Twitter reacts to Leicester City's 3-1 win over Liverpool

A Claudio Ranieri-less Leicester City managed to win their first game under caretaker manager Craig Shakespeare, beating Liverpool 3-1 at the King Power stadium. The win helped the Foxes jump from 18^th to 15^th in the league table, while also allowing the reigning Premier League champions to steer clear of the relegation zone, for now.

The defeat was a huge blow for Jurgen Klopp’s side who have watched their title challenge derail since the turn of the year and now find themselves in the middle of a fight to finish in the top 4. Jamie Vardy opened the scoring for the home side with a tidy finish in the 28^th minute – scoring Leicester City’s first league goal of 2017 – before Danny Drinkwater doubled the lead with a vicious volley from outside of the box.

Vardy scored again in the second half to help the relegation-threatened side take a 3-0 lead before Philippe Coutinho scored – what turned out to be a consolation goal for the Reds.

Twitter, as you would expect, exploded following the result, which comes only days after the controversial sacking of Claudio Ranieri by Leicester City.

Here are the best tweets:

Leicester City win 3-1. A performance plucked from last season moves them out of the relegation places. Liverpool thoroughly abject.
— Phil McNulty (@philmcnulty) February 27, 2017

Liverpool trained for 16 days to lose 3-1 to a manager less team that has never scored a PL goal in 2017 and only had 4 days to train
— Danny Welbeck (@WelBeast) February 27, 2017

5 - Jamie Vardy has scored 5 Premier League goals vs Liverpool; more than any Leicester player has vs another team in the competition. Ace.
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) February 27, 2017

Great win for Leicester. Waiting for the "We did it for Claudio" quotes. I do hope they invite him to a home game to say goodbye properly.
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) February 27, 2017

The snakes of Leicester City?

Vardy man of the match! Well deserved! pic.twitter.com/JiWYzEAEyk
— JOE.co.uk (@JOE_co_uk) February 27, 2017

BREAKING: Leicester City players celebrating against Liverpool. pic.twitter.com/t7Ab31or1S
— SPORF (@Sporf) February 27, 2017

Stops scoring until Ranieri is sacked because Brexit means Brexit pic.twitter.com/3GYXYnQY43
— Paddy (@VieiraPaddy) February 27, 2017

Missing Leicester players as soon as they get rid of poor Ranieri... pic.twitter.com/0ZlVLUQpeC
— JOE.co.uk (@JOE_co_uk) February 27, 2017

One has to feel for Claudio Ranieri

This was the scene when Leicester fans lit up the King Power Stadium for former manager Claudio Ranieri

#LeiLiv pic.twitter.com/zy8RlzA5XH
— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) February 27, 2017

Video: Leicester fans show their support for Claudio Ranieri. #LeiLiv @SquawkaNews pic.twitter.com/eAykugHzpR
— Raj (@Raj_sport) February 27, 2017

Claudio Ranieri's name rings around the King Power Stadium. pic.twitter.com/6Hg3BkmZBW
— Bleacher Report UK (@br_uk) February 27, 2017

The irony!

Leicester fans start chanting Ranieri's name and their players instantly concede...
— Rich Laverty (@RichJLaverty) February 27, 2017

#KloppOut?

55 Games in charge of Liverpool

Jurgen Klopp: 94 points

Brendan Rodgers: 97 points pic.twitter.com/05VuDgjvFL
— Deluded Brendan (@DeludedBrendan) February 27, 2017

Just informed Jurgen that #KloppOut is trending in Liverpool. He said not now James. I said yes, it's trending now.
— Boring James Milner (@BoringMilner) February 27, 2017

Manager win ratios:

Moyes at Man Utd: 52.9%

Klopp at Liverpool: 48.2% pic.twitter.com/v8OJtC4OKL
— bet365 (@bet365) February 27, 2017

55 games in charge of #LFC

Klopp 94 points

Rodgers 97 points
— Stan Collymore (@StanCollymore) February 27, 2017

Jurgen Klopp is just David Moyes with glasses and yellow teeth
— Troll Football (@TrollFootball) February 27, 2017

Oh Liverpool!

SUMMARY: Liverpool's season. pic.twitter.com/svHBs4YmEH
— SPORF (@Sporf) February 27, 2017

SHAME! Klopp's Liverpool leave the King Power Stadium after dropping 3 points pic.twitter.com/h6oyCL2mXD
— Freebets.co.uk (@freebetscouk) February 27, 2017

Man Utd bring on Rooney.
Chelsea bring on Fabregas.
Man City bring on Aguero.
Liverpool bring on Woodburn.

That's the difference.
— - (@AnfieldRd96) February 27, 2017

1st Jan 2017
Liverpool 43pts
Everton 27pts

27th Feb 2017
Liverpool 49pts
Everton 44pts pic.twitter.com/5zQphki08V
— The Football Pools (@footballpools) February 27, 2017

LFC before announcing steven gerrard to return as youth coach: 3 defeats in 28. LFC since announcing gerrard's return: 5 defeats in 7 #stats
— Ken Early (@kenearlys) February 27, 2017

The Robin Hood of Premier League

Beat Arsenal
Beat Chelsea
Beat Man City
Beat Spurs
Lost to Bournemouth
Lost to Swansea
Lost to Hull
Lost to Leicester pic.twitter.com/5LIT7l4OJ5
— bet365 (@bet365) February 27, 2017

4 - Four of Liverpool's five Premier League defeats this season have come against teams who started the day in the relegation zone. Slain. pic.twitter.com/LdOA9q59kq
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) February 27, 2017

The L Clasico!

Liverpool vs Arsenal this weekend is the L Classico tbh.
— Chizzy (@MrCotidie) February 27, 2017

Remember the time when Liverpool and Arsenal fans used to feel proud about the "Matip" and "Mustafi" unbeaten trophies
— Ridge (@Ridge29Mufc) February 27, 2017