Guardiola’s men look lost as his once impregnable football dynasty falls apart

Manchester City are the team who have silenced every critic, perhaps that’s why they were devoured at Anfield

COUNT THEM: Manchester City's head coach Pep Guardiola puts up six fingers to remind the jeering fans of his six Premier League titles. Pic: AP Photo/Ian Hodgson

Pep Guardiola kept holding up six fingers. The Liverpool fans were in delirium and the Liverpool players were jigging and jiving across the turf, and his own players had gone over to applaud the travelling support, which is really the least anyone deserves after attempting to travel across northern England on a Sunday.

Still Guardiola kept holding up six fingers: proudly, almost incredulously, as if discovering the concept of fingers for the very first time. What did it all mean? The number of defeats since they last won a game? The position in which they most desperately require reinforcements in January? The number of touches, over 90 minutes, that Erling Haaland had in the final third?