For the second time in 72 hours, Manchester City could enjoy the result in a Leicester game. The side with most to celebrate, however, were Leicester themselves. In adversity, short of players or time to prepare, fielding a makeshift defence, fresh from a hammering, they contrived to inflict just Liverpool’s second league defeat since March. City could be 12 points clear before Liverpool play again and Jürgen Klopp could rue the rarity of a spurned penalty by Mohamed Salah and an egregious miss by Sadio Mané.
For Brendan Rodgers, however, there was vindication the moment Ademola Lookman, the substitute he only introduced two minutes earlier, struck. It required an outstanding performance from Kasper Schmeichel, but Leicester secured the finest result of their decidedly mixed campaign.
