Pep Guardiola gives glowing verdict on one Liverpool star after Man City battle

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Pep Guardiola reserved praise for Conor Bradley in the wake of Liverpool’s 3-0 defeat against Manchester City on Sunday. “[Pep] Lijnders told me he can do everything - and I know how good he was with Vinicius and he handled it.

We tried to help him and he played an outstanding game.” Bradley was Liverpool's standout performer against City (Image: Getty Images) At the other end of the field, Nico O’Reilly also had a recurring battle with Mohamed Salah. Again, both had good moments, but for the City left-back to stand up to the challenge against one of the Premier League’s best attackers was seen as a real bonus for Guardiola.

We said to Nico he had to be aggressive, otherwise every time Mo had the ball he was helped with one or two central defenders, and Jeremy and Bernardo [Silva] and Phil [Foden]. It is no bad example to do that against Salah.” The result means Liverpool now sits eight points off the league leaders Arsenal, has lost more matches this term than it did during the entirety of the 2024/25 league campaign, while Slot suffered his biggest league defeat as Liverpool boss.