Despite a generally controlled and dominated match, Manchester City conceded a draw against Liverpool this Saturday.
As usual, Manchester City And Liverpool clashed this Saturday in a clash between the leader and his runner-up. Despite the absence of Kevin De Bruyne since the start of the season, it is the Cityzens who occupy the leadership chair with one point ahead of the Reds and Arsenal. On their pitch, Pep Guardiola’s men quickly get their hands on the ball and show off their technical and collective accuracy.
Haaland in record mode
Despite a fairly high pace, chances were rare at the start of the match with a header on target from Darwin Nunez and a strike from Phil Foden as the only opportunities in the first 25 minutes. But as always, it doesn’t take much to Erling Haaland to find the fault. A risky restart from Alisson, a nice number from Nathan Aké and the Norwegian opens the scoring with a cross shot from the left (1-0, 27th). This new achievement allows City number 9 to break a new record by becoming the fastest player to score 50 goals in the Premier League (in 48 matches).
Erling Haaland’s 50th Premier League goal blows up the Etihad Stadium 🤖
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Above technically, the Skyblues delight and take advantage of the scores of Ederson, Haaland and Bernardo Silva to lead into the break without having been worried. In the second half, the Mancunians were still in a good position tactically and gave up very little space to their opponents, whose situations alone had little chance of worrying Ederson. Haaland is even close to the double after enormous work from Doku on the left but Ederson saves his team. A decisive stop since, on the counter-attack, Trent Alexander-Arnold deceives Ederson with a shot on target from the right and allows his team to equalize (1-1, 80th).
Despite their overall domination of the match, the Cityzens conceded their first home draw of the season and even of the year 2023. A bad operation for both teams since in the event of a victory at Brentford this Saturday, Arsenal will take the lead in the championship, Tottenham can also return to City level.
