Liverpool player ratings: 4-1 Leicester City
By Ethan Lowe
Liverpool player ratings following a strong win against Champions Leicester City
Liverpool’s first home game of the season ended with an impressive win against Champions Leicester. The Red’s ran riot scoring four goals and giving the fans plenty to cheer about, conceding only once due to a silly mistake.
After a respectable first three games, Liverpool needed to find more points. The poor loss against Burnley hurt, but as expected the Anfield faithful helped Liverpool to a good victory. I recently wrote about the importance of a bigger Anfield, and I think today only supports how influential I believe playing at home can be.
Liverpool looked comfortable from the off. They maintained a high level of pressure for the first 40 minutes, scoring two goals in that time to take a comfortable lead.
A mistake from Lucas Leiva let Jamie Vardy pinch a goal back before half-time, but Liverpool responded well.
The second half saw even more chances, and two more goals. In all honesty, we could have bagged a couple more.
Liverpool’s defensive errors persisted today, but with two midfielders in our back four we did very well. Both James Milner and Lucas Leiva dropped in to replace Alberto Moreno and the injured Dejan Lovren.
It’s still scary watching the team play, considering how vulnerable we can look at times. It does appear we need to score 3 or 4 goals before we can actually relax, because who knows when we’ll slip up again.
The improvements are happening, and you can see us getting stronger, but for now we’re still weaker at the back. Hopefully when injured players like Lovren and Emre Can return we’ll be even stronger.
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Here’s our player ratings following what turned out to be an enjoyable game to watch. There’s plenty of higher ratings in this one, which shows how well we performed.
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