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If there was ever any doubt that Liverpool have got right inside Manchester City's heads at the moment, the incident between Raheem Sterling and Joe Gomez on international duty knocked it right into touch.

We saw from Pep Guardiola's touchline meltdown on Sunday that the pressure Liverpool have been putting on his side constantly for the last twelve months is getting to him.

And for Sterling to react the way he reportedly did to an international team-mate shows that the reaction he gets every time he comes to Anfield rattles him.

A lot of it is to do with the way he left Liverpool, which fans feel was for money, and that doesn't get easily forgiven or forgotten.

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Yes he's won trophies there but he hasn't won the big one, the European Cup, which he probably would have done if he'd stayed at Anfield.

The type of player he is, and the way his agent carried on when he wanted to leave us, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if he ends doing the dirty on Man City as well in the end and pushes off to Spain or somewhere.

* Eight points clear at the top of the league and nine clear of City now.. you'd be daft be say anything other Liverpool have got a great chance of winning this league championship that we've all been craving for so long.

But we're not even halfway through November, there's only been a dozen matches and there's still more than two thirds of the league season to go so - as boring as it sounds - it really is a case of one game at a time for Jurgen Klopp and his players.

They can't afford to let themselves look any further than the next game and we know it won't be an easy one at Crystal Palace.

We've got a little bit of leeway with that lead but we can't take anything for granted and just need to keep on going and going.

We've seen leads get pegged back and championships lost before so it's important that no-one gets carried away but the great thing is there's one person you can absolutely guarantee will not do that, and it's the boss Jurgen Klopp himself. Roll on Palace.