

Can the Liverpool manager resist the temptation? The dilemma is intensified by the irrepressible form of Hugo Ekitike and Cody Gakpo , who have graced Liverpool's unblemished opening.
For Scott Parker's Burnley , this represents a daunting examination of their élite-level resilience. Their restoration to English football's top table has produced mixed results – honourable losses at Tottenham and Manchester United sandwiching a purposeful victory against fellow promotees Sunderland.
Burnley's backline, so resolute in the Championship with just an average of one goal every three games , has already surrendered six in three Premier League outings. The elevation has been stark .
The omens offer little comfort to Burnley . Half a dozen successive reversals at Turf Moor against the Merseyside giants suggests a sequence that seems likely to persist.
But this sport's enduring allure is its capacity to surprise . The enormous economic disparity between these entities – characterized by Isak's fee eclipsing Burnley's entire summer outlay – becomes irrelevant once the contest begins.
The champions will recognize the most straightforward fixture in a testing sequence that proceeds with a European encounter at Anfield before the primal passion of a contest against their nearest neighbors.

