The Manchester City of Pep Guardiola has advanced to the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup after winning and delete to the Liverpool in a partidazo that leaves very good feelings to the 'citizens' in his return to the official competitions and that, in spite of the big effort, leaves to the Liverpool in a sea of doubts and with the obligation to take a step forward definite.
The 'sky blues' dominated and imposed his law, once again, comandados by an Erling Haaland that has showed that, in question, keeps on being the machine goleadora that already had 'known' before the stop of selections. Only it took ten minutes in opening the marker and add his goal number 24 in what it goes of season (in 19 parties contested).
The case is that the ariete Norwegian gave start to a party goleadora between the City and Liverpool after surpassing to all the saga 'network' inside the area and commanding a finish powerful after a centre of Kevin of Bruyne. The answer, however, arrived ten minutes afterwards after a good played of the trained by Jürgen Klopp that finish with a pass of Milner to Carvalho, the one who commanded a shot with thread, adjusted to the stick, direct to the goal.
With the marker equalised, went the City the one who more proposed, but topó against a Kelleher that denied the goal to Gündogan and Aké, almost consecutively. The guardameta Irish, replacing to Alisson Becker, did big under the three sticks, as sucedió with Ortega, in the another goal, with several saved important, especially in front of Darwin Nuñez that was not hit in the last pass and that failed several chances clear.
Party of goals
In the second half, produced a festival of goals that finish with the Manchester City striking stronger and putting the definite sentence, in spite of the efforts of the Liverpool in recortar the differences. Mahrez Was the attendant in breaking the equality, going out of the changing room, after a diagonal sending of Rodri so that the Algerian finished directly to the long stick.
The celebration did not last a lot, because Salah signed the tables immediately after a pass of the death of Núñez. The Egyptian, very very positioned, only had to push the balloon to put a 2-2 that neither lasted a lot, because Kevin of Bruyne went back to take part to put a centre medidito to the second stick for the apparition and head butt of Aké, in a goal that 'killed' to the 'reds'.