By David Awopetu
Wilfred Ndidi provided an assist as his Leicester City side secured a 3-1 victory over Liverpool on Saturday in a game that saw Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Bercker commited another howler.
The Nigeria international was handed his second consecutive start since overcoming a thigh muscle strain and delivered an impactful showing in the encounter.
Mohamed Salah scored Liverpool’s only goal early in the second half.
The best chances of the first half fell to Vardy and Roberto Firmino, with both teams lucky that their goalkeepers were on top form to leave it 0-0 heading into the break.
Trent Alexander-Arnold was denied by the crossbar before the hour mark before Salah broke the deadlock on 67 minutes.
Alexander-Arnold’s shot was blocked by the Leicester defence but only ricocheted as far as Firmino who, without looking to see if he was there, tapped the ball back to Salah. He then calmly slotted the ball past Kasper Schmeichel.
Leicester had a double VAR review on 77 minutes which saw them lose a penalty but score the resulting free-kick.
Harvey Barnes was brought down by Thiago on the edge of the box and referee Anthony Taylor awarded a penalty, which was overturned to a free kick following a VAR review, and Maddison curled it into the corner of Alisson’s goal.
There was a VAR review for offside but the goal stood.
Moments later, Vardy scored Leicester’s second after Alisson stormed out of his goal and missed the ball, leaving an empty net for the Leicester striker to score in.
Brendan Rodgers watched the Foxes rub salt in his former side’s wounds as Harvey Barnes applied a composed finish to Wilfred Ndidi’s pass with five minutes left.
Leicester go second while Liverpool’s third successive league defeat means their place in the top four looks in peril.
