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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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”.
Who gives a shit anout some made ip rating that over values dribbles. 70% of the time he got the ball he blasted it to the first defender or dribbled out the goal line for a goal kick lmao
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.
All the flair with none of the end product.
Doku finished the Bournemouth game with 1 goal and 4 assists.
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 did manage it a few times, City’s players just couldn’t put it in the back of the net (partly do to bad finishing and partly due to Liverpool players blocking shots).
There is a reason he got MOTM from Opta without having scored or assisted.
The absolute disrespect on the Wilf
Hard to see Grealish playing ahead of Doku now, he’s improving with every game imo
12/15 successful dribbles by doku against liverpool 😯
City won on successful dribbles
Against TAA actually
0/12 times he did something successful with the ball afterwards though.
He’s absolutely terrifying 1:1 but his final ball leaves a lot to be desired
his crosses and cutbacks into the box were very dangerous, is teammates just couldnt capitalize.
“Dangerous” is subjective, firing a ball into an already crowded box rarely results in a goal, even if it seems excitinf
We broke their winning streak though
Hmm I did not create any chaos today. Better randomly go shit on their manager. Just because.
Reckon that happened unprovoked aye?
In a way he created chaos…off the pitch
I’m hearing that he did it because pep was asking about the goal to Kostas last season on Liverpool’s 1-4 defeat. So Darwin was asking pep about the goal TAA scored - so funny if true.
People are so desperate for a narrative on the Doku Trent battle when in truth Trent was fine and Doku made a few nice twist and turns without much end product.
Bore off.
We are so wasteful its ridiculous. Shit performances all around and we got no subs. In January transfer window, we need someone that is at least one tailnaol worth of KDB.
City and no subs? Are you talking about the subreddit perhaps?
2/8 of the bench was goalkeepers??
Unironically hilarious
Lucky result for Liverpool. Incredible how Allison poor distribution didn’t cost us.
Unlucky depending on how you view that mistake influencing the match.
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
Klopp said they had one session, can’t imagine City were any different.
For once the ref wasn’t the talking point of the game. How refreshing
Don’t speak too soon we’re about to play brentford again
Pep made no subs. Why not give someone like Kalvin Philips a chance?
because we weren’t up 4 nil, he may have gotten a cameo if that was the case lol
He’s not good enough.
All the Arsenal fans getting way too excited by this result. There’s a LONG way to go and if your living off other teams results this early then you’re going to be bags of nerves come the last 10 games
Cmon I think we can unite with arsenal fans in our enjoyment of city dropping points
Lots of Liverpool fans getting too excited and already talking about the return match at Anfield too as if they’ll magically win because of how things played out today. Arsenal fans should be happy that the teams in front of them dropped points.
We are much better against City at home, I believe the one time they have beaten us at home in the league since Klopp has been here was without fans at stadiums
But it hasn’t stopped them from winning the league. My point is teams have to start taking the three points from them at the etihad if you’re gonna want to win the league.
You just drew eith your biggest title rivals and all you can think about is arsenal fans? Something something rent free
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.
It’s a system thing, Alvarez and Foden usually play on opposite sides of midfield. Pep prefers a left footer on the left of midfield and vice versa, the problem is when City move to their 442 shape in defence neither Alvarez nor Foden can play alongside Rodri so Bernardo has to play.
If Alvarez gets dropped it means Lewis or Nunes can play on the right of midfield, Foden plays on the left of midfield and Bernardo can play RW. In the Leipzig game we saw exactly this and it was probably City’s best performance all season.
Alvarez was absolutely woeful all game. Complete luxury player who ended at least three City attacks
That incredible run from Doku for Alvarez to totally fluff it was painful
Pretty dull match but fair result for both. Both teams played quite defensive instead of going for goals.