Faes' Christmas farce! Liverpool winners, losers and ratings as Klopp's sloppy Reds are bailed out by Leicester's hapless hero

Liverpool’s top-four charge is gathering pace, but they had an unlikely hero to thank for this latest victory.

It wasn’t Mohamed Salah or Darwin Nunez who edged them to their fourth successive Premier League win, but Wout Faes. The Leicester defender provided the Christmas comedy at Anfield, scoring two own goals as the Reds stumbled their way to a 2-1 success, and moved to within two points of Tottenham as a result.

Leicester had led courtesy of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall’s fourth-minute strike, and with Liverpool well below par, Brendan Rodgers’ side were on course for a morale-boosting result until, in farcical fashion, Faes turned the game on its head within a hapless, hopeless seven-minute spell.

First, he needlessly diverted Trent Alexander-Arnold’s cross into his own net, and then, in first-half stoppage time, he repeated the trick after Darwin Nunez’s shot had come back off the post.

His side never recovered, although with Liverpool miles below their best, the second half remained a nervy affair, with Nunez and Salah missing opportunities to seal the points and Alisson Becker denying Harvey Barnes at the other end.

Here, GOAL runs through the winners and losers of an error-strewn contest…