HOW LIVERPOOL INCREASE THE GAP BETWEEN HER AND LEICESTER CITY.
Although both Liverpool and Leicester city are two strong teams who currently occupies the first and second position of the English premier league table, however, through a match scheduled to hold on 26th December, 2019 between Leicester city and Liverpool in King Power Stadium at exactly 18:00, Liverpool grabs the little opportunity she finds to add another 3 points to the gap between her and Leicester city. Should I call Liverpool’s victory luck or team hard work? Grab a chair and sit comfortably as I bring the review of the match to you.
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Due to the status of the two teams in English premier league, there are lot of people who wants to watch the match in King Power Stadium, which consequently cause thirty two thousand two hundred and eleven (32,211) people to purchase the ticket to be the spectator of the match.
The match began at 18:00 as Michael Oliver (the referee) blows his whistle for the commencement of the match. However, Liverpool had two attempts through Trent Alexander-Arnold and Sadio Mane in the first two minutes of play, but the two attempts unable to shake the net. Nonetheless, the two teams kept trying until the god of football favours Liverpool at approximately 31 minute of play, and Roberto Firmino scores the first goal of the match with his head, in favour of Liverpool; through an assist from Trent Alexander-Arnold. Then the score changes from (0-0) to (0-1). The match continued and Leicester city became very nervous for goal, but her closest attempt to equalize at the 37th minute of play earn her nothing but an offside (Jamie Vardy). The match continue with no goal record even though 1 minute was added to first half before the referee blows his whistle for the end of first half.
The two teams hoped to turn thing around in their favour as the referee blows his whistle for the beginning of second half, however, what Liverpool gets is a reward of a yellow card, which the referee offered to Joe Gomez at approximately 62 minute of play. Yet Leicester city is able to make two attempts through Dennis Praet which was off target and Jamie Vardy’s attempt is an offside. Then Liverpool makes two substitutions at approximately 70th minute of play as James Milner and Divock Origi replaces Naby Keita and Mohamed Salah after Mohamed Salah’s attempt (which was blocked by a defender) at the 69th minutes of play was unsuccessful. However, Liverpool was given a penalty at the 70th minute of play and James Milner makes another goal count for Liverpool (0-2). Then Leicester city makes their second substitution by replacing Dennis Praet with Ayoze Perez. Moreover, Leicester city gets her first yellow card at the 73rd minute of play as Michael Oliver shows James Maddison a yellow card. However, Liverpool increases their lead a minute after Leicester city was awarded a yellow card and Roberto Firmino scores (0-3) with an assist from Trent Alexander-Arnold. Then Leicester city makes her third substitution by replacing James Meddison with Hamza Choudhury at approximately 76th minute of play. Nevertheless, Liverpool makes another goal a reality at the 78th minute of play through Trent Alexander-Arnold with an assist from Sadio Mane. Then Liverpool leads with 4 goals. But Liverpool was forced to replace Jordan Henderson with Adam Lallana as a result of the injury sustained by Jordan Henderson at approximately 82 minute of play. Nonetheless, Liverpool is able to maintain clean sheet till the end of the match despite the fact that 3 minutes injury time was added.
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It was a wonderful game and Liverpool showed an example on how to play like a champion!
The match is indeed a spectacular one, because I find it difficult to believe that Liverpool can beat Leicester city 4-0 until the end of the match.
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