And business as usual it was, as City ignored all the noise to make it six out of six in the Prem – and send Liverpool’s mocking taunts back into Merseyside throats.
An afternoon that was supposed to be about a national judgement on City for their financial misdemeanours ended in the way all of Enzo Maresca’s games at the helm have finished so far.
With City dominant and unstoppable.
Haaland’s eighth goal in seven City games this season, an instinctive, unstoppable finish as he reacted quicker than anyone in the Liverpool box, four minutes after Ryan Gravenberch was dismissed for a second yellow card, saw the Norwegian celebrate in front of his dad.
And when Jeremy Doku, who changed everything after his emergence from the bench, including inducing Gravenberch’s dismissal, bent into the top corner three minutes later, Liverpool, for all the Anfield passion play, were done and dusted.
That was confirmed when Rayan Cherki sent poor Jeremie Frimpong half way to the Birkenhead Tunnel before rolling in the third.
Say what you like about City – and EVERYONE has an opinion – you cannot fault their mental strength and quality – Sun.
