Manchester City heightened the intensity of their Premier League title challenge with an emphatic 4-1 victory over a rather lackluster Liverpool on Sunday, as Pep Guardiola’s men, with a game in hand, increased their lead to 5 points ahead of second-place Manchester United and ten ahead of Liverpool, the defending Champion who are sitting uncomfortably at fourth.
It didn’t start all rosy for the Citizens as Ilkay Gundogan’s missed a first-half penalty, which could have put his team ahead into the break.
But that didn’t any dampen his spirit as he made up for the error four minutes after the break to put the visitors in front eventually.
Unlike Gundogan, Mohamed Salah made no mistakes from the spot just after the hour mark to level things for the Reds.
Liverpool looked like they were on the verge of taking something from the game until Alisson lost his spark and got punished for his errors first in the 73 minutes when Phil Foden set up Gundogan for his second
Three minutes later, the Brazil keeper inexplicably sent a pass straight to Bernardo Silva, whose cross was headed into the back of the net by Raheem Sterling.
Phil Foden summer things up with an absolute stunner in the 83rd minute as
City’s recorded their first win at Anfield since 2003 and Pep Guardiola’s first away to Liverpool as a manager,
With the result, Liverpool is the first to lose three straight home league matches in the next campaign after winning the English top-flight since Chelsea did so almost 65 years ago, back in March 1956.
For their next task and shot at redemption, Liverpool visits third-placed Leicester City in the Premier League on Saturday. While, Manchester City will travel to Championship side Swansea City in the FA Cup fifth round on Wednesday, then host Tottenham Hotspur in the league on Saturday.
EPL RESULTS, SUNDAY 7TH FEBRUARY 2021
Tottenham 2 – 0 West Brom
Wolves 0 – 0 Leicester
Liverpool 1 – 4 Man City
Sheff Utd 1 – 2 Chelsea
