Well not too much to talk about with this one. We'll get to the obvious Alisson talking point, but first the highs. 12 from 12 and our best start to a season since 1990. One change to starting line up from Klopp for this one with Hendo coming into the mid-filed for Keita. One of the big things is that although our front three haven't fully got going 2 of them still scored today. Mane opened the scoring at 10 minutes with his 4th goal in 4 games and Firmino got his goal count off the mark with a nice header from a Milner corner on the stroke of half-time. Salah missed a sitter in the first 3 minutes from a rebound of a Firmino strike. So the front 3 then not fully firing, it's a positive that although they haven't fully got going yet, in 4 games, Mane has 4 goals, Salah 2 goals 2 assists and Firmino 1 goal 2 assists, not a bad turnout, once they get fully going we know what these 3 can do and I CANNOT wait. Once again though it felt like another great result from a performance where we weren't fully at our best. Shall we talk about the Leicester goal then? A lot of so-called fans on twitter where jumping on this one and giving Alisson some flack. Yes it's a terrible mistake and awful way to concede the first goal of the season, however, we know what type of goalkeeper Alisson is and we've seen glimpse's of what could happen. I'm just glad this has happened now, early in the season when we're 2-0 up and still win the 3 points. After the match he came out and aknowledged the mistake. Speaking to ESPN he said "Obviously, I won't be stupid to make the same mistake. We have to learn from our mistakes. But it's part of my game, I won't be arrogant in saying that I will keep doing this. We have to learn from our mistakes."
Klopp wasn't too happy either after the match, saying "It was always clear it would happen. It needs to happen so that it will not happen again. Football is a game where a lot of mistakes happen but that was a big one."
However we can take some positives that after the goal was conceded. Liverpool tightened up, VVD took on a no-nonsense approach and pretty much cleared everything. Although from a fan point of view we were nervey, Leicester actually only had one shot after the goal and that was a 20 yarder from N'didi.
I hope now that Alisson has learnt from this and it won't cost us going forward. Liverpool are going to need him at his best for the next run of games.
With the run - in of matches after the international break, these 12 points may turn out to be very important for us. We play the other 3 teams currently in the top 4, with Champions League and Carabao Cup fixtures in between, as well as coming up against Southampton at home who are never an easy match for us. If we can get 10-12 points from 15 in the league we should be sitting in a pretty healthy position. Time will tell by the end of October, how our squad dept truly is looking and how much of a contender for the title, Liverpool really will be this season.
For now though, we can enjoy sitting top of the the table, with 4 wins from 4.
YNWA
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