![]() The groans from the home fans inside the stadium were already audible and they increased three minutes later when Salah again picked out Jones, who controlled the ball in a central position at the edge of the area, spun and smashed a dipping effort into the far corner. ![]() The 22-year-old midfielder had scored only once this season before running onto Mohamed Salah’s right-wing cross to the far post and neatly side-footing home a finish in the 33rd. Jones is an academy product enjoying a fine end to an injury-hit season. Leicester has won just one of its last 14 league games and has conceded eight goals in its last two, after the 5-3 loss at Fulham last week. They are at third-placed Newcastle, for one of the most daunting away games in the league, and at home to West Ham. The Foxes are in next-to-last place and two points from safety with two games remaining. Will we win both games? I don’t know.”įor Leicester, morale could hardly be lower with its top-flight status seriously under threat just seven years after winning the league in one of the great underdog stories in the history of sports. “I don’t think it’s likely but if they slip, we have to be there,” Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said. Liverpool has two games left - against Aston Villa at home and already-relegated Southampton away - while Newcastle and Man United have three to play. Liverpool's Luis Diaz, right, and Leicester City's Wout Faes battle for the ball during the English Premier League soccer match between Leicester City and Liverpool at the King Power Stadium, Leicester, England, Monday May 15, 2023. LEICESTER, England (AP) - Liverpool plunged Leicester closer to relegation and kept alive its own chances of finishing in the top four of the English Premier League with a 3-0 win on Monday.Ĭurtis Jones was the unlikely scorer of the first two goals before Trent Alexander-Arnold whipped an indirect free kick into the top corner to wrap up a mismatch at King Power Stadium between teams heading in opposite directions.įor Liverpool, a seventh straight victory in an impressive end-of-season rally secured at least a spot in the Europa League and moved the fifth-placed team a point behind both Newcastle and Manchester United in the race for the final two Champions League qualification positions, behind Manchester City and Arsenal. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism. ![]()
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