Liverpool vs Manchester City, Premier League: live score and latest updates

7:21PM

Klopp claims he's not thinking about the title

On what enabled Liverpool to see off the City threat.

On his side's three strikes.

On the handball debate.

On the title race.

6:59PM

Interesting take from a former Premier League referee

6:48PM

Guardiola refuses to be drawn on penalty shout

"What happened today is that we showed why we are the champions," Guardiola tells Geoff Shreeves. "I am so proud, so proud, we played so good."

Asked about the early penalty shout against Alexander-Arnold, he says pointedly: "Ask to the referees". We're not getting any more than that, with Guardiola refusing to elaborate further. "I am so polite, I did not say anything here," he adds when asked about the ironic congratulations he gave to the refereeing team at full time, flashing a mirthless smile.

6:43PM

TAA's take on his handball that wasn't

6:40PM

Permutations for the title race

6:37PM

Klopp not performing for the cameras

6:36PM

Unwelcome stats for City

6:31PM

Post-match pressers will be fun...

Odds on Guardiola giving someone a death stare so intense that it literally bores a hole in their skull?

He is going to be absolutely seething for weeks. Not a magnanimous loser, is he, really?

6:26PM

Over and out

Will Magee will take you through the post-match analysis. Bye!

6:25PM

Full time

Liverpool go nine points clear of Manchester City and eight ahead of Leicester City in second. Pep Guardiola's poor record against Jurgen Klopp is maintained as is City's at Anfield. City should have had a penalty and Liverpool's first goal consequently would not have stood but Liverpool were terrific on the break throughout and City's defence a shambles.

Pep Guardiola is livid.

6:23PM

90+2 min

City corner on the right taken short and Bernardo bends a cross in with the outside of his right foot that Liverpool hustle clear. Robertson puts his foot through it sending Mane into a sprint against De Bruyne. Mane shoves the scrambling midfielder. Free kick.

6:20PM

90 min

We'll have four added minutes which begin with a De Bruyne free-kick after Gomez tangles and argues with Sterling. De Bruyne bends it into the box and Gabriel Jesus heads over from an offside position.

6:19PM

89 min

Walker is incensed that Robertson gives him a shove into the ditch after a forlorn chase for a ball that was scuttling out for a Liverpool goalkick.

6:16PM

88 min

Liverpool make their final substitution: Salah departs and Gomez enters the fray at right-back.

6:16PM

86 min

Angelino stands up a deep cross from the left that was just too high for Walker. It strikes the top of his head at the apex of his leap and goes over the bar.

6:14PM

85 min

Alexander-Arnold needs help but Oxlade-Chamberlain is 20 yards ahead of him and allowing Sterling to run at him.

6:13PM

83 min

Sterling strikes Alexander-Arnold on the hand again, this time with the defender's hands close to his side. He asks for a penalty and his manager backs him up with some sarcastic mine when the appeal is turned down.

6:11PM

81 min

Liverpool substitution: Oxlade-Chamberlain replaces Firmino.

6:10PM

80 min

City carve out another decent chance through Sterling and Gabriel Jesus who tries to backheel the cross but slices it wide. Sterling was played down the inside-left channel by De Bruyne's excellent pass.

6:09PM

78 min

Poor header from Van Dijk, Angelino breaks down the left and scuds in a cross that rattles off a pair of shins to the back post where Bernardo was lurking to sweep in a low left-foot shot. VAR check shows Fabinho wasn't fouled in the build-up

6:07PM

GOAL!!

Liverpool 3-1 Man City (Bernardo)

6:04PM

76 min

City corner, taken short to Bernardo who is bullied off the ball by Mane.

6:03PM

74 min

Terrific from Robertson and Alexander-Arnold linking up with diagonals and almost carving out a chance until Stones slides in to knock it behind.

6:00PM

71 min

Man City substitution: Gabriel Jesus comes on for Aguero who receives a kiss and a hug from Guardiola.

5:59PM

70 min

Gundogan's pass for Sterling down the inside-left isn't anticipated and he stays stock still. Gundogan stamps his foot Rumpelstiltskin-style.

5:58PM

68 min

Aguero misses a sitter when cued up by De Bruyne's run down the left and centre. He peels off Van Dijk and thrusts out his right foot to hit it with his instep and completely airkicks instead.

5:56PM

67 min

Now Liverpool want a penalty when Alexander-Arnold goes down just inside the City box. Nothing doing.

5:55PM

66 min

Sterling asks for a penalty when he feels he is pushed in the back by Mane. There was a hand on his back as he went to ground but Michael Oliver says no and VAR, in the role of Phil Neal to Graham Taylor, says 'yes, boss'. Rodri is booked for dissent.

5:54PM

64 min

Quick turn by Salah in the box to shoot from 10 yards on the right. Fernandinho reads his movement and mirrors it to block the effort.

5:51PM

62 min

Liverpool sub: James Milner replaces Henderson as captain, too.

5:50PM

60 min

Sterling bends a cross around Alexander-Arnold with his right from the left, trying to pick out Aguero's run but it flirts too close to Alisson who plucks it off his head.

5:48PM

58 min

Still end-to-end. City, creaking at the back, still look dangerous going forward. 'World XI at one end, Ilford Seconds at the other' as Graham Gooch once said of the New Zealand bowling attack (Hadlee and the rest).

5:46PM

56 min

Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville are questioning the absence of Mendy who has been dropped for tactical reasons. Angelino is struggling but, they reason, he is not to blame.

5:43PM

54 min

Sterling cuts in from the left, beats three and shoots with his right from the edge of the D. Having sat Lovren down his shot is deflected over by the supine centre-back who sticks up his leg to poke it over the bar.

5:42PM

52 min

Henderson beats Angelino, dribbles to the byline and whips over a perfect cross, isolating the scrambling Bravo and tees up Mane for a tap-in with his head. Walker perhaps should have stuck to him tighter but all the momentum was with the attacker and it would have been difficult to thwart him with his back to goal.

5:40PM

GOAL!!

Liverpool 3-0 Man City (Mane)

5:40PM

50 min

Henderson is pushing on to Angelino with Alexander-Arnold ...

5:38PM

49 min

De Bruyne receives the short corner and arcs a tame cross-shot hybrid down Alisson's throat.

5:38PM

48 min

Sterling beats Alexander-Arnold down the outside then whips in a left-foot cross that the right-back blocks out for a corner. They take it short and work it to Gundogan on the 18-yard line. He shoots into Lovren and the ball balloons over the bar for a corner.

5:36PM

46 min

Liverpool make City wait 90 seconds before running out to kick-off. City go on the attack and Sterling immediately attracts boos.

5:21PM

Half-time

If the first 15 minutes was a Liverpool smash and grab raid after City had most of the possession and territory, the home side have now repeatedly exposed City's defensive weaknesses with the slick passing and movement of their wonderful forwards. Even so, City continue to create chances of their own, particularly down Alexander-Arnold's side and should have done better with two headers from set-pieces and Aguero's shot in the 42nd minute.

5:18PM

45+2 min

Aguero is played in across the 18-yard line by Sterling and, though he is surrounded, shifts the ball across the whitewash to scuff a low shot straight at Alisson.

5:17PM

45 min

Shot from Salah, left-foot from 25 yards after the City defenders stand off too deep and allow too many incursions down the sides. Claudio Bravo dives to his right to save.

5:16PM

44 min

More sustained possession from Manchester City. Liverpool defend each probe well and then break when they nick it. Fabinho and Fernandinho collide in a crunching challenge and the latter is penalised for the foul.

5:13PM

42 min

Aguero exploits Alexander-Arnold's positioning error to race down the inside-left channel into the box but with only Alisson to beat on the angle he drags his left-foot shot across the face of goal and out for a goalkick.

5:12PM

41 min

Fernandinho catches Salah on his tender ankle and he goes down. After a minute's treatment he springs up to continue.

5:11PM

40 min

The Premier League says it wasn't a penalty because Alexander-Arnold's hand wasn't in an unnatural position. What do you think?

5:10PM

37 min

Alexander-Arnold drives in from the right touchline on halfway and darts upfield, catching City's back four square and too narrow. He feeds the pass to Firmino who takes it on his left and drills a low shot at Bravo. It stings his hands first time but he pounces on top of it to prevent a rebound chance.

5:08PM

35 min

'One greedy b------' greets Sterling when he wins a corner off a double rebound that struck Alexander-Arnold. Alisson gobbles up the cross, gives it quickly and Salah races up the left, getting behind Walker and cutting it back for Firmino. He dips his shoulder, shimmies and toe-pokes a shot from 22 yards over the bar.

5:05PM

33 min

Alexander-Arnold exposes Angelino's defensive fragility again with a ball that catches the left-back out of position and puts him into a 60m dash with Salah. City recover and usher the ball out for a corner that Lovren glances on at the near post. Needed a touch at the back post to bury it but no one was there.

5:03PM

31 min

City build from the back as Liverpool try to smother them, finally breaking free and finding Angelino wide and high on the left. He strikes a cross with a first-time volley that flashes across goal about a yard in front of Aguero.

5:00PM

28 min

Sustained spell of City possession ultimately creates a chance for Angelino after a superb pass from De Bruyne sends him down the inside-left channel with Alexander-Arnold dawdling. He hits it with the outside of his left which bends the ball towards the right post which it hits, via a slight deflection, to dribble out for a corner.

4:58PM

25 min

Lovely turn by Salah to send Angelino off to but an Echo and a pint of milk but he doesn't pick the pass for Mane and is thwrated by congestion. Stones then almost gives it straight back to him with a lazy pass. Rodri bails his team-mate out with a timely tackle.

4:56PM

23 min

City take the corner short and Liverpool race out to squeeze their space. The ball goes from end to end and back again, Aguero writhing free with a dip of the shoulder and a nutmeg on Fabinho to shoot from 15 yards down the inside-left channel and Alisson turns it away at full stretch.

4:54PM

22 min

Fabinho escapes a yellow card and receives a talking to instead for a cynical clip of Gundogan's heels. De Bruyne takes it from 45 yards, chipping it to the left of the box for Sterling who takes a touch then fires in a cross that is blocked behind for a corner.

4:52PM

19 min

Liverpool are very compact now when they don't have the ball, emboldened by their two-goal cushion. And they're now enjoying longer spells of possession driven by crisp passing. Wijnaldum plays a one-two with Mane on the left of the box, steals into the area and opened his body looking to bend a shot in at the far post. It takes a deflection and goes out for a corner which Rodrigo defends well.

4:49PM

17 min

Gary Neville says Pep Guardiola is paying the price for not switching to three at the back in Laporte's absence. City are stringing more passes together but Liverpool are so clinical.

4:46PM

15 min

The only consolation for City is that it's so early and they are creating chances but they're wide open at the back.

4:45PM

13 min

The goal is awarded, a back post header by Salah as he peeled off Angelino. Alexander-Arnold switches it crossfield with his left foot. Robertson takes it in his stride perfectly, knocks it forward and bends in a fantastic, dipping cross that Salah buries with his head at the back post. Pep Guardiola slumps into his seat.

4:44PM

VAR check on the offside

Salah's goal stands.

4:43PM

GOAL!!??

Liverpool 2-0 Man City (Salah)

4:43PM

11 min

Liverpool are leading but are all over the place at the back. Alexander-Arnold concedes a free-kick. City bend it into the box and Aguero beats the offside line but can't telescope his neck to meet De Bruyne's centre.

4:41PM

8 min

Sergio Aguero complained loud and long to the referee. Liverpool keep giving the ball and free-kicks away. Sterling wriggles free at the near post and heads wide from a free-kick on the left. Should have scored.

4:39PM

6 min

A thunderous strike from 25 yards, bulleting it inches inside the left post. Seconds earlier City thought they should have had a penalty when Alexander-Arnold trapped the ball inadvertently, according to the referee, between his thigh and hand. City are livid but VAR decides not to overrule the referee. His hand was horizontal. Should have been a penalty. Sterling was waiting at the back post had the ball not touched his arm.

Mane plays to the whistle, jogs with tyhe ball up the left wing unimpeded until he gets to the byline, covering 60 yards and his cross is deflected into Fabinho's path. The crowd screams 'Shoot!' so he obliges, squeezing a rocket in at the post. Carragher and Neville, no friends of goalkeepers, think Claudio Bravo should have saved it. Not sure. A taller keeper maybe.

4:36PM

GOAL?!!

Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City (Fabinho)

4:36PM

5 min

De Bruyne takes it and sticks it on Stones' head. Has to score! But he glances it across goal and Liverpool race forward.

4:35PM

4 min

Robertson rather unnecessarily brings down Bernardo who was going nowhere but shielded the ball well. The cross from the free-kick hits the first defender and goes out for a corner.

4:34PM

3 min

Sterling attacks down the left, resoundingly booed by the Kop and whistled, too, for his apostasy. Sterling is judged to have fouled Alexander-Arnold when he tried to turn him and the crowd's jeers turn to cheers.

4:33PM

2 min

De Bruyne takes it, scudding a bobbler to the near post. Liverpool clobber it clear but when the header tries to play De Bruyne back in down the right, he misreads the flight and watches it bounce out.

4:32PM

1 min

City kick-off after the impeccably observed minute's silence and attack up the right, Walker pushing high and earning a throw-in that begets a corner on that side.

4:27PM

A minute's silence for the Fallen

Will precede kick-off. Currently it's Gerry Marsden time.

Mohamed Salah had some treatment on his ankle during the warm-up but seems to be OK.

Kevin De Bruyne is taking the initiative to gee the City players up while captain Fernandinho shakes hands with Jordan Henderson.

4:19PM

Jurgen Klopp speaks

4:09PM

Sky has assembled its A Team

Roy Keane, Jose Mourinho, Graeme Souness, Vincent Kompany and David Jones.

Jose Mourinho says: "If it's nine points tonight ... it's good night." Vincent Kompany thinks that Liverpool have the best starting XI, City the best squad so a point today will be fine because time is also on their side.

4:04PM

Guardiola speaks

He has an ability to listen to a question intently while also signalling that he thinks his interrogator is absurd.

3:58PM

The table

After Man Utd's victory over Brighton and Wolves' over Villa:

3:56PM

Rodri returns

After missing league and cup matches against Southampton and the victory over Aston Villa at the Etihad. Former Blue Trevor Sinclair says:

Actually, not sure you can be a 'former' Blue any more than you can be a 'former' Red.

3:43PM

Dramatis personae

Liverpool Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Lovren, Van Dijk, Robertson; Henderson, Fabinho, Wijnaldum; Salah, Firmino, Mane. 
Substitutes Adrian Milner, Gomez, Keita,  Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lallana, Origi.

Man City Bravo; Walker, Stones, Fernandinho, Angelino; De Bruyne, Rodrigo Gundogan; Bernardo Silva, Aguero, Sterling. 
Substitutes Carson, Joao Cancelo, Otamendi, David Silva, Mahrez, Gabriel Jesus, Foden.

Referee Michael Oliver (Ashington)

3:34PM

Manchester City starting XI

Rodrigo and Claudio Bravo start. Ederson is out injured. But you knew that.

3:32PM

Liverpool name their side

Jordan Henderson returns to central midfield after missing the game against Genk with illness. The forward line is reunited.

3:29PM

City's bus has arrived

3:24PM

Some pre-match reading

Sam Wallace  Liverpool v Man City belongs to a different class of rivalry 

Chris Bascombe   Guardiola feared Liverpool's front three before – now the threat is greater than ever

James Ducker Manchester City believe they can beat 'world's strongest team' at fortress Anfield

3:20PM

How can City stymie Liverpool today?

Here are the key points made by my colleague, JJ Bull in his in-depth tactical analysis:

Block middle of the pitch 
It is likely Pep Guardiola will opt for the same fluid 4-2-3-1/4-1-4-1 shape he used in the Community Shield, with Kevin De Bruyne partnered by Ilkay Gundogan, behind David Silva. The idea is to force Liverpool wide and prevent them steamrolling their way through the centre. City will press higher up the pitch when play allows. By sitting in a block, they can control the game without the ball, forcing Liverpool to figure out ways to play in the front three.

Stop full-backs
Blocking the centre of the pitch gives Liverpool’s creative full-backs freedom. Guardiola may position Raheem Sterling and Bernardo Silva or Riyad Mahrez high and wide behind the full-backs when Liverpool are in their own half, to keep Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson away from the City box.

Do not drop too deep
City are brilliant at keeping the ball but Liverpool’s lower 82.8 per cent passing accuracy is down to a more direct style. Mistakes can allow the counterattack.

3:02PM

Good afternoon

Two fine teams laced with players of the highest quality yet each more than the sum of their parts because they are managed by charismatic and shrewd men of vision. The champions of Europe host the champions of England, split by merely a point last season and by six after 11 games so far in 2019-20.

And yet in the build-up we hear less about the talent than the rancour, generated by a supposed mutual loathing derived from Manchester City’s perceptions of Liverpool and vice versa.. I’m not so sure. Apart from the odd spiky comment this week over the bus trip to Anfield, whether Sadio Mane butters his studs and City’s proclivity for tactical fouls, Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola have been scrupulously polite about each other and respectful about their opponents.

It may be true that there is needle below the surface, particularly between the rival boards, but the players and managers, who first competed against each other as head coaches of Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, get on. Look how often they touch the other’s cheek when they embrace, not in Mourinho power-play mode.

Given Liverpool’s six-point lead, it is imperative that City, who have been beaten by Norwich and Wolves this season, do not lose. A 0-0 draw like last season’s should suit them fine given the fixture congestion that will envelop Liverpool next month. The main problem is that last year’s point was their first gleaned from Anfield since 2012-13 and, worse still, they have won only once there in the league since 1981 and that in 2003 when former Liverpool strikers Nicolas Anelka and Robbie Fowler proved a point to Gerard Houllier.

Both sides showed their mettle in fighting back to win from 1-0 down eight days ago yet both looked wobbly and preoccupied in midweek. How Manchester City cope with Liverpool’s full-backs to stop them playing up to a forward line that is menacing at the best of times but doubly so when City are deprived of their best defender, Aymeric Laporte, may dictate the fate of the match.

Join us for the team news at 3.30pm.