Liverpool benefit

Those are also the 6 English representatives participating in the prestigious Champions League. Among this group of giants, only Liverpool took all 3 points in the last round of the Premier League last weekend. Beating Everton 2-1 in the Merseyside derby, Liverpool continued to lead with an absolute score of 15 points after 5 rounds, 5 points ahead of Arsenal, Tottenham and Bournemouth.

Liverpool đắc lợi- Ảnh 1. — Liverpool *(left)* are in good form

The highlight of the round is the crucial match between the two championship candidates Arsenal and Man.City. Erling Haaland continues to show his excellent form as the current number 1 scorer. In 12 days, Haaland has continuously scored 9 goals in 4 appearances in different arenas: Premier League, Champions League, World Cup qualifiers. This time, it only took him 9 minutes to open the score for Man.City against Arsenal.

But Haaland, despite being rated by many as the best player of the match, had to leave the field so that Man.City could switch to a defensive strategy. For the first time, people saw a team under coach Pep Guardiola defend in a "parking the bus" style, and Guardiola himself admitted: "Sometimes you have to do that." Never before had a team coached by Guardiola left the field with only 32.8% possession like this match. But in the end, Man.City's defensive efforts went up in smoke when Arsenal equalized 1-1 in the 90+3 minute. As has been the case recently, both the creator (Eberechi Eze) and the scorer (Gabriel Martinelli) for Arsenal came off the bench.

With this result, Mikel Arteta (Arsenal) became the first coach in top-level football to have a series of 5 consecutive unbeaten matches against the famous opponent Guardiola (people still somewhat reluctantly call them teacher and student, based on the fact that Arteta used to be Guardiola's assistant at Man.City).

Before that, Liverpool also benefited when another strong team, Chelsea, collapsed early at MU's Old Trafford. Goalkeeper Robert Sanchez received a red card quite early, forcing Chelsea to change from formation to playing style, towards prioritizing defense, and then when MU's Casemiro was also sent off and Chelsea wanted to attack, they had no more viable tactical solutions and had to lose 1-2. The game changed completely because of the red card situations. But overall, it seemed that MU's attacking style improved in this match. They played aggressively from the start, leading 2-0 when they had an advantage of one more player, and were equalized by one goal when each side had only 10 players left.

Newcastle and Tottenham both drew against Bournemouth and Brighton. Arsenal will be playing away at Newcastle next round, so Liverpool could maintain or even increase the gap with their nearest rivals.

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