Man City ease to 3-0 win over Liverpool; Guardiola celebrates 1,000th game in style

VIDEO SHOWS: PRESS CONFERENCES BY PEP GUARDIOLA AND ARNE SLOT FOLLOWING MANCHESTER CITY'S PREMIER LEAGUE MATCH AGAINST LIVERPOOL / STILL PHOTOS FROM THE MATCH SHOWS: MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, UK (NOVEMBER 9, 2025) (NICHE MEDIA – Access all) 1. (SOUNDBITE) (English) MANCHESTER CITY MANAGER, PEP GUARDIOLA, ON WIN AND MILESTONE, SAYING: "Really pleased for the game, and just thank you for the players and staff, to give me that incredible present, you know, to win the most important opponent that we face in my… our time here, ten years, so by far. And has been nice playing against them and see Virgil (van Dijk), (Andrew) Robertson and all the players, Mo Salah, who have been in a thousand million battles and hopefully will be in more and more, to do it against them. 2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) MANCHESTER CITY MANAGER, PEP GUARDIOLA, ON TEAM TURNAROUND, SAYING: "And I said last day, in October/November you don't win the Premier League. The teams who win the Premier League is when every man, the team is growing. And you see the feeling the team, grows and grows and grows, you arrive at the end… fighting for the title. It's not the team that was in September/October in the top, you have to grow, can be top but has to be better and better. And always we haven't been like that, in the process we talk a lot at training, training not much but how do we play, and there's a feeling that we are in that way. So, it's been nice, and still have the feeling that we are back in terms of many, many things." 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVERPOOL MANAGER, ARNE SLOT, SAYING: "They were, in every aspect of football, better the first half. I would say like last season. So, I saw a lot of similarities between last season and this season. We have one main difference in that after we struggled last season in the first 25 minutes, we scored a set piece. And that changed the game. They kept on outplaying us for 90 minutes, but it did help us to get some energy to keep defending well. Last season, they didn't create that many chances. I think today they created more, but it wasn't that they had chance, after chance, after chance. But this time, they were much more effective with the chances they had." 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVERPOOL MANAGER, ARNE SLOT, ON DISALLOWED GOAL, SAYING: "1-1 would have been the biggest gift we could get at half-time. Because, in my opinion, the second half was a different game. But being 2-0 down and later 3-0 down, that maybe doesn't give a good reflection of how things would have went if it would have been 1-1." MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, UK (NOVEMBER 9, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) (MUTE) 5. STILL – MINUTES SILENCE AS PART OF REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY COMMEMORATIONS BEFORE THE MATCH 6. STILL – LIVERPOOL MANAGER ARNE SLOT AND MANCHESTER CITY MANAGER PEP GUARDIOLA WALK ONTO THE PITCH WITH GIANT WREATHES AS PART OF COMMEMORATIONS 7. STILL – A BANNER FOR MANCHESTER CITY MANAGER PEP GUARDIOLA'S 1000TH GAME IS DISPLAYED BEFORE THE MATCH 8. STILL – HAALAND SCORES THEIR FIRST GOAL  9. STILL – HAALAND CELEBRATES SCORING THEIR FIRST GOAL  10. STILL – HAALAND KARATE-KICKS THE CORNER FLAG IN CELEBRATION 11. STILL – MANCHESTER CITY'S NICO GONZALEZ SCORES THEIR SECOND GOAL  12. STILL – GONZALEZ CELEBRATES SCORING THEIR SECOND GOAL WITH TEAMMATE JOSKO GVARDIOL  13. STILL – DOKU SCORES THEIR THIRD GOAL 14. STILL – DOKU CELEBRATES SCORING THEIR THIRD GOAL WITH TEAMMATE NICO O'REILLY 15. STILL – LIVERPOOL'S RYAN GRAVENBERCH LOOKS DEJECTED AFTER THE MATCH 16. STILL – SLOT SHAKES HANDS WITH  GUARDIOLA AFTER THE MATCH 17. STILL – GUARDIOLA CELEBRATES 3-1 VICTORY AFTER THE MATCH STORY: Manchester City crushed rivals Liverpool 3-0 in a high-stakes Premier League clash on Sunday (November 9), with Erling Haaland, Nico Gonzalez and Jeremy Doku scoring to seal a win that could prove pivotal in the title race. The game was City boss Pep Guardiola's 1,000th as a manager and his team marked the milestone with a statement victory that saw them climb to second in the table on 22 points after 11 games, four adrift of leaders Arsenal. Holders Liverpool tumbled to eighth on 18 points. City were sharp from the outset and Haaland rose high over Ibrahima Konate to head home Matheus Nunes' whipped cross in the 29th minute for his 99th league goal for the club. The goal made amends for the Norwegian missing a penalty early in the game, and Haaland karate-kicked the corner flag in celebration. Gonzalez doubled their lead seconds before halftime — when with fans screaming "shoot!" he did — his effort from distance taking a deflection off Virgil van Dijk's leg to leave goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili wrong-footed. Doku put the game out of reach with his first league goal since January when Nico O'Reilly found him on the edge of the box. He shifted the ball onto his other foot and then whipped a blistering shot from just outside the box into the far corner in the 63rd minute. Haaland had an early penalty saved by Mamardashvili who guessed the right way, the fourth penalty City have missed in their last five against Liverpool in the Premier League. The penalty was awarded after Doku appeared to get caught by Mamardashvili. Premier League top scorer Haaland bagged his 14th goal of the campaign – the second-most of any player through the first 11 games of a season, behind only Haaland himself, who had 17 in 2022-23. He also has 28 goals in 18 games for club and country. Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk briefly celebrated what he thought was a goal in the first half but it was ruled out for offside. On review, the VAR deemed that Andy Robertson, who ducked as the ball was going in the net, made "an obvious action directly in front of the goalkeeper," and was therefore offside, the Premier League Match Centre said. City had six shots on target to just one for Liverpool, who had arrived at Etihad Stadium riding momentum after victories over Aston Villa and Real Madrid had ended a dreadful stretch of six losses in seven games across all competitions. (Production: Lucy Thomson, Conal Quinn)

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