Leicester City’s Belgian defender Wout Faes inadvertently boosted Liverpool’s hopes of creating the Champions League by scoring two own-goals in his crew’s 2-1 loss at Anfield.
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall had given Leicester a fourth-minute lead when he strolled by the center of the Liverpool defence.
However, that was the cue for Faes’s double dose of embarrassment.
In the thirty eighth minute, the Belgian defender, in his first season on the membership after a £15million transfer from Reims, sliced an tried clearance from a Trent Alexander-Arnold cross over the top of his goalkeeper Danny Ward.
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Seven minutes later, his night received worse.
Darwin Nunez was despatched by by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain however his lob over Ward got here off the publish.
However, because the ball got here again, Faes managed to hammer the ball into his personal internet.
The end result left Liverpool in sixth place, two factors off the highest 4 whereas Leicester are down in thirteenth.
Liverpool followers taunted Faes through the recreation, yelling ‘shoot’ when he had possession of the ball deep inside Leicester’s half after scoring the 2 earlier personal targets.
Meanwhile, West Ham’s 12 months ended by being booed off the pitch following a 2-0 defeat to London rivals Brentford.
First-half targets from Ivan Toney and Josh Dasilva piled the strain on West Ham boss David Moyes after a fifth consecutive Premier League defeat.
West Ham are only one spot above the relegation zone whereas Brentford climbed to ninth.
