Match Thread: Manchester City vs Liverpool | English Premier League
#FT: Manchester City 1-1 Liverpool
Venue: Etihad Stadium
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Manchester City
Ederson, Rúben Dias, Nathan Aké, Kyle Walker, Manuel Akanji, Rodri, Jérémy Doku, Phil Foden, Erling Haaland, Bernardo Silva, Julián Álvarez.
Subs: Scott Carson, John Stones, Josko Gvardiol, Kalvin Phillips, Rico Lewis, Stefan Ortega, Oscar Bobb, Sergio Gómez.
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Liverpool
Alisson Becker, Virgil van Dijk, Joël Matip, Kostas Tsimikas, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Alexis Mac Allister (Wataru Endo), Curtis Jones (Ryan Gravenberch), Dominik Szoboszlai (Cody Gakpo), Darwin Núñez (Harvey Elliott), Diogo Jota (Luis Díaz), Mohamed Salah.
Subs: Caoimhin Kelleher, Joe Gomez, Ibrahima Konaté, Jarell Quansah.
MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN
27’ Goal! Manchester City 1, Liverpool 0. Erling Haaland (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nathan Aké.
54’ Substitution, Liverpool. Luis Díaz replaces Diogo Jota because of an injury.
54’ Substitution, Liverpool. Ryan Gravenberch replaces Curtis Jones.
73’ Substitution, Liverpool. Cody Gakpo replaces Dominik Szoboszlai.
75’ Darwin Núñez (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
80’ Goal! Manchester City 1, Liverpool 1. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.
85’ Substitution, Liverpool. Harvey Elliott replaces Darwin Núñez.
85’ Substitution, Liverpool. Wataru Endo replaces Alexis Mac Allister.
86’ Joël Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
89’ Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card.
90’+3’ Wataru Endo (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
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Happily take a draw poor game from most of our players so flat upfront today and an uncharacteristic poor performance from Ali
Doku is insanely good
Why are 12 30 games a little less energetic? Just because it’s earlier people are a bit less awake?
Something to do with it generally but this was off the back of internationals so half of them will have played a lot of football, travelled for a full day and are jet lagged
This game told me one thing -
The title was there for the taking for Spurs but alas injuries happened. Nobody comes close to pre-injury Spurs with the style and effectiveness that Spurs played with.
Such a shame really.
I am sure you could have found another way to “spurs” it up.
Spurs were never going to win the title. Anybody who thought they would was just lying to themselves.
We’ll be telling our grandkids about those eight games.
Title there for the taking? Will be lucky to finish in the top 4
If you want the best product possible you don’t put one of the biggest games of the season on at 12:30 after an international break.
We looked tired today; it’s almost like half our players just flew in a couple of days ago (conveniently a bunch of City players got a nice little holiday after faking injuries).
Premier League played themselves.
Glad we secured a point here as many of our players looked tired and we can absolutely win at Anfield with a better time slot and the crowd.
This game was a prime example of why you shouldn’t have the biggest fixtures of the season at fucking 12:30 in the afternoon. Both sides looked very slow and tired. If this was played at 17:30 it would have been a way better game.
i dont get this, what difference does a few hrs really make?
1230 means they wake up waaay earlier to prepare
terrible excuse, PL has been dogshit this season
Probably the worst take I’ve seen this season
I don’t agree with his take but you seriously haven’t seen a lot of that’s the worst one
For once the ref wasn’t the talking point of the game. How refreshing
Why are so many people complaining about City players “faking” international duty injuries. I thought this sub collectively agreed that players are being played way too many games. Why tf do you care if they skip a friendly all of a sudden
funny thing everyones like haaland could have helped his country qualify, cos of the playoff system he couldn’t affect shit in any way
Dribbled past 7 times and MotM is insane
Do you think Klopp asked Trent to try and stop Doku from dribbling past him? Or do you think they realised that wouldn’t be a great strategy, so accept you can’t stop him and let him dribble and force him into positions where he can’t produce a top scoring opportunity?
Just wondering what the top managerial minds of Reddit think about defensive tactics. Might be able to teach Klopp a thing or two.
Alvarez was absolutely woeful all game. Complete luxury player who ended at least three City attacks
Not sure what game some people watched but Doku did fuck all. If sprinting into space and dribbling the ball out for a goal kick or smashing it into the first defender is a world class performance then wilfred zaha is the best winger in the world
Yeah, get the highest match rating of any player from Opta by doing “fuck all”.
Still made me worry every time he got the ball. People are saying no end product but all it takes is one well delivered ball to the box and they’ve got enough people who can finish. Luckily he couldn’t manage that today
He’s going to be a better player but the praise for this performance reminds me a lot of Adama Traore’s early Wolves days. He was absolutely unplayable and a menace every time he stepped on the pitch, and finished the season with 1 goal and 3 assists.
Doku is a monster 1v1, so how come there were so many instances (especially at the end) where Liverpool allowed City players time to ping him diagonally? That didn’t make sense to me
A draw at the Etihad is always a good result
I used to be so afraid of Phil Foden, but… honestly it feels like he’s regressed a bit.
He wants to play central but Alverez took his spot. Grealish and Doku start over him wide, so he probably feels threatened.
Liverpool got fucking lucky. Loved how Liverpool fans were hyping their players scoring against trash teams during the break, lol.