LONDON: Leicester City’s Belgian defender Wout Faes inadvertently boosted Liverpool’s hopes of creating the Champions League by means of scoring two own-goals in his group’s 2–1 loss at Anfield on Friday.
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall had given Leicester a fourth-minute lead when he strolled throughout the heart of the Liverpool defence.
However, that was once the cue for Faes’s double dose of embarrassment.
In the thirty eighth minute, Faes, in his first season on the membership after a £15million transfer from Reims, sliced an tried clearance from a Trent Alexander-Arnold move over the pinnacle of his goalkeeper Danny Ward.
Seven mins later, his night time were given worse.
Darwin Nunez was once despatched via by means of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and his lob over Ward got here off the publish.
However, because the ball got here again, Faes one way or the other controlled to hammer the ball into his personal internet.
The end result left Liverpool in 6th position, two issues off the highest 4 whilst Leicester are down in thirteenth.
“At times, I thought we were poor today. It’s a cliche but it’s important to get the three points and win,” Liverpool defender Virgil Van Dijk instructed Sky Sports.
“We tried to get in the game but we weren’t good enough and we know that. We won, which is positive, but there are plenty of things we have to improve on.”
Meanwhile, West Ham’s 12 months ended by means of being booed off the pitch following a 2–0 defeat to London competitors Brentford.
First-half aims from Ivan Toney and Josh Dasilva piled the drive on West Ham boss David Moyes after a 5th consecutive Premier League defeat.
West Ham are only one spot above the relegation zone whilst Brentford have climbed to 9th.
“I thought we played well today. The goals were completely against the run of play, we’ve lost two goals to throw ins. We made a lot of opportunities, we just couldn’t take them,” Moyes instructed Match of the Day .
“It’s small margins, I thought the players did a great job, kept going. We just didn’t have the final bit of the jigsaw.”
The defeat manner Moyes has now misplaced 5 successive video games for the primary time since 2005 when he was once in command of Everton.
“It’s a big result, to come here and win 2-0 is impressive,” mentioned Brentford supervisor Thomas Frank.
“West Ham were better than us in the first half but we took our two moments and the second half was spotless in defence. We had chances to kill the game at 3-0, but still, good points.”
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall had given Leicester a fourth-minute lead when he strolled throughout the heart of the Liverpool defence.
However, that was once the cue for Faes’s double dose of embarrassment.
In the thirty eighth minute, Faes, in his first season on the membership after a £15million transfer from Reims, sliced an tried clearance from a Trent Alexander-Arnold move over the pinnacle of his goalkeeper Danny Ward.
Seven mins later, his night time were given worse.
Darwin Nunez was once despatched via by means of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and his lob over Ward got here off the publish.
However, because the ball got here again, Faes one way or the other controlled to hammer the ball into his personal internet.
The end result left Liverpool in 6th position, two issues off the highest 4 whilst Leicester are down in thirteenth.
“At times, I thought we were poor today. It’s a cliche but it’s important to get the three points and win,” Liverpool defender Virgil Van Dijk instructed Sky Sports.
“We tried to get in the game but we weren’t good enough and we know that. We won, which is positive, but there are plenty of things we have to improve on.”
Meanwhile, West Ham’s 12 months ended by means of being booed off the pitch following a 2–0 defeat to London competitors Brentford.
First-half aims from Ivan Toney and Josh Dasilva piled the drive on West Ham boss David Moyes after a 5th consecutive Premier League defeat.
West Ham are only one spot above the relegation zone whilst Brentford have climbed to 9th.
“I thought we played well today. The goals were completely against the run of play, we’ve lost two goals to throw ins. We made a lot of opportunities, we just couldn’t take them,” Moyes instructed Match of the Day .
“It’s small margins, I thought the players did a great job, kept going. We just didn’t have the final bit of the jigsaw.”
The defeat manner Moyes has now misplaced 5 successive video games for the primary time since 2005 when he was once in command of Everton.
“It’s a big result, to come here and win 2-0 is impressive,” mentioned Brentford supervisor Thomas Frank.
“West Ham were better than us in the first half but we took our two moments and the second half was spotless in defence. We had chances to kill the game at 3-0, but still, good points.”