Liverpool made Pep Guardiola angry - and dressing room rant forced Man City change
Seven years ago, Liverpool dealt Manchester City their first proper blow in a modern-day rivalry that has taken the Premier League to new heights.
In his first full season on Merseyside Jurgen Klopp's team were still far from title challengers. Yes, they had reached the League Cup and Europa League finals the year before, they had snagged Sadio Mane, Georginio Wijnaldum and Joel Matip in the transfer market and they had a newly-completed Anfield Main Stand to roar the team on, though they were still a work in progress.
And the same could be said for City. Their squad valued at half a billion pounds by Transfermarkt were a lot closer to the finished article though had been freshly handed over to Pep Guardiola at the start of the campaign - following Klopp to these shores from Germany.
The managerial duo had spent three years competing in the Bundesliga, Klopp with Dortmund and Guardiola with Bayern Munich. The latter got the better, winning a back-to-back-to-back titles - now was their time to conquer English football.
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Their first meeting was scheduled for December 31, 2016 - under to the Anfield lights to round off the calendar year.
The Reds fielded a starting line-up that looked like this: Simon Mignolet; Nathaniel Clyne, Dejan Lovren, Ragnar Klavan, James Milner; Georginio Wijnaldum, Jordan Henderson, Emre Can; Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino, Adam Lallana.
Whilst the visitors presented their star-studded cast like this: Claudio Bravo; Pablo Zabaleta, John Stones, Nicolas Otamendi, Aleksandar Kolarov; Yaya Toure, Fernandinho; Raheem Sterling, Kevin de Bruyne, David
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