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The Premier League table since Jurgen Klopp became Liverpool manager

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The news of Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool departure at the end of the 2023/24 season has hit fans like a ton of bricks and shocked the entire Football world in the process. The German's iconic spell on Merseyside was always going to end at some point but the mid-season announcement came from nowhere as he explained he no longer has the energy to keep giving the job what it needs. Klopp is set for some well-earned time away from the game after breathing fresh life into one of the biggest clubs in the world and turning them into a winning force again. Winning has become the norm for Liverpool again under Klopp and the overall Premier League table since his arrival backs that up. Premier League table since Jurgen Klopp joined Liverpool Klopp took over a mess at Liverpool / Ian MacNicol/GettyImages Klopp became Liverpool manager on 8 October 2015, taking over from the struggling Brendan Rodgers who was dismissed for a poor start to the season having come so close to winning the Premie...

Arsenal 3-1 Burnley: Player ratings as 10-man Gunners seal comfortable win

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Arsenal battled out a 3-1 Premier League victory at home to Burnley on Saturday afternoon despite Fabio Vieira's late dismissal. In a reversal of the played-out stereotypes between the recent Premier League iterations of these clubs, Arsenal bullied Burnley with a torrent of high balls into the box, scoring all three goals via this airborne route. Josh Brownhill briefly had the visitors level but the Gunners were worth three hard-fought points. With Mikel Arteta and Vincent Kompany in either dugout, there was a distinct Manchester City flavour to the personnel - rather than the scrappy proceedings. Arsenal 's victory took them level on points with Pep Guardiola's league leaders. How the game unfolded Kompany described Burnley's visit to the Emirates as "a chance to measure themselves" against a "complete" team. For 45 minutes, they stacked up pretty favourably. Only Sheffield United had conceded more goals than the Clarets heading into this weekend b...