Man City regain Liverpool FC title edge after emotional day at Everton

On a day when Everton surfed the passion of an emotional day at Goodison Park, and Manchester City huffed and puffed, Phil Foden delivered a winning goal that could prove crucial in the title race.

It looked like the Blues were heading for more dropped points until the 21-year-old pounced on a mistake by an exhausted Everton defence.

With Liverpool fans relishing the thought that their neighbours from across Stanley Park might inflict another big dent in City’s previously impregnable armour, Foden ’s goal could be a turning point.

It puts six points of daylight between them and Jurgen Klopp’s side again, as Liverpool prepare for the Carabao Cup final tomorrow.

Until that late moment, Everton looked like clinging on after expending a huge amount of energy in negating the Blues in the first half, and ten defended doggedly as the inevitable Blue surge happened - none too convincingly - after the break.

The build-up to the game was overflowing with emotion, not surprisingly as both teams have a Ukrainian in their ranks, and fellow players and fans of both teams were keen to show solidarity.

When City’s Aleks Zinchenko emerged and made a bee-line for his countryman Vitali Mykolenko during the warm-up, the two men shared a hug and had a quick heart-to-heart as fans applauded, and the away support waved Ukraine flags and a less-than-complimentary message for Russian premier Vladimir Putin.

The two teams emerged with their own display of support for the beleaguered country, subject to a fierce assault by Russian forces for the last two days.

City players wore t-shirts bearing the blue-and-yellow Ukraine flag, while Everton’s team all wrapped themselves in the same symbol of defiance.

As the two sets of players lined up,