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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

Manchester City’s Aymeric Laporte is stretchered off after sustaining an injury. (Reuters/Jon Super)

Three things we learned from the Premier League weekend

Liverpool opened up a five-point lead at the top of the Premier League as defending champions Manchester City crumbled

Paul Pogba was targeted after his penalty was saved in United’s 1-1 draw at Wolves on Monday. (James Bayliss/Getty)

Phil Neville calls for social media boycott in wake of Pogba racist abuse

The England Women’s coach has urged players to snub social media after Pogba became the third player in a week to be racially abused on its platforms

Pep Guardiola’s (front) Man City lead Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool in the Premier League by a single point with just three games to play. (Reuters/ Carl Recine)

Guardiola urges caution from City, Man Utd seek Chelsea redemption

With three games to go in the Premier League, race for the title and Champions League spots are heating up

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer won his first away game in the Premier League in eight months after beating Norwich City on Sunday. (Phil Noble/Reuters)

Five things we learned from the Premier League

Check out the five things we learned from the Premier League weekend

The signing of Pogba was meant to signal United’s return to the elite. (Carl Recine/Reuters)

Stage set for Pogba to prove his worth to Man Utd

Nearly three years on, United can feel they have still to receive sufficient bang for the bucks they paid to Juventus for Pogba

Liverpool’s Sadio Mané in action with Southampton’s James Ward-Prowse. (Reuters/Andrew Couldridge)

Mané steps out from Salah’s shadow to lead Liverpool’s double charge

As Salah’s goals dried up in an eight-game drought prior to Friday’s 3-1 win at Southampton, Mane assumed the mantle as chief goal-getter

Neville insists that game showed that women’s football can now generate the passionate atmosphere associated with men’s games at the highest level. (Reuters/Matthew Childs)

Neville calls for Premier League grounds to host women’s games

Let’s blow the rest of Europe away, England women’s manager urges

Chelsea’s N’Golo Kante, who was plucked from relative obscurity in France, has been cited as a player who would be unlikely to receive a work permit because of Brexit. (Reuters/David Klein)

Will Brexit hurt the Premier League?

As the uncertainty of Brexit continues, it could have implications for one of world football’s biggest leagues, the Premier League

Borussia Dortmund’s Roman Burki and Christian Pulisic in action with Tottenham’s Erik Lamela. (Andrew Couldridge/Reuters)

Three things we learned from Borussia Dortmund 0 Tottenham 1

​The brilliance of Hugo Lloris at one end and Harry Kane at the other took Tottenham safely into the quarter-finals of the Champions League

(John Silby/Reuters)

Chase down Tottenham, Emery urges five-star Arsenal

Unai Emery urged Arsenal to take the chance to chase down Tottenham in the north London derby on Saturday

Should City fail to win at Old Trafford, Liverpool — historically United’s fiercest rivals — will be just three games away from a first league title in 29 years. (Getty Images)

Guardiola relishes quadruple quest as City seek to conquer Europe

Two weeks on from smashing Chelsea 6-0, City will be heavy favourites to retain the League Cup this weekend

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

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

Croatia’s Ivan Perisic hits the post with a shot. (Christian Hartmann/Reuters)

England turn to next generation to get creative against Croatia

Gareth Southgate has gone even younger in his search for the midfield maestro he believes England has lacked since the days of Paul Gascoigne

Luka Modric, Didier Deschamps and Marta pose with their awards (John Sibley/Reuters)

Modric ends Ronaldo-Messi era to be crowned world’s best

The Real Madrid and Croatia midfielder starred for both club and country as Madrid won a third straight Champions League

Jose Mourinho’s sour mood hasn’t been reserved just for his players, but also the club’s executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward for a perceived lack of backing in the transfer window.

Three things that have gone wrong for Manchester United

​Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho suffered the heaviest home defeat of his coaching career as Tottenham Hotspur won 3-0 at Old Trafford

It is a striking contrast to the final months of Mourinho’s reign, with Pogba the player who was repeatedly claimed to be at odds with the Portuguese. (Reuters/David Klein)

Five things we learned from the Premier League weekend

Everything you need to know about what took place in the Premier League this weekend

(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Henry’s World Cup experience the ‘missing piece’ for Belgium

Belgium coach Roberto Martinez believes assistant manager Thierry Henry’s World Cup-winning experience can give his side an advantage.

Argentina’s Marcos Rojo celebrates scoring their second goal with Lionel Messi and teammates

Messi, Rojo rescue Argentina from humiliating early exit

Argentina avoided the abyss by the skin of their teeth to fight another day against the highly-fancied French in Kazan on Saturday