Raheem Sterling, Phil Foden and Kevin De Bruyne were imperious against a lacklustre Liverpool side
City win this skirmish after Liverpool have already settled the campaign. In that sense, what happened here today doesn’t matter. But Liverpool will be at least slightly miffed at being dismantled by their nearest rivals, especially as they contributed to their own defeat with some uncharacteristically shambolic defending Gomez and Robertson were all over the shop, and Mané and Firmino were ragged up front. City were technically excellent at times, with De Bruyne, Sterling and Foden all excellent and Rodri a constant influence. It’ll be interesting to see how Liverpool react to this: shrug it off and let the rest of the season fizzle out? Or come back and annihilate poor old Aston Villa on Sunday? There’ll be personnel changes for that game, I’ll wager.
NO GOAL! Mahrez fires in at the near post after a lovely interchange with Foden, but he handled the ball in the build so the goal doesn’t cont.
Written by Paul Doyle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2020/jul/02/manchester-city-v-liverpool-premier-league-live under the title “Manchester City 4-0 Liverpool: Premier League – as it happened”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
