Liverpool move nine points clear at top after heaping more misery on Man City

Liverpool moved nine points clear at the top of the Premier League after a potentially season-defining 2-0 victory. Over a Manchester City side in disarray.

That Pep Guardiola’s team are now 11 points adrift Man City in fifth after a seventh match without victory says everything. About the club’s current crisis which show no signs of ending at Anfield, where they have won on only one of the last 22 league visits.

City have now lost four league games in a row in the same campaign for the first time since 2007.

Arsenal are the closest challengers but ยูฟ่าเบท even they have work to do. After Arne Slot’s side won an 18th match out of 20 this term with a degree of comfort.

Cody Gakpo’s 12th-minute strike was all the hosts had for an opening barrage. It needed Mohamed Salah’s late penalty – the sixth successive league match. Which he has scored and his sixth goal in eight appearances against City to secure the points.

Only then could the Kop relax, following ‘Liverpool top of the league’ by directing ‘Sacked in the morning’ at Guardiola.

Who responded by holding up six fingers, one for each Premier League title he has won.

Another 80-yard Alexander-Arnold pass sent Man City Salah racing away with Nathan Ake only just managing to nick the ball away for a corner, from which Van Dijk inexcusably powered a free header wide.

The Liverpool captain was more effective on the edge of his own penalty area, blocking Erling Haaland’s first sniff of a chance, and such was the home side’s dominance they almost became over-confident with Alexander-Arnold letting fly from 25 yards much to the annoyance of Salah who was waiting for the short pass.