Liverpool Defeats Leicester by Four Goals

Liverpool beat English rivals Leicester City 4-0 in a preseason friendly on Sunday in Singapore as they prepared for the start of their new Premier League season.

The Reds led 3-0 at the break thanks to goals from Darwin Nunez, Bobby Clark, and Diogo Jota in an eight-minute span late in the first half.

Midway through the second half, Ben Doak headed in their fourth goal to give them a commanding lead at National Stadium.

With just two weeks until Liverpool's Premier League season opener against Chelsea, manager Jurgen Klopp could look back on a successful day of practice for his team.

"We had a lot of good moments but we can do better,” said the German.

"I'm absolutely fine (with how things went). The result was good, nobody was injured – just a few knocks - and the atmosphere during and after the game was top class. So yeah, it was a good day in the office."

While Leicester, who were demoted from the Premier League last season, are returning to England to begin their Championship campaign against Coventry City next Sunday, Liverpool and Bayern Munich are playing another preseason friendly on Wednesday in Singapore.

After nine minutes, Wilfred Ndidi received a through pass from Kasey McAteer that got him behind the Liverpool defense, but goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher stopped the Nigerian midfielder's effort at point-blank range.

Nunez's shot was disallowed for offside immediately after, and Leicester goalkeeper Mads Hermansen did brilliantly to deflect the ball away when Mohamed Salah tried to find Jota with a low cross. This prevented Liverpool an early goal.

However, Liverpool's pressure would finally pay off on the half-hour mark.

Hermansen kept out Jota's hard low shot from the left channel but he could only parry the ball to the far post where Nunez arrived to turn in for his side's opening goal.

A second arrived five minutes later when Salah laid the ball off in the box for Clark with the 18-year old sending a right-footed shot past Hermansen into the bottom corner of the net.

Salah also played a big part in Liverpool's third three minutes later as the Egyptian scooped the ball up for Jota to head the ball home.

Liverpool changed all 10 of their outfield players at half-time but they continued to enjoy the lion's share of possession in the second half.

They added a fourth in the 64th minute from a well-worked set-piece as Joel Matip flicked Dominik Szoboszlai's corner to the far post for Doak to nod home.

Leicester went close to a consolation goal when Patson Daka's attempt was well blocked by Jarell Quansah while at the other end, Luis Diaz was twice left frustrated as he saw his headed goal disallowed for offside before being denied by a good save by Hermansen.