In one of the modern classics of English football, Manchester City Receive a Liverpool in a match corresponding to date 26 of the Premier League. The City, a fourth in the contest and whose bad season reached a new low point with the elimination in Champions League last Wednesday, will seek to recover in front of a leader who begins to give symptoms of doubts.
Erling Haaland, with a nuisance on one of his knees, had already lost revenge against Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabéu and is again absent in the Pep Guardiola call.
The game is at stake and Liverpool wins by 1-0.
Manchester City began the encounter against Liverpool with the wounded pride after the defeat against Real Madrid and was determined to go in search of the arch of the Liverpool, defended by the Brazilian Allison. With Doku on the left and Savinho on the right, both Foden and the Egyptian Marmous were close to connecting a center and opening the score.
However, Liverpool showed why it is the best Premier team and one of the best in the world. In a matter of minutes it was activated and recovered control of the ball, with a Alexis Mac Allister always wise when deciding when to have it and when to pass it. At 15 minutes, another Egyptian, Mohamed Salah, put the 1-0.
Are there plays prepared? This can be one of the cases. Alexis kicked a corner at Rastron, in parallel to the background, the Hungarian Dominik Szoboszlai intercepted the pass with another diagonal center towards the point of the prison, and there Salah appeared, who kicked first towards the network. Those of Guardiola do not bind anything because the ball deviated on the road and avoided the save of the Ederson goalkeeper.
The celebration of the DT of Liverpool, Arne Slot, with his entire coaching staff gave the sample that this was the product of the work in the week, and left no less than in front of the City champion. Salah is no longer surprised: he reached 30 goals in a season where he also tells 20 assists.
The previous Manchester City vs Liverpool
The ‘reds’ of Alexis Mac Allister They suffered on Wednesday their second draw in the last three Premier League matches, results that although they are not yet alarming, they aroused some illusion in their persecutor, arsenal, to keep the fight for the title open. However, London’s already played on Saturday and fell unexpectedly as Loclaes 1-0 against West Ham, which will give some peace of mind to Mohamed Salah, Luis Díaz and company. In case of winning, Liverpool would be 11 points from the escort distance.
In the Etihad Stadium, the City awaits, a quadruple champion and that at 17 points of the Liverpool has small options to achieve a historical fifth consecutive championship. The men of Pep Guardiola Nor can they already have the Champions League, after falling into the ‘Play-Off’ of access to the round of 16 on Wednesday against Real Madrid for a 6-3 global and receiving the cry of “Ole” of Santiago Bernabéu.
That same day, Liverpool tied 2-2 in Birmingham against Aston Villa de Dab Martínez in an advanced match of the 29th day, in which the team of Arne Slot He crossed bad minutes of play, although it was the impericia of his strikers that ended up making victory impossible.
For the pointer, the game in Etihad is one of the most complicated exams that they have left on its way to the title, and a victory in the ‘citizen’ fief would be a message for the entire Premier, very anticipated on the banks of the Mersey River .
On the other hand, although there is no title at stake, the game is also of vital importance for the City, in its struggle to hold on to the ‘top 4’, with the same points as the Newcastle and separated by just one of Bournemouth and Chelsea , already two of the villa, all with one more match.