Overview
- Manchester City beat Liverpool 3-0 at the Etihad to move within four points of leaders Arsenal and rise to second on 22 points.
- Erling Haaland scored his 14th league goal after missing a first-half penalty, with Nico Gonzalez and Jeremy Doku adding the others.
- Guardiola marked his 1,000th match in management and praised the first-half display but criticised lost duels after the break.
- He cautioned that titles are won by teams that keep growing month by month and said recent wins still lacked complete performances.
- City’s resurgence follows defeats earlier in the season and a run of victories over Swansea, Bournemouth, Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool, with a busy post-break schedule ahead.