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A stoppage-time punishment from Erling Haaland gave Manchester City a melodramatic 2-1 triumph astatine Liverpool successful the Premier League on Sunday (February 8, 2026) arsenic Pep Guardiola's broadside narrowed the spread to leaders Arsenal to six points.
After a goalless archetypal fractional dominated by City, Liverpool opened the scoring successful the 74th infinitesimal erstwhile Dominik Szoboszlai's swerving escaped footwear from astir 30 metres retired recovered the backmost of the net.
But City equalised 10 minutes aboriginal erstwhile Haaland headed a transverse implicit the defence for Bernardo Silva to people from the borderline of the six-yard box, earlier City earned a punishment successful added clip erstwhile Matheus Nunes was brought down by Alisson.
Haaland stepped up to people and soundlessness the Anfield assemblage earlier Rayan Cherki recovered the nett from the halfway enactment astatine the decease aft Alisson went up the pitch, with Haaland and Szoboszlai tussling for the shot arsenic it crept in.
VAR intervened and the extremity was disallowed but the referee sent disconnected Szoboszlai for tugging astatine Haaland's shirt, awarding City a escaped footwear which Cherki blasted into the assemblage earlier the referee blew the fulltime whistle.
