00:00It is a day of enormous significance for Pep Guardiola as City's most successful ever manager racks up the 1,000th game of his stunning management career.
00:13Well, today's Remembrance Sunday as we reflect on the enormous sacrifices that others have made for our modern-day freedoms.
00:21And we will pause our commentary as we have all the significant remembrance commemorations.
00:30Ball goes on to Doku down the left-hand side, Doku trying to attack Bradley, Bradley an excellent right full-back and he's done his job well there.
00:47And oh, he's given it away and Doku could be in here and Doku's brought down and then Scherke hits the shot and a second time and it's cleared.
00:55Well, that was surely a foul. That has to be a penalty, doesn't it?
00:58I think the referee might be asked to go back and look at it, but he's that close, Ali.
01:02Ali's really close and I don't think he thinks he's seen anything. It might be that Doku's kicked the ground.
01:08Well, City have kicked the ball out to allow VAR to check it.
01:14I think he's clipped his heel. He's just clipped his back of his heel. Just watch on the follow-through there.
01:19Yeah, that's the touch that brings him over and the knee as well.
01:22Yes.
01:23There's two contacts. He has to give the penalty. Yeah, absolutely.
01:27Look to penalty. Should have been given by the referee, but at least VAR have bailed him out and City will have an early possibility of taking the lead here.
01:36And you can't knock him, Ali, because if he's not 100% sure and he hasn't seen the contact, but it's the trailing knee actually, it's the knee that catches.
01:45After review, the goalkeeper creates a foul challenge on the attacker.
01:55There you go. Penalty, City.
01:58Never any doubt.
02:00It was the second we saw it.
02:04And Erling Haaland has the chance to give City an early lead here and keep his 100% record against Liverpool here at the Etihad Stadium.
02:12He's scored every time he's faced Liverpool here inside home territory.
02:18So Haaland takes back the short run-up, looks up.
02:22And it's saved by the goalkeeper and cleared over to the far side.
02:27And Marmadashvili has gone the correct way and the referee has got a signal to check that he didn't leave his line.
02:34Now, let's have a look.
02:35VAR are checking to see whether or not he might be retaken here.
02:39VAR are checking.
02:40It seemed a very comfy save and he did seem to be away from the line.
02:46I think we're clutching at straws, Ali.
02:47Yeah, we are, but the fact the referee's not allowed the restart.
02:50No, it's fine.
02:51No, I think that's fine.
02:52That'll be fine.
02:52It is a save.
02:54It is 0-0.
02:55Haaland's penalty has been saved.
02:57It stays at 0-0.
02:58Headed away by Matthias Nunes and then it's picked up by Guardiol, who goes all the way back to Donnarumma.
03:08Wirtz comes to stop Donnarumma and it goes out to this near side to Diaz.
03:13Diaz up to Matthias Nunes, back inside to Bernardo Silva.
03:17Clipped in to Haaland.
03:19Haaland brings it down, lays it off to Foden.
03:22Foden on to Doku.
03:23Doku up against Bradley.
03:25Down the left side goes Doku.
03:26Back inside.
03:27Keeps on coming.
03:28Still with Doku.
03:29Still holds on to it.
03:31Little turn and hit.
03:32Oh, it's side netting.
03:33It's side netting.
03:34It's a great save, Ali.
03:35I think the keeper's just got a finger to it.
03:38Brilliant again from Doku.
03:39But the build-up play on the halfway line from Haaland is what creates it.
03:42And that's something that is massively improved on this season.
03:46Just that little turn, that little turning shoulder.
03:48Yeah, I think he's got his right hand onto it, the keeper.
03:53Vardyol into Diaz.
03:55Diaz across to the right side to Matthias Nunes.
03:58Matthias Nunes in a crossing position.
04:00Hits it in towards Haaland.
04:01Haaland scores!
04:04Crossing the area.
04:06Ibrahima Kanate misses the ball.
04:09Haaland scores.
04:11City 1.
04:12Liverpool 0.
04:13It had to come.
04:14We keep asking, don't we?
04:16It almost, he had to get invited twice for Nunes.
04:19He turned down the first chance to cross it.
04:21I think as Robertson then drops off, he then says,
04:24OK, I'm going to put it in.
04:26And put it into a wonderful area.
04:28Not too sure what Kanate's doing,
04:30but it almost hits blindsided Haaland on the forehead
04:34and drops in the far corner.
04:39Salah, he did get to it right by the byline.
04:42Tries to take on O'Reilly.
04:44Hits in across which deflects out for a corner.
04:47Liverpool's first of the match.
04:48In-swinging delivery, driven at pace.
04:57And the header's in from Van Dijk.
04:59Liverpool have got themselves back level with the most simple of set pieces.
05:03Across into the box, the Van Dijk header, it's 1-1.
05:06Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:08There's something going on here.
05:10Oh, hang on.
05:11With the linesman.
05:12What's been given?
05:13Somebody in front of the keeper blocking off Ali.
05:16I'm not sure what it's for, I'll be honest.
05:19I'm not sure what it's for.
05:21No.
05:21It must, well, it must be offside.
05:24Someone must have been in the view of the goalkeeper.
05:27Somebody's blocked the keeper or something.
05:28Someone's blocked the view of the goalkeeper.
05:29Ham ball.
05:29Let's have a look, Ali, here on the screen.
05:31Let's have a look.
05:32So the ball comes in.
05:34Oh, yeah, stood right in front.
05:35Oh, yeah.
05:35It has to.
05:36Yeah, absolutely.
05:36He's offside.
05:37Yeah, it is.
05:38And he ducks.
05:39I must admit, I didn't see it.
05:40But it is offside.
05:41It will be disallowed.
05:42That's the right call.
05:43So there you have it.
05:44Yep.
05:56So City's corner, Foden with an in-swinger.
06:07Posse of players around the goalkeeper.
06:10Foden to the near, Haaland glances it on, cleared as far as Doku.
06:14Doku inside the penalty area, clips it in again, cleared by Van Dijk, up towards the corner flag and it spins out for another City corner.
06:22Good pressure at the end of the first half.
06:24And nice to see that with them.
06:27Oh, there you go, the short one, just try and catch them out.
06:29Yep, Cherky's got it on the edge of the area.
06:31Doku could have been offside, so it goes back to Bernardo Silva.
06:34Nico, shooting position, hits it low!
06:37City 2, Liverpool 0!
06:40A goal from Nico.
06:42It took a deflection and in stoppage time at the end of the first half, there is daylight.
06:48City 2, Liverpool 0.
06:49It has been City's half.
06:51Absolutely, and I think he deserves it, Ali.
06:53You know, just gone under the radar.
06:55So good the last two, three weeks.
06:57Try something different and see what happens.
06:59A little deflection of Van Dijk.
07:01Well done Nico, fantastic, brilliant.
07:03And probably a reflection of how dominant City have been in this first 45 minutes.
07:08Bernardo Silva scampers full.
07:18Back it goes and City have it with Bernardo Silva and again Savino and now Nico.
07:23There's a little bit of space on the left-hand side and O'Reilly's going to run into it.
07:27O'Reilly now down the left wing.
07:29Bradley comes up against him.
07:30Doku gets the ball now.
07:31Doku can attack Canate in the position to shoot.
07:35Scores!
07:36Jeremy Doku!
07:39What a fabulous, fabulous strike!
07:42City 3, Liverpool 0!
07:45And on the occasion of his 100th appearance for the club,
07:50and on the occasion of the 1,000th game for Pep Guardiola,
07:55City lead 3-0 with an absolute beauty from Jeremy Doku.
08:05Ball goes into Wertz.
08:08Wertz, oh, it's not a bad ball at all.
08:10Liverpool have men in the box here looking for it.
08:12Deflection.
08:13Van Dijk can't quite get to it.
08:14Salah picks it up.
08:15Still not away yet.
08:16Somerslai drives it and a great save by Donnarumma for the corner.
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