Majestic Manchester United marched into the last 16 of the Emirates FA Cup and piled on the misery for badly out-of-form Liverpool at Old Trafford.
Mohamed Salah
Manchester City count cost of Kevin De Bruyne penalty miss as they are held at home by champions Liverpool
Seven games into the Premier League campaign and Manchester City, remarkably, remain in the bottom half of the table following their failure to beat Liverpool.
Manchester United unable to halt Liverpool moving 16 points clear at top of the table
It was far from the rout many pundits had predicted, but Manchester United still failed to halt the Liverpool juggernaut that is rolling relentlessly and unimpeded towards a first-ever Premier League title
Manchester City lose ground in Premier League title race after loss at Liverpool
It’s a long way back for Manchester City in their pursuit of a hat-trick of Premier League titles.
Liverpool land Champions League knockout blow against Manchester City
MAN CITY 1, LIVERPOOL 2
(Liverpool won 5-1 on aggregate)
AFTER breezing through the 2017/18 campaign for more than eight months, Manchester City and Pep Guardiola have suddenly been found lacking at the business end of the season.
Three defeats in a disastrous seven days – twice to Liverpool in the quarter finals of the Champions League and also in the Manchester derby – have exposed chinks in the armour of Guardiola who had until now done little wrong.