Manchester City retain slender lead after thrilling draw with rivals Liverpool
Manchester City retained their slender lead at the Premier League summit as their crunch clash with title rivals Liverpool ended in a thrilling 2-2 draw.
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Man City, Liverpool share spoils in pulsating title clash
MANCHESTER, England :Manchester City remained one point clear of Liverpool at the top of the Premier League standings after the highly-anticipated clash of the giants ended in a pulsating 2-2 draw at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
As Salah toils, Jota stepping up as Liverpool’s go-to scorer
DUBAI: It was an open-and-shut case for many, including his manager. Mohamed Salah was, it was declared on an almost weekly basis, the best soccer player in the world for the first half of this season, demonstrating the kind of elite-level scoring form only Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and more recently Robert Lewandowski have been able to produce this century. It wasn’t just the volume of goals — 22 in his first 23 matches — that he was putting away for Liverpool.
Liverpool take 3-1 first-leg lead over Benfica after late Luis Diaz strike
Winger Luis Diaz marked his return to Portugal with the crucial late goal which gave Liverpool a 3-1 lead over Benfica to take back to Anfield for their Champions League quarter-final second leg.
Watch: The Trent Alexander-Arnold Cross Which Has Taken The Internet By Storm
Trent Alexander-Arnold is considered by many football fans to be one of the best right-backs in the world and the Liverpool defender lived up to his hype with a brilliant performance against Benfica. The England player was up to his usual tricks in his side's UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg encounter at the Estadio da Luz. He helped create Liverpool's second goal in a 3-1 victory and almost created another. In the 34th-minute, Benfica midfielder Adel Taarabt lost the ball and midfield and then the 23-year-old Arnold floated a long cross-field pass to Luis Diaz from his usual right-back spot. Diaz headed it across goal to Sadio Mane, who simply tapped it home to make 2-0.
Watch: Fabinho fails hilariously attempting knee-slide celebration
While Ibrahima Konate scored the opening goal in Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Benfica in the Champions League, Fabinho still managed to steal the show.
Liverpool: Sadio Mane interrupted Luis Diaz's interview to show him some love
Liverpool took a huge step towards qualifying for the semi-finals of the 2021/22 Champions League on Tuesday evening.
Champions League: Liverpool In Sight Of Semis After Putting Three Past Benfica
Liverpool took charge of their Champions League quarter-final against Benfica on Tuesday as Sadio Mane, Ibrahima Konate and Luis Diaz gave them a 3-1 lead after the first leg in Lisbon. Konate nodded in his first Liverpool goal from a corner before Mane tapped home to put the visitors in command at the Estadio da Luz. Benfica made a game of it early in the second half when a Konate error allowed the lively Darwin Nunez to pull one back, but Diaz, who was superb all night, added a third to put Liverpool in sight of the semis.