A week is a long time in football and Leicester City showed that last night with a thrilling 3-1 victory over Liverpool, in a result that lifted the Foxes out of the bottom-three once again and provided a major dent to Jurgen Klopp's hopes of a top-four finish.

Following days of negative reports concerning last season's Premier League champions and the decision to axe Claudio Ranieri last week, Leicester responded brilliantly to secure a result that may just keep them in the top-flight.

There's still a lot of football to be played, 1080 minutes for each team to be exact, but the scoreline may also result in huge consequences at the top end of the table- as Liverpool's hopes of returning to the Champions League decreased further.

In the end though, it was a perfect advert for Monday night football in the Premier League and these five images tell the story of the match.

RIP football

Prior to kick-off, headlines were made when a hearse was pictured outside the King Power Stadium with flowers that read 'RIP football'- in reference to the decision to sack Claudio Ranieri last week just nine months after he guided the Foxes to the Premier League title.

Fans were understandably upset by the decision to remove the popular Italian but even the most optimistic of supporters would not have expected what was to follow.

Vardy strikes

Leicester came out flying from the blocks in the match and looked to have rekindled their best form just when it mattered, following the sides drop into the bottom three of the Premier League over the weekend- but that wasn't to last.

With 28 minutes on the clock, time seemed to rewind to last season as Danny Drinkwater perfectly timed a through ball for Jamie Vardy to run onto, leaving the Liverpool defenders for dead, and the England international cooly struck home.

Drinkwater's stunner

If people expected Vardy's opening goal to have been a minor blip for Liverpool, or against the run of play if you weren't watching the match, Danny Drinkwater's stunning strike to double Leicester's lead showed the Foxes were there for the victory.

Liverpool were hapless to prevent the strike from firing into the bottom corner from outside the box, with the chance falling on a plate for Drinkwater after the Reds had failed to clear their lines on numerous occasions.

The next goal in this match was now crucial- and we got it in the second-half.

Lightning strikes twice

An early goal for Liverpool in the second-half would have turned the game on it's head but the result was sealed 15 minutes after the interval, as Jamie Vardy put the Reds to the sword once again by netting his second of the match.

The 30-year-old forward had ended his goalscoring drought in the Premier League in some style and took his tally for the season in the league to seven- and he's now just one short of double figures for the season, having netted against Sevilla last week and against Manchester United in the Community Shield back in August.

Coutinho's consolation

Liverpool did manage to get their names on the scoresheet through Philippe Coutinho, eight minutes after Jamie Vardy extended Leicester's advantage to three, but by that stage the game was over as a contest- as Liverpool were at sixes and sevens throughout the game.

On a personal level, it saw Coutinho claim his fifth Premier League goal of the season and it was the first time the Brazilian has been directly involved in a league goal since the start of 2017- which may go some way to revealing Liverpool's issues.