Liverpool definitively said goodbye to the Premier League after losing a game they were winning and in which six fatal minutes, in which they received three goals, buried their options against a Leicester launched for the Champions League (3-1).
The 'Reds', who had gone ahead after a great goal by
Mohamed Salah
in the second half, had already flirted with danger and
Jamie Vardy
had missed two hands-on-hands in the first half, one of them crashing it off the crossbar.
But the disaster for Jürgen Klopp's team came in two fateful minutes for them.
First a foul outside the area that the VAR checked that was not inside.
James Maddison
dropped it and went straight inside, without anyone ever touching it.
The goal killed Liverpool, who a minute later saw rookie
Ozan Kabak
and
Alisson
make a terrible mess trying to cut Liverpool's long ball, leaving Vardy without a goalkeeper to score on an empty goal.
To finish the job,
Harvey Barnes
counterattacked the third, squandering Liverpool's options to reengage in the fight for the Premier.
In total, in six minutes they fell three goals to Klopp's team that leaves them 10 points behind Manchester City with two more games.
In return, Leicester climbs to second place, where they are placed with 46 points, four behind City, but with two more games.
It is the third defeat in a row for Liverpool, which came after not playing in the FA Cup, in which they are eliminated.
Klopp's men have lost four of the last six games and have won three in the last eleven games.
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