Burnley and Nottingham Forest are each licking their wounds going into Saturday’s sport at Turf Moor.
Burnley have been rocked by back-to-back stoppage-time defeats, the latest of which towards final weekend ended their 15-month and 24-game unbeaten run at Turf Moor.
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That makes it three defeats of their first 4 league video games of the season, however head coach Scott Parker will not be urgent the panic button simply but.
Burnley saved 30 clear sheets in 46 Championship video games final season, equalling an all-time league report that had stood for over 70 years; and there are early indicators on this marketing campaign that their deep-lying defence stays properly outfitted to repel invaders.
They have been unfortunate to concede a penalty at and their diligent and organised defence got here inside a whisker of shutting out a Liverpool workforce that had scored in 37 consecutive league matches.
Burnley did not have a single contact in Liverpool’s penalty space within the second half however they put their our bodies on the road, blocking 12 photographs – the very best such tally in a Premier League sport this season.
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Parker’s aspect have conceded seven targets – the joint fourth-highest complete within the Premier League, which compares favourably with their xG towards complete of 9.4, the very best of any top-flight aspect this season.
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The final workforce Liverpool did fail to attain towards within the league was who’re at the moment getting used to life beneath new head coach Ange Postecoglou.
Requested after Forest’s defeat at final weekend about how lengthy it could take him to remould his new workforce, Postecoglou replied: “No, mate, it will not be months, it will not be weeks – it will be Wednesday [in the EFL Cup against ]. I am unable to afford to waste time.”
Wednesday noticed indicators that the work has begun – 10 modifications to the beginning line-up, with eight of Forest’s 13 summer time signings making their debuts – but it surely additionally revealed that there’s a lot to do, as Forest conceded two injury-time targets to lose 3-2.
Forest supporters should hope that the shock consequence could be partly attributed to a newly fashioned workforce not used to enjoying collectively. However giving up a lead is one thing followers received used to final season, when Postecoglou’s Spurs went forward in 22 of their 38 Premier League video games however ended up profitable solely 11 of them.
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A quirk of the fixture listing means Postecoglou’s first 4 matches are all away – together with a visit to Actual Betis within the Europa League, which he gained with Spurs final yr. It’s two down, two misplaced thus far – the Forest gamers might want to get the grasp of ‘Angeball’ fairly shortly to make sure the followers are onside when that first dwelling sport comes on the finish of September.