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Wout Faes will bounce back after brace of own goals vs Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers says

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Wout Faes will bounce back after brace of own goals vs Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers says

Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers backed Wout Faes to quickly put his Anfield horror show behind him after two first-half own goals cost the Foxes in a 2-1 defeat to Liverpool.

After Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall had fired Leicester into an early lead, Faes missed a shout from goalkeeper Danny Ward 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.

Minutes later, he fired into his own net again after Darwin Nunez hit the post.

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