Liverpool ramped up the pressure after the break and Sadio Mané spurned a glorious chance to fire them into the lead when he latched onto Diogo Jota’s perfectly weighted through-ball, but he lifted his effort over the bar. That old footballing proverb – “you have to score whilst on top” was ringing true for Liverpool, as former Everton man Ademola Lookman drove at the heart of the ‘Reds’ defence before rifling an unstoppable effort past Alisson to fire the ‘Foxes’ into the lead.
Jota was in the thick of the action for Liverpool, but the closest he came to finding an equaliser was a glancing header from Trent Alexander-Arnold’s corner which drifted harmlessly wide of the target. Leicester held on for a victory that avenges their Carabao Cup exit last week and secured back-to-back league victories over Liverpool for the first time since 1999.
