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Sunday, the leader of the English championship, Liverpool, inflicted a clear defeat to defending champion Manchester City (3-1). Egyptian Mohamed Salah and Senegalese Sadio Mané participated in the celebration with one goal each. The Reds prance at the top of the championship and hit a big shot against the Skyblues.
Anyone who knows Liverpool's league legacy will keep their feet on the ground. At almost a third of the 2019-2020 season, Jürgen Klopp's men are leading the race, but there are still too many games to claim victory. However, the performance performed Sunday, November 10 necessarily brings hope in Merseyside. Manchester City, the defending champion, so strong last season to keep first place all the way down for just one point, has taken the lead against Liverpool in the 12th round (3-1).
Salah untenable at Anfield Road
Deprived of his usual goalkeeper Ederson, touched earlier in the week in the Champions League, as well as Aymeric Laporte, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Leroy Sané, long wounded, City quickly took the water at Anfield Road . Strangely left free by the Mancunian defense, Fabinho opened the scoring of a distant dry shot (6th).
A first goal very quickly followed by a second, signed Mohamed Salah . The Egyptian, right-aligned in the famous trident that he forms in attack with Sadio Mané and Roberto Firmino, found himself at the reception of a long center of Andrew Robertson and well placed his head to beat Claudio Bravo (13th). The Anfield stadium is the Pharaoh's jardon: on this lawn, in 44 league matches, he scored 38 goals and 14 assists.
Mane strong head
Salah and Mané are not particularly big players - 1.75m each - but this is not an absolute necessity to score. After the Egyptian, the Senegalese did the same, in the second period this time. It only takes a good center, a good investment, a good relaxation, a mistake of defense ... Everything was gathered on this action of the 51st minute.
The rearguard of the Cityzens, too wait-and-see, let Jordan Henderson overflow right side and center. Claudio Bravo misjudged the trajectory and could not go out to grab the leather. John Stones and Kyle Walker, the absent subscribers, did not intervene. It's far too many gifts offered to Sadio Mané, well placed at the far post to place a victorious header and deliver his team (51). A goal also in response to Pep Guardiola, the Manchester City coach, who criticized the finals of the CAN 2019 to have a tendency to dive for penalties ... The Lion, candidate for the Golden Ball, now has 11 goals and 5 assists in 17 matches in all competitions since the start of the season.
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Liverpool flies away
Manchester City pressed hard to resurface, only Bernardo Silva managed to reduce the gap (78th) and slightly mitigate the bitter taste of this defeat. In the standings, however, the difference is clear: Liverpool, with 11 wins and one defeat, widens the gap at the top (34 points) and relegates the Skyblues to fourth place (25 points). Leicester and Chelsea race behind the Reds on the podium (26 points each).
Liverpool is in full swing towards its goal: to win a first title in the league since 1990. The accounts of November are good, but those of May will be the most important.