Leicester City vs Liverpool as it happened: Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino preserve Reds’ perfect start
Re-live all the action from the first Premier League match this weekend
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Your support makes all the difference.Liverpool survived an embarrassing mistake from Brazil goalkeeper Alisson to beat Leicester 2-1 on Saturday for a fourth straight win to open the Premier League season.
Attempting a Cruyff turn in his own area to get round Leicester striker Kelechi Iheanacho, Alisson got the ball caught in his feet and lost possession. Iheanacho squared the ball for Rachid Ghezzal to make it 2-1 in the 63rd minute.
Liverpool held on for the win despite being far from its best at King Power Stadium, with first-half goals by Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino doing the damage.
Preview
When is it?
Leicester vs Liverpool kicks off at the King Power stadium at 12:30 (BST)
Where can I watch it?
Sky Sports will be showing live coverage of the match on Sky Sports Premier League from 11:30 and on Sky Sports Main Event from 12:30. The game will also be available online via SkyGo.
Past three meetings
30 December 2017, Premier League – Liverpool 2 (Salah x2) Leicester 0
23 September 2017, Premier League – Leicester 2 (Okazaki, Vardy) Liverpool 3 (Salah, Coutinho, Henderson)
19 September 2017, Carabao Cup – Leicester 2 (Okazaki, Slimani) Liverpool 0
Form guide
Leicester: LWWW
Liverpool: WWW
Odds
Leicester to win: 7/1
Liverpool to win: 4/9
Draw: 4/1
Prediction
Leicester 1-3 Liverpool
City have enjoyed 81% possession over the last 5 minutes and are starting to wrestle complete control back in this game.
I imagine they'd like to put it to bed pretty soon.
70 mins:
More magic from David Silva playing one touch football with the rest of the City front line sees the ball fall to the feet of Sterling who's shot goes wide of the post.
Fabulous football on display, though.
72 mins: Rondon is replaced by Joselu.
Can they salvage something from this game?
76 mins: Game is still in City's hands but at 2-1 Newcastle know they still have some form of chance.
As we speak, City corner.
83 mins: City still passing it around the back and Newcastle have a good chance for a break but City defend well.
They break again...
85 mins: Slightly nervy moments for City at back there but they dealt with the minor threat Newcastle threw at them.
Still show a lot of bravery to keep the ball when put under pressure.
88 mins: HALF CHANCE!
Ricochet sees the ball at Joselu's feet but his shot gets a deflection on its way to Ederson who claims with no pressure.
THREE MINUTES OF STOPPAGE TIME.
Can Newcastle find an equaliser?
90+1 mins: CHANCE!
Sergio Aguero misses a great chance to wrap up the victory.
Fernandinho slots a wonderful ball through the middle of the Newcastle defence and the Argentine runs on to it and tries to round the keeper but Dubravka makes it hard for him and gets the ball of him.
It still falls to Aguero once again who tries to dink the keeper off his line but he gets his angles all wrong and chips it well and truly wide of the goal.
Not fabulous.
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