Man City vs Liverpool

Hello, and welcome to The Athletic's live coverage of the Carabao Cup fourth round tie between Manchester City and Liverpool. Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool won ...

Liverpool show a lapse in defensive concentration and it is exposed by the sublime Kevin De Bruyne. However, when the ball comes in he volleys his effort well over the bar. A great pass from Gomez saw the striker clean through on the angle but he was unable to finish. December 22, 2022 at 9:32 PM UTC Liverpool need to find an equaliser but appear to have run out of steam. "Obviously, a little bit strange. "It's a good game, both sets of players were out on their feet, we always raise our games against each other. "We wanted to stay in this cup, we know how much joy it brought us last season. December 22, 2022 at 10:18 PM UTC We were not compact enough." "In the first 15 minutes we had problems. December 22, 2022 at 10:30 PM UTC

Liverpool's Carabao Cup defence was ended at the fourth round as they suffered defeat in an engrossing game at Manchester City.

1.5 hrs before kickoff: Hello and welcome to The Sporting News' live coverage of Manchester City vs. It could have been 6-4 City on the balance of the chances. 1 hr 15 mins before kickoff: An early blow for Liverpool, who will be without Roberto Firmino tonight due to a calf problem. You'd have put your house on him hitting the target. the flag was up for offside. This game getting bitty with all these late subs, but still plenty of time for the visitors to get back into it. Feisty end to the game. If VAR had been in place tonight, the red card might have got an outing there. The Norwegian is in behind from a Gundogan through ball but completely miscues on his left foot to send the ball high and wide of the goal. Liverpool put a rare spell of possession together before Matip squeezes a lovely pass in to Milner in the box and the Englishman squares it to tee up Carvalho for a simple sidefooted finish. De Bruyne swings in another beauty of a cross from the left and Ake steals in at the back post to nod it home. 1

Manchester City returned from the 2022 World Cup break with a thrilling 3-2 victory over holders Liverpool in the League Cup round of 16 at Etihad Stadium.

Luis Diaz, Diogo Jota and Arthur Melo remain out with injuries, while Curtis Jones is almost fit and should feature over the festive period. While the likes of Joao Cancelo, Ruben Dias, Jack Grealish, Phil Foden, Kyle Walker and John Stones have all returned to training the day before this game against Liverpool. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has given plenty of minutes to his youngsters over the midseason friendlies, but the likes of Mohamed Salah, Thiago Alcantara, Joel Matip, Andy Robertson and Roberto Firmino have been around the whole time so they should all be feeling fresh. Luckily, he doesn’t seem to worry about anything. After taking the short corner quickly, De Bruyne floated a brilliant cross to the back post where Ake was arriving after making the late run into the box. Mohamed Salah made it 2-2 just a minute later after Darwin Nunez got in behind 18-year-old right back Rico Lewis, who was otherwise stellar on the night, down the left side. Two minutes into the second half, Riyad Mahrez brought the ball down from the sky and whipped a left-footed curler inside the far post with two silky smooth touches in the blink of an eye. [December 22, 2022] De Bruyne wasn’t done, though, his best work still to come on assist no. De Bruyne picked out Haaland with a cross toward the penalty spot just as Haaland got wrong side of Joe Gomez and beat him to the ball. 26), away to Aston Villa ( [WATCH LIVE](https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2022/12/22/aston-villa-vs-liverpool-how-to-watch-live-stream-link-tv-team-news/)). [WATCH LIVE](https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2022/12/22/leeds-vs-manchester-city-how-to-watch-live-stream-link-team-news/)).