'Did we deserve to win? I don't care!' - Jurgen Klopp hails Liverpool victory

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Tom Doyle1 January 2018

Jurgen Klopp could not care less if Liverpool deserved to beat Burnley after a last-gasp 2-1 Premier League win at Turf Moor on New Year's Day.

Centre-back Ragnar Klavan was Liverpool's unlikely match-winner as his close-range header in the fourth minute of added time made light of the absence of three of the 'Fab Four'.

Klopp's side looked like they had thrown away two points when Johan Berg Gudmundsson's 88th-minute equaliser cancelled out a stunning strike from Sadio Mane.

With top scorer Mohamed Salah and playmaker Philippe Coutinho injured and Roberto Firmino on the bench, the seven changes Klopp made left his side short of ideas, despite Adam Lallana's first league start of the campaign.

However, Klavan popped up barely a yard out to nod in from a free-kick move to secure a hard-fought 2-1 win.

Speaking to BBC Sport after the game, Klopp said: "A very difficult game, thee fixtures are really difficult to take. We did brilliant, the weather made it so hard, windy, rainy.

"Burnley are dong well, we denied them to do what they usually like to do. It took a while to score and then the next two goals were very similar.

"Did we deserve to win? I don't care. We got the three points."

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Regarding the seven changes he made, Klopp added: "I like rotation, I love the quality of my squad and I am really pleased. It was not fantastic football but it was a fantastic attitude.

"Today it wasn't possible to play brilliantly but it was an open game, we had a massive setback with the equaliser but we changed it again - we haven't done that too often this year."

Additional reporting by the Press Association.