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Manchester City captain Bernardo Silva said anything other than victory at Liverpool would have meant that the Premier League title race was all but over after Pep Guardiola’s men snatched a dramatic 2-1 win at Anfield.<\/p>\n
The visitors were set to fall nine points behind leaders Arsenal as they trailed to Dominik Szoboszlai’s stunning free-kick late on.<\/p>\n
But Silva’s equaliser on 84 minutes sparked a crazy finale.<\/p>\n
Erling Haaland put City in front three minutes into stoppage time but there was still more chaos and controversy to come.<\/p>\n
Gianluigi Donnarumma produced an incredible save to deny Alexis Mac Allister an equaliser.<\/p>\n
Rayan Cherki thought he had sealed victory by rolling into an empty net from the halfway line as Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker went forward chasing a leveller.<\/p>\n
However, the goal was ruled out after Szoboszlai pulled Haaland back before the Norwegian retaliated in similar fashion.<\/p>\n
Szoboszlai was instead shown a red card for committing the first offence.<\/p>\n
“For the distance that we have to Arsenal, coming here it is the toughest place in the Premier League by far,” said Silva.<\/p>\n
“I feel the whole team knew before the game, if we lost it then the title race was probably over. We felt like we needed to win.<\/p>\n
“The hope is there and we are going to fight until the end. We need to keep doing our job that we haven’t lately.”<\/p>\n
Victory is City’s first in front of a crowd away to Liverpool since 2003 as they completed a league double over the Reds for the first time since 1937.<\/p>\n
“Very happy, but these points count as much as any in any other game,” added Silva.<\/p>\n
“It has been frustrating the beginning of the year because we have not done our job properly. We could be closer to Arsenal.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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