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EPL Advertisement live Updated 20m ago 23 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 87' Liverpool 2-0 Manchester City As if it wasn't bad enough losing 2-0 in the home of your greatest recent rivals, continuing their winless run to seven, Pep Guardiola now has the embarrassment of hearing 'Sacked in the morning, you're getting sacked in the morning' chants from the home fans. The Spaniard smiles wryly in recognition. Then, after a moment's thought, he turns slightly to the crowd and holds up six fingers to represent how many titles he's won at Manchester City. Liverpool have won one in that time. The chants stop quite quickly after that. .. Advertisement Getty Images 86' Liverpool 2-0 Manchester City Mo Salah, the Egyptian King, royalty at Anfield, gets a standing ovation as he is taken off by Arne Slot to give him a few minutes' rest. Curtis Jones on in his place. Best player on the park. He could have had another goal, too! 84' Liverpool 2-0 Manchester City Just as I was praising Virgil van Dijk! The Dutchman is far too casual on the ball at left centre-back, overconfident and complacent. Kevin De Bruyne closes him down, Van Dijk sort of pokes it in a panic but the Belgian controls it and races in on goal, one-on-one, on the angle. .. Caoimhin Kelleher saves with his legs and dives on the loose ball. The Irishman has saved Van Dijk some serious embarrassment there, and his team a really nervy 10 minutes. De Bruyne should do better. .. 83' Liverpool 2-0 Manchester City I just love watching Luis Diaz. The Colombian, nicknamed Lucho, protects the ball cleverly and plays it backwards with an entirely needless (but therefore very fun) no-look pass. Cheeky. Getty Images Relief as much as joy engulfs Anfield. Finally, Liverpool have doubled their lead. All stemmed from Nunez's pressing, they won the ball back high and Ortega sent Diaz flying in the box. Salah missed from the spot in midweek but he made no mistake this time - drilling low into the bottom corner. This place is bouncing. Liverpool are going nine points clear at the top. 81' Liverpool 2-0 Manchester City Salah had a beaming smile on his face after finally scoring, and exchanged words with Erling Haaland in the centre circle before kick-off after his goal. But then, he's angrily jabbing a finger towards Bernardo Silva, who left one on him, really. An ugly swipe brings the foul and a little kick out on Salah's hand after. No yellow, which I think is just about fair enough. Though you can see why Salah is annoyed. The Egyptian is dragged away. Advertisement Getty Images 80' Liverpool 2-0 Manchester City Pep Guardiola responds to the goal by belatedly bringing on Jack Grealish and Kevin De Bruyne for Rico Lewis and Phil Foden. Bit too late for them to affect the match now. 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. 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. Advertisement 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. 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. Advertisement 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. 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.