{"id":29874,"date":"2025-11-10T09:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29874\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:57:10","slug":"mondays-briefing-man-city-surge-into-title-race-after-easing-past-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29874\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday\u2019s briefing: Man City surge into title race after easing past Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Tuchel\u2019s England squad has been depleted by injuries before the players even meet up for the international break, and Rob Edwards\u2019 return home to Wolves is imminent.<\/p>\n

Guardiola: City are back in the title race<\/p>\n

Pep Guardiola believes Manchester City\u2019s 3-0 win over defending Premier League champions Liverpool shows his side are ready to compete for the title again this season.<\/p>\n

Arne Slot\u2019s side were swept aside by City at the Etihad via goals from Erling Haaland, Nico Gonzalez and the outstanding Jeremy Doku, and although Liverpool had a strong case that Virgil van Dijk\u2019s disallowed header should have stood, there was no denying they were second best.<\/p>\n

City moved up to second, four points behind Arsenal after their 2-2 draw at Sunderland on Saturday, with a fifth league win in six suggesting they are back in the mix after finishing 13 points behind Liverpool last term.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said to the players, \u2018don\u2019t do it because yesterday Arsenal didn\u2019t win, do it because we believe in ourselves that we can play against the champions of England and show they we are ready to be there with him this season\u2019,\u201d Guardiola said.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we proved it, we did it \u2013 especially in the first half.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keane says Liverpool are in \u2018crisis\u2019
\n\"LiverpoolLiverpool\u2019s defeat to Manchester City leaves them well off the pace in the Premier League (Nick Potts\/PA)<\/p>\n

Roy Keane believes Liverpool are out of the title race and in crisis after the defending champions lost in the Premier League for a fifth time after a 3-0 loss at Manchester City.<\/p>\n

Those five defeats have come in their last six league matches and have left Arne Slot\u2019s side in eighth, eight points behind leaders Arsenal.<\/p>\n

Liverpool have lost four away games in succession for the first time in 13 years and conceded 17 goals in their 11 league matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this moment in time you can\u2019t be considering Liverpool for the Premier League title,\u201d former Manchester United captain Keane told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it is crisis time for Liverpool. Defensively they are all over the place. The full-backs are a huge problem, the centre-half (Ibrahima Konate) looks a nervous wreck.\u201d<\/p>\n

Injury withdrawals hit England
\n\"CrystalCrystal Palace\u2019s Marc Guehi has pulled out of the England squad with an injury (John Walton\/PA)<\/p>\n

Marc Guehi looks set to be withdrawn from the England squad while Anthony Gordon and Nick Pope have been ruled out of the last two World Cup qualifiers against Serbia and Albania.<\/p>\n

Centre-back Guehi sustained bone bruising on a foot in the closing stages of Thursday\u2019s 3-1 Conference League win against AZ Alkmaar and is set for a spell on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner told Sky Sports News: \u201cHe can\u2019t even walk at the moment. The last two days he is on crutches.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how this develops over the next couple of days but at the moment it doesn\u2019t look good. It looks like he can\u2019t play for England.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winger Gordon missed Newcastle\u2019s 3-1 defeat at Brentford with a hip injury and goalkeeper Pope was substituted with concussion.<\/p>\n

Edwards imminent at Wolves
\n\"RobRob Edwards\u2019 appointment as head coach at former club Wolves is imminent (Steve Paston\/PA)<\/p>\n

Wolves are set to announce Rob Edwards as their new manager on a three-and-a-half year contract, the PA news agency understands.<\/p>\n

The Premier League club, who sacked Vitor Pereira last Sunday, were given permission to speak with Edwards after a compensation fee between \u00a33-4million was accepted by Middlesbrough.<\/p>\n

It is understood a formal announcement is expected in the next 24-48 hours.<\/p>\n

Boro initially turned down Wolves\u2019 approach having only installed Edwards as their manager in June on a three-year deal following the dismissal of Michael Carrick.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s on today?<\/p>\n

In League Two, resurgent Cheltenham face Notts County, who can climb up to third with victory at the EV Charger Points Stadium.<\/p>\n

England need to win their final Group E encounter of the Under-17 World Cup against Egypt in Doha to guarantee their place in the knockout stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Tuchel\u2019s England squad has been depleted by injuries before the players even meet up for the international…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-29874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}