He Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City He arrived at Anfield this Sunday immersed in his deepest crisis since the Catalan coach and the Liverpool They worsened their bad moment by sinking them further by beating them 2-0, putting the English champions in fifth place in the Premier table, outside the Champions zone. 11 points behind the Anfield team, the leader. Among the olé of fans Liverpool the meeting ended.
It started by overwhelming the city he Liverpoolthat Liverpool first in the English championship and in the Champions League. It is a bath of football, with dizzying speed, with very high pressure, but at the same time with that characteristic that distinguishes the ‘red’ team from Arne Slott of the director Jurgen Klopp: knows how to find the pause when an encounter calls for it.
Virgil van Dijkopponent of a big fight, had the first clear chance for the ‘reds’ when he put the ball in the post. But who scored is Cody Gakpoin the 12th minute and after a good ball from Trent Alexander-Arnold and great help from a Mohamed Salah stellar again. Under the sticks on city is Stephen Ortegaalready given Guardiola left on the bench Ederson. The coach indicated that it was a technical decision. SA Erling Haaland barely saw him.
Because of the football he played, especially in a tremendous first half hour, the Liverpool deserves a greater advantage in said battle with a City of Manchester that he repeated the mistakes of the previous weeks and that during that time he had only one shot on goal, Rico Lewis at 39′.
LIVERPOOL
20
city of manchester
Liverpool: Kelleher; Alexander-Arnold (Quansah, 73′), Joe Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson; Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Szoboszlai; Salah (Jones, 84′), Luis Díaz (Elliott, 91′) and Gakpo (Darwin Núñez, 73′)
Manchester City: Ortega Walker, Dias, Akanji, Aké; Lewis (Grealish, 79′), Gündogan (Savinho, 58′); Bernardo Silva, Foden (De Bruyne, 79′), Matheus Nunes (Doku, 57′) and Haaland
Objectives: 1-0, Gakpo (12′) 2-0, Salah, penalty (78′)
Referee: Chris Kavanagh. He warned Gravenberch (36′) for Liverpool and Matheus Nunes (24′), Foden (32′) and Akanji (46′) for City.
Spectators: 62,000 at Anfield
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In any case, City improved a bit and after the break they started with more energy. It was another City, with more arrivals in front of Kelleher’s goal, but the best chances continued to come from Liverpool: from Van Dijk or some from Salah. Possession belonged to the English champions, but they couldn’t finish with the goal and Liverpool spread fear in their exits.
And peace of mind for Liverpool came in the form of a penalty, which Stefan Ortega took on Luis Díaz. Salah changed that, missing the maximum penalty against Real Madrid on Wednesday. He has 11 goals, compared to 12 for Haaland who hasn’t even been seen. Soon after, the Egyptian star was angered by a brutal tackle by Bernardo Silva. City are winless in seven games. Six losses and one draw.
match lineup
62
66
26
10
2
4
11
38
7
8
18
18
2
6
19
3
25
82
20
9
47
27
Anfield
Stephen Ortega18
72′
Kyle Walker2
Nathan Ake6
Ilkay Gundogan19
57′
Ruben Dias3
Manuel Akanji25
45′
77′
83′
Rico Lewis82
78′
35′
Bernard Silva20
90′
Erling Haaland9
Phil Foden47
31′
78′
11′
72′
Matheus Nunes27
23′
56′
Replacements
Ederson31
Scott Carson33
72′
Josko Guardiol24
Jack Grealish10
78′
83′
Kevin De Bruyne17
78′
90′
Nico O’Reilly75
James McAtee87
Jeremy Doku11
56′
72′
Savino26
57′
coach
Arne Slott
Pep Guardiola
Source: La Verdad
I’m Rose Herman and I work as an author for Today Times Live. My expertise lies in writing about sports, a passion of mine that has been with me since childhood. As part of my job, I provide comprehensive coverage on everything from football to tennis to golf.
