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 start well and David Silva threads a ball through to Raheem Sterling whose dink into the box is well dealt with once again.
49 mins: Silva wastes a free-kick and it's even worse from Mahrez who blazes it over the bar.
52 mins: GOAL! Manchester City 2-1 Newcastle (Walker, 53)
City keep possession very well and Aguero feeds the ball into Walker who lets fly from 30 yards and absolutely smashes it into the bottom corner.
What a goal that is.
Wow.
55 mins: Half chance for Newcastle as the ball falls to Dummett on the edge of the box but his left footed shot goes harmlessly wide.
57 mins: GOAL DISALLOWED!
Aguero over heads the ball into the path of Gabriel Jesus who slots the ball away but it has been given as offside.
And moments later, he is replaced by Bernardo Silva.
He's not a happy man.
Replays of Walker's goal just show how fantastic of a strike that really was. Perfection.
He's done it a couple of times before but it really is quite the strike.
64 mins: CHANCE!
City play some marvellous football and Bernardo switches a fantastic ball to Aguero who repays the favour with a fantastic dink to Fernandinho who is well stopped by Dubravka.
David Silva follows it up and is denied not once but twice and City get the ball back once again.
Should be 3-1. Great goalkeeping.
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