City are tough on Liverpool with a quadruple. And put pressure on Arsenal

Manchester City from the delay with a goal to achieve a great victory at home to Liverpool 4-1, today in the opening of the twenty-ninth phase of the English Football League, to remain in the circle of struggle for the title with Arsenal leader. Egyptian international Mohamed Salah gave Liverpool the lead (17), but the hosts responded strongly through Argentine Julian Alvares (27), Belgian Kevin De Bruyne (46), German Ilkay Gundogan (53) and Jack Grealish (74).

Spanish coach Pep Guardiola's team achieved its fourth consecutive victory in the league to reduce the difference to 5 points with Arsenal (69 points), which hosts Leeds United later, knowing that City has a postponed match. City and Arsenal will meet at the Etihad Stadium on April 26, in a match that could be decisive for the Premier League title aspired to by Arsenal for the first time since 2004.

City have enjoyed a relatively easier run than their opponents on paper in the final metres, but their focus is distracted in the Champions League quarter-finals in an early summit against Bayern Munich and the FA Cup semi-final against Sheffield United, while the Gunners have bid farewell to the Europa League and the Cup.
City achieved their first victory over Liverpool in the league in nearly two years, after falling against him in the first leg this season in the league with a goal Salah, before avenging his elimination from the League Cup. The German team Jürgen Klopp, suffered a second loss in a row to remain seven points away from the last qualifying position for the Champions League.

No Haaland, no problem.

City's four goals came despite the absence of Norwegian striker Erling Haaland, who has scored 42 goals in all competitions this season with his team, due to a groin injury that kept him out of the international window with his country. Haaland scored eight goals before the break in two games, five against RB Leipzig in the Champions League and a hat-trick against Burnley in the cup.

City also missed another striker Phil Foden, after undergoing surgery last Sunday to remove the appendix, while Uruguayan Darwin Nunez started on the bench Liverpool due to a minor injury to be replaced by Portuguese Diogo Jota along with Salah and Dutchman Kodi Jakpo.