If there is heart, fight, battle and any other synonym for spirit you can muster, forgiveness comes quickly and love and loyalty lingers on.

There are ways that relegated teams, even those who have underperformed abjectly between August and April, can suffer their fate. Leicester losing is no shock Liverpool have better starters and better substitutes. They have now won seven consecutive league games and you bet they are keeping an eye on Newcastle vs Brighton this Thursday. Instead, he and his players vowed to make the best of the worst and the freedom to attack the schedule free from pressure. It is only a month or so since Klopp looked weary and thoughts inevitably flickered with the concern that the next era of Liverpool may be beyond his energy reserves. Jurgen Klopp will continue to stress that Liverpool are the underdogs in their late push for a pass to the Champions League party, and he is right: they are relying upon results elsewhere. The returning Jonny Evans, his first league start since October, was intended to be the magic elixir. Both times, he was aided by defenders who failed to track, close down, spot the danger and held a squiffy offside line. Both times, Curtis Jones produced a smart, composed finish. They made do with possession in the first third of the match but scored twice in four minutes to kill the contest and the mood. Leicester’s slight misfortune is that they faced a Liverpool team that has shed its skin. And then the boos reign down from the stands and nobody really remembers when they felt like doing anything else. A bright start, at least in comparison with the bare minimum expectations, is replaced by a two-goal deficit in the blink of an eye. They have lost all nine of their matches against teams in the top five and they account for a quarter of all the points that Southampton have gained.Īnd at clubs such as these, when everything feels as if it is broken or breaking, bad news arrives more quickly than good. They arrived at a period of the season when they needed to pick up points and have won one of 13 matches. Leicester have not suddenly tumbled into this nightmare. With the greatest of respect, guys, the time was about three months ago. “The time is now,” tweeted Leicester’s official account to accompany one pre-match warm-up routine.

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