Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says winning the "first ball" was key to their 3-0 win at Burnley.

A fortuitous own goal from Chris Wood, who deflected an intended cross from Trent Alexander-Arnold, broke the deadlock following an even opening half hgour at Turf Moor.

Within minutes Sadio Mane had doubled the Merseysiders' lead – and a third close to the end from Roberto Firmino sealed Burnley's fate.

Klopp said, "I said it before, it was pretty much the best second-ball game we've played since I have been together with the boys. We were really there, we won pretty much all of the first balls, which is difficult enough against Barnes and Wood because they do really well there.

"Then being around, they have a good formation for the second balls. It was just amazing, [we were] using then the space for immediate passing, trying to be quick in our decision-making, we wanted to have direction immediately. It was really good. It is not the only thing that Burnley do obviously, they have these early crosses, they play then three, four or five passes to prepare an early cross and you have to be there as well.

"Then they chip the balls in behind from different positions from the last line; I don't know how often today Burnley were offside. It was brilliant how we did that, how we adapted in these situations. Apart from that, we played really good."