Man City vs Liverpool delivers on pre-match promise with result almost an afterthought
dailystar.co.ukIt was a game no-one wanted to see end.A game for which superlatives could have been invented; a game of blockbusting brilliance that delivered all we had hoped for and then some more.
A game that failed to produce a winner but it didn't feel like it mattered, because there didn't deserve to be a loser.Welcome to the Premier League of 2022 and a title race for the ages between two teams, in Manchester City and Liverpool, who have set the sort of scintillating standards all the rest can only dream of reaching.
A cigarette paper separated these great rivals before kick-off and still did at the final whistle of an epic clash which felt like football's equivalent of the 'Rumble in the Jungle' and 'Thriller in Manila' all rolled into one.These heavyweights traded blows from start to finish - and the fact neither side could land the knockout one means City head into the final few weeks of a gripping season just a point ahead of Jurgen Klopp's men.
Both Pep Guardiola and Klopp had indulged in a love-in during the build up.Klopp had hailed Guardiola the best boss in the world, while the Spaniard had insisted the German had pushed him to scale new heights in English football and was now the biggest rival he'd ever faced.
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