goals in the opening 30 minutes of Premier League games this season – five more than any other club.
• They are unbeaten in 17 Premier League home games against promoted sides since losing to Blackpool in the 2010-11 campaign (W12, D5).
• A Liverpool win would equal their tally of 16 league victories for last season.
• They have scored an unrivalled 58 league goals this season but Stoke are the only team in the top half of the table to concede more than the Reds.

Burnley

• The Clarets are yet to win away this season, a run of 13 league games (D2, L11), and have won only four of their 51 Premier League away matches overall (D8, L39).
• Burnley, along with Hull, were the last team to remain winless in their opening 14 away matches of a Premier League season, in 2009-10.
• They have also kept just one clean sheet away from home this campaign – a 0-0 draw at Manchester United in October.
• If Burnley avoid defeat they would be only the second promoted team in 14 Premier League seasons to remain unbeaten at Old Trafford and Anfield in a single campaign.

Source: bbc.co.uk

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