Mohamed Salah’s last-gasp penalty earns Liverpool win over battling Burnley

Mohamed Salah’s penalty in the fifth and final minute of added time saw Liverpool produce yet more late heroics to snatch a hard-earned 1-0 victory at Burnley.

Their three previous wins had been decided by goals in the 83rd minute or later and that pattern continued at Turf Moor to deny the home side a deserved point.

The Reds had looked like dropping their first points of the season in a game which was crying out for the cutting edge of absent British record signing Alexander Isak.

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The £125million deadline-day arrival from Newcastle was left out of the squad, having only played 18 minutes of football for Sweden as his dispute with the Magpies denied him a pre-season and playing time.

Head coach Arne Slot said he would be involved for Wednesday’s Champions League match at home to Atletico Madrid, but his predatory instincts would not have gone amiss against stubborn opposition who built a successful promotion campaign on not conceding goals.

Even the late sending-off of Lesley Ugochukwu for a second bookable offence did not destabilise the hosts’ resolve, but they eventually cracked when Jeremie Frimpong’s cross hit the arm of Hannibal Mejbri.

Salah, after missing his two previous attempts from the spot, moved past Andy Cole into fourth on the all-time Premier League goal-scorers list with 188, while also becoming Liverpool’s record league penalty scorer with 35, surpassing Billy Liddell.

Burnley made it hard work for them, restricting their opponents to just four shots on target from 27 attempts, but in the end they could not dent the top flight’s only remaining 100 per cent record as Liverpool moved three points clear of