Premier League leaders and reigning champions Liverpool travel to newly-promoted Burnley in the first fixture of this Sunday’s action in the English top flight.
Arne Slot’s men are the only remaining team left with a 100% record in the Premier League, but Burnley have adjusted to life at the top table slightly better than many may have envisaged.
It was a joyous August for the Premier League holders, as Liverpool won three from three to get their campaign started, beating title-challengers Arsenal in an important early clash.
Now, Liverpool will have their eyes set on winning their first four matches for just the third time in the PL era, after also doing so in 2018-19 (second with 97 points) and in 2019-20 (champions).
It would also be the third time in a row that the reigning champions have won their first four games, as Manchester City managed it in the last two seasons, and it would be the first time in English top-flight history that this has happened.
Slot’s men are big favourites to take all three points, not only because of the inferiority of their opposition, but because they have added to an already-lethal attack, by signing Alexander Isak for £125m on deadline day.
Liverpool have already scored in 37 straight Premier League matches - their best ever streak - and after spending close to half-a-billion pounds in the summer, it is tough to see any defence stopping them at present.
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