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EPL Advertisement live Updated 20m ago 30 New Updates Liverpool extended their lead at the top of the Premier League to nine points by beating a desperately poor Manchester City 2-0 at Anfield. Cody Gakpo opened the scoring before Mohamed Salah’s second-half penalty ensured Liverpool moved 11 points clear of the reigning champions. City boss Pep Guardiola was taunted with chants of ‘sacked in the morning’ from a delirious Anfield crowd — and responded by holding up six fingers to signify the six titles he has won with the club. Follow live reaction below and subscribe to The Athletic on an exclusive offer here. Getty Images 78' Liverpool 2-0 Manchester City Mo Salah! 2-0 and that should be the match! Salah was kicking the ball up calmly before the spot-kick and amid the Manchester City (unwarranted) protests. Loads of grappling going on outside the box but he didn't care. He just focused on his task: scoring. Which he did, with aplomb, rattling it into the bottom-right corner. Stefan Ortega went the right way but it was right in the corner and he couldn't keep it out. Advertisement Getty Images 76' Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City A massive moment in the match! Ruben Dias is pressed, but instead of passing it back to the goalkeeper, he turns back into danger. Darwin Nunez wins it and slots it to Luis Diaz, cutting in from the left wing. Diaz's first touch is a little heavy but takes him in on goal, Mo Salah (who was offside) moving out of his way. The Colombian takes a touch past Stefan Ortega, who is off his line, dives in and gets none of the ball. Definite penalty. VAR confirms the call. Mo Salah to take. .. Getty Images With Conor Bradley facing a spell on the sidelines, no surprise that Arne Slot didn't want to try and get 90 minutes out of Trent Alexander-Arnold on his return from injury. Jarell Quansah is on at right-back for the final 17 minutes. Darwin Nunez's introduction for Cody Gakpo means that Luis Diaz has moved out to the left. 73' Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City Two changes for Liverpool, one defensive, one attacking. Trent Alexander-Arnold is off for Jarell Quansah, which I expect will see Joe Gomez to right-back and Quansah to centre-half. Darwin Nunez replaces goalscorer Cody Gakpo up front. Getty Images 72' Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City City do look far brighter in this second half, and are pushing hard for an equaliser. Despite all their neat build-up though, the simple and salient fact remains that they have had a grand total of zero shots on target. Obviously, that needs to change if they are to get anything from this match. 70' Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City This game is much more even now, City getting joy via their substitute wingers, Doku and Savinho. The Brazilian in particular looks to have the run on opposite man Andy Robertson. But Liverpool definitely still have teeth on the break. Just then, Cody Gakpo bore down on goal and could (possibly should) have given it to overlapping full-back Andy Robertson, who streaked down the outside with great exertion. Gakpo ignored him to cut back inside and shot powerfully, but straight at Ortega. A little selfish. Advertisement 69' Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City Jeremy Doku has looked more threatening than Matheus Nunes, shock, and wriggles his way into the box. He crosses looking for Erling Haaland, but Van Dijk is in the ideal position to boot it away. Haaland must be so frustrated. Getty Images 66' Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City Great from Liverpool, who lose it twice but win it back twice really quickly, a classic staple of top teams. Gakpo takes it off a City player's toe, gives it to Alexander-Arnold, on to Mo Salah. Salah gets a shot away, blocked, then Luis Diaz gets to the loose ball, juggles it cheekily a couple of times, volleys it goalwards. .. blocked again. Good defending (finally) from City. Though it's eventually called back for Salah being offside. A yard or two off. Getty Images Arne Slot deep in discussion with Sipke Hulshoff, his assistant, about changes. Can't be long before we see Curtis Jones and possibly Darwin Nunez. Jarell Quansah and Harvey Elliott have been sent to warm up. 63' Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City I've barely mentioned his name today but Virgil van Dijk has been so, so good. He just oozes class. Even accounting for missing a couple of headers from attacking corners, his defensive work has been top. He's shackled the dangerous Erling Haaland with fantastic anticipation and positioning. Haaland drops short to drag Gomez out of position. Then he goes. He looks like he will reach the chipped ball over the top, but Van Dijk races back smoothly to hook it away at the key moment. What a defender. There have been some big warning signs for Liverpool in the second half. City are seeing more of the ball and starting to get into some promising situations. Anfield had responded, though, by cranking up the noise and within seconds of that Salah pounced on an error from Akanji and went through on goal. Salah is usually so composed in those positions but he lifted his shot over and City survived. The longer it stays at 1-0, the more City will believe they can still get something out of this game. Advertisement Getty Images I really am a doom merchant today but here we are. These two subs are sure to inject some impetus into this match at a time when City look fairly solid (apart from letting Salah have a massive chance. .. ) but when I talked about a lack of goals earlier in the day, a big part of that is that City's wingers are not much of a goal threat at present. Doku and Savinho are certainly lively but they will need to find a bit more to help City here. 58' Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City Just ahead of the hour mark, wingers Jeremy Doku and Savinho are on for Ilkay Gundogan and Matheus Nunes. Getty Images Mo Salah must do better there put the game to bed. There’s absolutely no excuse to miss the target from so close. Not from a player with such quality. He had been waiting for a chance like that all game and did superbly to intercept. But he has to score. Surely there would have been no way for City if that had gone in. Getty Images 57' Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City How has Mohamed Salah missed? The entire stadium expected the net to bulge there. It was a slack pass from Bernardo Silva back to Manuel Akanji around the halfway line, and Salah cracked into a tackle on the Swiss defender, winning it cleanly and fairly. Salah and Gakpo converged on the goalkeeper, two on one, and Gakpo got out of the Egyptian's way to give him as much space as possible. No one was getting back, goalkeeper Stefan Ortega close enough to see the whites of his eyes. .. and Salah put it over. He just tried to do too much, put it right into the top corner. It didn't need to have so much on it to go in. Anfield is stunned. That should have been 2-0, and, in all likelihood, the match wrapped up. 56' Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City Much better from Manchester City. They've had 23 passes in the final third to Liverpool's one in this second half. Bernardo Silva goes on a superb dribble across the pitch, into Rico Lewis, on to the overlapping Kyle Walker. Walker slides it inside to Silva, who continued his run, and loops it to the back post. .. goal kick. Much better. Advertisement 55' Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City When the chips are down, they're down. City, who were frustrated after a throw-in didn't go their way in the first half after it clearly took a Liverpool touch, are frustrated after Nunes presses Gomez into a mistake. It comes off Gomez and should be a corner, but it's not spotted. Goal kick. Getty Images 52' Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City Virgil van Dijk again gets on the end of an inswinging corner. Who is meant to be marking him? ! His glancing header is narrowly over. Think Ortega had it covered. How many more warnings do City need? Now City have another corner back at the other end. For probably the first time, we hear the City fans. The home supporters respond with chants of 'Liverpool! Liverpool! ' to put an end to that sonorific dominance. 50' Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City . .. and Erling Haaland has a wry smile on his face as he exchanges terse words with marker Dominik Szoboszlai. Wonder what's being said! Kelleher catches the ball, bowls it out quickly to the marauding Andy Robertson, who whips a fantastic through ball forward to Cody Gakpo, who is running in behind the City defence. It's a wonderful first touch from the flying Dutchman to bring it under his spell, but Matheus Nunes does really well to recover and slide in to put the ball behind for a corner. Nunes earns a chest-bump from Stefan Ortega in congratulations. Thrillingly direct from Liverpool. Worryingly open from City.