Another duel between Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola. While there was a draw in the Premier League, today there must be a winner. Who secures the ticket for the final at Wembley?
In the English cup competition, the FA Cup, there will be a real cracker on Saturday. Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City meets Liverpool with head coach Jurgen Klopp. The winner advances to the final and meets the winner of the duel between Chelsea and Crystal Palace (Easter Sunday, 5.30 p.m.).
You can read the most important scenes of the game here in the t-online live ticker:
Manchester City – FC Liverpool 1:3
70. Minute: The huge chance for Manchester City! A pass reaches the starting Gabriel Jesus, but the Brazilian fails in the 1: 1 at his compatriot Alisson. The following corner brings nothing for the “Skyblues”.
65. Minute: City’s temporary left-back Zinchenko deserves praise at this point. The Ukrainian is doing very well after initial difficulties, keeping Liverpool right winger Mo Salah almost completely out of the game.
63. Minute: ManCity want to continue to build the game from behind, but are stressed in a tour by the Liverpool offensive trio. If this continues, City goalkeeper Steffen will be able to have a number of ball contacts that is the same as that of an average central defender.
60. Minute: Surprising how quickly City gave back control of the game to Liverpool after the goal. Since the conclusion of Gabriel Jesus, the team in sky blue has not been able to advance to the last third of the field.
56. Minute: Pack formation at Wembley! City captain Fernandinho unpacks the scythe and rushes into Liverpool’s double goalscorer Sadio Mané. He writhes in pain, but can get up again after a few words from his teammates. Fernandinho, meanwhile, received a yellow card for his over-the-top tackle, and rightly so.
55. Minute: The game returns to the insane pace of the early stages. Immediately after the Liverpool corner, the “Skyblues” from Manchester drive the ball back in front of the “Reds” goal. Alisson, who rushes out, stretches and parries Gabriel Jesus’ finish.
53. Minute: Liverpool already seems to have shaken themselves up. City’s Nathan Aké has to clear a corner kick from Trent Alexander-Arnold’s second row free-kick. However, this does not ensure the desired goal risk.
47 minutes: GOAL FOR MANCHESTER CITY! A tailor-made start to the second half for the “Cityzens”. Liverpool moves too far back once and neglects the backcourt. Jack Grealish runs in there unchallenged and can accommodate a flat pass from Gabriel Jesus from a good ten meters into the goal.
46. Minute: The teams are back on the green at Wembley Stadium. Neither Klopp nor Guardiola have made any personnel changes. Referee Oliver gives the game back to Manchester City with a kick-off.
45. + 1 minute: Halftime at Wembley Stadium! A half that hardly anyone expected. Klopp’s Liverpool put in a near-perfect performance against a struggling Manchester City. The “Reds” control the entire playing field, are stress-resistant and compact against the ball and ice-cold and consistent in front of the opposing goal. A well deserved lead to the League Cup winners who are 45 minutes away from the second final of the current season.
45 minutes: GOAL FOR LIVERPOOL FC! What an outstanding scene from the “Reds”. After a throw-in on the left, Klopp’s team shifted the game to the right edge of the City penalty area with just a few beautiful ball touches. There, Mané takes the slightly tipping ball with a dropkick and sinks his short corner, which Steffen cannot hold.
43. Minute: Robust duel behavior from City’s Joao Cancelo: On the right wing, the Portuguese nonchalantly pushes away the prancing Luis Diaz. Referee Oliver does not give a yellow card again, the free kick that follows brings nothing.
37. Minute: And now referee Oliver gives the first yellow card of the game. Liverpool’s Fabinho got it. A warning that doesn’t need to be understood. City striker Gabriel Jesus threads a short duel on the sidelines in a running duel and drops quite theatrically. Funny line from the referee.
34. Minute: Is that the first frustration that comes through with Bernardo Silva? Manchester City’s Portuguese forward kicked goal scorer Sadio Mané in the calf on the halfway line. Referee Michael Oliver leaves the time being with an educational conversation.
31. Minute: The first third of the game clearly goes to Liverpool, and not just in terms of the result. Jürgen Klopp’s team is much more alert and ball-safe than Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City.
27. Minute: The Liverpool fans are having fun – and don’t show any consideration: City goalkeeper Steffen scores another second leg, this time opting for the fast, long ball. Scornful applause resounds from the “Reds” curve.
25. Minute: Manchester City are quite out of character at this stage of the game. An attempt by Raheem Sterling bounces off the Liverpool defense bar, shortly afterwards the next City pass lands quite unchallenged in the legs of a “Reds” player.
23. Minute: The red section of Wembley Stadium is in ecstasy. For the past five minutes, Liverpool fans have been blasting the crowd with their classic “Allez, allez, allez”. This is also noticeable on the field. ManCity’s young star Phil Foden just made an inexplicable mispass into the side.
17. Minute: GOAL FOR LIVERPOOL FC! What a buck from substitute keeper Zach Steffen, who is allowed to stand between the posts in the cup instead of Ederson. The keeper gets a back pass from Stones – and just stands there. Liverpool’s Sadio Mané rushes up and slides the ball into the net.
16. Minute: This early deficit will not suit the control fanatic Guardiola at all. But how will his team react to this? They’re obviously looking for more access to the game, but Liverpool’s 4-3-3 formation is very compact off the ball.
9 minutes: GOAL FOR LIVERPOOL FC! The “Reds” use their first standard directly. Andy Robertson takes the corner kick from the left up into the six-yard box, where former Leipzig player Ibrahima Konaté climbs up to the third floor and puts the ball powerfully into the goal net.
9. Minute: A key duel is already looming: City’s Oleksandr Zinchenko, who is defending for the injured Kyle Walker on the left back, is struggling against the intensive pressing of ex-Leipzig player Naby Keita. It will be exciting to see whether Klopp will use this obvious weak point for attacks as the game progresses.
3. Minute: As was to be expected, both teams started with a lot of speed and aggressive attacks from the team in possession.
1. Minute: After a minute’s silence for the 97 fatalities of the Hillsborough tragedy, which celebrated its 33rd anniversary yesterday, April 15, and the kneeling down, which is already obligatory in English professional football, as a sign of support for the “Black Lives Matter” movement, the ball rolls at the sold-out Wembley Stadium .
4:26 p.m.: The last sounds of the Liverpool fan anthem “You’ll never walk alone” have just faded away, now referee Oliver leads the teams onto the field. Manchester City will be led onto the field by regular captain Fernandinho, with the Reds defending boss Virgil van Dijk wearing the armband in the absence of Jordan Henderson.
4:22 p.m.: The game will be directed by Michael Oliver from Northumberland.
4:15 p.m.: In a quarter of an hour the game between Manchester City and Liverpool will kick off at the iconic Wembley Stadium in London.
