
Klopp and Guardiola serve up another Premier League classic but Arsenal is the big winner
The Hindu
Liverpool and Manchester City showcase their Premier League rivalry as Klopp prepares to step down at the end of the season.
Liverpool and Manchester City showed the Premier League what it will be missing when Jurgen Klopp walks away at the end of the season.
Anfield played host to a typically full-blooded, high-octane clash of titans in the last English top-flight encounter between Klopp and Pep Guardiola before the Liverpool manager stands down. No wonder Guardiola says he will sleep easier when his long-time rival is no longer standing in his way.
Guardiola likened Liverpool to a “tsunami” as the defending champions had to dig deep to survive long periods of pressure in the second half. “Oh my God, they come from everywhere,” he said after a 1-1 draw on Sunday that kept second-place Liverpool one point ahead of City in third.
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Arsenal ended the weekend top of the standings on goal difference, but the Londoners' 2-1 win at Brentford on Saturday felt like a subplot compared to the latest and possibly last clash between Klopp and Guardiola.
John Stones gave City a first-half lead and Alexis Mac Allister leveled from the penalty spot after the break.
That only told part of the story of a thrilling encounter, which saw Luis Diaz miss a big chance to fire Liverpool ahead and Phil Foden and Jeremy Doku hit the woodwork for City. In stoppage time, Klopp thought Liverpool should have been awarded a penalty for Doku's chest-high challenge on Mac Allister, only for VAR to dismiss appeals.

In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












