Published 07:18 IST, November 11th 2019
Liverpool defeat Manchester City 3-1 to go eight points clear
Fabinho, Mohamed Salah, and Sadio Mane helped Liverpool go eight points clear at the top of the Premier League table with a 3-1 win over Manchester City
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Liverpool beat Manchester City 3-1 on vember 11, to continue ir incredible run in Premier League. Goals from Fabinho, Mohamed Salah, and Sadio Mane sent Reds eight points clear at top of Premier League table. Bernardo Silva scored consolation goal for away side.
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Liverpool are still undefeated in Premier League and are increasingly becoming favourites to lift ir first-ever Premier League trophy. game, however, was marred by controversies related to contentious refereeing decisions and after match City manr, Pep Guardiola went to referee Michael Oliver and his assistants to shake ir hand say "Thank You" in a sarcastic fashion.
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"I want to talk about performance"
Guardiola, however, refused to be drawn into debate of referring decisions in post-match press conference. He also spoke about team's performance and result. He said, "Always be positive and never give up, that's why we won back to back titles. We want to fight until end. We dropped points for our faults. For or things, we cant control. re are still seven months to go. If Liverpool wins title, I will be first to congratulate m for how good y are. We showed many times why we are champions. re are three teams in front with more chances to be champions. We are going to try and in football, you can't always win. I’m so proud to see my team play in this stadium against that team that way. What happened today we showed why we were champions."
Talking about refereeing decisions, he said, "I want to talk about our performance - it was so good. For performance we had, it was awesome. One of best. We lost because y scored three goals and we scored one. In football, you can't always win. I’m so proud to see my team play in this stadium against that team that way.”
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Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp, on or hand, said, "We scored two incredible goals, had to suffer in moments because of way City play, but I would say until 75th minute or around about, when y scored goal, we could control it in some way. But after that, you saw immediately our legs got a bit tired and n I don’t kw how many balls were rolling through our six-yard box in far-post area – it doesn’t feel too good. You always think re must be a blue player but, thank God, re was body. But that’s exactly what City are doing usually."
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06:08 IST, November 11th 2019