straight to your inboxAlan Shearer believes Manchester City have finally found a settled centre-back partnership in Ruben Dias and Aymeric Laporte.Pep Guardiola's side drew 1-1 with Liverpool in a frantic match that they could have won, had Kevin de Bruyne not missed a first-half penalty.Liverpool started the game the stronger, with Jurgen Klopp fielding a front four of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Diogo Jota.In a throwback 4-2-4 system, City were penned in and under the cosh for the first half an hour, where the defensive partnership of Laporte and Dias was heavily tested, with Liverpool's front four heavily rotating.Since Vincent Kompany left the club, City have struggled for continuity in defence due to the form and.
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