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Sean Dyche said Burnley had targeted set-pieces as a Liverpool weakness before their 1-1 draw at Anfield - and identified Trent Alexander-Arnold as a possible weak link in the air.

The young Liverpool full-back was beaten to a headed challenge in the run up to Burnley's opening goal at Anfield while he appeared to lose Ben Mee at a corner in the second half when Joel Matip was forced to clear off the line.

Dyche said: "Our gameplan wasn't to come here and keep the ball all afternoon -- it isn't going to happen.

"You know they're going to have some efforts but if you keep them as far out as we kept them, as in distance from the goal, you know the stats say it's much harder to score from 30 yards than it is from six. I thought we done that well today.

"Our shape was good, our defensive unit was excellent, other than their goal - we got caught square on a long ball, the irony of that, hey? I thought they (his defence) were absolutely excellent.

"They made seven changes today for players who they brought in for absolute fortunes. They're bring on players that [cost] £30 million a time, so our job is finding a way of getting a point, getting a win.

"That's my job. I think we've done that very, very well today.

"Everyone in these parts tells you that they're having a tough time with set-pieces. We felt that would be important.

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"As it happens, we had two cleared off the line from set-pieces, so our game-planning was right to take that seriously. [We tried to] make it uncomfortable for them because you're not going to out-football them....

"We thought that might be a weak link aerially on the right back."

Dyche said his replacement keeper Nick Pope had made two excellent saves "when the moment of truth came" and felt he handled the occasion well.