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Manchester City and Liverpool tied this Sunday (2-2) and the Premier League is still alive, with Pep Guardiola one point above Jürgen Klopp and seven games ahead for the Spanish coach to retain the title or for the German took the crown from him.

The classic of the last four years, the successor of Real Madrid-Barcelona as the best match, did not disappoint since the ball began to roll, but, despite glimpsing an overwhelming City, superior and owner of the 90 minutes, Liverpool came out alive. And with him, the Premier.

Without time to catch your breath, City showed muscle. Raheem Sterling missed a heads up in front of Alisson. Gabriel Jesús served him the perfect ball, but it was done to the Englishman at night in front of the goalkeeper.

A failure that there was not even time to think about it. Seconds later, Kevin de Bruyne took the ball in three quarters, dribbled past Fabinho and finished off, with the fortune that he touched Matip and the ball went past Alisson.

City struck first with crushing pace, but the lead lasted seven minutes. With Thiago decongesting balls in the middle, Andy Robertson crossed the ball into the area, Alexander-Arnold settled it and Diogo Jota tied the match.

Liverpool seemed ready for battle, but after a ‘heart attack’ caused by Ederson, playing with the ball on the goal line, City was the one who ruled. The pressure from the Celestes was unbearable for Klopp’s team, who were completely out of position in defense. Guardiola’s men were around the second with a half-turn shot by De Bruyne that grazed a post and with a shot by Cancelo to the side of the net.

It had to be the Portuguese winger, in his role as passer, who generated the 2-1 with a cross behind the defense in which Alexander-Arnold lost Gabriel Jesús’ mark. The Brazilian entered alone at the far post and lifted the ball over Alisson.

City had one more gear, they were taking Liverpool apart, a team that He had ten wins in a row until this Saturday. A team that doesn’t need anything to score. The referee blew the whistle at the start of the second half and after 50 seconds Salah saw a gap between the central defenders and filtered the ball so that Mané defined in front of Ederson.

City was caught off guard by this goal, hoping that the game would turn , from 2-1, in a landslide, as happened in 2021 (1-4) and 2020 (4-0). Mané’s goal served as a warning. The City was better, but with little the ‘Reds’ could jump the bench.

As the minutes went by, City saw that the draw was not bad and allowed them to keep the advantage of one point and that the league was decided by third parties. He was able to get much closer to her, in a goal by Sterling that invalidated the VAR, in a free kick from Mahrez in added time and in a Vaseline from the Algerian in the last second, but the 2-2 was final.

By Scribe