Manchester City 2 Liverpool 2
The talk has been of trebles and quadruples, of a historic kind of plunder and, plainly, something will have to give. Only not yet. Manchester City will probably be happier with this draw as it keeps them above Liverpool, with one more Premier League game chalked off, although Pep Guardiola’s team had the chances to have been out of sight at half-time. And to have pinched it at the end.
Liverpool saw their 10-game winning streak in the league come to an end, the sequence that had helped them cut City’s lead at the top to a single point. In January, it had stood at 14, albeit with City having played two extra matches. “A fake lead,” Guardiola had called it. But, again, Liverpool will reason that this was not the worst result for them.
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- April 11, 2022
