Despite not naming a central striker, leaving three of their top five goalscorers on the bench, Liverpool tore apart a team they have been hanging onto the coattails of for the best part of the last decade.
Man City are so bad, even Pep's trousers are dishevelled
Read MoreAs does Slot. Knowing full well Guardiola and City would be out for revenge following their humbling at Anfield earlier this season, the Dutchman was brave with his tactical curveball, deploying a 4-2-4 system with two false nines who proved impossible to control for the champions’ disjointed backline.
With Salah and Luis Diaz stretching the play gaps became chasms, opportunities these champions in waiting were never going to pass up.
Ten Hag was unable to perfect the system, for a variety of reasons. Slot himself may never repeat his tinkering at the Etihad.
Liverpool owed their second goal almost entirely to this new way of thinking. Once again, the visitors swept from back to front in the blink of an eye, making a mockery of the City press.
By delaying his pass, Salah, and he is more than capable of such ingenuity, almost mocked Guardiola by bringing in that element of la pausa to allow play to evolve and create more space. The Catalan builds his philosophy around the same principle.
Player of the match: Mohamed Salah
His influence on Liverpool’s season grows with every gameIt is an incredible luxury to have and is why nobody will be able to stop the Slot machine. Against lower blocks, or teams with nine players behind the ball, it would be easier to nullify. Ten Hag will testify to that.
No dramas for Slot, though, he will just go with one of either Diogo Jota, Darwin Nunez or Cody Gakpo in a central role. Diaz can go back there, too. Options like this win you titles, with even the might of Guardiola powerless to stop it in its tracks.
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