Leicester win in first game since Ranieri departure

 
Leicester produced a superb display in their first game following the sacking of Claudio Ranieri, moving out of the Premier League bottom three as two goals from Jamie Vardy and a Danny Drinkwater strike saw off Liverpool.
It was a much-improved display from the Foxes under caretaker boss Craig Shakespeare, who took over after the departure of the man who led them to last season’s remarkable title triumph.
Leicester won Liverpool by 3 goals to 1 in first game since Ranieri departure.
The first strike was straight from last season’s playbook as Vardy collected Marc Albrighton’s precise long pass before racing clear and finishing low past Simon Mignolet to score his second goal in a week.
The second was an absolute cracker from Vardy’s England team-mate Drinkwater, who showed superb technique to lash home his first goal of the campaign from outside the box following a clearance from a long throw.
And Vardy sealed the win with a glancing header from Christian Fuchs’ cross in the second half before Philippe Coutinho stroked home a consolation goal
The goals were the first the Foxes have scored in the league in 2017 and ended a run of five straight top-flight defeats in spectacular fashion.
Liverpool -who would have climbed to third with a victory -have now lost five of their past seven matches in all competitions.
Speaking to Sky Sport, Jamie Vardy said,: “We’ve come in for a lot of unfair stick with things that have been in the press but you’ve seen that the lads wanted to react.
“The performance did that and we want to do it consistently. I couldn’t put my finger on why we haven’t been doing that regularly. We’ve been working hard and it’s just not been happening.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a case of more effort. Shakes [Craig Shakespeare] asked me to play higher up. I did that and I managed to get in behind quite a lot.
“I’ve been very frustrated with the amount of goals I’ve got this season but hopefully these will push me on.
“We needed to show that we’ve got that fight and win or lose, as long as the performance was right, we could hold our heads up high.”
Danny Drinkwater: “It feels good. We need to enjoy it and build on it from here. You can call it a reaction. We’ve come in for a bit of stick.
“We make our game on the basics and we went back to basics – forcing mistakes, pressing high up the pitch – and that caused them problems and helped us.”