translated from Spanish: Liverpool clingto the top with victory over Manchester City

London, England — Liverpool took an important step in their aspirations to win the English league, a title they last achieved in 1990, by beating Manchester City 3-1 in Anfield on Sunday with this triumph over one of their title rivals, in the twelfth round, Liverpool take eight points out to Leicester and Chelsea, second and third- ranked, and nine to Mancheser City himself fourth.
Two singles in the first quarter of an hour, scored by Brazilian Fabinho (6) and Egyptian Mohamed Salah (13), and one senegalese Sadio Mané in the second half (51), allowed Liverpool to achieve their 11th victory in twelve matches, having tied the other.” City is a very good team and we had to defend ourselves as we could, but we scored some amazing goals,” said Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp.
The boys were completely focused. It was the only way to beat the City. Maybe other teams can do it differently, but this is the only one we can beat them on,” added the German.

City complained twice in the area of his right-back Trent Alexander Arnold, one of them on the play that preceded the first goal and the second in the final minutes. Fabinho opened the scoreboardFabinho opened the scoring with a nice goal from outside the box, following a play led in kickback by Senegalese Sadio Mané.City players claimed the referee a previous hand within the Arnold area.

Liverpool players celebrating a score against City/AFP

The second goal was born in another counterpunch and a centre by Andrew Robertson on the left, which topped Salah head to the net. The City had no choice but to attack, with the ‘Kun’ Agéero being the player who was in the most danger, although the clearest time of the Manchester team came with a header from The Spanish side Angeliño to one of the sticks in the 29th minute.
But it would be Sadio Mané who would increase the lead for Liverpool in the second half, finishing with the head from close to a centre from Jordan Henderson.With the match decided, Manchester City achieved the honour score, through Portuguese Bernardo Silva (78).

Senegalese Sadio Mané celebrating his score against Manchester City/AFP

“I am very proud of my team, more than ever. We can be proud of how we play against the strongest team in Europe,” pep Guardiola said.
We can’t deny how good Liverpool is, but the personality we show edude and the way we play were good,” the Catalan explained.

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