Liverpool preserved their 100 percent start to the Premier League season as first-half goals from Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino proved enough for victory at Leicester City, but big-money signing Alisson suffered nightmare with a horrible error.
Match Events
4' CLOSE! Salah wastes a golden chance
Beautiful work from Henderson releases Salah out on the right who then feeds it straight back in to Firmino just inside the Foxes box. The Brazil international cues up a shot that goes straight to Schmeichel; the keeper directs it into the path of Salah again who blasts it just wide at the right post.
10' GOAL! Leicester 0-1 Liverpool (Mane)
It's Andrew Robertson who creates the chance for the visitors to take the lead, out on the left wing, where he effectively cleans Ricardo out before squaring a pass in for his striker from the left edge of the box.
It takes a touch on its way to Mane from the leg of a defender - but the Senegal star wastes no time in planting it past Schmeichel when it lands at his feet. 1-0 to the Reds.
24: SAVE!! Out of nowhere, Leicester spring into life. Maddison and Ghezzal link and find Gray in behind Van Dijk. He gets to the ball first but his low effort is palmed clear by Alisson, who has yet to concede a goal for Liverpool.
45: GOAL! LEICESTER 0-2 LIVERPOOL (Firmino)
BIG TIME TO SCORE! Once again, it's Leicester's defending that needs to be questioned. After nearly allowing Van Dijk a free header from a previous corner, the blue defence are all over the place from the next one. Milner whips a ball into a dangerous area and Firmino out-musclesMaddison and bullets a header into the bottom. His first of the season!
63' GOAL! Leicester 1-2 Liverpool (Ghezzal)
OH DEAR....ALISSON, WHAT ARE YOU DOING????
Is the Liverpool goalkeeping jersey cursed? This is an horrendous error. Van Dijk plays a sloppy ball back to Alisson, who just needs to clear his lines. He tries to be too clever and dribble around Iheanacho.
The striker reads it, nicks it off him and cuts the ball across for his mate to smash home into the empty net. What a way to concede your first goal for the club. One he won't forget.
83: Liverpool seem to be seeing this out now. A free-kick from the right is whipped in...Mane jumps with Maguire but the Leicester man does enough to deflect it clear.
Match reports
Alisson's abysmal second-half blunder failed to prevent Liverpool from maintaining their perfect start to the Premier League season in a 2-1 win at Leicester City on Saturday.
First-half goals from Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino proved enough for the visitors to notch a fourth successive victory, although it would have been easier had Alisson not gifted a first Leicester goal to Rachid Ghezzal.
The Brazil international, unbeaten in his previous three outings, was punished in the 63rd minute for a sloppy attempt at playing out from the back that threatened to derail what was otherwise a comfortable trip to the King Power Stadium.
The error set up a potentially nervy final half-hour, but the Reds ably saw out the contest to seal maximum points from their opening four Premier League outings for the first time in their history.
Liverpool netted three on their last visit to Leicester and they almost matched that tally in an efficient first 45 minutes.
The in-form Mane made up for Mohamed Salah's uncharacteristic early miss by stabbing home a close-range opener in the 10th minute, before Firmino was afforded far too much space to head home James Milner's corner on the stroke of half-time.
Alisson made a smart stop from Demarai Gray between the goals but the goalkeeper was at fault for offering the Foxes a way back into the contest.
The former Roma man compounded Virgil van Dijk's errant back-pass with a casual attempt at turning away from substitute Kelechi Iheanacho, who robbed him of the ball and squared for Ghezzal to open his Premier League account.
But with Jamie Vardy serving the final match of his three-game suspension, the Foxes lacked the cutting edge to further trouble Jurgen Klopp's men, who momentarily stretched their lead at the summit to three points.
Line-ups
Leicester City XI: K. Schmeichel, Morgan, Albrighton, Mendy, Ghezzal, H. Maguire, Ricardo Pereira, W. Ndidi, D.Gray, James Maddison, Chilwell
Subs: S. Okazaki, Fuchs, Evans, Iborra, Danny Ward, Amartey, K. Iheanacho
Liverpool XI: Milner, Wijnaldum, J. Henderson, Alisson, Roberto Firmino, Salah, Van Dijk, S. Mané, A.Robertson, Gomez, T. Alexander-Arnold
Subs: Sturridge, S. Mignolet, Lallana, X. Shaqiri, Matip, Moreno, N.Keita
Muscab_Abdukadir
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every human makes mistake Respect him Loris Karius❤
Forchmizzi
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Liverpool fans: Allison is a ball holding goalkeeper, he can dribble, make assist and... Iheanacho: hold my drink
ODS
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It’s the first time that Liverpool Win the first 4 League matches since 1992.
PsailaMiguel
125
And the curse continues .. Liverpool keepers
karim10
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Title of the Movie. ALISSON GOT CAUGHT.
Eaxz_101
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Looks the loris karius spirit has left karius and is still in Anfield... Its new body is Alisson!! [angry1][angry1]
ROSEGARDEN
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I know that feel..
DeGiro
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first time to see Liverpool with 8 players defending. wow. has Klopp also starting to park the bus??? is Klopp replacing Mourinho now? hahahah, lol
Barca_West
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Liverpool should play Allison in their 10 shirt role so if makes a mistake it won’t lead to a goal. That guy loves taking on one on one 🤣
Pablo58
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This was an ugly win... but a win none the less Clearly they are capable of scoring goals, but their assignment going forward in this season is smart game management. While they played decent in the 1st half, the second half was a poor performance for the whole team. The Allison mistake is just not smart play. Klopp will need to corral Allison as his nonchalance very nearly cost them points today... Two things stand out for the Reds to improve upon this season, solid game management when having a lead, and cutting down on unforced errors. One thing Klopp has said is the lads need to learn to win ugly, which today they did. Hopefully they can learn from this performance. They were consistently losing the midfield battle for 50/50 balls and challenges for long periods midway through the first half...and their second half effort for midfield control failed miserably. Had this been City, Spurs, Chelsea, even United, the result would have been far different. Clearly they still have more work to do.
jaineelbhatt
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My advice to keepers.... Never go for liverpool[Spittongue]or you will go to besistkas
FappMaester
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How quickly people forget the best moments a player has? It's his first time in Premier League. Sure being a world-class keeper he shouldn't make mistakes like that but it's nothing compared to Karius' mistakes. I'm not saying Karius is a bad keeper, just every player has his days. Some come on top when they're most needed others, don't. Let's just enjoy the game, not make a fuss about other players mistakes and mind our own business. It's the first goal Liverpool have conceded in 4 games and they're still on top, regardless of other teams' results. Kudos to the boys,
XtremeCity
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2 of the most expensive players in their respective position nearly cost Liverpool the game. Van Dijk with the wrong back pass and Alisson trying to swim in the ground inviting Leicester to drill home.
Rahulmessiarg
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Karius right now: To err is human!!! 😄😄
WilfriedCR7
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Here are the reasons that show Liverpool at the top of the Premier League this season 2018-2019: Excessively fast leaders like MANE, SALAH, a hard-nosed scorer like FERMINIO intelligent environments like J. HENDERSON, MILNER, WIJNALDUM Defenders of classes like VAN DJIIK, GOMES ... A good guardian like ALISSON. Yes Liverpool is ready and let's not be surprised that this team is making the whole phase of this championship without registering any defeat. Congratulations LIVERPOOL. 👏👏👏
CityMan
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2 of the most expensive players in their respective position nearly cost Liverpool the game. Van Dijk with the wrong back pass and Alisson trying to swim in the ground inviting Leicester to drill home.
He’s no Ederson that’s for sure!