MAN CITY AND PEP GUARDIOLA MAKE MOHAMED SALAH EVEN MORE RIGHT AS LIVERPOOL GET MAJOR...
0Man City and Pep Guardiola make Mohamed Salah even more right as Liverpool get major title boost
As the seconds ticked by. it looked like it might be on. Crystal Palace had gone to the Etihad Stadium and won earlier in the season. and a double over Manchester City seemed unlikely. But Liverpool were not after a Crystal Palace win necessarily — from Jürgen Klopp's perspective. any dropped points would do. Bernardo Silva should have scored at least once. but Pep Guardiola's men. try as they might. could simply not find the back of the net. They kept getting to the byline and cutting things back. with Kevin de Bruyne pulling strings all over the field. but the Crystal Palace defence — containing a former Liverpool and Klopp man in Nathaniel Clyne — just about held strong. The goalless draw means that Manchester City are still in the lead in the Premier League standings. In fact. they are further ahead now than they were when the game kicked off. Yet it will not feel like that for Liverpool supporters — or at least those who dared to watch. Guardiola's side are four points clear at the top of the table. but have played a game more than Liverpool. who will catch up on games when they travel to the Emirates to take on Arsenal on Wednesday. That game against Guardiola's former assistant. Mikel Arteta. somehow now feels even more significant than it already did. For Liverpool. in some ways. nothing has changed. They will still need to win all of their games including the trip to Manchester City to guarantee a title win. But the big change could potentially be that game at the Etihad Stadium. Should Liverpool draw there and win the rest of their matches. they would finish on 94 points. Liverpool have major transfer advantage for Haaland 30 goal ‘regen’ at Dortmund Klopp could finally get biggest Liverpool wish with fix for Arsenal complaints Manchester City can still get 95. so that still means that Liverpool would have to win at the Etihad to guarantee the title. but the two dropped points here would make a draw away at Manchester City — a result that you would normally take without question — a little easier to take. Klopp might even gamble that a point there might be enough should the circumstances dictate that he needed to make that decision. That is how slim the margins are. and how much this result could matter. Even just the fact that Manchester City have been dealt a dent in their chase could be vital. with Crystal Palace proving again that points can indeed be taken from them. 'It is still in our hands.' Mohamed Salah tweeted less than 24 hours ago. That remains the case. and would have done no matter the result in this fixture. But it feels a little more likely now.
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