Manchester City can finally delivering the first death blow to Liverpool with 2-1 yesterday in the English Premier League at Etihad Stadium. This will be the first ever lose for Liverpool in Premier league this season.
Liverpool almost got their first lead when Sadio Mane kick was hitting the post and slowly rolling out from the goal line.
John Stones was trying to kick the ball away however, the ball hit Ederson hand and it bounce back before Stones another effort to clear off the ball from the goal line. It was 11mm away from being declared as goal as per Goal line technology displayed.
After that, the second dramatic moment came when Manchester City was trying to attack and it turned out well as Sergio Aguero effort to beat Alisson Becker finally gave the home team a 1-0 lead.
Aguero used the assist and delivery from Bernardo Silva well and he kick the ball from a position that was abit tight in front of the goal to give the 1-0 lead and the lead stay until then end of the first half.
In the second half, Manchester city was still dominating in term of ball possession, but the second goal come from the away side as they could draw the game with 1-1 through the goal from Roberto Firmino at the 64th minutes.
Firmino scored the goal from the assist of Andy Robertson toward the penalty kick, the goal seems an easy peasy effort from Firmino as he headed in the ball pass through Ederson.
The score 1-1 was staying for awhile and raising up the tension of the match. Both team were showing their effort to attack and playing offensive football.
And in the minute of 72 after the fast counter attack performance by the Citizen, Manchester City has finally leading again. The goal was constructed via the counter attack effort in which Raheem Sterling release an accurate crossing for Leroy Sane who then shot it to the left corner of Alisson’s goal.
After the goal, you could imagine the tempo of the game. It was more aggressive and it was faster then before, however no any additional goal was scored by any team until the refree Anthony Taylor blow the whistle.
The win is crucial for Manchester City whom had now collected a total of 50 points from the total of 21 matches in Premier League and it also means that they closing the gap between them and Liverpool who is still the temporary leader with a total of 54 points in total of 21 matches.
