‘Going to ease off?’: Roy Keane says Liverpool & Man City’s rivals are all thinking the same thing after that

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Roy Keane believes Liverpool and Man City’s rivals will all think the same thing after the Community Shield. The two sides clashed for silverware.

Liverpool and Manchester City met at the King Power stadium on Saturday. The Community Shield was on the line – trophy the Reds haven’t won since 2006.

But they found a way to recapture it here. Liverpool looked sharp from the first moment, threatening in behind City’s defence immediately. Mohamed Salah will be pretty disappointed that he couldn’t find the net after a bright start.

Trent Alexander-Arnold had Liverpool 1-0 up at half-time, though. City found an equaliser through Julian Alvarez but Darwin Nunez’s introduction proved decisive. He won a penalty for Salah to convert before finding a third for himself.

It was a high-quality game between the two best teams in the country – City could easily have found another goal or two here. Liverpool, though, were the ones who got over the line.

Of course, this is really only a warm-up for the real season but it was a taster of what’s to come. And according to Roy Keane, rival sides will only feel disappointment after watching that.

Liverpool & Man City’s rivals

“The other teams might be watching this and thinking ‘are these teams going to ease off?’,” Keane said on ITV. “Not with Klopp and Pep involved.

“The hunger and desire from both teams [is incredible].”

There are question marks over both teams, admittedly. They’ve each changed their strategy, moving away from False 9s and introducing traditional centre-forwards. On this showing, though, Liverpool and City will only improve as a result.

Nunez, of course, showed what he can bring. Liverpool had completely different options with him up top and Jurgen Klopp can now change the game with one substitution.

And Erling Haaland was a threat, even if things didn’t fall for him today. The Norwegian will improve City eventually.

Rival sides will be quite gutted, then. Neither team are easing off, nor are they displaying fatigue from last season. They each look ready to dominate English football for yet another campaign.