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Manchester City moved 10 points clear at the Premier League summit with a 3-1 victory over Everton at Goodison Park on Wednesday evening.

City took the lead just after the half hour mark – Phil Foden’s sweetly struck half volley deflecting in off Seamus Coleman. But Everton were level five minutes later as Lucas Digne’s effort inadvertently clattered off the post, onto the thigh of Richarlison, and into the net.

City regained the advantage just after the hour mark – and in some style – Riyad Mahrez bending a wonderful first time effort from the edge of the box home in off the post. Mahrez then turned provider for City’s third, teeing up Bernardo Silva who sent a fizzing effort into the bottom corner via the gloves of Jordan Pickford.

Let’s dive into some player ratings.

Jordan Pickford (GK) – 6/10 – Made a good save down low to keep out Joao Cancelo early in the first half and Bernardo Silva in the second. Got a hand to City’s third.

Mason Holgate (RB) – 6/10 – Switched to centre back following Mina’s injury, and then back to right-back for the final 20 minutes. Looked more comfortable at centre half, with Sterling’s directness causing him a bit of trouble.

Yerry Mina (CB) – 5/10 – Forced off after 15 minutes with an injury to his right calf.

Michael Keane (CB) – 6/10 – Did well to quickly close down Jesus in the first half, Keane’s pressure doing just enough as the Brazilian fired over from close range

Ben Godfrey (LB) – 5/10 – Had a bit of a difficult night up against Mahrez, Bernardo Silva and Walker, who overloaded Everton’s left.

Alex Iwobi (RM) – 6/10 – Lost track of Foden in the build up to City’s opener, gifting the youngster too much space. Instrumental in Everton’s equaliser.

Abdoulaye Doucoure (CM) – 6/10 – Broke up play well and burst forward energetically on a number of occasions.

Tom Davies (CM) – 5/10 – Full of energy, such a willing runner – but sloppily conceded possession in his own half on a couple of occasions. Replaced with 22 minutes remaining.

Gylfi Sigurdsson (CAM) – 5/10 – Had half a sniff of goal early in the first half but saw his volley blocked by Dias.

Lucas Digne (LM) – 6/10 – Playing in a slightly unnatural midfield role, his well struck effort clattered the post and onto Richarlison for Everton’s equaliser. Moved to left back for the final 20 minutes.

Richarlison (ST) – 7/10 – Right place, right time to accidentally deflect Digne’s effort off the post into the net for Everton’s equaliser. Led the line and held up the ball really well on his own.

Seamus Coleman – 6/10 – Picked out Digne with a dangerous delivery in the build up to Everton’s equaliser.

Josh King – 5/10

James Rodriguez – 6/10

Ederson (GK) – 6/10 – Good with his feet, hardly had a save to make.

Kyle Walker (RB) – 7/10 – Bombed forward energetically and overlapped Mahrez on a number of occasions. Picked out Jesus with a fabulous through ball in the second half.

Ruben Dias (CB) – 6/10 – Made a good block to keep out Sigurdsson in the second half. Helped to restrict Everton to occasional sights of goal.

Aymeric Laporte (CB) – 6/10 – Had an interesting battle with Richarlison. Solid defensively, comfortable in possession.

Joao Cancelo (LB) – 8/10 – Brought a good save out of Pickford in the opening exchanges with a low drive from the edge of the box. As ever he floated around in central midfield, dictating play and rendering the traditional full-back role well and truly defunct. We’re calling this Cancelo culture.

Rodri (CM) – 6/10 – Played Jesus clean through on goal with a cushioned pass in the first half. Glanced a headed half chance narrowly wide in the second.

Bernardo Silva (CM) – 8/10 – Teed up Mahrez for City’s second, added City’s third with a fizzing effort from the edge of the box.

Phil Foden (CM) – 7/10 – Opened the scoring with a well struck, deflected half volley. Glided about the pitch, buzzing with energy.

Riyad Mahrez (RW) – 8/10 – Instrumental in City’s opener, with his quick feet and subsequent teasing delivery eventually falling to Foden. Looked really lively, willing to attempt to beat Godfrey whenever he was in possession. Netted City’s second with a fabulous curling effort.

Gabriel Jesus (ST) – 6/10 – Fired a good opportunity just over in the first half when through on goal but with Keane applying the pressure, before blazing another chance over in the second.

Raheem Sterling (LW) – 7/10 – Had more joy up against Holgate than Coleman. Went on one sumptuous little run in the second half, wriggling his way past three Everton defenders.

Kevin de Bruyne – 6/10

Fernandinho – N/A

Going into their Champions League round of 16 first leg against RB Leipzig, Liverpool had reached their lowest point of the Jurgen Klopp era.

Their self-implosion in the 3-1 defeat against Leicester last time out summed up everything wrong at Anfield at the moment. Confidence is low, fatigue is high and there is a growing sense that this brilliant team is coming to the end of their cycle of dominance.

Fortunately, Leipzig were feeling sorry for the Reds on Tuesday night, gifting them not one, but two goals in the second half.

The first guilty man was Marcel Sabitzer; seizing upon a loose ball in midfield, the Austrian attempted a seemingly basic ten-yard pass to Lukas Klostermann and got it wrong – very wrong.

With the pass half a yard behind the lumbering centre-back, Mohamed Salah smelled opportunity and darted onto the misplaced ball, before calmly slotting past Peter Gulacsi.

This error clearly gave Leipzig an appetite for self-destruction as minutes later, highly-rated young centre-back Nordi Mukiele was guilty of an even more heinous mistake. There were thousands of acceptable ways that Mukiele could have dealt with Curtis Jones’ innocuous long ball – none of them involved falling on his backside like a Sunday league plodder still sweating out the six pints they enjoyed the night before, and staying there in a strop as his opponent ran clear.

Sadio Mane would benefit this time, racing onto the loose before stroking the ball across Gulacsi and into the back of the net.

These two errors were indicative of Leipzig’s strange performance. Recently, Die Roten Bullen have been playing well. They have made a genuine claim to be Germany’s new ‘second’ team this season and have only lost twice in their last 17 games in all competitions.

Against Liverpool, they showed glimpses of their talent, with Dani Olmo’s hitting the post with a innovative diving header early on and Angeliño causing problems with his intelligent positioning. Largely though, Leipzig looked bizarrely nervous, particularly at the back.

This manifested itself in a string of basic errors and few players struggled more than Dayot Upamecano, who earlier this week was revealed as David Alaba’s successor at Bayern Munich. Die Roten would have watched his display through their fingers, with the Frenchman routinely caught in possession and also been guilty of some unforgivably slack passing, which put his team under unnecessary pressure.

Although Upamecano was particularly poor, his performance was indicative of Leipzig’s abundance of unforced errors.

The key word here is unforced. Although Liverpool did press effectively on Tuesday night, this was not them strangling their opponents into submission, as they have done so many times before in Europe. A more apt description would be that the Reds were handed the game on a silver platter through Leipzig’s own incompetence.

Although the boost in confidence that the win will bring is much-needed, Liverpool must not get ahead of themselves. This tie remains far from over as there is no chance that Leipzig will play that poorly again when the two teams meet at Anfield for the second leg on 10 March.