"Reds chase for Europe with a victory made in Liverpool"

This latest edition from the "Garden Sessions" covers the late season chase for Europe at the end of the 2022-2023 season, and an away victory at Leicester City entirely made in Liverpool.

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LEICESTER CITY 0
LIVERPOOL 3 (Jones 33, 36, Alexander-Arnold 71)

"The opening half an hour this evening at Leicester City’s King Power Stadium was a “dog with fleas”.

Abject with a capital A. Dreadful with a capital D or just plain awful.

On the back of their recent humiliating defeat at Fulham, the home team “Foxes” were dogged, determined, physical and snapping into tackles of a bitty, non-event of a game and in a game they simply had to win to ward off the horrible spectre of a seemingly certain relegation through the trapdoor into The Championship. The visiting Reds of Liverpool arrived on a 6 game winning streak but for half an hour were bogged down in a physical game they simply hadn’t started or got to grips with.

Enter Belgian central defender Wout Faes, he of the two own goals and two Christmas presents delivered to the Reds at Anfield in the previous league fixture in December 2022.

He allowed Alisson Becker’s straight long ball into the heart of the Leicester defensive third of the field to bounce rather than deal with a fairly rudimentary clearance and seconds later, and just four quick touches of the ball from Luis Díaz, Jordan Henderson, Mo Salah and a sublime first time half-volley from Curtis Jones, his team trailed.

3 minutes and 7 quick fire touches of the ball from Jordan Henderson, Cody Gakpo and Mo Salah later, Jones arguably scored an even better second goal, this time a volley he set up himself on the turn before rasping a drive past the flailing dive of Leicester goalkeeper Daniel Iversen, and the team in all blue began to crumble once more, their early optimism and physical approach draining away until the boos that greeted them at the half-time whistle. The Reds second goal on 36 minutes was also the cue for the hordes in the Away End to break into their songbook with an early rendition of “Show Them The Way To Go Home” before the even more cutting “You’re Going Down With The Blue Shite” before the second half became a slow, lingering death for the Leicester Foxes as the Reds in the Away End serenaded Roberto Firmino with an almost constant rendition of his beautiful song ahead of the Brazilian legend’s sad impending departure in the summer".

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