The pattern was set with Manchester City’s first attack. No matter where on the pitch they had the ball, Pep Guardiola’s side had a clear plan: get the ball towards the left flank and their virtuoso winger, Jeremy Doku.
He was aided and abetted by the roaming Bernardo Silva, who constantly overlapped and underlapped City’s Belgium winger. To say Trent Alexander-Arnold had his hands full for Liverpool would be a vast understatement.
Doku completed 11 dribbles, the most by a player in any Premier League game for more than two years (since Adama Traore for Wolves against Brentford), and the most on record by any player against Liverpool.