Online ReporterMANCHESTER. − The transfer of power is complete at the top of the Premier League.
After Arne Slot’s champions-elect inflicted another emphatic defeat on Pep Guardiola’s fallen four-in-a-row kings, we can officially stop pretending that there is any sort of title race this season.
Liverpool are walking alone at the top of the table, 11 points clear of an Arsenal side who don’t have a fit centre-forward and have precious little discipline.
The Reds are the best team in England by a country mile, as they proved by winning a league match at the Etihad for the first time in a decade.
Mo Salah netted with a deflected strike from a genius corner-kick routine and then teed up Dominik Szoboslai for a 2-0 half-time lead as City were handed a painful lesson in ruthless efficiency by the runaway leaders.
Liverpool are rarely thrilling but they are impressive in their clarity of thought, the speed of their attacks and the surgical nature of their finishing.
City dominated the ball but never looked like winning. It was their 14th defeat in all competitions since the end of October.
Liverpool are unbeaten in the Premier League during that time, during which their only meaningful defeat was when Slot sent out the reserves at Plymouth in the FA Cup.
The gulf between these clubs − for so long England’s top two − is vast. − The Sun
