Live Man City vs Liverpool watch the Premier League 11/8/2020

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Manchester City are not off to a good start this season. Indeed, the machine that Pep Guardiola operates had many problems. The first is in defense. Green Man has conceded 8 goals / 6 games played and goalkeeper Ederson only has 2 games to keep a clean sheet. Even in rare clean-sheet matches, they are not necessarily defending too strongly, but also largely because their opponents waste their chances.

The Ruben Dias – Aymeric Laporte pair, although it is Pep’s number one midfielder pair, does not bring much peace of mind. Dias was crushed by Michail Antonio and scored in a 1-1 draw with West Ham. Furthermore, this rookie is expected to make a direct mistake that will lead to a defeat in Porto’s 3-1 victory in the group stage of the Champions League.

Or how the left-back position, frequently assumed by Joao Cancelo, is Man City’s weakness. The Portuguese side is effective in attack but very weak in defense. Cancelo is often easily beaten in 1v1 situations. Tonight, Cancelo has to face the best right-back in the Premier League in recent years, Alexander-Arnold. Furthermore, Mohamed Salah also played in that band.

Even public goods, which are Green Man’s strongest points, are also in question. Remember, the Green Man has only scored 9 goals after 6 games played. Since Pep joined the Etihad, the new team have such dry goals. The injury of the two main scorers Sergio Agüero and Gabriel Jesús, coupled with the fact that other offensive stars repeatedly missed delicious opportunities, led to this situation. The rate of turning Green Man’s chance into a goal this season is just … 6.7%, the lowest during Pep’s reign at Man City.

However, at Liverpool’s reception, striker Gabriel Jesús returned to the squad. A few days ago the Brazilian forward entered the second half of the match against Olympiakos and contributed 1 goal to the 3-0 victory. Supporting Jesus are Raheem Sterling and Ferran Torres, a rookie born in 2000 who quickly integrated into the Etihad environment to begin to establish a foothold.

Meanwhile, Liverpool are also facing many problems. In which, the most serious is the injury of a series of pillars (Van Dijk, Thiago and Fabinho). But The Kop on the trip to Manchester City has a major comeback from midfielder Joel Matip, helping Jurgen Klopp reduce anxiety on defense even though “double” Nathaniel Phillips has done his homework quite well.

But more prominent in Liverpool’s squad design in this match is the fact that Coach Klopp threw all four of the best attacking players in his hand. Except for Mane vs Salah, who is “invulnerable”, Diogo Jota is in top form recently and Firmino has less and less goals (only 1 goal in all competitions since the start of the 2020/21 season). But it remains a key card in the famous gegen-pressing style that Klopp has built in Liverpool.

Furthermore, both Jota and Firmino can play deep as a central midfielder when needed and also know how to pressure the opponent, making Liverpool’s ability to push height more dangerous. Not outside the expectations of many experts, despite being a guest, Liverpool confidently pressed Manchester City right after the opening whistle.

By kicking close and actively fighting the ball next to the opponent’s court, the Premier League champions cause the opponent a lot of difficulties, which makes Man City not easy to deploy the familiar game (launch an attack from section of the courtyard of the House).

Liverpool are also fully active in attack and the Man City squad is split, making the game extremely sporadic. And then it only took more than 10 minutes, the visitors found the initial marker. Kyle Walker frantically struck Sadio Mane who was moving at high speed and the Senengal forward immediately fell onto the field.

Of course, the referee was absolutely correct in pointing out the 11-meter spot, and as always Salah was confident of successfully taking the penalty kick, although Ederson had guessed in the right direction but fell slowly. Thus, Salah scored his eighth goal after 8 matches in the 2020/21 Premier League and in Liverpool’s history no player has scored more than 8 goals after the first eight games of the league season.

Having an early lead, Liverpool is even more excited to keep up the battle that was staged to protect and disable the opponent. Before the lockout and uncomfortable pressure from Liverpool, Manchester City proved extremely miserable. The home team rarely makes a good game due to lack of space and time to play soccer.

It wasn’t until the 26th minute that Man City had the first significant situation when De Bruyne stretched out giving Sterling a chance to face Alisson, but the English striker was unable to successfully seize the opportunity to equalize “in gold”. “Hears.

However, in the 31st minute, Etihad’s home team tied the score. From the right wing Kyle Walker put the ball into the center for Kevin De Buyne and the Belgian “king of the assist” looked very quickly to pass the 16m50 area for Gabriel Jesus. The forward handled a bit of a mistake but accidentally knocked out Arnold and with great force, Jesus waved the ball into the far corner to defeat Alisson.

The game was reversed very quickly after Jesus’ draw. In the 39th minute, the ball clearly hit Joe Gomez’s hand after a cross from De Bruyne.

TEAM

CITY OF MANCHESTER (4-3-3): Ederson; Kyle Walker, Ruben Dias, Aymeric Laporte, Joao Cancelo; Rodrigo, Ilkay Gundogan, Kevin De Bruyne; Ferran Torres, Gabriel Jesus, Raheem Sterling.

LIVERPOOL (4-2-2-2): Alisson; Trent Alexander-Arnold, Joel Matip, Joe Gomez, Andrew Robertson; Jordan Henderson, Georginio Wijnaldum, Diogo Jota; Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane.