Race report and 4 talk points as reds put one hand in the Premier League trophy

Liverpool is 11 points at the top of the Premier League table after winning Manchester City 2-0 in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon.

Mohamed Salah and Dominik Szoboszlai each in the first half, while the city failed to concern visitors from MerseySide despite the dominance of occupation and shooting.

The city is so far away from the pace – a full 20 points – just the next season’s Champions League qualifiers is the real challenge for the rest of the season.

How did the game unfold

It was a Cagey start to the competition, and the two sides tried to win a place. Early attacks showed an initial promise, exhausting before becoming a real threat to each end.

Alisson dealt with a few simple corners of the city, with a whole, then doing the damage for Liverpool. The low delivery of Alexis Mac Allister in the nearby post initially looked like a loss, but immediately it became clear that it was a deliberate pass to Szoboszlai. His move behind him found Salah, whose strike in the middle of the box benefited from a useful deformation after Ederson.

The goal did not really serve to ignite the competition. Alisson conveniently gathered the efforts that were hit out of the box by Omar Marmoush and Phil Foden. Marmoush then had the ball in the net, a minute’s low finish to the Liverpool goalkeeper, but it was clearly offside and the flag climbed.

The Reds played perfectly and then built in their first half. It was another simple but well -executed move, with Salah lagging on a long ball forward to the right. He led to a dangerous position and then a square for a non -marked Szoboszlai to blow up.

Liverpool were happy to let the city control the ball with the knowledge that the chances would come to the counterattack. In this respect, the hosts put several attacks in the early stages of the second half without equal to much, before visitors had the ball on the net for the third time. Curtis Jones applied the finish, but VAR intervened after catching the Szoboszlai offside in accumulation.

City He responded to this suspension with Alisson’s intention in action, refusing Marmoush, and soon followed by a spectacular Ederson from a Luis Diaz Curler. Virgil Van Dijk had to be alert to deliver a cut to a plate for Marmoush, Rico Lewis shot the recovery to the side net.

With the city still pushing to return to the game, the favorite Wateru Endo was introduced for the last 17 minutes plus the interruption time to lock things in the middle section, with the left position also freshly cut between Andrew Robertson starting to be hit by Savinho.

Liverpool have reduced the points twice in recent weeks against Everton and Aston Villa, which could have been the opportunity that the hunting package had to close the gap.

But Arsenal’s struggles, Chelsea and Manchester City collapse, and the recent inconsistency of the Nottingham Forest, means that it has not happened.

Liverpool played a game more than the rest, with a swelling villa to avoid the need to cover the difference due to the next month’s Carabao Cup final, but only a dramatic and unpredictable collapse could now.

This would be the number 20 in total, moving the level of Reds with MANESTER UNITED English records, who do not seem to move at 21 at any time soon.

Mohamed Salah now scored 30 goals at a season for the fifth time as a Liverpool playerhaving only the club for eight. It is a remarkable consequence at the highest level, especially by someone who had previously been deleted as a Flop of the Premier League in Chelsea.

With 241 Liverpool targets in his name as a total of 2017, Salah It is now a common third with Gordon Hodgson on the list of all time in the club. Only Roger Hunt (285) and Ian Rush (346) have now come more frequently in Liverpool’s history. The Rush’s record is probably safe, but Salah could probably run on the hunt by the end of next season – if a new contract can agree.

Salah’s pass for Dominik Szoboszlai got the Premier League assistant for the season at 16. This is only four shy from the 20th era recorded by Thierry Henry and Kevin de Bruyne. The Egyptian king of Liverpool needs five more assists in 11 remaining games to break it and, in current form, it is difficult to believe that will not happen.

Erling Haaland was missing again from city order After the hit last weekend, he didn’t even make the bench this time over the lack of race capacity.

The city has no other “number of nine” aggressive, with January signing Omar Marmoush doing his best work as an interior forward in the left channel.

For this reason, Phil Foden was pushed forward as “fake nine”, with Marmoussh slightly deeper and allowed freedom to pull to the left where they are more comfortable.

There is no other haaland and the city does not have a focal point when it does not play. Changing the system was the only way to do it and did not give the result.

The average age of the original XI of Pep Guardiola was 25 years and 68 days, the common younger side he has ever named in a Premier League game. This is even with Kevin de Bruyne (33), Ederson (31) to drag it.

The new generation of the city is not as polished as veterans who have delivered four consecutive Premier League titles. Jeremy Doku could have had Trent Alexander-Arnold for breakfast here, easily dribble beyond Liverpool’s full-time at will, but did not have the final third decisions. Savinho is on a similar boat and 20 -year -old Abdukodir Khusanov is not ready to fly to the deep end.

De Bruyne arrives at the end of the city. The Belgian has served the club incredibly, but stayed outside the original Xi against Real Madrid in the middle of the week and was the first Pep Guardiola player withdrew when there was still enough time to do something.

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