Liverpool vs Manchester City LIVE: Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Mohamed Salah fire Reds to thrilling victory
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Your support makes all the difference.It’s the big one: Liverpool host Manchester City at Anfield in Sunday’s late kick-off, hoping to become the first side to beat Pep Guardiola’s team in the Premier League this season.
Liverpool welcome back their star man Mohamed Salah, but Nathaniel Clyne, Jordan Henderson, Alberto Moreno and Daniel Sturridge are all out injured. A win will take Liverpool – currently level on points with Tottenham Hotspur – above Chelsea in the table.
City will meanwhile welcome back a number of players after he shuffled his pack for the club’s EFL Cup game against Bristol City. But Gabriel Jesus, Vincent Kompany and Benjamin Mendy all remain out. City currently enjoy a 15-point lead at the top of the table.
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50' - Joe Gomez whips a wonderful low cross into the box but Ederson is off his line quickly to collect the ball.
51' - Off the bar!
Nicolas Otamendi rises highest to meet Kevin De Bruyne's corner but his header hits the crossbar and goes behind for a goal-kick!
Fellow Brazilians Roberto Firmino and Fernandinho challenge for the ball
56' - Ederson flaps at Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's corner and the ball lands at the feet of Mo Salah, whose drilled shot is well saved by the City goalkeeper.
Moments later Salah almost inadvertently puts Liverpool 2-1 up as his mishit cross hits Ederson's crossbar!
GOAL! Liverpool 2-1 Manchester City (Firmino)
60' - That's delicious.
Roberto Firmino shrugs John Stones off the ball to get on the end of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's through ball and finishes with aplomb, dinking a cute finish over the onrushing Ederson and in off the post.
61' - Close!
Liverpool almost double their lead instantly but are denied by the woodwork as Sadio Mane curls a shot wide from just outside the box!
GOAL! Liverpool 3-1 Manchester City (Mane)
62' - Mo Salah robs Nicolas Otamendi of the ball before feeding Sadio Mane... and this time the Liverpool winger makes no mistake with the finish as he plants a left-footed shot into the top corner.
Will City's hopes of emulating Arsenal's Invincibles of 2004 come to an end this afternoon? It certainly looks that way.
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