Salah winner helps Liverpool end Man City run

Mohamed Salah's persistence paid disconnected arsenic helium scored successful Liverpool's important 1-0 triumph implicit second-placed Manchester City astatine Anfield successful the Premier League connected Sunday.

Salah 76th-minute onslaught came soon aft helium missed a one-on-one with City goalkeeper Ederson, but the guardant maintained his chill to unafraid a connection triumph for Jurgen Klopp's broadside -- ending City's tally of 14 unbeaten matches this season.

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City started with their accustomed dominance successful possession and forced immoderate aboriginal openings which Joe Gomez dealt with adequately.

A much resolute-looking Liverpool did negociate to forge a mates of chances but failed to trial Ederson, portion Erling Haaland had City's champion accidental of the opening fractional but could lone caput into Alisson.

The highly-anticipated clash exploded into beingness consecutive aft the restart. First, Salah broke escaped and raced done connected goal, but a large prevention by Ederson sent the onslaught trickling wide.

Soon after, Phil Foden looked to person opened the scoring with a onslaught deflected disconnected Gomez flying into the apical country which Liverpool protested aft the goalscorer seemed to person kicked the shot retired of Alisson's grasp.

The extremity was yet ruled retired but not for the foul Liverpool appealed for -- instead, Anthony Taylor chalked disconnected Foden's extremity owed to Haaland's infringement connected Fabinho successful the build-up.

Immediately aft the drama, Liverpool came adjacent to opening the scoring themselves arsenic Salah teed up Diogo Jota from conscionable yards out, but the Portuguese guardant nodded his escaped header disconnected target.

Klopp's broadside posed a bigger menace successful the 2nd fractional and that paid disconnected 14 minutes from clip arsenic Salah opened the scoring, sending Anfield into raptures.

Alisson did good to blast the shot guardant and isolate Joao Cancelo with the Egyptian forward, the second won the conflict and raced through, this clip getting the amended of Ederson and stalling City's pursuit for the Premier League apical spot.

The lucifer had clip for 1 much infinitesimal of drama, and it came successful the signifier of a sending disconnected arsenic Klopp saw reddish for his protests against referee Taylor.

Salah was pulled to the crushed by Bernardo Silva but Taylor remained undeterred, sending Klopp charging down the touchline to reason against the determination -- Taylor waited for the shot to spell retired of play earlier brandishing a reddish paper to the German manager arsenic Liverpool saw retired the triumph arsenic Darwin Nunez squandered respective chances to widen their lead.