Manchester City Y Liverpool tied (2-2) and the Premier League still alive with Pep Guardiola one point above Jürgen Klopp and seven days ahead for the Spanish coach to retain the title or for the German to take the crown from him.
The classic of the last four years, the successor to the Real Madrid-Barcelona as the best match, it did not disappoint since the ball began to roll, but, despite glimpsing a City overwhelming, superior and owner of the 90 minutes, the Liverpool came out alive And with her Premier.
Without even time to catch his breath, the City taught muscle. Raheem Sterling missed a heads up in front of Alisson. Gabriel Jesus He served him the perfect ball, but it was done to the Englishman at night in front of the goalkeeper. A failure that there was no time to even think about it. Seconds later, Kevin de Bruyne took the ball in three quarters, dribbled to Fabinho and finished off, with the fortune that he played in Matip and the ball overtook Alisson.
The City he struck first with crushing pace, but the lead lasted seven minutes. With Thiago decongesting balls in the middle, Andy Robertson crossed the ball into the area, Alexander-Arnold accommodated her and Diogo Jota tied the match.
The Liverpool seemed ready for battle, but after a ‘heart attack’ that caused Edersonplaying with the ball on the goal line, the City He was the one who ruled. The pressure from the Celestes was unbearable for the team from clop, who was completely out of place on defense. They circled those of Guardiola the second with a shot at the half turn of De Bruyne that grazed a pole and with a shot from Cancel to the side of the net.
It had to be the Portuguese side, in his role as passer, who generated the 2-1 with a center behind the defense in which Alexander-Arnold missed the mark Gabriel Jesus. The Brazilian entered alone at the far post and lifted the ball over Alisson.
The City I had one more gear, I was breaking up the Liverpool, a team that had ten wins in a row until this Saturday. A team that doesn’t need anything to score. The referee blew the whistle at the start of the second half and after 50 seconds Salah saw a gap between the central defenders and filtered the ball so that mane define in front of Ederson.
Al City This goal caught him off guard, hoping that the game would turn, from 2-1, into a landslide, as happened in 2021 (1-4) and 2020 (4-0). the goal of mane served as a warning. The City was better, but with little Reds they could break the bank.
As the minutes passed, the City he saw that the tie was not bad and allowed him to keep the advantage of one point and that the league was decided by third parties. He was able to get much closer to her, in a goal from Sterling that invalidated the VAR, in a fault to a stick of Mahrez in added time and in a Vaseline from the Algerian in the last second, but the 2-2 was definitive.
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