Ragnar Klavan's late winner carries Liverpool past Burnley as Mark Hughes' Stoke selection gamble fails

Little time to dwell on that late drama at Turf Moor as we switch our attentions to Goodison Park for the late kick-off between Everton and Manchester United.

We hope you can stay with IBTimes UK for that one.

Full-time scores

Burnley 1-2 Liverpool

Leicester 3-0 Huddersfield

Stoke 0-1 Newcastle

Joel Matip comes on for the final few seconds. Oxlade-Chamberlain is the man to make way.

Fabulous late drama at Turf Moor as Liverpool notch what will surely be the winning goal.

After Bardsley fouls Can, a free-kick is headed across goal by Lovren and Klavan gets the final touch from point-blank range.

Who said there was an issue with Klopp's centre-backs?!

Goal: Burnley 1-2 Liverpool (Ragnar Klavan)

Albrighton wraps up a comfortable win for Leicester in second-half stoppage-time.

Goal: Leicester 3-0 Huddersfield (Marc Albrighton)

Four minutes of added time signalled. Will we have a late winner?

Burnley's hard work pays off as they snatch an equaliser in the 87th minute.

Taylor does well to squeeze in a cross from the left and Vokes gets away from Klavan to win the crucial flick-on that allows Gudmundsson to nod home at the back post.

Goal: Burnley 1-1 Liverpool (Johann Gudmundsson)

A third striker enters the fray for Burnley as Nahki Wells replaces Arfield. James Milner is also on for Lallana.

Pope throws out a strong hand to deny Oxlade-Chamberlain before Mignolet keeps out a low header from Vokes.

Barnes shoots wide before glancing a header beyond the far post.

Burnley pushing for an equaliser as we prepare to enter the final five minutes.

Liverpool search for the second goal that would surely put this game beyond Burnley.

They win a couple of corners in quick succession before Pope pushes away a brilliant strike from Alexander-Arnold.

Lovren and Mee both head wide.

Newcastle finally take the initiative at Stoke as Perez finishes from six yards out after positive work down the right from Murphy.

The pressure continues to mount on Mark Hughes.

Goal: Stoke 0-1 Newcastle (Ayoze Perez)

An attacking change apiece as Dyche withdraws Hendrick in favour of Sam Vokes and Klopp replaces goalscorer Mane with Roberto Firmino.

Defour attempts to answer back for Burnley with a low drive across the wet turf that is well held by Mignolet.

Wijnaldum then shoots over for Liverpool.

Slimani doubles Leicester's advantage at the King Power, collecting a pass from Mahrez and dinking the ball over Jonas Lossl.

Huddersfield now have a mountain to climb.

Goal: Leicester 2-0 Huddersfield (Islam Slimani)

A goal out of virtually nothing for Liverpool as Mane collects Alexander-Arnold's deflected cross just inside the Burnley box and spins before beating Pope with a tremendous strike.

Goal: Burnley 0-1 Liverpool (Sadio Mane)

Still goalless at Burnley as we approach the hour mark...

Finally a goal to speak of as Mahrez pops up with a back-post volley to give Leicester the lead over Huddersfield.

Goal: Leicester 1-0 Huddersfield (Riyad Mahrez)

A pair of half-hearted penalty appeals from Liverpool as they begin to turn the screw, the second after Lallana's shot goes behind off Mee.

Gudmundsson's latest cross is headed away by Lovren and Lallana makes a rather acrobatic clearance.

Good defending from Defour to deny Oxlade-Chamberlain the space from which to unleash a shot on goal.

Back underway at a sodden Turf Moor as the rain continues to fall. No changes from either Sean Dyche or Klopp just yet.

Seems like a good time to revisit this tweet from Football365's Daniel Storey...

After Brighton and Bournemouth ushered in 2018 with a watchable four-goal draw, the first slate of 15.00 GMT New Year kick-offs have been desperately short on quality and entertainment.

While not lacking in commitment, Burnley vs Liverpool is a scrappy affair being played out in a relentless downpour. Hopefully more of a festive hangover and not a sign of things to come over the next 12 months.

Half-time scores

Burnley 0-0 Liverpool

Leicester 0-0 Huddersfield

Stoke 0-0 Newcastle

Just the one minute of added time signalled at Turf Moor.

A terrific cross from Taylor is touched behind by Klavan inside his own six-yard box. The Estonian international did well not to turn that into his own net.

Hendrick gifts Liverpool possession in a dangerous area. Solanke finds Oxlade-Chamberlain, whose hopeful strike is blocked by Tarkowski.

Arfield, who scored the opener in Burnley's 1-1 draw at Anfield in September, fizzes a shot just wide after Barnes knocks down a looping high ball.

Confident Burnley commit plenty of men forward and almost get caught on the break.

Mee and Phil Bardsley combine to prevent Solanke from collecting Oxlade-Chamberlain's deflected pass. Mane was also lurking inside the box.

Gudmundsson's excellent right-wing cross is missed by Barnes, who was trying to come back towards the ball and head beyond Mignolet.

A couple more Liverpool crosses come to nothing. At the other end, Klavan and Lovren are both having trouble with the physical Barnes.

Gudmundsson's free-kick cannons into the wall before being hacked clear.

Wijnaldum fires into row z after receiving possession from Lallana and Mane runs at the Burnley defence before dragging a disappointing shot well wide of Pope's far post.

Not vintage stuff thus far from a much-changed Liverpool side.

Another half-chance for Burnley. Arfield gets across Klavan and flicks Steven Defour's cross into the hands of Mignolet.

Leicester, already without Huth, Simpson and Chilwell, lose another defender to injury as ever-present skipper Wes Morgan is replaced by Aleksandar Dragovic.

Solanke heads a short cross from Gomez high into the stands. It's certainly fair to say that this match has yet to burst into life.

No space for Liverpool to work in just at the moment as Burnley force a few mistakes with their relentless determination. The wet and windy conditions are not really helping matters either.

Still goalless at Leicester and Stoke too.

Burnley look to work another chance but Jack Cork's floated pass sails over the head of Jeff Hendrick.

Lallana's wayward low strike deflects behind off Ben Mee and Liverpool have a corner.

Oxlade-Chamberlain's ball towards Emre Can is cleared by Tarkowski. Burnley launch a quick counter-attack and Lallana makes a crucial sliding challenge to stop Gudmundsson.

72% possession for Liverpool in these opening exchanges, but nothing to show for it so far.

Pope does well to beat away a powerful long-range drive from Oxlade-Chamberlain.

Liverpool are twice forced to send the ball all the way back to Mignolet as Burnley press and maintain their defensive discipline.

Goalless after 15 minutes in Lancashire.

Solanke looks to thread through a dangerous low pass. Nick Pope gratefully collects after a collision between Charlie Taylor and Tarkowski.

Alexander-Arnold concedes possession in sloppy fashion before Scott Arfield slips in Ashley Barnes for a shot that soars over the crossbar.

Plenty of early possession for Liverpool as Lallana's latest delivery is turned away and Oxlade-Chamberlain gets to the byline before crossing into the side netting.

Burnley attempted to break down the right but Johann Gudmundsson was unable to find a way past Joe Gomez, who is starting on the left-hand side of a back four.

Tarkowski does just enough to ensure that Solanke cannot apply the finishing touch to a right-wing cross after good link-up play between Sadio Mane and Lallana.

Liverpool have begun this match firmly on the front foot, as you might expect.

Lallana fires high and wide after a poor sliding challenge from Tarkowski on Solanke gives Liverpool an early set-piece opportunity.

We're off and running at an overcast, wet and no doubt chilly Turf Moor. Roger East is your referee.

Liverpool are kitted out in their quartered green and white away shirts with black shorts and white socks. Claret and blue for the hosts at home, of course.

Under five minutes remaining until our three mid-afternoon kick-offs get underway.

It's all over at the Amex, where Bournemouth twice came from behind to seal a 2-2 draw against Brighton.

The hosts failed to clear their lines after a 78th-minute corner and top scorer Callum Wilson pounced to net his sixth goal of the season.

Rafael Benitez swaps five, bringing in Javier Manquillo, Jacob Murphy, Mohamed Diame, Jonjo Shelvey and Ayoze Perez for Paul Dummett, Isaac Hayden, Mikel Merino, Joselu and Dwight Gayle.

Zouma and Pieters do return to that Stoke backline, while Allen, Shaqiri, Choupo-Moting and Peter Crouch are all recalled.

Geoff Cameron switches to full-back as Josh Tymon, Darren Fletcher, Mame Biram Diouf, Ibrahim Afellay, Ramadan Sobhi and Saido Berahino drop out.

Ireland is included in the squad for the first time in more than 600 days.

Wagner hands a maiden Premier League start to forward Joe Lolley after a series of impressive substitute appearances from the 25-year-old forward. He replaces Collin Quaner, who is on the bench after suffering a dead leg against Burnley.

"Joe Lolley deserves this chance today," the manager said. "He has made an impact when he has come on as a sub in the last few games and now he can do this from the start."

Chris Lowe, club captain Tommy Smith, Danny Williams and Steve Mounie also start in place of Scott Malone, Hadergjonaj, Jonathan Hogg and Laurent Depoitre.

Hefele is not in the matchday 18.

No Jamie Vardy for Leicester, with Puel revealing that the England striker has not been risked due to a minor groin injury. Demarai Gray drops to the bench as Islam Slimani and Shinji Okazaki get the nod up front.

Vicente Iborra makes way for Matty James in midfield and Chilwell remains out.

It turns out that Silva was registered in time and he takes a seat among the substitutes. Strikers Leonardo Ulloa and Kelechi Iheanacho return to the squad as Ahmed Musa and young George Thomas are omitted.

On Lallana's first start of an injury-disrupted season, he added: "It's good. We tried to be as sensible as possible and it was a really long period without Adam, it's crazy how long it was.

"But he's [been] in for a few weeks, he could get some minutes, and now he's ready to start. It's cool for us."

Here's what Klopp has had to say on today's team selection...

Phil [Coutinho] and Mo [Salah] aren't available, that's why they are not in the squad. [They're] both injured and [that's] not too cool but that's how it is.

The other changes are because we wanted to bring in fresh legs, we wanted to find the right formation for this game today, the right tactics - all that stuff.

It's a job to do and we did part of the job already in the preparation, so now we will see how it will work out.

Stand-in captain Mignolet, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ragnar Klavan, Georginio Wijnaldum, Adam Lallana, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Dominic Solanke all come in for Liverpool as Klopp makes seven changes to the side that beat Leicester.

Loris Karius, Joel Matip, Andy Robertson, James Milner and Roberto Firmino drop to the bench, while Danny Ings and Ben Woodburn are also named among the substitutes.

A sore thigh has been given as the reason for Coutinho's surprise absence...

Tarkowski for Kevin Long is Burnley's only change from Saturday. Dean Marney drops out of the squad altogether.

To keep you up to date with events on the south coast, Brighton currently lead Bournemouth 2-1 with around 20 minutes left to play.

Murray slotted home from a Jose Izquierdo cross shortly after half-time to restore the advantage after Steve Cook's header had cancelled out Anthony Knockaert's early opener.

Concerned Liverpool fans will be waiting with baited breath to hear why Philippe Coutinho is absent today.

Just rested? Or is a lucrative move to Barcelona finally imminent after that well-documented Nike faux pas over the weekend?

Newcastle vs Stoke team news

Newcastle

Florian Lejeune, Jesus Gamez, Aleksandar Mitrovic and potentially goalkeeper Rob Elliot are all missing for Newcastle this afternoon.

Newcastle vs Stoke team news

Stoke

Hughes should recall the likes of Xherdan Shaqiri, Joe Allen and Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting, while Kurt Zouma and Erik Pieters could also return to strengthen a porous Stoke defence depleted by injuries to skipper Ryan Shawcross, Bruno Martins Indi and Glen Johnson.

Stephen Ireland is edging closer to a return after a long absence following a broken leg.

Leicester vs Huddersfield team news

Huddersfield

Elias Kachunga, Philip Billing and Jon Gorenc Stankovic are still unavailable for Huddersfield and Florent Hadergjonaj will have been assessed after being forced off at half-time in the goalless draw with Burnley.

Michael Hefele is now back in the fold, although obviously well short of match fitness.

Interesting...

Leicester vs Huddersfield team news

Leicester

Defenders Robert Huth (foot) and Danny Simpson (knee) are still out for Leicester, while Ben Chilwell will be assessed after missing the Liverpool defeat through illness.

Portuguese midfielder Adrien Silva has finally sealed his £22m move from Sporting CP, but will have to wait a little longer to make his debut in English football.

Burnley vs Liverpool team news

Liverpool

Salah is expected to miss out after picking up a knock after scoring both goals in the comeback win over Leicester and Liverpool will also be minus captain Jordan Henderson and full-backs Alberto Moreno and Nathaniel Clyne.

Daniel Sturridge remains doubtful with a muscular problem, meanwhile.

Klopp has already confirmed that Simon Mignolet will return in goal after being left on the bench in favour of Loris Karius at the weekend and he hinted at further changes for a second fixture in 48 hours.

Virgil van Dijk has now officially completed his record £75m switch from Southampton, but is not eligible to play just yet.

Burnley vs Liverpool team news

Burnley

Burnley centre-back James Tarkowski is back in contention today after serving a three-match ban for violent conduct handed down following his elbow on Glenn Murray during last month's goalless draw with Brighton. The 25-year-old was also suffering with a broken finger.

Top scorer Chris Wood and Stephen Ward (both knee) remain doubtful, while long-term absentees Tom Heaton and Robbie Brady are still sidelined.

A very Happy New Year and welcome to IBTimes UK's first live Premier League coverage of 2018.

South coast rivals Brighton and Bournemouth are currently contesting the first game of the new calendar down at the Amex, but here our attention falls on the trio of mid-afternoon kick-offs on this gloomy bank holiday.

Our feature game comes from Turf Moor, where fourth-place Liverpool - probably minus top scorer Mohamed Salah - will look to extend their 15-match unbeaten run across all competitions and perhaps even temporarily leapfrog Manchester United into third, providing a nice six-point buffer to fifth in the process.

They go up against a Burnley side that have long since emerged as this season's surprise package after spending much of it defying the odds by hanging on the coat-tails of the top four, but have seen their impressive momentum just slow somewhat of late with a heavy defeat to Tottenham punctuating a run of three successive draws.

We will also be keeping a close eye on events at the bet365 Stadium, where an unapologetic Mark Hughes will earn vindication for his controversial weekend team selection if his Stoke team manage to beat fellow strugglers Newcastle in what could be christened as an early six-pointer.

Leicester's new manager bounce under Claude Puel has been halted with a sequence of three defeats in four and they could find it tough today against a Huddersfield team that have sprung a few surprises of their own since gaining promotion to the top-flight for the first time in 45 years.

David Wagner's Terriers, just three points and three places below their opponents in 11th, are unbeaten in four and are on a run of three successive draws.

Stay tuned for all the latest team news and live updates.