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.
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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