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.
Doku finished the Bournemouth game with 1 goal and 4 assists.
All the flair with none of the end product.
The absolute disrespect on the Wilf
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.
Perfect result for us provided we win tonight.
Puttting this game after the international break on a 12:30 ko is fucking criminal. Both teams far from their best
12/15 successful dribbles by doku against liverpool 😯
Against TAA actually
City won on successful dribbles
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 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.
Unironically hilarious
City and no subs? Are you talking about the subreddit perhaps?
2/8 of the bench was goalkeepers??
Lucky result for Liverpool. Incredible how Allison poor distribution didn’t cost us.
Unlucky depending on how you view that mistake influencing the match.
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.
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.
Pretty dull match but fair result for both. Both teams played quite defensive instead of going for goals.
Happily take a draw poor game from most of our players so flat upfront today and an uncharacteristic poor performance from Ali
He always has a mare against city
A draw at the Etihad is always a good result
Unless you’re Man City
Stones > Dias
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.
Title there for the taking? Will be lucky to finish in the top 4
We’ll be telling our grandkids about those eight games.
Spurs were never going to win the title. Anybody who thought they would was just lying to themselves.
The title was there for the taking for Spurs but alas injuries happened
lol
👋
Or, you just shouldn’t based your opinion on one game, especially a 12:30 kick. A 9 men looked superior to Spurs not so long ago.
It’s because you have bad squad depth. Which is your own fault.
Lol the belief in your squad went quick
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.
Prems at a crossroads. They are either gonna have to punish City and Chelsea or breakaway will happen.
Why should most of the teams have to watch City cheat their way to success?
Just leave make a new one just like the prem did from league one back in the day.
I think two City players didn’t play at all??
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
Can’t double up on everyone as the other attackers are also immense.
Trent and Matip handled him well though tbf.
Gave him the corner and he took it, but they took away his outlet (Silva). Typical too many touches player. He’ll learn though.