Liverpool took the likes of Manchester City to school this past Wednesday. After their Champions League match and repass over heavily favorites Manchester City, with a scandalous 3-0 rout.
For the Merseyside squad, now seen as a clear favorite to deliver the ultimate of upsets come Tuesday April 10, when they travel to Manchester City colossus of Etihad looking to seal the deal.
With a campaign in Premiership, filled with a series of controversies that if they would reinforce their defense on the preseason these would had a banner of a campaign and without any problems.
After their backfield played with such authority in this match and being its highlight a young lad by the name of Trent Alexander-Arnold who delivered a one of a kind performance alongside Dejan Louvren, Virgil Van Dyjk and Andy Robertson.
This amazing foursome combined to stop the likes of an unstoppable and powerful offensive attack with Leroy Sane, Kevin De Bruyne and Gabriel Jesus running in the center stopping them cold in a night that they completely dominated.
I must state the total dominance of the Liverpool bunch all evening long and thanks, to their follower’s support the specter of fatigue did not took a toll on their fighting initial eleven all evening long and close it with a touch of class.
Still their three goal lead does not assures them the automatic pass to the next level, as anything can happen in Manchester with the Citizens now being in the helm by playing at home and with all its advantages.
As one of these squads looking forward to advance into this prestigious competition semifinal, their next face off will be one considered as one contested one and the winner will have all the momentum to go all the way to the finals.
Despite the Sky Blues, worst performances of the campaign, as many assume fatigue catching up, but one thing this club has is a winning spirit that will deliver them another Barclays Premiership shield and undoubtedly can turn things around.
For manager Pep Guardiola seeing off target shoots by his starting eleven but none of those considered direct, a shame when this squad has run havoc on all of the Premier League squad’s defenders and today neutralized by the Reds patch up defense.
In the Liverpool, side of the story and manager Jürgen Klopp despite the rout and winning with an spectacular flair leaving everyone perplexed after this result, still he is aware of the second leg not being easy. As he is expecting a very determined and hungry Man City putting on its best of fights to prevent another disappointing end to their Champions League run.
Score round one for Jürgen and company but round two will be a different story as the City stars silenced will show up and voice up their best of games to rally into the deficit they went into and possibly overcome the odds.
Nothing for no one as the tale of the tape shows up a very even match between these two titans at the end we have no favorites but for sure in this mano a mano we will have a lot of fireworks.
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