Man City 1-1 Liverpool: Reds earn hard-fought draw

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Will Rooney reports from the Etihad Stadium.

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00:00 Well, full-time here, Thieta had stage where he finished.

00:02 Manchester City won, Liverpool won.

00:05 Top of the table, Premier League clash ends in a draw.

00:08 Spoils shades.

00:09 Liverpool had to rescue a point, however.

00:11 They weren't at their very best, but I'm sure Liverpool

00:15 will be delighted to see Sol Yeager flop by in his draw

00:18 against a Manchester City side who'd won 23

00:21 of the previous home games successfully.

00:23 Liverpool obviously ended that run.

00:25 And yeah, I'd say Liverpool, they were slow.

00:27 Jürgen Pons was in the first half, Alisson Becker,

00:30 was normally uber-consistent, but he has a rare off day.

00:34 And in the 11th minute, he just misplaced the pass

00:38 straight to Phil Foden.

00:39 Liverpool were very lucky that Phil Foden only hit a shot

00:43 tamely down the throat of Alisson.

00:45 But Liverpool struggled to muster real chances.

00:49 Darwin Nunes had a glancing header

00:52 when Liverpool made some decent progress.

00:53 But yeah, the breakthrough came in the 26th minute

00:57 through Ayrton Harland, back to 50th Premier League goal.

01:00 He hasn't even been in the country 18 months yet.

01:03 What a prolific talent.

01:04 Poor kick from Alisson out.

01:07 He just rushed it.

01:08 He wants to play a counterattack.

01:10 Like that goal that Liverpool scored against Man City

01:13 at Anfield last season when he just played it very early

01:16 to Mo Salah.

01:17 But he got his kick all wrong.

01:20 And City picked it up.

01:22 Nathan Ache skipped past Trent Alexander-Arnold

01:25 to Dominic Savard, like far too easily.

01:27 Slipped in Ayrton Harland, and he finished with a plumb

01:31 into the far corner.

01:32 Liverpool, they responded.

01:34 But they had a couple of opportunities

01:36 where you just wanted someone to pull the trigger.

01:38 Darwin Nunes had one where he was about 20-odd yards out.

01:42 Curtis Jones as well, a good situation.

01:44 They looked like they were waiting for someone to come

01:46 and take responsibility.

01:48 In the second half, Liverpool did improve.

01:51 Weren't a lot of chances in the second half.

01:53 Julian Alvarez put one over the bar.

01:54 Ruben De Asa's goal ruled out because it was a judge stick.

01:59 Alisson Becker was far from the corner.

02:01 Some people weren't too convinced that that was a foul.

02:03 But Liverpool got away with it.

02:05 But then Alisson came to Liverpool's rescue.

02:06 And in their 17-90 minute, ball was cut back

02:09 from Jeremy Duff, who was absolutely immense for Man City.

02:12 Pulled it back to Harland.

02:13 But there was Alisson and Liverpool a minute later.

02:17 They got the equaliser through Trent Alexander-Arnold.

02:20 On a counter-attack, ball shifted over to the right for Salah.

02:23 And Alexander-Arnold comes and makes a late run.

02:26 Takes one touch and fires it home.

02:28 Really hit it really well, really clean into the far corner.

02:32 And yeah, from there, Liverpool managed to see it out.

02:34 Earn a point.

02:35 They'll be delighted with that.

02:37 Still a point behind Manchester City, obviously.

02:39 How results go this weekend, that things might change things

02:42 for Liverpool.

02:42 But they've come here.

02:44 They've got a point.

02:45 They'll need to do a little bit more convincing

02:46 to say that they can be in the title race

02:49 come the end of the season.

02:52 Liverpool still gel together.

02:53 They have players who were below the best today.

02:56 Curtis Jones was back in the team after an injury layoff.

02:58 He looked a little bit rusty.

03:00 Diogo Jota wasn't his best.

03:02 He, of course, he'd come off injured in the 53rd minute.

03:04 And Alisson Becquerel, later on, looked like he'd picked up

03:07 after an injury.

03:07 So the influx at Liverpool are going

03:09 to have to see the situation with those.

03:11 But overall, Liverpool will be delighted to have earned a point

03:14 here at the end of Manchester City.

03:16 one to the third one.

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