Liverpool moved within a point of Manchester United and Newcastle United after beating Leicester City 3-0 at King Power Stadium on Monday.
Liverpool's goals came from Curtis Jones 33', 36', and Trent Alexander-Arnold in the 71st minute.
It was a 'controlled' performance from Liverpool, as their boss, Jurgen Klopp alluded, in their seventh straight win of the season.
They averaged 67% possession, which produced 16 goal attempts, with five on target.
Defensively, they were impressive as well, limiting Leicester to just four goal attempts.
"No, but it was good – really good. Between the 55th and, I don't know exactly, the 75th minute maybe, I would have loved to have controlled a bit better," Klopp told www.liverpoolfc.com.
"Our positioning was not as clear. The first 15 minutes I accept 100 per cent because it was a bit of a wild game. They really went for us and we had to figure out how we could build up the game. We had to adapt to that, the boys did that, we became more flexible and from that moment on we had five players facing the other goal and could then really pass through the lines and mix it up with [a] pass in behind, like for the first goal."
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Klopp said he was impressed by how his charges controlled the game, not allowing it to be a free-for-all affair.
"Really good examples for the different things you have to do behind the line or through the line with the second goal. The third goal [was] obviously a wonderful set-piece. We could have scored the third one immediately after [going] 2-0 up. We had other moments and it was really good. I think the game never became the game it could have been, like a real fight with challenges everywhere and stuff like this, because we controlled it in a really convincing way."
In their next match, Liverpool will host Aston Villa on Saturday 20 May at Anfield Stadium, kick-off will be at 16:00.
