Liverpool drops more points at lowly Burnley
Liverpool was forced to share the spoils for a fourth straight Premier League game as relegation-threatened Burnley fought back for a 1-1 draw at Anfield.
Marcus Edwards arrowed in a 65th-minute equaliser for Scott Parker's 19th-placed side as Liverpool failed to make its dominance count.
Edwards's finish came from Burnley's only shot on target as Arne Slot's side was made to pay for not translating its control into further goals after Florian Wirtz's fine first-half opener.
Dominik Szoboszlai had earlier thundered a penalty, awarded for Florentino's foul on Cody Gakpo, against the crossbar before Wirtz broke the deadlock by angling into the top-left corner.
Gakpo then had an effort heroically cleared off the line by Bashir Humphreys, but after Burnley equalised, Liverpool rarely looked like finding the crucial winner.
Hugo Ekitike thought he had won it with just under 15 minutes remaining, only to see his close-range strike from a Virgil van Dijk headed knockdown ruled out for offside.
Slot's side has now shared the spoils in each of its past four league games, but the Dutchman believes the tide will soon turn on the back of what he sees as strong showings.
"I was really pleased to see how many chances we could create today," he said.
"It’s worth a lot because it does give us the confidence that in other games, eventually we will win those games, because it cannot go on like this.
"But I say this for quite a long time now: I think almost every game we play we are able to create more than the team we face, but we don’t have the points we would like to have."
But Wirtz echoed Slot's annoyance as Liverpool failed to make its superiority count.
“Very frustrating. We had a lot of chances, enough chances to decide the game early and we missed that today. Very disappointing," the former Bayer Leverkusen forward said.
“With Hugo’s goal, which was offside I think, we were unlucky in a few moments. We have to be better in front of goal.
"There weren’t so many big, big chances but in the end we scored only one goal but that was not enough today."
