Gary Neville highlights reason for Pep Guardiola's poor Anfield record | 8894B19 | 2024-03-11 16:08:01
Gary Neville believes Manchester City's poor document away towards Liverpool may be explained by their failure to handle the Anfield 'washer'.
Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp's newest Premier League encounter saw their sides play out a breathless encounter in the latest twist in the title race.
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The end result saw Arsenal stay prime of the desk after their late win over Brentford on Saturday night but the outcome also prolonged Guardiola's lacklustre document at Anfield.
The Spaniard has now visited Anfield on nine occasions since Klopp has been in cost however has managed just one single victory again in February 2021 – and that was during Covid.
Despite their unimaginable league document, Neville stated he was stunned that Guardiola and his aspect are but to discover ways to hold the Anfield crowd at bay and kill off the sport as early as potential.
'I stated at half-time that City might regret the best way through which they approached the last 15 minutes of the first half,' he stated on his Sky Sports podcast. 'I don't know why they do it right here, I don't know why they've not learnt.
'They're an excellent workforce, the most effective we've ever seen, but they went 1-Zero up after which started to chill out on the ball. They started to stroll to throw-ins, scale back their tempo and rhythm they have been in and depend upon. You simply invite this mayhem and chaos.
'I as soon as described Anfield as being like thrown in a washer, tumbled around. That's how it was like for us typically. You may be going ok after which your world caves in throughout you.
'The large disappointment for Pep Guardiola can be from the first objective going till half-time. That's the period of the sport the place they I assumed they might have gone for it. They began ambling within the recreation, virtually like killing the clock.
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'You possibly can't kill the clock here. They gained't go quiet this lot, they all the time come again. You've obtained to go and get the second objective. You've obtained to consider you need that second after which the third. You're by no means protected on this ground.
'You'll be able to't let moments drift. You may let the clock run down with three minutes to go, but you'll be able to't do it with 65 minutes to go and that's what I felt Metropolis tried to do.
'Once you cease doing that, you've received a tidal wave coming in the direction of you and that's what that they had in the second half. Waves of strain and you may't stop it then as a result of as soon as they've that at Anfield, it's very troublesome to show it around.'
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