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FT - LIVERPOOL 2-2 MAN CITY

Date: Sunday 26 August 2012
Kick Off: 16:00
Venue: Anfield, Liverpool
Competition: Premier League
Referee: Andre Marriner

LINKS

http://www.thefirstrow.eu/

http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=165319∂=sports

LIVE ARTICLE

http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewLiveArticle/147292

LIVE SCOREBOARD

LIVERPOOL - 2
Skrtel 34'
Suarez 66'

MANCHESTER CITY - 2
Y. Toure 64'
Tevez 80'

TEAMS

Liverpool

Starting XI

Reina
Johnson
Kelly (Enrique 66')
Coates
Skrtel
Lucas (Shelvey 5')
Allen
Gerrard
Sterling
Borini (Carroll 83')
Suarez

Subs

Jones, Enrique, Carroll, Henderson, Carragher, Shelvey, Downing.

Manchester City

Starting XI

Hart
K. Toure
Kompany
Zabaleta
Milner (Silva 76')
De Jong
Y. Toure
Nasri (Rodwell 60')
Kolarov
Balotelli (Dzeko 62')
Tevez

Subs

Pantilimon, Lescott, Savic, Silva, Rodwell, Razak, Dzeko.

KEY UPDATES

19' - Carlos Tevez strikes the woodwork! From a tight angle the Argentinean hooks his foot around the ball but it bounces off the far post and is gathered by Reina.

33' - So nearly an opener for Liverpool as Kompany slices over his own crossbar.

34' - From the resulting corner Liverpool do lead thanks to Martin Skrtel's thumping header.

45' - The half-time whistle sounds to cheers from around Anfield. It's been a great first-half for Liverpool - they lead and deserve to. The passing has been wonderful to watch at times, and yet the goal came from a Martin Skrtel bullet header.

64' - Equaliser for City but it's a mess from Liverpool's point of view. Reina misses a cross, it bounces off Kelly and Yaya Toure converts.

66' - SENSATIONAL FROM LUIS SUAREZ! He's had a frustrating day today but the Uruguayan master craftsman curls in a wonderful set-piece and Liverpool's lead is restored.

80' - Catastrophic error from Martin Skrtel who's backpass to Reina is hopelessly short and Carlos Tevez knocks it in.

90' - The full-time whistle goes. It was an excellent performance from Liverpool but they threw away the lead twice with poor errors. But their have been signs of encouragement for Brendan Rodgers.

LAST MATCHES

Liverpool
Thursday 23 August 2012
UEFA Europa League Play-Off Round First Leg
Heart of Midlothian 0-1 Liverpool

Manchester City
Sunday 19 August 2012
Premier League
Manchester City 3-2 Southampton

Head-to-Head
Wednesday 25 January 2012
League Cup Semi-Final Second Leg
Liverpool 2-2 Manchester City

TOP SCORERS

Liverpool

Fabio Borini - 1
Stewart Downing - 1
Steven Gerrard - 1

Manchester City

Carlos Tevez - 3
Samir Nasri - 2
Yaya Toure - 2

posted on 26/8/12

Early xmas?Man city got gifts today! All the same inspiring performance..........skrtl,Coates,Sterling, SG, Reina,Allen..............Suarez was under par!

posted on 26/8/12

Arsenal wont fancy it

That remains to be seen. Different game though

posted on 26/8/12

The error that Skrtel made is a by product of playing football that BR wants. They will learn from that. The important thing is that we are beginning to gel the team.

posted on 26/8/12

There's nothing wrong with expecting a win when you're playing at home...and considering the way we played today, we should have won, no question. A win could have taken us above Arsenal, instead we're now a point behind them, guess who we're playing next?

posted on 26/8/12

Will be a pretty good game next week I guess.

posted on 26/8/12

Good luck for the season !

posted on 26/8/12

Early xmas?Man city got gifts today! All the same inspiring performance..........skrtl,Coates,Sterling, SG, Reina,Allen..............Suarez was under par!

posted on 26/8/12

We are better than what most of us expect especially without Herderson and Downing...........add Sahin in there and you are as happy as am now..................a few drinks on........

posted on 26/8/12

It was a spirited performance from the team. It can only get better.

posted on 26/8/12

comment by gunnerthru (U6675)

posted 5 hours, 43 minutes ago

You thrown 2 points in the toilet today.


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Yes you are right.

That is why we are so happy.

Nobody took anything from us.

They couldn't because we were too good.

We had to gift them the goals.

This was our best performance for ages.


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