Manchester City tied with goals from Haaland and Arnold
Erling Haaland and Arnold
Manchester City and Liverpool faced off in one of the most attractive matches of the day. The English teams had a very important match and ended up distributing points at the Etihad Stadium. Pep Guardiola’s team played well, but Klopp’s team responded in time thanks to a goal from Alexander Arnold that ended up defining the match.
The powerful Manchester City received a visit from its nemesis, Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool on the Etihad Stadium field, in a match that at the end of the ninety minutes ended tied one-one. The match began with the local team monopolizing a lot of possession and dominating the game territorially with their high pressure. While the Reds, for their part, arranged a middle block in the defensive phase and did everything possible to cut off any progression on the inside, while “biting” the possessor. With this scenario, the first minutes were played under a very high intensity and with great dynamism in circulation.
After a few first minutes of testing, Jürgen Klopp’s men took a step forward and unleashed chaos in the confrontation. Because they assumed a greater role in the game, although all their attacks would find a response from the skyblues. In what was being outlined as an exciting round trip, where the 22 protagonists remained on the edge of error. The first goal of the afternoon came from Erling Haaland. That put Manchester City ahead after a great action by Nathan Aké, who collected a crashed serve from Alisson and dribbled past several defenders to enable the Norwegian.
Arnold tied and silenced the stadium
In the midst of the whirlwind of arrivals that was the match, Alexander-Arnold equalized, beating Ederson, with a low shot from the edge of the area that went in close to the post. With the tie, Pep Guardiola’s men regained control of the ball and tried to find their second goal slowly and without taking excessive risks.