Leicester City 0-3 Liverpool: Liverpool pushed Leicester City deeper into trouble on Monday evening. Manager Jürgen Klopp’s team won at the King Power Stadium. As a result, the national champion of 2016 seems to be increasingly difficult to avoid relegation.
Unleashed Liverpool chase Man Utd and CL ticket
In recent weeks, the dark clouds have gathered more and more tightly over Leicester. The club dropped to the penultimate place in the league table. With three games to go, Liverpool did not seem the ideal candidate to crawl out of the relegation zone. Still, it had to happen at home, because time was ticking further and further away.
Liverpool have been in top form in recent weeks. The Reds, with Cody Gakpo and Virgil van Dijk in the starting eleven, won six league games in a row. As a result, the team crawled to fifth place in the ranking. The pressure on arch-rival Manchester United was increasingly increased in the battle for a Champions League ticket. However, Klopp’s formation could no longer afford a misstep.
That did not happen during the visit to Leicester. Already in the first half, Liverpool distanced itself from the errant relegation candidate. After more than half an hour it was Curtis Jones who opened the score. The child of the club crowned an excellent cross from Mohamed Salah. Three minutes later, the cooperation between the two players followed again. Again Salah took care of the preliminary work, again Jones was the final destination. It seemed like a house of cards was collapsing at Leicester. Immediately after the second goal, Gakpo had an imposed chance to expand the margin to three, but goalkeeper Daniel Iversen prevented worse for his team.
Seventh win in a row
After the break, Leicester tried to make something of it, but Liverpool did not give in. Twenty minutes before the end, the game was put in a fold. Trent Alexander-Arnold provided the highlight of the evening. The Englishman, also a product of his own youth academy, put the ball in the intersection via a free kick in a phenomenal way. And again Salah was the declarant.
The Leicester fans had seen enough and decided to leave the stands of their home stadium. With two games left, away at Newcastle United and at home against West Ham United, the Premier League ruler of 2016 faces a tough task. Liverpool meanwhile hopes for a misstep by Manchester United. The gap with The Red Devils has shrunk to one point.
