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• Burnley have won just two of their 16 Premier League games against Liverpool (D2 L12), winning 2-0 at home in August 2016, and 1-0 away in January 2021.

• Liverpool have won seven of their eight Premier League away games against Burnley, their highest away win rate (88%) against any side they have faced at least five times on the road in the competition.

• Liverpool have won their past six Premier League Boxing Day games, since a 2-1 loss at Manchester City in 2013-14. It is their longest winning run on the day in their league history, and they have never lost when facing a newly promoted team (W6, L1).

• Burnley have lost eight of their nine Premier League home games so far this season, winning the other 5-0 against Sheffield United. Only four times in their top-flight history have they lost more at Turf Moor in a single campaign.

• Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has been directly involved in 15 goals in his last 13 away appearances in the Premier League, scoring five and assisting 10. However, he has not scored or assisted in his last five home and away against Burnley, his longest run without a goal involvement against an opponent in the competition.

We asked you for your best Burnley memories of football over the festive football period.

Here's what you had to say:

Mondoray: In1973 Burnley beat Liverpool 2-1 with Billy ‘Wizz’ Ingham getting the winner! We did the double over them that year.

Simon: In the late 1970s, we played Blackburn at Ewood Park on Boxing Day. It was my first experience of a professional game and I was donning my brand new claret-and-blue bobble hat with pride. Burnley scored a late equaliser and on the final whistle I recall a wave of upset Blackburn supporters running over to us. As they jumped over, my bobble hat was stolen!

Bob: Boxing Day 1999 and crawling up the M6 to Bury through snow and sleet for the Bury v Burnley game. Not a great day to be a Burnley fan and 4-0 down by half-time. Frozen.

Big Winnie: How about the ridiculous scores on Boxing Day in 1963? Those were the days!! Burnley 6-1 Manchester United 1. West Ham 2-8 Blackburn Rovers. All the scores that day were bonkers! Can't wait for Boxing Day 2023 when it's Burnley 6-1 Liverpool. What are our chances?

The end of another year is almost upon us - how much do you remember about Burnley over the past 12 months?

Test yourself with a question from every month of 2023.

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The Christmas spirit and the deluge of games that come with it is upon us.

For a player, it’s a crazy time. What’s mad is everything is happening festive wise and you want to enjoy it in some way – like a party for the lads if you can fit it in. It means you feel you have some kind of Christmas.

But the games keep coming, especially at the top end if you’re in several competitions. Then you have the training load and training on Christmas Day. I won’t lie, that is psychologically a challenge not to feel a bit sorry for yourself. Sometimes you think everyone is having a good time, but you have to think how many people would swap with your position. You have to realise and think about what you are doing.

But when you have your kids there playing with their new toys and you have to go training, that is a big sacrifice It’s not about money, it’s just human nature.

What I think they should do is make it compulsory that you cannot train as a club on Christmas Day. That way, no one gets an advantage. What happens is you see is the owners will question why you didn’t train if you lose on Boxing Day.

Boxing Day is brilliant to play on. You can see the bigger crowds and feel the festive spirit. I used to love having Christmas Day off and playing on Boxing Day. But only a few managers will trust you to have that day off, Neil Warnock was one of them.

It’s a tiring spell and I will admit, I have been set to play on Boxing Day and wondered if I’ll get through the game as I’d had too much Christmas dinner.

Playing in this spell, you have to take it as a privilege. You are playing so everyone else is able to watch football at that great time of year.

We asked you for your thoughts after Fulham took on Burnley in the Premier League.

Here are some of the top comments:

Fulham fans

Jack: Absolute capitulation after we went a goal down. It felt like we forgot where the goal was after that and spent more time going backwards than looking to get back into the game. Some small positives with Iwobi and Bassey continuing to grow into the team, and Cairney showing some teeth to complement his technical ability. But, all in all, not good enough.

Guy: A very flat performance. I felt that Burnley wanted it more. It was a disappointing performance after the great month we have had.

Jeremy: Three word explanation for today’s performance: they were knackered! This game came too soon after Tuesday’s heroics at Everton. I think it’s about time a winter break should be strongly considered. Clubs like ours don’t have the squad depth to cope with seven games in three weeks. Despite today, we should all be proud of what we’ve achieved in 2023.

Burnley fans

Owen: I think given some of the recent performances, today we played really well. Although it took some time to get into the game, we had two great goals and a clean sheet. This win is vital for our season and hopefully we can get a few more and stay up.

Lee: Massive three points! The next two games are horrid so we had to get the maximum today. Hopefully this result will quieten down the "Kompany out" brigade! It's going to be a long hard season but this gives us a little bit of hope.

Alistair: The old cliche, a game of two halves. Same old in the first half but superb in the second! Odobert looks a player and some of these young lads might be finding their feet in the Premier League now. A huge win just when we needed it, with Luton and Sheffield United also getting results. It's getting tight now at the bottom!

Peter: Work rate combined with a good defensive shape and exceptional goalkeeping produced a long overdue win. Vincent seems to have found his strongest team at last. There's just one player I am unhappy with - O'Shea is too slow and a liability in the back four.

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Vincent Kompany afforded himself a chuckle in his post-match media duties after Burnley's win over Fulham. It was pointed out to the Burnley boss that while it was their third victory of the season they had only, thus far, beaten newly-promoted sides before this win.

So there is perhaps some significance in a hard-fought success over Fulham, which also yielded a clean sheet.

Burnley's survival hopes have already been written off in some quarters, but there is a quiet determination that they can still turn things around.

That will only happen if Burnley get their house in order at Turf Moor, after one win and eight defeats in nine games - the worst home record in the Premier League.

The Clarets would be 13th in the Premier League if only away results counted, with seven points from nine games.

Burnley boss Vincent Kompany speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "It feels like something we have deserved for a while. We keep going and today we kept going. A good team performance and a good result for our fans too.

"There was a spell in the first half when we gave the momentum away and, on loose balls and second balls, we weren't who we are usually. We gave it up. In the second half, we were outstanding doing that and that earned a goal.

"I am happy with the win. My biggest thing is we got three points. The team deserved it."

Burnley goalkeeper James Trafford speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "I thought we were brilliant. In the first half, we weren't at our best. We came in at half-time and the manager and staff gave us some points on how we could really punish them. We scored two brilliant goals.

"I'm delighted with the clean sheet but more delighted with the three points. The whole team really values wins and clean sheets. We've never really been short of confidence as a team.

"We believe in the whole process. The performances have been there and it was only a matter of time before the results came."

• Burnley have won three consecutive away games in all competitions against Fulham for the very first time. They have also won two Premier League games in a row against the Cottagers for the first time.

• Fulham have lost a Premier League home game, against a promoted side, without scoring, for the first time since March 2012 (0-3 against Swansea City).

• Fulham had 19 shots against Burnley, their most in a Premier League game without scoring since October 2022 against Everton (24 shots).

• At 19 years and 25 days old, Wilson Odobert is the youngest Burnley player to both score and assist in a single Premier League game. Only nine players have ever done so at a younger age in the competition’s history.

• Jay Rodriguez made his 250th appearance in the Premier League (109 for Burnley, 104 for Southampton and 37 for West Brom). He is the first player to reach this milestone while playing for Burnley since Ashley Westwood in March 2021.

Wilson Odobert's stunning goal helped Burnley clinch their third Premier League win of the season with a hard-fought victory at Fulham.

French winger Odobert curled the ball home in style two minutes into the second half to put the Clarets ahead. Sander Berge then arrowed in a second for Vincent Kompany's side with a low strike into the corner of the net.

Trafford was comfortably the busier of the two goalkeepers throughout, and he made two vital saves in the first half with the scoreline goalless. The England Under-21 international did well to keep out Harry Wilson's effort at the near post after a jinking run and pushed a deflected Alex Iwobi shot wide of the post.

Burnley began the second half on the front foot and their early endeavour was rewarded with a fine opening goal. Odobert exchanged a neat one-two with Lyle Foster and then opened up his body to spectacularly curl the ball beyond the diving Bernd Leno.

From there Burnley had a spring in their step and Norway midfielder Berge, allowed freedom by a Fulham defence in retreat, fired in a second from the edge of the box.

Fulham piled on the pressure but could not find a way past Trafford, who saved well from Timothy Castagne late on.

The result helped Burnley, bottom at kick-off, leapfrog Sheffield United up to 19th place - four points adrift of safety, as Fulham slipped down to 12th.

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Chris Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League matches again this season, against a variety of guests.

For this weekend's games, he takes on Felix White, guitarist with 86TVs and a Fulham fan.

Sutton's prediction: 2-0

Fulham will be without striker Raul Jimenez after his red card against Newcastle, but I don't think they will struggle for goals without him.

I feel like I say the same thing every week about Burnley but they aren't going to change.

They need something badly from this game, but they look like a team that just aren't quite good enough for the Premier League.

Felix's prediction: 2-0

This is the big one. I'm going to be there with Tailenders co-host Jimmy Anderson, who supports Burnley and, I mean this sincerely, we will have the greatest privilege in football because we will be sitting in the actual cottage at Craven Cottage to watch the game.

The dressing rooms are directly underneath it and it's like Fulham Valhalla in there. You feel like you're going to be walking past the ghosts of our great players of the past. It's like the spirits of our legends live in that cottage.

Burnley are struggling, Fulham are flying and we are buzzing after Wednesday, so I think the mood will be celebratory.

Read all of Sutton's predictions for this weekend's games

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Burnley boss Vincent Kompany admits he loves the hectic Premier League Christmas schedule, despite claiming it "doesn't make sense".

The Clarets face Fulham, Liverpool and Aston Villa in the space of a week as they look to haul themselves out of the bottom three.

But rather than bemoaning the number of games, Kompany has learned to embrace it.

"I love it," Kompany said, "because it doesn't make sense. I've always loved it.

"It is a romantic feeling of England sometimes, the country of common sense. Things that don't make sense get appreciated by everyone. During the Christmas period, your families are travelling in and there are so many people in your house.

"If you have half a smile, that might have an impact on your game the next day because you're in a different mindset.

"And yet it is the most special period of the year. You get tested physically and mentally. You never see as many happy faces in a stadium as during that period. I always had Swansea away on New Year's Day for some reason! In the one hotel that was having the festivities and with an early kick off.

"Why? I don't know, but I came to enjoy it."

Kompany denied he was frustrated by the fact he and his side are travelling to London so close to Christmas.

He added: "I'm not complaining and I won't let the players either. It is part of the culture."

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There is no sugar coating it - Burnley's Premier League campaign has been poor. We are nearly halfway through the season and we are second from bottom with just eight points.

The majority of the fan base has now accepted relegation, with only the blindly optimistic still thinking we can get out of it.

To put things into perspective, Burnley will need to be looking at getting another 25 points minimum to be in with a shout of survival, probably more to actually stay up. That is 1.19 points per game, when so far Burnley have managed 0.47.

So, if I was going to ask Santa for anything it would just be a simple request - three points please. Because you know what it is like - despite everything I have just said, three points this weekend in a tough game against Fulham will give us all some hope again, and perhaps more importantly, some Christmas cheer.

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Burnley boss Vincent Kompany says Saturday's opponents Fulham deserve credit for their approach to becoming a sustainable Premier League club.

Marco Silva's side finished 10th in their first season back in the top flight last season and find themselves 11th after 17 games this term.

Kompany says the Cottagers have built a competitive squad and are "ready" to challenge at this level.

"We always mention the Brightons and Brentfords who consistently built over a period of time to be successful," Kompany said in his news conference. "But Fulham in their own way are one of those clubs too.

"The profile of player has been carefully selected, there is cohesion in the squad now. They've gone down and come back stronger; a lot of the players are between the ages of 26 and 30 so are ready for this league.

"It is a healthy squad and they are a club that deserves a positive mention for the work they've done over the years."

Burnley boss Vincent Kompany has been speaking before his side face Fulham on Saturday.

Here are the key lines:

• Kompany admits Fulham, Liverpool and Aston Villa means a tough festive schedule: "It is a tough fixture list. We can't make more about it than it is, the fixtures are difficult."

• Responding to criticism of Burnley's defending from set pieces: "Every game creates a story. This is the story of the last game. For us, in general, you can be in games as much as you want but those phases are key, all part of what you need to be good at to be in the Premier League. The main thing for us is to have belief so we get chances and key moments go both ways."

• On Lyle Foster's return from a mental health break: "I'm very cautious. This is a step on his rehabilitation process. His natural environment includes football and the goal is to put him back there. Playing makes him happy and he's able to do really good things when he's happy. It is good to have him back."

• Foster will not represent South Africa at the Africa Cup of Nations in January: "I've made it clear he can't go. He loves his country, and it is an important tournament. I am an African coach; I want it to be on and equal level with the Euros. But the human Lyle Foster he needs to stay in an environment where he has the support of the experts and us. It is not my decision; he is not concerned by much beyond his own health."

• Kompany says there is a "dilemma" on January transfers: "It is fair to say it is a dilemma. Our squad will still improve because the players are improving, but whether we can go out in January and get the right type of players to turn it around and not expose yourself to something criminal if you go down, it is a fine balancing. If the right opportunity is there, I'm sure we'll be able to do something."

• On making sure Burnley can thrive in the Premier League: "Last year, the fact the club went down and then straight back up was in itself a small miracle. You have to count your blessings sometimes and just make sure that we are continuously improving. I will tell you now, my goal is that within three or four years' time this club is not just a team that is surviving but is a team that can thrive in the Premier League."

• Since beating Fulham 2-0 in May 2021, Burnley are winless in their past eight Premier League games in London (D4 L4), losing each of the past three in a row.

• Fulham have won 5-0 in their past two Premier League home games (against Nottingham Forest and West Ham). There have been three occasions in the competition's history of a team winning by 5+ goals in three in a row at home - Chelsea (April-August 2010), Manchester City (September-October 2017) and City again (May-August 2021).

• Burnley have picked up just two points in their 15 Premier League matches this season against sides who were in the Premier League last season (D2 L13). Indeed, five of the Clarets' past 10 top-flight wins have been against newly promoted teams, including both this season.

• Fulham's four Premier League games in December have seen 20 goals scored (13 for, 7 against), more than any other side. Their 13 goals scored is already the most the Cottagers have netted in a single month in the top flight since December 1966 (16).

• Burnley's Jay Rodriguez has made 249 Premier League appearances and could become the first player to reach 250 while playing for Burnley since Ashley Westwood in March 2021. He has two goals and two assists in his past three Premier League starts against Fulham.

• Willian has been involved in five goals in his past five Premier League home games for Fulham (4 goals, 1 assist), while team-mate Alex Iwobi has been involved in four in his past three at Craven Cottage (3 goals, 1 assist).

The annual feast of festive Premier League football is about to get under way.

So what is your best memory of following Burnley at Christmas?

Mince pies on the train for a Boxing Day away trip? Squinting through the snow to see your team score a late winner? Ending the year with a Christmas cracker?

Let us know here