Manchester City Thrashes Liverpool 3-0 at Anfield

Al-Taj News – In an atmosphere of hostility and insults, Manchester City returned victorious from Liverpool’s Anfield with a resounding 3-0 win on Sunday in the sixth round of the English Premier League, benefiting from their numerical advantage in their first appearance since being found guilty of breaching financial rules between 2009 and 2018.

City were greeted with chants of “cheaters” upon arriving at Anfield, while Liverpool fans lined the surrounding streets for hours before kickoff. Souvenir stalls were filled with flags and scarves mocking the financial scandal involving the blue team, which was found by an independent commission to have committed more than 100 breaches of financial rules during the international break.

The visiting team’s bus arrived under police escort via a different route than usual to avoid the large crowds, but without a repeat of the scenes of violence that preceded the two teams’ 2018 UEFA Champions League encounter, when City’s bus was pelted with bottles.

For more than a decade, relations between the two clubs have been marked by tension, fueled by a sense of injustice among Liverpool fans who believe their team deserved to have won more league titles instead of City.