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Liverpool keep quadruple dream alive by beating Man City to reach FA Cup final

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Liverpool’s Sadio Mane in action during the match against City. PHOTO: REUTERS

Liverpool hung on to beat Manchester City 3-2 at Wembley Stadium on Saturday (April 16) to reach the FA Cup final where they will play Chelsea or Crystal Palace.

City manager Pep Guardiola opted to rest several starters, including goalkeeper Ederson, and the weakened side were outplayed by Jurgen Klopp’s team in the first half, going in 3-0 down at the interval.

Ibrahima Konate headed Liverpool ahead from a corner in the ninth minute before a dreadful error from City’s American back-up goalkeeper Zack Steffen gifted the Reds a second.

Steffen took too long when receiving a back pass from John Stones and Sadio Mane slid in to tackle the custodian and the ball flew into the net.

Mane then added another, on the stroke of half-time, in more conventional fashion, driving a volley past Steffen after being set up by Thiago Alcantara.

Jack Grealish pulled a goal back for City, 70 seconds after the resumption and then Bernando Silva made it 3-2 in stoppage time, but the Reds saw out the game to keep alive their hopes of an unprecedented quadruple.

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-Reuters

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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