Liverpool and Mohamed Salah put thrilling end to Manchester City’s run

And, finally, there is a glimmer of hope for the teams desperately clinging to Manchester City’s coat-tails. Only a tiny glimmer, maybe, and nobody should really imagine it will change too much when it comes to the destination of the championship trophy. Yet it has been 284 days since Pep Guardiola’s team last experienced a defeat in the Premier League. The run has stretched for 30 games and at least now the other teams towards the top of the table have been reminded that the champions-in-waiting can be beaten, after all.

It has certainly been a long time since City have looked this vulnerable and in that nine-minute blitz during the second half, when Liverpool rattled in three goals, it was remarkable to see the way the best team in the country disintegrated. More fool us, perhaps, for thinking that City had eradicated the shortcomings that troubled Guardiola in his first year at the club.

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