Blue or red, Manchester remains Manchester, and matches against Liverpool are therefore full of rivalry. They are doubly so when the head of the Premier League is at stake. After the draw on Saturday afternoon (1-1, goals from Haaland and Alexander-Arnold), the Citizens remain first ahead of the Reds, but we cannot not to say that the two clubs parted as good friends.
For good reason, just after the final whistle, Darwin Nuñez went to Pep Guardiola in person to tell him God only knows what. Very upset, the two men had to be separated by Jurgen Klopp and a member of the Reds staff, who prevented the Catalan technician from coming to respond to the Uruguayan striker. The Liverpool manager then returned to his counterpart to appease his anger by hugging him.
According to the English press, Nuñez was still very angry when he returned to the locker room. “Nothing happened,” Pep said on Sky. “It was emotion. I didn’t understand a word of what they said to each other,” Klopp responded at a press conference. The investigation is progressing (or not).