Premier League: Man City make title statement as dazzling Doku brushes Liverpool aside
Erling Haaland scored his 14th Premier League goal of the season.
Erling Haaland and Phil Foden celebrate Manchester City’s third goal by eating an apple. (Photo: Michael Regan/Getty Images)
Pep Guardiola celebrated his 1,000th game as a manager by leading Manchester City to a convincing 3-0 win over Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday.
Erling Haaland made up for an early penalty miss by opening the scoring just before the half-hour mark. Incredibly, this was his 14th Premier League goal in just 11 games this season.
Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk then had an equaliser controversially disallowed, but it may not have made too much of a difference in the end.
City were in dominant form at the Etihad and it surprised no one when Guardiola’s side doubled their lead in first half injury time via a deflected Nico Gonzalez strike.
The outstanding Jeremy Doku, who ruthlessly tormented Liverpool right-back Conor Bradley throughout the game, added a third City goal in the 63rd minute on his 100th appearance for the club.
The result lifts City back up to second in the table where they have closed the gap on leaders Arsenal to four points following the latter’s stumble against Sunderland on Saturday.
