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Stuart Jenkinson will get in contact: “…Metropolis get relegated when the ‘judgment’ is available in and their outcomes expunged, then Liverpool are solely 9 factors clear and….ah, okay, as you had been.”
Sam Trenery: “A drunk Arsenal fan on the practice through the week tried to inform me we (Liverpool) haven’t truly been good this season and that we’d collapse within the subsequent few weeks. I’ve been pondering of him and smiling this weekend (Me? Petty? By no means). In all seriousness, a completely big weekend and end result for us. YNWA”
Andy Mycock will get in contact and provides one other view, the Metropolis view: “Clearly simpler to make assumptions about this recreation (as a number of folks commenting in your commentary are) if you find yourself not at it however Liverpool have been comparatively poor in the present day.
“A good crew would have executed a correct job on us. Metropolis attention-grabbing as they’re crew in transition however a number of positives to take from recreation. Didn’t hand over and performed sone good soccer in patches. It’s all about subsequent season. Liverpool are one season wonders. Will go away it to your TV warriors to speak crap although. Like to the household and so on Andy x”
Cheers, Andy.
Assume everyone knows the reply to this. Merely untouchable.
Rupak doesn’t maintain again: “As a Liverpool fan, I have to say that seeing Haaland sitting with that dejected look on his face, seeing the Etihad changing into emptyhad and finishing League double over Metropolis after 15 years feels greater than being over the moon. We confirmed our type of December once we beat Actual and Metropolis in a single week. Let’s hope this ruthlessness continues for yet one more month, then the celebrations can start. Who can cease us now? “
Alex provides: “Nonetheless, they did play in opposition to one another as soon as that season when Chelsea confronted Basel, with Salah scoring and KdB a later substitute:”
Ben Chia will get in contact: “To reply Steve Hudson’s query, Salah and De Bruyne truly missed one another by a matter of days at Chelsea. The Belgian left Chelsea for Wolfsburg on 18 January 2014. The Egyptian accomplished his switch to Chelsea on 26 January 2014.”
There’s the Premier League desk.
Full-time: Manchester Metropolis 0-2 Liverpool
Metropolis gave as a lot as they’d. It wasn’t sufficient. Arne Slot had an excessive amount of in hand over Pep Guardiola. Mohamed Salah needed to verify the job was executed; and he did so, a purpose and help opening up a lead of 11 factors. Metropolis should scrabble for prime 5 after a day when the necessity for a rebuild was made plain. Liverpool have 11 video games to see out, seven at Anfield.
90+4 min: “We’re gonna win the league,” sing the Liverpool followers. This was the weekend when that grew to become a fait accompli.
90+2 min: Metropolis hold probing, However the possession has been sterile. Within the stands, we see Erling Haaland, trying dissatisfied. Might be a protracted 9 years forward.
90 min: 4 minutes are added on as Salah takes his go away. Harvey Elliot comes on.
89 min: Doku once more. He’s stored Trent Alexander-Arnold sincere all day however Endo involves the rescue. Trent appears cream-crackered. Salah, who’s been all over the place, appears recent as a daisy.
87 min: Doku is denied as makes his newest incursion. He’s stored at it.
85 min: Gene Salorio is again: “Metropolis appear static, all passes going to gamers simply stood there quite than on the transfer. And none to the empty areas the place magically a participant seems on the run to take the ball. Metropolis had been the very best on the latter, now?”
Marty in Denmark: “It’s rather a lot (of cash) to stroll away from however don’t be stunned if Pep ‘shocks the world’ and broadcasts his departure from Man Metropolis as soon as the season ends – regardless of the not too long ago signed 2 12 months deal…my prediction, anyway….”
Hasan: “Don’t get me fallacious, I totally perceive the waves of sympathy for de Bruyne’s plight, however I received’t be unhappy to see the again of him – he offers me the willies. Haaland at all times get painted because the meat coated cyborg, however for me it’s the Belgian who has the eerily useless eyes of a metallic mom trucker. I doubt he’ll ever retire, he’ll simply be quietly decommissioned and changed with an improve whose arms can morph into knives. “
Oh, thanks, Hasan.
84 min: Metropolis followers plead for handball after Alisson handles from Tsimikas’s mistake. No method was {that a} back-pass. Small crumbs now for Metropolis’s assist. Time to recall the nice instances.
83 min: Szoboszlai denied by the sliding Khusanov after one other good go by Mohamed Salah. The Uzbek has been the decide of Metropolis’s defenders.
82 min: Metropolis’s reinforcements are nonetheless piling onwards however quite haplessly. They’ve been picked off by a crew way more in live performance with one another.
80 min: Quiz query from Steve Hudson: Did Salah and De Bruyne play collectively at Chelsea?
79 min: Extra modifications: Gakpo on for Diaz for Liverpool. Not a lot time for anybody to make an extra impression.
77 min: Three modifications made by a really moist Guardiola: Marmoush for Gundogan, Ake for Dias and Gonzales for Kovacic. The brand new Rodri struggled in the present day,
75 min: An trade of photographs: Marmoush slides into the side-netting then Salah shoots. Neither bother the opposing keeper.
73 min: Modifications: Tsimikas for Robertson, Jones for Endo. The Japanese participant is the nearer. Can Metropolis rating in a crew the place Endo has come on as a sub? No one has executed so but.
71 min: A lot noise from the Liverpool followers. The house finish emptying.
70 min: Metropolis have been filled with effort, and filled with possession, however with nothing just like the penetration. Doku has the most recent try, the ball spinning up and making it exhausting to get any buy on the shot.
68 min: By the way in which, Kevin De Bruyne’s painful race is run. James McAtee has changed him. That was unhappy to see.
67 min: Doku is fouled. The ball is zipped in direction of Marmoush and – simply – cleared. Then, Diaz shields the ball from 4 Metropolis defenders.
65 min: Ian Magilton: “Re: minute 60, isn’t Salah older than De Bruyne?
Reply: no.
64 min: Mac Allister zings in a nook, and it’s cleared. De Bruyne wins the ball in midfield, decided to indicate it’s not but over. There will likely be new champions if it stays like this.
62 min: Kristof will get in contact: “Concerning Metropolis´s distinctive crumbling, has anybody but come out with the speculation that the gamers possibly simply actually resent Pep? They famously dipped in kind as soon as he signed his new contract extension, and I may completely see the dressing room be like “Shit, he STAYIN?!”. JUST A THEORY!”
Andy Flintoff: “One hyperlink from that Bournemouth recreation and in the present day is that Nathan Aké (who scored the stoppage-time winner in 2016) is in Metropolis’s again line this afternoon.”
Possibly, simply possibly?
61 min: Liverpool need a third. Salah is buzzing all over. He desires this executed, so he can get the contract he desires. Maybe that’s a little bit of projection however a lot to be determined past the pitch on the membership.
60 min: As Salah glides and glitters, poor KDB slips and slides and concedes a nook. Poor Kev. Age and nature are the cruellest.
59 min: Liverpool had been celebrating as if the title was received, however now must proper themselves.
58 min: Metropolis – reprieved – virtually rating instantly as Doku and Marmoush threaten. The ball is cleared. It virtually grew to become 1-2 from 3-0 down.
Liverpool purpose chalked off by VAR
However…Szoboszlai despatched away, and Jones scores….Metropolis reduce to ribbons however the Hungarian was offside….
56 min: Nearly a lovely transfer. Alisson sends off Salah, down the centre, and his ball virtually finds Diaz. Khusanov – by some means – clears….
54 min: Foden – additionally properly, properly, off it – loses the ball and Liverpool spring into motion. Although as a substitute of the wildcat assault they select persistence. Salah and Szoboszlai try a switch-back nevertheless it’s cleared. Poor Khusanov is being thrown from the deepest of ends.
52 min: Metropolis proceed to dominate the ball. Nevertheless it’s sterile, powderpuff stuff. Liverpool set off at pace. Salah makes an attempt to shoot with the surface of his boot. He scored like that at Bournemouth. Was it a cross? Robertson hoiks it again over and Metropolis ultimately clear.