The minute that summed up 20 years of Man City misfortune vs Liverpool FC at Anfield

Pep Guardiola turned to face Anfield's imposing Main Stand and started orchestrating the jubilant Liverpool fans. The Manchester City manager had been waving his arms in the air seconds earlier and now he was egging on the delighted home fans.

It felt like City - and Guardiola - at Anfield in microcosm and came at the end of a passage of play that probably sums up their misfortune at this stadium.

There will be plenty who still think City have a mental block when it comes to playing here in front of fans and the team selection was perhaps a little cautious to face a side so low on confidence and whose manager had declared them out of the title race after eight games.

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This looked like the day City would go to Anfield and finally win in front of fans for the first time in 2003. Instead, that wait goes on. Next season it will be 20 years and the Blues' only win here in that time was the 4-1 thrashing in front of an empty stadium in February 2021. It counts, but as Guardiola has said, this place is very different when it's full.

City certainly through their shackles off in a second half that was entertaining as the first was dull and in a 60-second spell it looked like their luck was turning in the red half of Merseyside.

When Mohamed Salah sprinted on to Diogo Jota's pass early in the second half in an all-too-familiar Liverpool counter the outcome looked obvious. Salah raced away from Nathan Ake but with Anfield already celebrating his left-footed finish dribbled the wrong side of the post.

Referee Anthony Taylor gave a goal-kick but replays showed it had been a sensational save from Ederson, getting enough of a hand on the ball to divert it marginally the wrong