City, Liverpool cruise
Liverpool maintained their 100 per cent start to the Premier League season with a 3-0 win at Burnley to retake top spot from Manchester City, who earlier thrashed Brighton on Saturday.
But Manchester United and Chelsea lost further ground on the leaders in disappointing draws with Southampton and Sheffield United.
Liverpool have now won a club record 13 straight Premier League games stretching back to last season when they missed out on the title to City despite amassing 97 points.
Another titanic title race between the two looks on as Liverpool withstood an early Burnley assault before two goals in four minutes took the game away.
Trent Alexander-Arnold’s cross looped in off Chris Wood for a fortunate opener, but Burnley were masters of their own downfall for the second as Bee Mee presented the ball to Roberto Firmino and the Brazilian teed up Sadio Mane to slot home. Firmino added the third himself 10 minutes from time.
City’s 4-0 victory came at a cost as centre-back Aymeric Laporte was stretchered off with a knee injury that looks set to rule him out for the forseeable future.
Southampton clung on for a 1-1 draw at St Mary’s against Manchester United despite playing the last 17 minutes plus stoppage time a man down.
“We’ve been dominating, creating chances and just haven’t been clinical in front of goal to win the games,” said Solskjaer. “It’s not a dip in form, it’s a dip in results definitely.”
At Stamford Bridge, Frank Lampard was left waiting for his first league win after the Blues threw away a 2-0 half-time lead given to them by Tammy Abraham.
“We have to take responsibility, we allowed that to happen. It was on us to take the game away from them and we allowed them to get back into it,” said Lampard. “If we can’t go on and get a third goal that’s something we have to work on, this is the Premier League, it’s ruthless.”
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