Liverpool crashed to an embarrassing 2-0 defeat at Burnley on Saturday, while Manchester City crushed Stoke City 4-1 to extend Pep Guardiola's perfect start in the Premier League. Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool enjoyed the most eye-catching result of the Premier League's opening weekend when they won 4-3 at Arsenal. But the Reds suffered a nightmare in their second match as Welsh forward Sam Vokes scored his first top-flight goal in the second minute after Andre Gray pounced on a woeful pass by Reds right-back Nathaniel Clyne.
Liverpool were condemned to a first league loss at Turf Moor since 1973 when Gray ran onto Steven Defour's pass and punished slack marking to fire home in the 37th minute. "How can I be happy with this? After we gave away the first goal Burnley defended for their lives," Klopp said. "We had absolutely no luck and everybody needs to be more clinical. Burnley deserved to win with a very passionate performance. We have to say it was not enough today."
Earlier, City striker Sergio Aguero netted twice in the first half at the Bet365 Stadium to take his goal tally to six in three games and send Guardiola's side to the top of the table with their second successive win. The Argentine opened the scoring with a 27th-minute penalty, awarded for a Ryan Shawcross tug on Nicolas Otamendi, and bagged his second in the 36th minute with a header from Kevin De Bruyne's free-kick. Stoke got one back in the 49th minute when Raheem Sterling was penalised for a slight push on Shawcross and Bojan Krkic stepped up to convert the spot-kick.