Mohamed Salah ended Manchester City’s unbeaten begin to the season together with his second-half objective securing a 1-0 win for Liverpool in opposition to the defending Premier League champion on Sunday.
On a dramatic day at Anfield, Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp was despatched off for furiously working out of his technical space, whereas City coach Pep Guardiola angrily remonstrated with the house followers after seeing Phil Foden’s objective dominated out by VAR.
Salah — who scored the quickest Champions League hat trick in historical past in opposition to Rangers on Wednesday — supplied the decisive second within the 76th minute after Alisson’s intelligent lengthy clearance landed straight at his toes.
Racing clear, Salah swept a shot previous Ederson to fireplace Liverpool forward.
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Just minutes earlier, the ahead thought he was about to be substituted when his quantity was erroneously raised as Klopp ready to make modifications.
Defeat for City leaves Guardiola’s workforce 4 factors behind chief Arsenal, which received 1-0 at Leeds earlier within the day.
Victory offers hope for Liverpool that it could actually recuperate from an unconvincing begin to the season, which left it 13 factors adrift of City earlier than kickoff.
Despite Liverpool’s struggles up to now this time period, this nonetheless felt like a gathering of the Premier League’s elite after the 2 groups’ dominance in recent times.
That was underlined by a fair first half, with each having probabilities to take the lead.
Andy Robertson fired Liverpool’s finest probability over, whereas Erling Haaland compelled two saves from Alisson and might need carried out higher with at the least one shut vary header.
The recreation burst into life after the interval when Salah raced via on objective and regarded sure to attain.
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But the Egyptian’s effort went broad of the submit, with replays later exhibiting Ederson had supplied an important contact.
That went unnoticed by the officers and City restarted the play with a objective kick, from which Foden ultimately discovered the again of the web.
With the visiting followers rejoicing, VAR invited referee Anthony Taylor to evaluate the incident on the pitch-side monitor.
Walking previous a livid Guardiola, who remonstrated wildly, Taylor dominated the objective out for a foul on Fabinho within the buildup.
City’s supervisor was livid, repeatedly turning to the Anfield followers behind the dugout to gesticulate.
The crowd delighted in his anger and erupted shortly after when Salah fired Liverpool in entrance.
When Alisson collected an inaccurate free kick from Kevin de Bruyne, the goalkeeper then launched a kick downfield to completely pick his teammate.
This time Salah made no mistake together with his end.
There was nonetheless time for extra drama when Klopp raced out of his technical space to enchantment a choice, resulting in him receiving a pink card.
Substitute Darwin Nunez may also have doubled Liverpool’s lead when making a multitude of a late probability with solely Ederson to beat.
