Liverpool beat Manchester City in wild clash as Klopp sees red

LIVERPOOL — This is the moment Liverpool’s season finally started.

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In front of a raucous Anfield, Liverpool beat Manchester City 1-0 as Mohamed Salah sent the home fans into euphoria as the noise levels went off the scale.

In a tight, tense game (on and off the pitch), Jurgen Klopp’s injury-hit and underperforming side dug deep and Salah’s second half goal was enough to grab a statement win.

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Pep Guardiola and City have lost their unbeaten record and the reigning champs are now four points behind Premier League leaders Arsenal, and were left fuming as they believed Phil Foden had given them the lead in the second half but VAR ruled it out.

Liverpool have 13 points from 10 games, while Man City have 23 from 10 and failed to score in a Premier League game for the first time this season.

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Haaland is playable: Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez gave everyone in the Premier League hope. You can play against Erling Haaland. After a poor start to the season, many expected Van Dijk to be run around by Haaland. That wasn’t the case. At all. Haaland still had a few looks on goal but he got his headers wrong, was denied by Alisson and couldn’t get free of the Dutch center back and Gomez who doubled up masterfully on him. This was a crucial battle in the game and Van Dijk and Gomez won it for Liverpool.

Passionate Klopp gets personnel spot on: He deserved to get sent off for confronting the linesman and Klopp will admit it. He got that wrong. He got everything else right. From playing Milner at right back and Jota, Elliott, Firmino and Salah up top in a fluid four with Fabinho, Thiago in midfield to get on the ball and try to calm