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Liverpool recovered from their drab display to Manchester City on Thursday with a comfortable 2-0 win over Aston Villa, while City themselves sunk to a disappointing loss to Southampton, their ninth of the season.
After three days with an angry Jurgen Klopp, a Liverpool side featuring three changes responded after their 4-0 midweek loss to previous league champions Manchester City, with a simple 2-0 win over Aston Villa, despite taking 70 minutes to open the scoring.
Both sides rarely threatened each other’s nets before a smart pass from Naby Keita found Sadio Mane for the games opener, and then young scouser Curtis Jones volleyed home four minutes after coming on to put the game to bed, the day after signing a five-year contract extension.
Later in the day, Manchester City had the chance to build on their liberating thrashing of Liverpool, but did quite the opposite, as Southampton took all three points after Che Adams lobbed a severely out of position Ederson for the game’s only goal with just 15 minutes played.
Today’s loss is Manchester City’s ninth of the season, and the most of any league season Pep Guardiola has managed, opening back up Liverpool’s 23-point league lead, ahead of the previous record of 19.
Elsewhere, West Ham failed to build on their victory against Chelsea, twice taking the lead against Newcastle before being pegged back on both occasions.
Michail Antonio continued to impress, opening the scoring in the fourth minute before seeing his effort cancelled out by Miguel Almiron, and then it was Tomáš Souček’s turn to give the Hammers the lead in the 65th minute, with Jonjo Shelvey replying just two minutes later to share the points.
And in the lunchtime kick off, there was another draw between Sheffield United and Burnley. With the sides sat eighth and ninth respectively, a point each did little for their aspirations, with John Egan’s 80th minute equaliser nullifying James Tarkowski’s opener for the hosts.
🇪🇸Pep Guardiola's most league losses in a season:
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9❌: Manchester City 19/20
6❌: Manchester City 16/17
5❌: Bayern Munich 14/15, Barcelona 08/09
4❌: Manchester City 18/19 pic.twitter.com/1I7f2Z4axn
