EPL: Liverpool put four past Leicester to extend lead - Leicester 0 - 4 Liverpool

Leicester have lost a home Premier League game by a four-goal margin for the first time since a 1-6 defeat to Tottenham in May 2017.

EPL: Liverpool put four past Leicester to extend lead - Leicester 0 - 4 Liverpool
Liverpool celetbrate Trent's goal

Roberto Firmino scored twice and Trent-Alexander Arnold also starred as Liverpool moved 13 points clear of second-placed Leicester City with a 4-0 win at King Power Stadium, with a game in hand.

It was the biggest margin of victory in a clash between teams starting the day in the top two of the Premier League since league leaders Manchester City beat Manchester United 6-1 in October 2011

 

 

Firmino was perfectly placed to open the scoring on 31 minutes when he met Alexander-Arnold’s pinpoint cross from the left to send a header past goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel.

The Liverpool right back whipped the ball back in when Robertson's corner was cleared and with Liverpool players queuing up at the back post, Firmino's clean header nestled in the bottom corner.

Liverpool moved through the gears with three second-half goals to put the game out of reach.

Substitute James Milner made it 2-0 after 71 minutes, scoring with his first touch from the penalty spot after Caglar Soyuncu had handled Alexander-Arnold's corner. 

 

 

Three minutes later another inviting delivery from Alexander-Arnold was swept home by Firmino to make it 3-0. The Brazilian held up the ball, held off a challenge, rolled it into Milner and headed for the box. By the time he got there he picked out by a pinpoint low Alexander-Arnold ball from the right, trapped it dead and dinked it into the top corner like a training game.

The impressive Alexander-Arnold added his side's fourth goal with a powerful low finish set up by Sadio Mane.

 

 

Liverpool moved it left to right, found Alexander-Arnold on the right and he caught it so sweetly first-time that the ball flew past Schmeichel before he knew it.

 

 

Leicester have won just two of the 11 Premier League games under Brendan Rodgers in which Jamie Vardy has failed to score.