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Liverpool won their 20th top flight title on Sunday.

ALEXANDER ARNOLD

Klopp and Slot: How Liverpool leveraged two great minds

Mutual respect between the two managers has allowed the new Premier League champions to preserve their era of greatness

Luke Feltham

Man City boss Pep Guardiola. (Reuters/David Klein)

Can Guardiola salvage Man City’s season?

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola conceded the Premier League title to Liverpool long ago, but his side’s profligate attack and porous defence are becoming worrying trends. A…

Kieran Canning

Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp. (Alberto Lingria/Reuters)

Chaos theory: How Jürgen Klopp has harnessed the unpredictable

The Liverpool manager has his side playing unstoppable football but it’s the attention to detail off the field that has bred the success

Luke Feltham

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola at the end of the match. (Reuters/Carl Recine)

Three things we learned from Liverpool’s win over Man City

Fabinho’s searing strike and Mohamed Salah’s stooping header handed Liverpool a dream start inside 13 minutes

Kieran Canning

Elation: Liverpool’s squad atop a parade bus during their victory procession through the city of Liverpool with the UEFA Champions League trophy that they won by beating Tottenham Hotspur. (Photo: Nigel Roddis/Getty Images)

Can European win nudge Liverpool to league victory?

Liverpool’s Champions League victory parade was a kaleidoscope of colour. The Reds will start their season against Manchester City with high hopes

Lungani Zama

‘Nothing is going to change my opinion of my team. I want to focus to win the game and give a good performance, knowing the quality of the Spurs side,’ says Pep Guardiola. (Carl Recine/Reuters)

Man City have leaders to catch Liverpool, says Guardiola

Pep Guardiola’s side goes into Sunday’s Premier League home match against Arsenal in third place, five points behind leaders Liverpool

Mike Whalley

Matt Ritchie of Newcastle United stops the ball from going out of play after Sergio Aguero of Manchester City was tackled (Lee Parker/Action Plus/Getty Images)

JASON MELLOR AUTHOR

Man City give Liverpool title boost with shock Newcastle loss

Man City handed the advantage firmly to Liverpool in the Premier League title race as they surrendered the lead in a 2-1 loss to Newcastle United

Jason Mellor Author

Liverpool’s early FA Cup exit has given Klopp’s men the bonus of extra rest and rehabilitation after a gruelling festive schedule and before returning to Champions League action next month. (John Sibley/Reuters)

CRISTIANO RONALDO

Liverpool dish out new deals to ensure sustained success

Liverpool is working to ensure this season’s Premier League title push is not a one-off as they lay the foundations for continued success

Ian Whittell

After winning a third consecutive Champions League title, Real generated a record £674.6-million, giving them the Money League top spot for the 12th time, and the first since 2014-2015. (Reuters)

Real Madrid take top spot from Man Utd in ‘money league’

Real Madrid have knocked Manchester United off the top of Deloitte’s Football Money League

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Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola (Stu Forster/Getty Images)

Charging Liverpool challenge Man City to prove their greatness

City have won just one of seven meetings since Guardiola joined Klopp in England

Kieran Canning

Manchester United’s Paul Pogba celebrates with team mates after scoring their second goal (Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/Reuters)

ENGLISH PREMER LEAGUE

Man City bounce back as Pogba shines again for Man Utd

Manchester City cut Liverpool’s lead at the top of the Premier League to seven points with a 3-1 win at Southampton

Kieran Canning

Pitch perfect: Mohamed Salah. (Reuters/Phil Noble)

Five-star Liverpool thrash Arsenal, Spurs stunned by Wolves

Liverpool even overcame a rare deficit on home soil as for the first time this season

Kieran Canning

Unai Emery believes Mohamed Salah is now among the world’s top five players. (Reuters)

Salah now in Emery’s top five after PSG snub

The Gunners boss will be in opposition to the Liverpool forward when his Arsenal side face the unbeaten Premier League leaders at Anfield on Saturday

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“We could not attack in this way last year because we did not have Benjamin Mendy, he is so clever to go up and down,” Pep Guardiola said. (David Klein/Reuters)

Five things that have gone wrong for Manchester City

Just a few weeks ago City seemed unstoppable as they started their title defence with a 15-game unbeaten run

Kieran Canning

Liverpool’s Xherdan Shaqiri celebrates scoring their second goal (Phil Noble/Reuters)

Liverpool back on top as Shaqiri sinks United, Arsenal’s unbeaten run ends

Jürgen Klopp’s side made it six successive league victories thanks to Shaqiri’s late double

Steve Griffiths

Paris St Germain’s Thiago Silva and Gianluigi Buffon celebrate with coach Thomas Tuchel at the end of the match (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

‘Humble’ PSG keeping cool heads after making Champions League last 16

PSG finished the group stage on 11 points, two ahead of second-placed Liverpool and Napoli, who were eliminated due to their defeat at Anfield

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Paris St Germain’s Neymar in action with Liverpool’s Xherdan Shaqiri and Joe Gomez (Andrew Boyers/Action Images/Reuters)

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Neymar inspires PSG to leave Liverpool in danger in Champions League

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp hit out at the referee and Neymar as his side slumped to a 2-1 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday

Andy Scott

Mohamed Salah is ranked right up with the worlds top goal-scorers and is expected to bag at least a brace against eSwatini in the Africa Cup of Nations on Friday. (Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB

Egypt’s hopes on sweating Salah

Liverpool star Mohamed Salah gets a chance to rediscover his scoring touch when he plays for Egypt against Swaziland

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“We are at home and we should play much better against Wolves. We are here to attack,” Pogba told the media after the match. (David Klein/Reuters)

Pogba takes aim at Mourinho’s negative tactics

The draw left United in seventh, eight points behind leaders Liverpool

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Sadio Mane scored shortly after being denied by West Hams ultra-busy goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski (AFP)

African trio star as Liverpool make superb start

African goal poachers Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah tormented West Ham United as Liverpool went top of the English Premier League

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