Pep Guardiola celebrated his 1000th senior match as a manager by thumping a longtime rival as Manchester City beat Arne Slot’s Liverpool 3-0 at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.

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City got the benefit of a couple tight early calls, earning a Erling Haaland penalty that was saved before overcoming a Virgil van Dijk goal when Andy Robertson was adjudged to have interfered with Gigio Donnarumma’s shot-stopping.

Slot’s words will be pointed on those notes, though perhaps not-so-pointed because of what happened the rest of the way; City were the superior team over 90 minutes and Liverpool could not find the same vigor that propelled them to wins over Aston Villa and Real Madrid over the past few days.

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