PREMIER LEAGUE : LIVERPOOL VS MANCHESTER CITY – 08/02/2026 (PHOTO – ERLING HAALAND CELEBRATES)

WHAT A THRILLER OF A MATCH THIS WAS LAST NIGHT!  JUST AS YOU WOULD EXPECT FROM TWO SUCH QUALITY TEAMS!  MAN CITY MADE 421 PASSES, WITH AN 84% PASS ACCURACY, HAD 4 CORNERS, AND 16 SHOTS, WITH 7 ON-TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNER FROM BERNARDO SILVA AT 84 MINS., AND ANOTHER BEAUTY FROM ERLING HAALAND FROM A PENALTY AT 90 +3 MINS! LIVERPOOL MADE 342 PASSES, WITH AN 83% PASS ACCURACY,  HAD 5 CORNERS, AND 15 SHOTS WITH 3 ON-TARGET, INCLUDING A CRACKER FROM DOMINIC SZOBOSZLAI AT 74 MINS! AND THERE COULD HAVE BEEN ANOTHER GOAL LATE IN THE MATCH, WHEN THE BALL REACHED-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET FOLLOWING SOME COMPLICATED SHIRT-PULLING SHENANIGANS BETWEEN HAALAND AND SZOBOSZLAI AT 90 +13 MINS., WHICH INITIALLY RESULTED IN ANOTHER GOAL FOR MAN CITY, BUT AFTER VAR INTERVENED, THE REF OVERTURNED HIS ORIGINAL DECISION OF A GOAL TO MAN CITY, (EXPLAINED BELOW) MEANING THAT THIS EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT MATCH ENDED IN A 2 – 1 WIN TO MAN CITY!

PREMIER LEAGUE : LIVERPOOL VS MANCHESTER CITY – 08/02/2026

ERLING HAALAND AND BERNARDO SILVA SPEAK AFTER THE MATCH SAYING “THE HOPE IS THERE”

PEP GUARDIOLA WAS DELIGHTED AFTER THE MATCH!

JURGEN KLOPP WAS FUMING AFTER LIVERPOOL LOST TO MAN CITY! 😒 

ARNE SLOT GIVES HIS THOUGHTS ON THE MATCH

WITH MANY STILL SCRATCHING THEIR HEADS ABOUT THE SHIRT-PULLING ARGEY-BARGEY, AND OVERTURNING OF MAN CITY GOAL, AND CONSEQUENT RED CARD FOR SZOBOSZLAI AT THE END OF THE MATCH – HERE IS REF DERMOT TO EXPLAIN!

WORDS BY AMANDA WATERS