Manchester City hurled themselves right back into the title race last night and blew away Liverpool’s unbeaten run in the Premier League with a 2-1 victory at the Etihad.
Jurgen Klopp clearly didn’t have the courage of his convictions as the Scouse Special Victims Unit became victims of their own success or lack of it. Rather than playing their normal football, Liverpool for some reason feared Fernandinho and David Silva, deploying Milner and Wijnaldum to try to snuff them out. Therefore instead of their three-up-three-down midfield, where those players bolster the back four and support the front three, it left only Henderson, approaching if not past his sell-by date in this team, to combat the effervescent Bernardo and the wing raids from Sterling and Sane.