Sadio Mane of Liverpool and Daniel Sturridge of Liverpool look on during the Premier League match between Liverpool and Leicester City at Anfield on September 10, 2016 in Liverpool, England.
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A trip to face Club Brugge in Europe’s premier competition on Wednesday will still feel slightly surreal for Leicester’s fans, such has been the extraordinary, life-changing nature of the last 12 months. Although the Reds could surely have done without the anxiety that followed that goal, second-half strikes from Lallana and Firmino meant the game was well and truly settled.
The Senegal worldwide had extended Liverpool’s lead over Leicester following Roberto Firmino’s opener to spark the exhilarating scenes, receiving a backheeled pass from Daniel Sturridge before clipping it over Kasper Schmeichel.
He said on LFC TV: “Chelsea will fear what they’ve seen”.
“The quicker we can get over this the better”, he said.
“We have a Champions League game to look forward to, we will wipe the slate clean and work on that”.
Danny Drinkwater surveyed the ruins on the road to Europe and promised: “We won’t dwell on this”.
“We have a good team spirit here and it helps in moments like this”. Pressure will be on for Ranieri to get a result and pick up a much-needed three points.
Saturday’s victory capped a memorable day for Liverpool, who were playing their first home game of the season following the expansion of the club’s Main Stand at Anfield.
“We were waiting for this kind of football”.
“Now he is ready for tomorrow to make a training session, and to be available for the next match in the Champions League”.
“We scored wonderful goals… and conceded a not-too-wonderful goal!”
Liverpool played host to defending champions Leicester City and thoroughly dominated the match, bar one horrific mistake of biblical proportions from Lucas Leiva, giving Leicester their only goal of the match through Jamie Vardy. “That is what I expect from us, what we did today”. When we are good, we are really good but when we had some problems it is not easy.
The introduction of Ahmed Musa at half-time saw Claudio Ranieri’s team press Liverpool high up the pitch, but Klopp’s team restored the two-goal cushion in some style.
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Schmeichel added: ‘We weren’t at it. Everything they tried to do was okay and they were inspired. We really deserved the three points.
