So, think you can all take another seven games of this?
Nobody said it was going to be easy. Few, though, could have quite foreseen the challenge that greeted Liverpool during a tumultuous tussle at the Etihad Stadium.
But once the dust settles on another absorbing scrap with Manchester City, the two teams stand right where they started the day – City with their noses marginally in front, Liverpool a point behind.
