Inside Liverpool’s Secret Playbook: The Unseen Battle to Stop Manchester City’s Unstoppable Star

Liverpool began this season as huge favourites to retain their Premier League crown, but Manchester City put a huge dent in those dreams at the Etihad Stadium.

Not only did Pep Guardiola’s side – in the Catalan’s 1000th game in football management – defeat the incumbent champions, they made them look weak and flustered.

Although the Reds had the ball in the back of the net at 1-0 – before a contentious VAR call – there was no question the hosts were good value for their three-goal win.

Arne Slot threw everything at Jeremy Doku and didn’t land a punch

Usually, in such an emphatic performance by City, this sentence would lead into a stream of paragraphs waxing lyrical about the unstoppable force of Erling Haaland.

And he did, as per usual, get himself on the scoresheet, netting the opener shortly after seeing a penalty saved by Giorgi Mamardashvili.

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