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Scored: Evans (21 goals); Diogo Jota (41); Roberto Firmino (86)
The recent string of international matches exacerbated the injury situation in Liverpool. First, Joe Gomez (can kick center and winger) was injured when he left for England and was in danger of leaving at the end of this season. Then left-back Andrew Robertson also suffered pain when he joined the Scottish national team.
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On the front line, Mohamed Salah was positive for Covid-19 when he returned to the Egyptian team. Not to mention, Captain Jordan Henderson also has health issues at the Three Lions. So the list of players who cannot play for the Premier League champions is up to 7 people. In particular, the defense suffered the biggest losses when all three pillars – Alexander-Arnold, Joe Gomez and Van Dijk – had to take long breaks.
Still, the current situation is not so tragic. At the last minute, Robertson had rallied to drop the lead kick, causing rookie Tsimikas to “be inappropriate” when he hadn’t had a chance to show himself. Fabinho has also regained almost 100% of his capacity after the recovery period and was of course named in the starting lineup by Liverpool, with only Fabinho and Matip being the two quality names for the midfield position.
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| Liverpool vs Leicester lineup |
In attack, the name of substitute Salah could not be another, but Diogo Jota and coach Klopp still decided to use the 4-3-3 favorite, not adjusted to 4-2-3-1 like the match against Man. City in the previous round. Since arriving at Anfield earlier this season, Jota’s performance has been impressive. The Portuguese forward has contributed 3 goals in the Premier League and they are all important goals.
The gap in right-back position Arnold left was filled with old general James Milner, an extremely versatile player who could well take on many different roles on the field, from offense to defense. While in the middle line, 2001-born young talent Curtis Jones had a chance when coach Klopp had no better option.
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| Salah was absent and Diogo Jota took his place |
The other side of the front row, despite having good qualifications, does not mean that Leicester has little problems. This team is among the worst in the league in terms of its ability to create chances from ‘live ball’ situations and the achievements since the start of the season have contributed significantly to the element of luck (they have enjoyed 7 fruit 11m and mostly brought by VAR). They also suffered losses when main midfielder Caglar Soyuncu and number one interceptor Wilfred Ndidi were absent due to injuries.
With the foothold of home Anfield (unbeaten in the last 9 matches to welcome Leicester, including 7 wins and no losses in the last 63 Premier League matches), Liverpool are advocating a ‘preemptive’ attack over Leicester. The defending champions came up with the ball after the opening whistle and soon put great pressure on the visiting goal.
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| Jonny Evans burned his net, opening the scoring “for” Liverpool |
The first dangerous opportunity appeared in the 11th minute. After a volatile central attack, Keita passed through Leicester’s defense with a deadly pass into the 16m50 area for Curtis Jones, but the young Brit was unable to defeat. Schmeichel.
A few minutes later Diogo Jota took a stance on Fuchs and threw a stretched shot, the ball still hitting the ground, but it wasn’t hard enough to force the opponent to give up. However, only until the 21st minute did Liverpool have a goal to open the scoring. In a corner situation, midfielder Jonny Evans accidentally hit the home net. This is the sixth own goal in the MU-trained defender’s career.
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| Diogo Jota extended the brilliance of past time by scoring to increase the score to 2-0 |
In the 25th minute, the gap nearly leveled off as Vardy escaped Fabinho’s mentorship and returned the ball to Harvey Barnes to swing his left foot, but the ball flew over the crossbar. Leicester protested very strongly after having to concede a goal and the Liverpool host responded accordingly, thus creating an equal match between the two sides.
However, after some missed opportunities, Liverpool increased the distance in the 41st minute. From the left flank, Roberton made a standard cross as always and Diogo Jota inside the 16m50 area rushed in his head. defeat Schmeichel.
At the beginning of the second half, Robertson opened the ball on the left wing and the Scottish defender crossed into the 5m05 area. Still, Jota rushed in, but perhaps due to being closely followed, the forward muffled his heart to carry the ball into the stands.
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| Mane played aggressively and was given some favorable chances but didn’t have the grace to score |
In the 54th minute, just after being pushed to the midline to take over from Naby Keita (leaving the field to make way for Neco Williams to kick left back), old general James Milner made a good pass to give him the opportunity to Sadio Mane. table ten. However, goalkeeper Schmeichel excellently refused to hit in the top corner and Fuchs also had to support more as he rushed to smash the ball just over the line before intimidation by Diogo Jota.
The better the game, the more excited the advantage, the more excited Liverpool is constantly torturing poor guests, even though the 2-goal difference is very sure. In the 57th minute, Diogo Jota took a close corner kick, blocked by Schmeichel and then the former Wolves player grabbed the ball and placed it in Firmino’s position. Striker 9 tried hard to shoot at point blank range and the ball finally hit the post.
In the 72nd minute, Diogo Jota confidently drove the ball into Liverpool’s penalty area in the middle, but was unable to deliver a good enough kick, partly due to Fofana’s drastic ball. The forward was born in 1996, but the referee didn’t think there was a mistake, so there was no 11 meters for Liverpool.
In the 77th minute, somehow Liverpool could not have more goals in a difficult situation in the 16m50 area of Leicester. First, Firmino deftly took the ball and got into the 16m50 area and then the end of the tension hit the post. Still a Brazilian striker and Jonny Evans broke the ball in an extremely sensitive position because the goal line technology pointed then a few millimeters more, the goal was calculated for Liverpool (according to the rule requires the whole ball to be behind the line to be considered a goal.)
The ball then bounced towards Leicester’s goal and once again hit … the wooden frame. In the 84th minute, Sadio Mane made his strong move (scooping the ball through the middle and then finishing), only goalkeeper Schmeichel continued to play too well. The ball bounced off Firmino’s place, but the Brazilian forward was too clumsy to kick.
However, Firmino finally found his own goal. In the 86th minute, he headed high and too hard from a James Milner corner kick and this time, Schmeichel could do nothing. The rest of the time, Leicester only knew how to play to end the game, but the end result was determined for a long time.
With a 3-0 win that was supposed to be darker, Liverpool held on to second place in the standings and was only behind Tottenham leading in the sub-index (both are 20 points / 9 rounds). While Leicester fell to 4th place after finishing No. 1 before round 9.
TEAM
LIVERPOOL (4-3-3): Alisson; James Milner, Fabinho, Joel Matip, Andy Robertson; Curtis Jones, Georginio Wijnaldum, Naby Keita (Neco Williams 54 ‘); Diogo Jota (Origi 89 ‘), Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane (Minamino 89’).
CITY OF LEICESTER (3-4-2-1): Kasper Schmeichel; Wesley Fofana, Jonny Evans, Christian Fuchs (Dennis Praet 62 ‘); James Justin, Youri Tielemans, Nampalys Mendy, Marc Albrighton; Harvey Barnes (Cengiz under 62 ‘), Jamie Vardy, James Maddison.
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