Rodgers backs Faes to bounce back as Liverpool's Alisson pays tribute to 'best ever' Pele

Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers believes Wout Faes has the character to overcome Friday's horrow show at Anfield in which the Belgian defender scored two own goals as Liverpool ran out 2-1 winners.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall got the Foxes off to the best possible start with a goal inside five minutes but that was undone by two lapses in concentration by defender Faes before half time.

The summer signing from Reims first missed a shout from goalkeeper Danny Ward on 38 minutes as he went to cut out a low cross from Trent Alexander-Arnold, horribly slicing the ball as it looped over Ward and in off the back post.

And just seven minutes later it got worse for the Belgian as Darwin Nunez’s shot came back off the post and his attempt to clear the danger saw him fire into his own net again.

Commenting on the first own goal, Rodgers said: “There is no real trouble, the ball is coming into Danny’s hands but as a defender you make those decisions.

“But since he has been with us he has been absolutely brilliant. He normally makes the right decisions. It was just freakish and he has been unfortunate with the second one also.

“It is obviously disappointing for him, more with the first one, but he is a really strong character.

“He has been at the World Cup but didn’t play a minute so it might take him a few games to get his rhythm back. He has shown the level he can get to. Tonight was unfortunate for him but I thought he responded brilliantly in the second half.”

LIVERPOOL RATINGS: Alisson Becker 6 - Not troubled too much with Liverpool catching Leicester City offside on a number of occasions, but alert to the danger when called upon. Unlucky with the first goal after some poor Liverpool defending. AP Photo

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