00:00local rivals playing out a rivalry that is of global interest between them Manchester City
00:13and Liverpool have claimed the last eight Premier League titles so when they meet the
00:19football world sits up and takes notice two teams that have produced some of the most compelling
00:26games in modern Premier League history many of them under the guidance of Manchester City boss
00:32Pep Guardiola who today takes charge of a professional football team for the 1,000th time in a garlanded
00:40career. Arsenal's stumble at Sunderland yesterday offers hope and encouragement to both. City third
00:52Liverpool sixth at kickoff. Chris Kavanagh the referee two sides accustomed to being the hunted
01:04are now cast in the role of hunters as they attempt to chase down Arsenal.
01:12And O'Reilly beginning to motor outside him and there's Kanate readjusting and Doku comes in for more
01:19and it's left to McAllister to swipe it clear. Salah and on goes Salah and Ruben Diaz stayed with
01:36Doku for long enough to put him off. Doku. Kanate there to help out but Doku bursts through round the keeper goes down.
01:48Shecky with the shot referee still looking hard at it. VAR check already underway for a possible penalty.
01:55Well from up here we're a long way from the action but that looked like a penalty didn't it? In this instance Doku there with not a great touch out of his feet.
02:02Sloppy by Kanate giving the ball straight back to him. We'll have a look. Doesn't look quite so clear cut on that replay. Is there any contact here?
02:15Chris Kavanagh through it stage by stage. There's a little concern there in terms of the evidence they've got.
02:21We've got to that point in football where we're looking at tiny details but Kanate runs across the frame here.
02:27After review. The goalkeeper creates a foul challenge on the attacker. Final decision is penalty.
02:38Mamadashvili convicted.
02:42The dust has now cleared.
02:47And Erling Haaland is denied by the giant Jordan.
02:51They are just checking that Mamadashvili didn't leave his line early.
02:58That's a fabulous save.
03:00Mamadashvili there.
03:02We're going to see if his foot's on the line at the point of impact but I think Erling Haaland knows that
03:07the goalkeeper read it really well.
03:10Wasn't a badly struck penalty at all.
03:13But he quickly moved.
03:14Let's look at his feet.
03:15Yeah he's behind the line.
03:16It's a good save.
03:18Really committed didn't he?
03:20See the power off that right foot.
03:22It's well behind the line.
03:24Slightly heavy touch by Haaland.
03:27City retain it with Foden.
03:29And here's Dokku.
03:31And O'Reilly is their most advanced player at the moment.
03:33And Haaland has just pushed over the opponent and there's Jackie!
03:38They had that moment where he received the ball rather tentatively thinking he might have been offside.
03:42But no, nothing meaningful.
03:45Here's Dokku for City.
03:46And look at O'Reilly herring through the middle.
03:49Dokku rides his luck.
03:52And gets away a really impressive effort that needed the touch from Mamadashvili.
03:58Mateus Nunes.
04:02Towards Haaland.
04:03Deadly.
04:10Simply deadly.
04:11With that broad forehead of his.
04:14His 99th Premier League goal.
04:21Off key from the penalty spot.
04:24Back on target.
04:27With a header from a gem of a cross by Mateus Nunes.
04:31Patient build-up from Manchester City.
04:33They had a couple of looks down this side.
04:35I thought Nunes was going to cross the ball there.
04:37You see the runs.
04:38And he then pings in a pacey ball.
04:43And the power comes from the cross.
04:46Whether Canate gets some connection with this.
04:51We'll have to wait and see.
04:52It almost looks like Canate tries to flip the ball on.
04:55And then it comes off the head of Haaland.
04:59He doesn't really know a lot about it.
05:00I thought it was a brilliant header.
05:01It's actually quite fortunate the way that comes off Haaland's head.
05:05But no one else in Europe can match that.
05:10And Haaland's in again.
05:14Doku.
05:20Salah.
05:22And Van Dijk.
05:24Captain's header.
05:25One apiece at the head of Haaland.
05:33Let's go.
05:34Well done.
05:36No joke is off.
05:37And that is a majestic headed response.
05:40But he's about to look across and see a flag.
05:45And that is going to spoil his celebration.
05:48The suggestion is that there is an offside which will see that chalked off.
05:53There was no luck involved in it.
05:56Yeah.
05:56There's...
05:57There's offside there.
05:59You see Andy Robertson who gets out of the way.
06:04Brilliant.
06:04Brilliant header by Van Dijk.
06:06And he's just...
06:08Yeah.
06:09He's in the eyeline of Donnarumma, isn't he?
06:10Andy Robertson.
06:11Frustrating for Liverpool as it is.
06:15Because I don't think Donnarumma would have stopped that.
06:16It was such a great header.
06:17But just...
06:19Unfortunately, from a Liverpool perspective and Virgil van Dijk.
06:26Gonzalez.
06:27Lining it up.
06:28Defected it in.
06:30And Manchester City have got lucky.
06:32And the suspicion is it came off Liverpool's captain Virgil van Dijk on route.
06:50It takes two deflections there, maybe.
06:52And it's those sorts of conditions, isn't it?
06:54With the...
06:54The rain and the slippery surface.
06:59Speculative effort.
07:00Actually goes through the legs of a Liverpool player.
07:04Virgil van Dijk can do nothing about it.
07:06He dangles his leg out.
07:07He's really unfortunate with the deflection, but...
07:11Once again, in these conditions from that sort of range, why not try a shot?
07:17He's...
07:17He's found it not that easy.
07:22Doku.
07:23O'Reilly.
07:25Oh!
07:26Doku just a stride away from being able to convert.
07:30Graven Beck into a big gap.
07:33Salah.
07:36A rumour came hurtling out.
07:37Diaz played a part as well.
07:40And Bradio tries to do the mopping out to Salah again.
07:45Such a escape to hairy moment.
07:46Yeah, this is excellent by Liverpool.
07:52This is what they were lacking in the first half, that.
07:57McAllister.
07:59Bradley.
08:02Salah.
08:03Bradley!
08:04And Gatto coming on.
08:06Doku.
08:09Oh, he hit that beautifully.
08:16He is having a day of days.
08:19It's taken a while for his true talent to shine through, but now, in his third season in City Blue, he looks the real deal.
08:41He's been absolutely brilliant in those one-on-one situations.
08:46And credit to Nico Gonzalez.
08:47Lovely ball out.
08:48Just lofted into a wide area.
08:51Set back to Doku.
08:52And you see one thing on his mind.
08:54Cuts inside.
08:55Opens up the angle.
08:57You were talking about Marmadashvili saving penalties.
09:00Left, right and center.
09:00He's a big goalkeeper.
09:01So, that proves the quality of that execution there.
09:05It's absolutely outstanding.
09:09Drops inside.
09:11Loads of bend on the ball.
09:12Sets it wide of the goalkeeper.
09:15And just brings it back in to nestle into that far corner.
09:20Wonderful afternoon's work so far by Jeremy Doku.
09:23What a way to mark your 100th game for Manchester City.
09:27His 17th goal.
09:28And vindication of all that faith that Guardiola has always placed in the Belgian.
09:38Viert.
09:40Kerkhez.
09:44Just too much on it after the deflection for Van Dijk.
09:48Sobos Lai will whack it.
09:50Bang on target.
09:53And this time, the set-piece taken by Gagto.
09:58A similar outcome.
10:00Bradley.
10:01Van Dijk.
10:04Gone Aruna.
10:08Liverpool's first effort on target arriving in the 76th minute of this game.
10:17Salah coming from an onside position.
10:19And Mo Salah.
10:23Agonisingly wide.
10:24This is not Liverpool's day.
10:26That sums it up, doesn't it?
10:33Foden.
10:36Could the space...
10:37Nico O'Reilly have Liverpool at his mercy?
10:40Oh, his eyes must have just lit up as that ball came across to him.
10:46It's a brilliant bit of interplay down the right-hand side.
10:50Foden then cutting inside.
10:51And an outside of the foot pass to O'Reilly.
10:53Had so much time to set that up.
10:56You see, he gets his foot planted wrong.
10:58The strike's wrong as well.
11:00That is one to forget.
11:01O'Reilly.
11:14He's got some shooting practice to do over the weekend.
11:17Next weekend, doesn't he, if he's off?
11:19This is his section looking pretty empty.
11:23Foden.
11:23A very satisfactory day for Manchester City.
11:32And a slightly alarming one for Liverpool.
11:37Manchester City goes second in the Premier League at the November break.
11:42Having inflicted on Liverpool their heaviest Premier League defeat
11:46under the tenure of Arna Slott.
11:49And the table makes happy reading for Guardiola and co.
11:52this evening, as they look to a two-week break from club combat.
11:58Arsenal, 26 points.
11:59Manchester City within four.
12:01The gap could have been nine at the start of the weekend.
12:04In the worst-case scenario, it is only four.
12:07And now it's bridgeable.
12:08Chelsea third, Sunderland.
12:11Hats off to them in fourth after that thrilling draw with Arsenal yesterday.
12:16Spurs fifth, Villa six.
12:18Manchester United seventh.
12:19And Liverpool, the reigning champions,
12:21are eight points off the pace in eighth place
12:25after losing for a fifth time in their last six Premier League games.
12:33Sporting late, Slott congratulates the victors.
12:36And Pep Guardiola contemplates a landmark day.
12:40His 1,000th game as a manager
12:42with a scoreline he's seen hundreds of times before.
12:46Manchester City three, Liverpool nil.
12:49Hi there, I'm Rebecca Lowe,
12:51studio host of NBC's coverage of the Premier League.
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