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The Blues seem to have recovered their best form and the nature of this demanding season simply requires them to continue.
With an unprecedented Premier League title run, Manchester City 's overwhelming and ruthless victory over Chelsea has brought a lot of ink to Anfield.
The city, after all, had not looked at it yet. Pep Guardiola lamented the slowness of his team, even after some ordinary victories, and much more after the defeats.
There was even a bit of drowsiness since Arsenal were seen off a week ago, and not much flair at Goodison Park midweek. However, we have come to the end of this difficult series of three games, and City has won them all, ending it abruptly to bring it back to the top of the standings.
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If Liverpool hoped that Chelsea would frustrate City, or even beat them like in December, they would be eliminated in less than 15 minutes. In fact, in less than 25 minutes, the hosts were 4-0, a remarkable demonstration of the strength of a team that actually lived a charmed life.
When Sergio Aguero missed an open goal for what would have taken him to 2-0, City fans could have forgiven for thinking that they could possibly live to regret it. Guardiola, who threw himself to the ground with consternation, must have.
Yet, it was the opposite. Everything they touched suddenly entered. Shortly after, Aguero, determined to defeat his own anger, got the ball 25 meters and decided to attack it in the upper corner. He found it.
"Forgetting to play" was no problem, as Guardiola said, City maintained pressure, pressure that drove Ross Barkley to the head of his own goal, which only selected Aguero . Normal service has certainly resumed since Argentina has pivoted and found the bottom corner this time.
And when another loose game of Chelsea reached Ilkay Gundogan only on the edge of the surface, the German wondered: why not? and he's tried himself. Kepa Arrizabalaga could have saved him another day, but not this one.
City is actually struggling to implement in the last 20 minutes. If that does not really give Liverpool much hope, considering what happened in the second half, it will concern Guardiola, who directs the minds of his team to what it takes for to win. the league of champions. An episode like this could allow the best clubs in Europe to get some goals on the outside. But that's for another day.
Chelsea, despite the efforts of Maurizio Sarri, is not one of the best clubs in Europe and therefore could not pay City, even though he showed players that their coach's game plan could still work if they are gave time.
But if the Londoners found some fighting to finish the first half, they could not find it at the beginning of the second. City took back control and the brilliant Raheem Sterling, who kicked the ball, won a penalty that Aguero set aside for his hat trick. The titles will reflect his match against Alan Shearer 's history record in the Premier League, this embarrbadingly long forgotten opportunity.
Sterling then added another with probably the most emblematic goal goal of City – David Silva's ball at the cut line cut by Oleksandr Zinchenko, for the English winger to get fired. It was for six, scoring City in all sorts of different ways.
This is a result that will reverberate throughout Europe, especially in a week that marks the return of the Champions League. This is a result that will build confidence around the Etihad Stadium as they prepare for big games in all four competitions.
And there is no doubt that Liverpool will have little reason to think, if they do not have enough on the board, since their match in hand against the blues is at Old Trafford in a fortnight.
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Yet, despite City's excellent work in winning three big victories in the space of seven days, the nature of the title race means that even this absolute humiliation of Chelsea is only that. an extra victory.
In some ways, this is the ultimate victory of the statements, but we are so far from the finish line that there is still time to change hands at least once. All that follows in City and Liverpool is another game they must win.
Guardiola's men have found their rhythm, which is what we can say with certainty. They just need to stay there for the next three or four months.
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