Liverpool apologise to Manchester City after bottles thrown at team bus

Jurgen Klopp insisted Liverpool still had much to do to reach the Champions League semi-finals after their stunning 3-0 victory over Manchester City at Anfield.

Liverpool issued a full apology to City’s staff and players prior to the 3-0 win but have since been charged with four offences by UEFA for the behaviour of some of their supporters.

“I think in this room there is nobody except the guy talking to you who believes we are going to go through”, said Guardiola. It is only half-time. It was how football should look.

Someone on the bus that day revealed: ‘We got stuck in a similar bottleneck that the City bus seems to have got stuck in last night on the way to the ground.

“The team was unbelievable, the performance: 3-0 against the best team in the country – well, they’re going to be – it was just unbelievable”. “I really don’t understand it”, he said before the game.

“Obviously, since I’m here there’s nothing good without a little something bad”, the Liverpool manager said.

In addition to the uncertainty around Salah’s fitness, Liverpool’s other negative spot from the City result is that captain Jordan Henderson picked up a yellow card late on, which means he will now miss the second leg through suspension. We defended amazingly. This is what a good team does.

Indeed, the game would end with City failed to direct a single shot on target in a game for the first time since October 2016. I have never been part of the best team in the world, but I always knew it is possible to beat them.

Guardiola said he “did not expect” the incident to happen and referenced the attack on the Borussia Dortmund’s team bus last April, which left defender Marc Bartra injured.

“It’s not just about scoring the goals, it is also about what we do when we don’t have the ball”. We try to go to the next round. I didn’t expect that a club as prestigious as Liverpool would do these kinds of things.

Guardiola and Kevin De Bruyne spoke beforehand, as others from the City camp had previously, of “losing control” in a insane 10 minutes during January’s 4-3 defeat at this ground.

Wayward passes, slow build up and avoidable mistakes crept into the Manchester side’s game, allowing Liverpool to capitalize.

They didn’t give City a chance to implement their passing game, they counter-pressed errors made and they exploited them with the three goals.

“I am fine with it as long as no one gets hurt”.

“We see what happens. It is hard but we believe”.