Nathaniel Clyne used the time and space he was afforded on the right, while Roberto Firmino, Daniel Sturridge and Sadio Mane were a constant nuisance.
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However, a insane Lucas backpass seven minutes before the interval gifted Jamie Vardy the easiest goal he will score all season and that prompted a crisis of confidence in Liverpool’s back-four and beyond.
While Leicester pressed manfully, they struggled to construct a coherent attacking threat and the hosts restored their two-goal advantage in the 56th minute when Lallana met Giorgino Wijnaldum’s lay-off and rifled a fine shot into the top corner.
“When I speak about this, I have to say (to the fans). please don’t sing my name before the game is decided”, Klopp said at the post match press conference.
Mane is now one of the first names on the team sheet and offers some frightening pace to a Liverpool unit that was sorely lacking it last season.
And Santi Cazorla secured Arsenal’s second win of the season when the Spaniard stroked home a controversial penalty awarded for Jose Fonte’s tackle on Olivier Giroud in the 94th minute. They were inspired. It was hard for us to stop them.
Tottenham swept to a 4-0 victory at bottom-of-the-table Stoke as South Korean Son Heung-Min sparkled on his first appearance of the season.
Free-flowing football in the final third was too much for Claudio Ranieri’s men to live with, who had Jamie Vardy’s first-half strike as their only consolation on a tough away day.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that all is rosy in Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool garden at this moment in time.
They now sit fifth in an embryonic Premier League table.
“One of our strengths last season was when we lost a match we had a very good reaction and I’m waiting for a good reaction now in Bruges”.
Ranieri added: “Liverpool were better than us”. We have to clean our mind. “These are the games every football fan watches and we are not just going to make up the numbers”.
He said: “We need to have atmospheres like this, not only against the champions and score four goals”.
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“We had to throw him in cold water, he wasn’t really ready for 90 minutes”, he said.
