Liverpool can never do things easy, as was evident in the game against Leicester City. We had not won a single game in the month of September and had already been knocked out of the Carabao Cup by the Foxes.
This, however, was a different story than from midweek where we failed to take our chances. Mohamed Salah scored from a header in the first half from a sumptous Philippe Coutinho cross before the Brazilian scored from a magnificent free-kick.
Leicester looked down and out but then Simon Mignolet stepped up as he failed to punch a ball from a corner and Shinji Okazaki just about slotted the ball in after it came off Joe Gomez, just before half-time.
The Foxes continued to put us under pressure but substitute Daniel Sturridge played Jordan Henderson in a typical counter and our captain slotted in smartly to give us a 3-1 lead. That should have been enough to collect the three points but Jamie Vardy scored Leicester’s as Mignolet could only parry a hard Demerai Gray shot.
With the score being 3-2, Leicester were always in the game and Mignolet gave away a stupid penalty by trying to kick the ball instead of collecting it and hammering Vardy. Our goalie made amends by saving from #the spot but certainly, this was not a great performance by Mig and questions will be raised about our goalkeeping situation.
Here’s how the fans reacted to the game, and to Mignolet’s performance:
Simon Mignolet has saved 5 of his last 8 penalties. He’s favourite to save ’em. pic.twitter.com/nYxzcdbvRX
— Empire of the Kop (@empireofthekop) September 23, 2017
New defensive plan; keep fouling lads in the box and let Mignolet save the pens.
— Ste Hoare (@stehoare) September 23, 2017
Coutinho and Mignolet drive #LFC to success against a plucky #LCFC side ️ pic.twitter.com/wcIlRnJxSU
— ShotOnGoal (@shotongoal247) September 23, 2017
Mignolet only concedes penalties so he can save them and fans forget briefly how poor he is. (I’m not fully serious, btw.)
— J (@JayDiddly) September 23, 2017
Mignolet at corners pic.twitter.com/N61l7EsohE
— Bets On All Sports (@BetsOnAllSports) September 23, 2017
Simon Mignolet:
– Questionable handling
– Doesn’t command defence
– Not amazing at catching crosses
– SAVES ALL PENALTIES pic.twitter.com/SBkYM3Dim1
— UNILAD Football (@UNILADFooty) September 23, 2017
#LFC Only #Mignolet can turn from a Villain to Hero in just one minutes. Thanks for the Save mate!
— Phil Coutinho (@LfcNo10) September 23, 2017
Mignolet is good with penalties anyway. Fact
— Aniela (@ani_ela_) September 23, 2017
Simon Mignolet has finally found the best way to make saves and not make mistakes. STAND STILL.
— betclever (@bet_clever) September 23, 2017
Salah misses a sitter scores a stunner
Mignolet concedes a penalty saves the penalty
Welcome to the life of Liverpool
— CB (@MainManFirmino) September 23, 2017
Must have changed my mind about 10 times in this match between wanting to throw Simon Mignolet on a bonfire and wanting to neck him.
— Daniel Austin (@Danny_Austin14) September 23, 2017
37,173 – Number of people deleting their tweet saying Simon Mignolet is useless. Penalised.
— OptaJoke (@OptaJoke) September 23, 2017
Mignolet will do extraordinary things but fuck up with small things
— Based on Logistics (@Iam_Abdulaxis) September 23, 2017
It’s been saved by Mignolet!
This game in the last 15 like…#LEILFC pic.twitter.com/Pp32v8IO1c
— FourFourTwo ⚽️ (@FourFourTwo) September 23, 2017
