London: Liverpool kept their Champions League hopes alive by beating Leicester City at home. Liverpool’s victory was by three goals without opposition in the English Premier League football. In addition to Curtis Jones’ first-half brace, Trent Alexander-Arnold’s 71st-minute strike also got the winners to their account. The King Power Stadium witnessed Liverpool’s seventh consecutive win in the league.
The team maintained the fifth position with 65 points from 36 games. Newcastle United and Manchester United are third and fourth ahead of Liverpool with 65 points after playing one game less. Manchester City and Arsenal, who are leading the league table with 85 and 81 points, have already confirmed that they will be in next season’s Champions League.
After recovering from the setbacks at the beginning of the season, Liverpool is posing a serious challenge to the other teams to enter the Champions League with continued victories. Meanwhile, yesterday’s defeat left relegation-threatened Leicester City in a tougher position. The team is at the 19th position with 30 points from 36 matches. In order to remain in the league, beating Leeds United (31), Everton (32), and Nottingham Forest (34), it is not enough for Leicester to win the remaining two matches, the results of the other teams should also be favorable.
Unbeaten in the last six games, Leicester surrendered to Jurgen Klopp and his team yesterday. James Maddison, Jamie Vardy and Tielemans fought as hard as they could but the lack of finishing cost Leicester. They could not even get a single shot on target.
On the other hand, Liverpool outplayed Leicester in passing and passing, and took a two-goal lead in the first half. Even though he did not score a goal, the superstar Muhammad Salah, who led to all three goals, led from the front. In the 33rd minute, the ball was scooped into the box by Mohamed Salah from the right wing and Curtis Jones rushed from the left side and hit it into the right corner of the net with his left foot.
Liverpool took the lead three minutes later through Jones. Jones’ right-footed shot over the goalkeeper’s head demonstrated Salah’s pass from Cody Gakpo, just inside the box. Liverpool are ahead by two goals as the goal war with Chua’s offside was held up.
Liverpool rallied in the second half. Trent Alexander-Arnold got the goal by taking a foul kick outside the box.
After a move by Mohamed Salah who moved the ball slightly, Leicester defended and did not have goalkeeper Iversen, who dived full-length to stop Arnold’s right-footed shot over the wall. In the end, Liverpool ended the match with an undisputed lead and Leicester left the field with full points.
2023-05-16 19:55:00
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