The Premier League began its 24th round of contention, with Liverpool playing at home against Leicester receiving widespread attention from fans. Liverpool is the giant of the Premier League, has won 6 Champions League titles in history, is known as the 6 Champions League champions, and has created the world-famous Anfield miracle, while Leicester is the most legendary team in the Premier League, who has created a civilian fairy tale and won the Premier League, so this game is full of highlights.
At the beginning of the game, Liverpool took the initiative and firmly occupied the initiative on the field. In the 6th minute, Alexander-Arnold's set-piece was set-piece in front of him and Firmino's header from inside the penalty area went just over the crossbar. Lester then dribbled in color, Madison and sent out diagonal passes, and Lukeman's strength was defused by Alisson. Since then, Arnold and Robertson have each had a chance to shoot but neither has been scored. Finally, in the 33rd minute, the deadlock was broken by Liverpool. Arnold drove a corner kick and After Matip's header from inside the penalty area was saved by the goalkeeper, Jota at two points scored with a clever shot to make it 1-0.
This goal also completely stimulated the fighting spirit of the home team, in the first half Liverpool's desire to expand the lead was extremely strong, the game went to the 45th minute, Liverpool in the back of the ball, then Van Dijk forward, the ball came to Firmino's feet, and then he and Jota completed a very exquisite 2-on-2 combination in the front of the big penalty area, and finally Firmino entered the box with a left-footed burst, but unfortunately, Schmeichel Jr. was highly focused and defused the danger in time, otherwise Leicester would collapse in the first half.
After the adjustment of the midfield, Liverpool's attack did not decrease, and in the 55th minute Robertson crossed from the left, and Firmino and Jota in the penalty area were wrapped up, but they were unfortunately destroyed by Schmeichel. In the 68th minute, new signing Díaz deflected his shot off the post on counter-attack. Salah then came off the bench and in the 77th minute his inside shot hit the crossbar and finally Liverpool's goal came again in the 86th minute. Matip sent a subtle straight forward after a steal, Jota faced the three-man sandwich inside the penalty area, deftly turned around and shot low to break the goal, the score was fixed at 2-0.
In this game, Liverpool can be said to have completely suppressed leicester led by the former manager. From the technical statistics after the game, it can be seen that Leicester's possession rate reached 66%, so that Leicester only got 34%. In terms of the number of shots on goal, it is the most intuitive manifestation of Liverpool's strength; the Reds have a total of as many as 23 shots on goal, while Leicester only have 4 shots in the whole game and only 1 shot on target. Had it not been for Schmeichel's resistance, Rogers would have found it difficult to find a warm memory at Anfield, leaving him with only one fiasco.
At this point, Liverpool has won three consecutive premier league games, continues to be in second place, and is only 11 points away from Manchester City in front of them, to know that Liverpool is still one game less than Manchester City, if you add this gap, the score between the two teams is only single digits. On the Leicester side, the points after the loss are still 26 points, as many as 14 points from the European zone, falling to 13th, almost reduced to a relegation team. It can be said that after this game, Klopp personally extinguished the hope of his predecessor Rodgers for next season's Champions League qualification, from the Premier League championship fairy tale to the perennial competition for four to this season's relegation team, Leicester's decline can not help but be lamented.