Manchester Metropolis had been again to their glowing greatest as they swept apart a disappointing Liverpool in wet Manchester.
Erling Haaland noticed an early penalty saved nevertheless it mattered little as Metropolis had been sharper and slicker all around the subject than the Premier League champions.
Haaland sailed in a header to open the scoring and Virgil van Dijk then had a leveller dominated out for offside.
There was a contact of fortune about Metropolis’s second as Nico Gonzalez’s long-range strike deflected in off Van Dijk.
However there was nothing fortunate about Jeremy Doku’s sensible thrid, the Belgian whipping a magnificence into the highest nook from 25 yards.
Liverpool are the primary reigning Premier League champions to concede as many as 17 targets of their first 11 video games since Liverpool in 2020-21 (17).
Victory in Pep Guardiola’s a thousandth recreation as supervisor noticed Metropolis go second, 4 factors behind Arsenal, whereas Liverpool are eighth.
Arne Slot’s facet had emerged from a latest droop with spectacular back-to-back wins over Aston Villa and Actual Madrid, however the defeat was their fifth in six league video games and left them eight factors adrift of the Gunners.
Doku was the principle participant within the recreation’s main speaking level after 9 minutes when he burst previous two defenders and went down following a problem by Giorgi Mamardashvili.
No penalty was given initially and replays urged contact was minimal, however referee Chris Kavanagh reversed his choice after being summoned to the VAR display screen.
Liverpool could have felt justice was served as Mamardashvili pushed away Haaland’s spot-kick, however the reprieve didn’t final lengthy.
Haaland leapt above a static Ibrahima Konate and headed firmly previous Mamardashvili who, not like for the spot-kick, was rooted to the spot.
After Gonzalez’s deflected shot Doku put the sport past doubt simply after the hour when he took a move from Nico O’Reilly and curled in a shocking first league aim since January.
Liverpool couldn’t even handle a comfort with a Dominic Szoboszlai shot saved by Gianluigi Donnarumma and Mohamed Salah poking large.