Jurgen Klopp blown away by Liverpool star's performance in Burnley victory - 'what a game he played!'

Jurgen Klopp believes that Wataru Endo could have be named man of the match in Liverpool's victory over Burnley.

The Reds earned a 2-0 win at Turf Moor to move to the Premier League summit. Darwin Nunez opened the scoring for the visitors inside six minutes before a plethora of chances and good opportunities were wasted. Cody Gakpo also had a goal disallowed following a VAR review.

Harvey Elliott suffered the same fate in the second period and Liverpool were not as dominant before Diogo Jota wrapped up the triumph on his return from injury in the 90th minute.

Virgil van Dijk was given the man of the match award as the Reds now sit two points above Arsenal. But Klopp was blown away by Endo's performance.

Klopp told Amazon Prime: "Virgil was man of the match, absolutely fine. Another one who could have been in contention was Wataru Endo. My god, what a game he played. I would have loved to have seen the game without him, that would have been really strange.

"What can I say, we created a lot of chances recently in the past 10 days but didn't use an awful lot of them. In the end it's all about performing. It's a fourth game in 10 days and whatever the body is doing, you're not as precise and have to get through it."