“From first to last, it was a really good performance”.
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“Liverpool had more energy, they recovered the ball at high pace so we didn’t have any chances to score”.
Louis Van Gaal remained pragmatic about his side’s recent form which has seen four straight wins.
After the match, Pellegrini had referenced a lack of freshness for his side’s lethargy in the game, but Klopp said Liverpool had a mental edge over their opponents.
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini insists nothing has changed in their quest for the Premier League title despite the 3-0 defeat at Liverpool.
Adam Lallana’s long-range effort opened the scoring in the 34th minute, with James Milner dinking in a second just before halftime and Roberto Firmino wrapping it up in the second half, giving the Reds revenge for their penalty-shootout defeat to City in the League Cup final on Sunday.
“I am not thinking about the title and not thinking about not to qualify for the Champions League”. That view was also expressed by Vincent Kompany, who while recognising that he and his team-mates had underperformed at Anfield thinks there is still enough time in this most unpredictable of Premier League seasons for them to put things right.
“I am very pleased, very satisfied with all of the 93 minutes”, Klopp told reporters. “We have a lot of games to go and a couple of big European games [against Manchester United in the Europa League]”.
Liverpool had 49% of the possession, in comparison to Manchester City’s 51%.
Liverpool ran out 3-0 winners of the tie and given that they humiliated The Citizens 4-1 at home earlier in the season, they can consider their League Cup loss well and truly avenged. “We will stick together and look to win the next game”.
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City have 11 matches to play and sit 10 points behind leaders Leicester with just one game in hand after losing three league games in a row for the first time since 2008. Whether that was down to increased nerves because of the occasion, or the fact that a few of City’s players were more up for the game than they were three days later, I don’t know.
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It should have been a routine stop when Liverpool took the lead too, but Joe Hart’s lack of foot movement saw him get nowhere near Lallana’s tame 25-yard strike as it crept into the bottom corner. We had to show a reaction so we started extremely lively.
