Liverpool 4-1 Leicester City: Player ratings for both sides
By Tom Bogert
Liverpool beat Leicester City 4-1 in their first match at Anfield this season after its redevelopment. Player ratings from the match.
A sight long overdue for Liverpool fans: their beloved club playing at their beloved Anfield. And their beloved winning in fine form.
Liverpool played host to defending champions Leicester City and thoroughly dominated the match, bar one horrific mistake of biblical proportions from Lucas Leiva, giving Leicester their only goal of the match through Jamie Vardy.
On either side of the Vardy goal was two Liverpool ones: Roberto Firmino kicked things off in the 13th minute followed by a Sadio Mane strike in the 31st. After halftime, Adam Lallana got on the scoresheet on 56 minutes before Firmino closed the proceedings with a tap in after Mane’s work in the 89th.
Jurgen Klopp’s side were irresistible, playing some of the best football they have under his direction. The combinations were crisp, passes on target and runs always a few steps ahead of the Leicester midfield and backline.
The match was all about Liverpool.
In a vacuum, Leicester weren’t catastrophic. They didn’t gift Liverpool anything but they didn’t create anything for themselves. Their two best chances, the Vardy goal and long throw that Robert Huth nodded off the crossbar, were down to Liverpool’s inadequacies.
In all honesty, Klopp’s men could’ve had a few more and definitely should’ve had a shutout.
How’d all the individuals get on? Liverpool 4-1 Leicester City player ratings.
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