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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tim de Lisle (now), John Brewin and Tom Davies (earlier)

Guardiola calls Klopp ‘biggest rival I’ve had’, plus team news – as it happened

Time to wrap it up. The love-in of the day was Klopp and Guardiola, waxing lyrical about each other. The quote of the day was Pep on Trent: “Alexander-Arnold is like an exhibition”. The stat of the day was the one about total league points over the past four seasons: Man City top with 338, Liverpool second with 337, Chelsea a distant third with 264. One more incentive for Liverpool to knock the champions off their perch on Sunday.

Do keep an eye on the match previews, where Everton-Man U has just landed. Thanks for your company and I’ll be back soon with the first Premier League match of the weekend, Newcastle v Wolves, which kicks off at 8pm.

Updated

Not content with writing most of the posts on this blog, John Brewin has now delivered The Fiver.

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