Amazing success of City of Manchester of Guardiola, which followed back the first goal of wrong for him Liverpool and ended up with a very strong rival complicating his options to dispute the Champions League next time. the purposes of Julián Álvarez, Mahrez, Gundogan and Grealish keep the ‘citizens’ fighting him Arsenal for the Premier title. They don’t need the Pep said still Erling Haaland who finally low to sign a massive collective fight.
The great match began with that bad news, the absence of the Norwegian, still not fully recovered from his groin problems that kept him out of international commitments in Norway in the view of Spain and Georgia. is Julian Alvarez is in charge of making the scoring machine forget that there is a great individual encounter in all its facets. As a game of Oilyof Mahrezof debruyne…
In the beginning, the goal was the only thing the team lacked. Guardiola, who set a fast and intense rhythm, with full possession of the ball, taking advantage of the flows of Oily and the rapid opening on both sides. Gundogan, Rodri and Mahrez they had opportunities and the Liverpool suffered. However, the range of Klopp a quick counter attack with a long ball in almost no time Diogo Jota which was protected and returned by the striker so that’s it wrong He scored after 17 minutes in his first clear arrival in the area.
Despite the blow, the city He never took his foot off the accelerator and soon had two good chances in the boots of Julian Alvarez and Mahrez. It was none of these, but it was in the third when the Argentine striker completed a great collective play, taking advantage of the final assist from Oily.
In Liverpool it was difficult for him to get out, but little by little he was baring his teeth against it. His players angrily protested a possible second yellow on Rodri when cutting off one of those dangerous kickbacks. got those from Klopp to slow down the momentum of their rival a bit and at half-time they reached a draw on the scoreboard.
The formula changed at the beginning of the second period. is city the damaged the advanced defense of Liverpool with a long cross pass from Alvarez on the right wing Mahrez became a goal assist for debruyne.
those of Guardiola they have achieved the most difficult thing, rounding the score. It is now up to Liverpool danger, but the ‘citizen’ gave him no rest. At minute 54, Gundogan hunted for a loose ball after a shot from Julian Alvarez and put the third. A few moments later, Alison saved the room with a shot Oily.
He city overflow again and again Liverpool disoriented, forced Klopp to make four changes at once in search of reaction. Didn’t help either. Another great collective play was perfectly finished by an extraordinary one Oily past kevin debruynand. There is no history but the celebration of a etihad who was pleased with his team’s very complete game.
Data sheet:
4.- Manchester City: Ederson; Rocks, Akanji, Ruben Dias, Ake; Rodri (Bernardo Silva, min. 83); Gundogan, De Bruyne; Mahrez, Julián Álvarez, Grealish (Palmer, min. 89).
1.- Liverpool: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Konaté, Van Dijk, Robertson (Tsimikas (min. 70); Havery Elliott, Fabinho, Henderson; Salah (Darwin Núñez, min. 70), Gakpo (Milner, min. 83), Diogo Jota (Firmino, min. . 70).
The objectives: 0-1 min. 17: guilt; 1-1 min. 27: Julian Alvarez; 2-1 min. 46: DeBruyne; 3-1 min. 54: Gundogan; 4-1 min. 74: Oily.
Referee: Simon Hopper. He showed yellow cards to Salah (min. 19) of Liverpool and Rodri (min. 33) of Manchester City.
Incidents: match corresponding to the twenty-ninth day of the Premier League played at the Etihad Stadium in front of nearly 50,000 spectators
Source: La Verdad
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