Despite the fact that Manchester City came out with a strong team, the Liverpool team played better. Jurgen Klopp’s team left it all on the pitch and played with the finesse of the world class team that they are. Manchester's central forward Gabriel Jesus placed his team ahead by scoring an early goal within two minutes. Sane, scored the second goal but this goal was disallowed by the referee. The referee claimed that Liverpool's goalkeeper was fouled, which resulted in City’s goal being disallowed. As you would expect, Pep Guardiola was not happy with this decision. He expressed his displeasure to the referee and this earned him a yellow card. Pep was forced to watch his team as a spectator as his team started the second half.
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In the second half, assistant manager, Mikal Arteta took over the sidelines and had front row seat to Manchester City’s absolute humiliation in the hands of Liverpool. The second half was Liverpool’s opportunity to shine. Mo Salah started the goal scoring for Liverpool in the 56th minute and in the 77th minute, Firmino scored the goal that gave his team their win.
This means that Manchester City has lost their bid for the UEFA champions league and Liverpool has qualified for the semi-finals of the Champions league. This defeat makes it Pep Guardiola’s third consecutive defeat in a very long time.
The next game of interest was that of Barcelona versus Roma. Barcelona came into the game with a 4 -1 lead and it was expected that Barcelona will scale through this one with ease. However, this was not to be. Roma dominated this game starting with a 1- 0 lead from Dzeko in the fifth minute. After scoring their first goal, Roma only needed two more goals to qualify for the Champions League. These two goals came from De Rossi in the 58th minute and Manola in the 82nd minute. Despite Barca fielding top players like Messi, Suarez, and Pique, the team could only manage three shots on goal compared to Roma’s 6 shots on target.
Overall, this was another thrilling game and a great win for Roma.