Jurgen Klopp makes glowing claim about Vincent Kompany and Burnley after Liverpool's hard-fought win

The Clarets squandered the chance to pick up a surprise result at Anfield.

Kompany’s men put up a resilient effort and, with the game finely poised at 2-1, they wasted some golden chances to get themselves back level.

As it was, the home side added a late third to make the scoreline seem a bit more comfortable than it was.

“They did [ask us some questions], absolutely,” Klopp told BBC Sport.

“That’s the Premier League, each team has quality. Burnley especially, their points tally doesn’t reflect even close to the potential they have.

“I like a lot what they do, how they play and how calm Vinny is so early into his career. He’s a top manager in the making and he’s ready to learn it the hard way.

“It’s a good team that is still having this positive approach, even though their goalie needed a bit long for the kick-offs and the goal kicks!

“But besides that, for us it was super difficult. We lost so many players [to injury] and we’re short in all areas. Then Trent [Alexander-Arnold] has to go off at half-time, so we’ll have to see what goes on there.

“We have Curtis Jones at right-back, where he’s not played in his entire life. But we stayed extremely focused and scored three great goals.

“We did really well. It was just a difficult one. People think we just go through them with no real efforts, but that’s never possible.”