The destiny of the title may not be under their control.
But Jurgen Klopp and his Liverpool side will have left the Etihad Stadium feeling satisfied, given Manchester City could and should have been out of sight by half-time. That they were not was down to a combination of City's wastefulness and Liverpool's dogged resilience, which has kept the title race alive, albeit with Pep Guardiola's side still in pole position.
This absorbing title race has echoes of the epic tussle between these two sides in the 2018-19 campaign, when Liverpool pushed City all the way, amassing 97 points, only to lose by one. If City and Liverpool both win their remaining seven games, they will finish on 95 and 94 points respectively, maintaining the absurdly high threshold they have set over the last five seasons.
