Liverpool pipped to title despite 3-1 win over Wolves: Premier League – live reaction!

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Liverpool came from behind to beat Wolves but it was all in vain as MAnchester City clinched the title at the Etihad.

Here’s Andy Hunter’s match report from Anfield:

Anfield dared to believe in number 20 and the unprecedented quadruple, until a small eruption occurred in the corner of the stadium in the 81st minute. Wolves fans had news of Manchester City’s comeback against Aston Villa and wasted no time announcing Liverpool’s heartbreak.

Jürgen Klopp’s team got the victory that would have seen them crowned Premier League champions but for Ilkay Gündogan’s late winner at the Etihad Stadium. They finished instead with supporters’ chants about running around Paris with the cup, and they will take a repeat of 2019 should the season end with another Champions League triumph against Real Madrid next Saturday, but there was also unmistakable deflation at the end of a day that promised so much only to deliver a tale of what might have been. Liverpool end the season with the third highest points total in the club’s history, the fourth when converting the 42-game 1978-79 season to three points for a win. That the other three have come in the last four seasons underlines the scale of the task required to challenge or unseat City.

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For a team to play every possible match in a season, to win two cup competitions with a third perhaps to come and end up one final-day goal away from the league title as well, is a phenomenal achievement, bewilderingly good. That they then leave the field after their final league fixture with shoulders slumped is horribly cruel.

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