Ward: I was just doing my job

The 21-year-old was in remarkable form as the Reds claimed a vital 2-1 win in Chester, making a string of impressive saves to keep his team in the game.

The three points allowed the U21s to briefly seize top spot in the Barclays U21 Premier League before Manchester United returned to the summit by beating Southampton later in the day.

But they remain in the thick of a title challenge with just two games remaining - and Ward can take plenty of the credit for that fact after his showing against the Foxes.

The Wrexham-born shot-stopper was keen to downplay his contribution, however, instead preferring to talk up the importance of teamwork.

"It's always nice to make the saves but more importantly the lads get the three points," he told Liverpoolfc.com.

"Everyone works for each other in this team, it's just doing my job really. 

"The strikers are paid to score goals and the 'keepers are meant to keep the ball out of the net.

"It's disappointing that we've not managed to keep a clean sheet but it's nice for them [saves] to come off and it means more when the team win."

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Ward also revealed his optimisim the U21s can go on to claim the title, largely thanks to their array of talented attackers.

"The players we've got, especially at the top end of the field, they're so frightening," he continued.

"The likes of Sheyi [Ojo] and Ryan Kent have been on fire and all the boys are really doing well at the minute, so hopefully we can keep this momentum going and go on and win it."

It was during the first half of Monday's game that Ward was most regularly called on, as Leicester capitalised on some hesitant play from the hosts and created an array of chances.

Liverpool were much improved in the second period, though, overturning a one-goal deficit with strikes from Dan Cleary and Cameron Brannagan.

U21s coach Michael Beale admitted after the game that he was disappointed with his team's efforts in the first 45 minutes and made that clear to the players during the interval.

"I thought it was the game I enjoyed least this season," he said. "First half, they were a little bit older, a little bit stronger, a little bit more direct in their play and we were slow. 

"We spoke about that at half-time and we did improve, definitely. 

"I asked them what this team's for. This team is for players to show that they're good enough to play in Liverpool's first team and I didn't feel in the first half that we did ourselves justice. 

"We didn't play, we ended up getting caught up with their style really and we had to be braver. 

"So I asked for that and I said forget the result for a minute, let's try to go back to what we work on everyday and I thought we did that second half and were deserved winners in the end."