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Leicester City defender Wout Faes scored two own goals to hand Liverpool a vital three points which edge them nearer to their top four rivals.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old\u2019s calamitous seven-minute spell before half-time gifted Liverpool the lead.<\/p>\n
This was barely deserved after Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall fired the visitors ahead early on.<\/p>\n
Both teams and sets of fans had come together before kick-off to celebrate the life of Pele, and also former Reds striker David Johnson, but there was little to reflect \u2018O jogo bonito\u2019 in the first half.<\/p>\n
Liverpool\u2019s holding midfielder Fabinho was left out of the side due to the imminent birth of his first child and his absence was felt inside just four minutes after some amateurish defending.<\/p>\n
When Dewsbury-Hall picked up the ball 50 yards out he had only Ayoze Perez ahead of him 10 yards offside but having easily brushed off Jordan Henderson, in the Fabinho role, he used his team-mate as a useful decoy.<\/p>\n
Left-back Andy Robertson, expecting the pass, stepped up to play Perez offside and left a gaping chasm between himself and Virgil van Dijk and Dewsbury-Hall could barely believe his luck as he ran through unopposed to clip a shot over a bewildered Alisson Becker.<\/p>\n
It was the seventh time in 2022 Jurgen Klopp\u2019s side had conceded in the opening five minutes.<\/p>\n
Patson Daka\u2019s departure to injury barely interrupted Leicester\u2019s attacking rhythm as replacement Jamie Vardy\u2019s dangerous cross was turned behind by Trent Alexander-Arnold under pressure from Harvey Barnes.<\/p>\n
After a frankly shambolic first quarter Liverpool finally found some semblance of cohesion, with Mohamed Salah stabbing wide from Darwin Nunez\u2019s counter and cross.<\/p>\n
And then came the chaos. First goalkeeper Danny Ward was spared Salah scoring after he blasted a kick into the Egyptian due to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain being offside.<\/p>\n
But the former Liverpool keeper was not so lucky when he called to claim Alexander-Arnold\u2019s low cross to the near post only to see Faes slice an attempted clearance up and over Ward and in at the far post.<\/p>\n
The home side sensed an opening and Van Dijk headed a corner wide before Nunez was sent running through by Oxlade-Chamberlain\u2019s touch and dinked over Ward.<\/p>\n
As has been the Uruguay international\u2019s luck recently, the shot rebounded off the post \u2013 but the back-tracking Faes only succeeded in hammering the ball into the net.<\/p>\n
The next 45 minutes were excruciating for the Foxes defender who was taunted with every touch, made worse by the fact Liverpool were attacking the Kop end and having the better of it.<\/p>\n
Barnes shot over and Henderson volleyed just wide as the teams traded chances but Salah should have put the result beyond doubt from Nunez\u2019s brilliant through-ball but scuffed wide with his right foot.<\/p>\n
But still Leicester came and Alisson got down well to save from Barnes, before Nunez fired over after a one-touch pass sequence involving Salah and substitute Naby Keita.<\/p>\n
Barnes\u2019 blushes at hitting the crossbar when he should have scored were spared by an offside flag before Nunez forced Faes into yet another error which resulted in Ward saving from Salah.<\/p>\n
Four successive league victories \u2013 for the first time since April \u2013 have moved Liverpool within two points of fourth-placed Tottenham while Leicester, after their pre-World Cup renaissance, have now lost back-to-back games and remain just four points above the relegation zone.<\/p>\n
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