Vardy continued to threaten for Leicester, but a late Liverpool break resulted in Mane beating the onrushing Schmeichel to the ball 40 yards from his goal before squaring for Firmino to side-foot into the unguarded goal.
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Claudio Ranieri believes Champions League football is the ideal way for Leicester to respond to chastening defeat against “inspired” Liverpool.
Liverpool forward Sadio Mane is hoping to strike fear into opposition defenders after producing a blistering start to his Anfield career.
Liverpool hosted Leicester City at the newly renovated Anfield in the first home game of their Premier League season.
A brace from Roberto Firmino and goals from Sadio Mane and Adam Lallana sealed an impressive victory for the Merseyside outfit against last season’s surprise package.
“When I speak about this I [also] have to say, please don’t sing my name before the game is decided”.
Southampton remain without a win four games into the season and new manager Claude Puel is frustrated that his team has conceded three penalties. But here it has been easy with great players like Daniel (Sturridge), Philippe (Coutinho) and Roberto (Firmino).
“We’ve set the tempo for what we want Anfield to be like this season”.
“I’m just pleased because it is a great compliment to be compared to the legendary players, but I am still young and learning and need to give my best for the team”.
“It’s very nice, thank you very much”.
“I don’t play! It’s nice, I like all the players but please don’t sign my name before the game is decided”.
“We got the two goals in the first half, but let them back in with some sloppy play from ourselves”.
Less than a month into the defence of their Premier League title, and Leicester City already lost twice.
As illustrated previously, Sturridge’s injury shows that he mostly gets injured when being overused, which happened regularly under Brendan Rodgers, who often played him every 4-5 days (a mistake).
The manager added: “It was hard for us tonight”. The Brazilian had played a one-two with Simon Mignolet before setting up Vardy to score.
“When we spoke about the transfer window – are you really sure?”
“Leicester have big quality, are always a threat, even after we scored our third”.
Leicester, though, have little time to dust themselves down with the club making their debut in the Champions League at Brugge on Wednesday.
Huth nodded just wide, Danny Drinkwater saw a spectacular volley deflected wide and Vardy headed straight at Mignolet.
“We were strong physically, flexible, quick, creative”.
“We will take the positives away from the game, if there are any, and look at the negatives”.
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“We have to clear our minds for the next match”.
