Jürgen Klopp admitted Liverpool's 2-1 win over Burnley could have gone either way but happily welcomed the luck which helped his team triumph for a third successive game.
The visitors broke the deadlock on the hour at Turf Moor through a Sadio Mane blast and remained on course for a narrow victory until Johann Berg Gudmundsson converted a back-post header with 88 minutes on the clock.
Klopp’s men refused to give up, though, and when Dejan Lovren diverted a free-kick delivery across goal, his defensive teammate Ragnar Klavan was there to score and snatch three points.
Read on for the manager’s assessment of what turned into a dramatic thriller in Lancashire, the performance of Mane, Adam Lallana’s first start of the season and more…
On Liverpool’s performance and the result…
It was the most difficult circumstances for both teams, I would say, playing 48 hours ago.