Liverpool comfortably beat last seasons Premier League champions Leicester in their first home game of the season 4-1.
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A Roberto Firmino brace and goals from Sadio Mane and Adam Lallana secured a comprehensive victory for the Reds against Claudio Ranieri’s title-holders, who could only manage a solitary reply from Jamie Vardy.
Liverpool midfielder Lucas, playing out of position in central defence, gave Leicester a lifeline with a awful 38th-minute backpass that Jamie Vardy drilled into the empty net.
Goals from three different Liverpool players propelled Jurgen Klopp’s side 4-1 past Leicester at Anfield’s new-look stadium.
“Not at all going to be an easy game, especially with their tails being up after the result they’ve had against Leicester the champions”, he explained on Chelsea TV. It’s a little bit like celebrating a penalty before you’ve scored. “We just take it game by game and will try to win them”.
“We knew we had to do the job today and that is what we did”, Klopp added. “It was hard for us to stop them”.
“But I hope we can do better”. You don’t say it but I can hear it, even when I’m not a native speaker.
Asked about returning a profit on his dealings, Klopp said: “Nobody has congratulated me!” We played calm football, but we can’t create with each pass, each movement.
They reclaimed their two-goal lead in the 57th minute.
“We have a Champions League game to look forward to, we will wipe the slate clean and work on that”.
“Of course there is not a hierarchy – it’s not [a case that] somebody who played last season is assured to play this season”, he said.
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“It was a deserved win, we were physically strong, we were clear, we were hard, flexible, quick, creative – all that stuff”, Klopp told the club’s official website. “We had to bring in Lucas (for Dejan Lovren, who sustained a badly bruised eye in training); a great player but the most hard game for a centre-half, especially when you don’t play it 500 times in a row”. “When we have lost in the past, we have always had a good reaction”.
