For two weeks, the Reds have been running down. Chaining the stalls and road trips, as can testify to his only victory in the last four games in all competitions, Liverpool had to avoid the accident this Sunday on the lawn of Manchester City. An important meeting for the two teams that have experienced two different destinies with the Champions League this week. While the skyblues were eliminated against a superior Real Madrid and carried by a Kylian Mbappé XXL, the Mersey club learned this Friday that it will face Paris Saint-Germain in a double confrontation which promises to be breathless on the program of the round of 16. To bounce back and get back on the podium in the league, the Mancunians absolutely needed victory and Pep Guardiola was trying several strong choices in his eleven with the starts of Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov in central hinge and Kevin de Bruyne back in the eleven. For her part, Arne Slot was doing in the classic but nevertheless decided to trust Curtis Jones in a position of false number 9.
Man City
0
Liverpool
2
14 '
Mohamed Salah
37 '
D. Szoboszlai
finished
However, the start of the match will clearly have been to the advantage of the Reds. Faced with Skyblues who had control of the ball and who had some interesting inspirations, the Scousers were content to stay in place and prick against it. A strategy that has hit the bull's eye in the 14th minute of play. Graking a corner after a quick attack, the teammates of Mohamed Salah finely played this corner kick at the end of which Mohamed Salah had only to crucify Ederson At the penalty point (1-0, 14th). Launched in this meeting, the players in red clearly put more enthusiasm to recover the ball and were the most effective in the offensive phase. Inevitably, faced with still mild Cityzens, that does not forgive. Especially with a Mohamed Salah in the form of his life. Making a ordeal to live in Nathan Ake and Josko Gvardiol, the Egyptian was still at the origin of the second goal of Liverpool. Playing his defender, the number 11 of the Reds served Szoboszlai behind. From the left foot, the Hungarian took Ederson back and allowed his family to return to the locker room with an advantage of two goals more than deserved on the display board.
Liverpool has mastered a Timoré City
Upon returning from the locker room, the balance of power was not reversed. Faced with particularly in place Reds, the Skyblues displayed a far too amorphous face to make the difference and the Mancunian honor baroud will have been nonexistent. Little inspired offensively in the image of a Bruyne physically overwhelmed by his opponents, the flocks of Pep Guardiola were defensively exposed and Curtis Jones thought to score the third goal of his Liverpool before the referee of the meeting cools his Ardors for a justified offside position (58th).
Despite attempts by Marmoush (60th) and Rico Lewis (75th), City did not find the solution in the face of a particularly concerned Liverpuldian defense like an Ibrahima Konaté Imperial. Quietly managing the end of the meeting, Liverpool was not worried and therefore offered a precious success by turning off a off-topic city this Sunday. With this victory, Liverpool temporarily resumes eleven lengths ahead of Arsenal at the top of the ranking. For its part, the Skyblues are missing the mark and remain fourth.
