Emre shows Liverpool can hang among top four

Liverpool 2 Burnley 1: With one casual, but extremely accurate, swing of his right boot, Emre Can settled this unpredictable game and possibly shifted the momentum of Liverpool’s troublingly inconsistent season.

Emre shows Liverpool can hang among top four

A draw, and certainly defeat, against Burnley here at Anfield and Arsenal and Manchester United would have been breathing down Jurgen Klopp’s neck in the chase for the fourth and final place in next season’s Champions League, a target which apparently now consumes Premier League managers at the expense of everything else.

But Can gathered a short, square pass from Divock Origi on the hour and unleashed a shot from over 25 yards which England goalkeeper Tom Heaton might have done more to keep out before it flew into the bottom right-hand corner.

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