Full Highlights: Liverpool Dominate Manchester City at the Etihad

“I am more than angry, it is unbelievable the performance we had”, said Pellegrini.

The ratings don’t make pretty readings for Manchester City’s players and in truth would be worse were it not for The Sun’s freaky scoring – no player in a blue shirt was given less than a six despite their defensive horror show. I thought the lads were outstanding and hopefully that can really kick us on for the rest of the season.

His biggest win since taking over seven weeks ago more than made up for the home defeat against Crystal Palace immediately before the global break.

But Robert Firmino claims Liverpool were right to sack Brendan Rodgers. I played against him in the Champions League with City and they [Borussia Dortmund] were such a hard team to play against.

“It’s normal in football that former players play against their old club and nothing special”, said Klopp. Many other teams would have gone into the match expecting to play with their backs to the wall and hoping to snatch an unlikely goal, but Klopp did the opposite.

Liverpool looked eager to prove they didn’t need the opposition to score for them however, and Firmino and Philippe Coutinho looked bright early on.

Unsurprisingly, he declined – in the nicest possible way. Liverpool were playing with an aggressivity and objective that has characterised their approach since Klopp’s arrival and they swelled their lead yet further after a sweeping counter-attack.

“They have to wipe it from their memory, because there is nothing good about it. And the good fact is they are still in the title race, as you can see from the table”.

“There are a lot of things why I took the decisions with the starting XI but there was not one thing”.

“What is important is that we can see and feel that there’s a development in our game”.

He said: “I was very fortunate to be in a position where if had stayed at Manchester City, or if I had moved to Liverpool I was going to be happy and in a good place”.

Fast forward to the game against Man City and a completely different set of circumstances.

On the downside, captain Vincent Kompany is again sidelined by a calf problem while playmaker Silva (ankle) and striker Bony (hamstring) are also missing.

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