Man City, Liverpool clash ends in stalemate as Lookman scores in Leicester win
With seven games remaining, City retain their slim one-point advantage over Liverpool at the top of the table
Since the start of the 2018-19 season, combining the four campaigns, City and Liverpool have been separated by just a single point in the Premier League.
Nothing could separate the Premier League's top two as they played out a pulsating draw at Etihad Stadium to keep the title race on a knife's edge.
Manchester City came out firing as Kevin de Bruyne gave them an early lead with a thumping strike, which deflected off defender Joel Matip, moments after Alisson had denied Raheem Sterling from close range.
Liverpool responded when Diogo Jota put away Trent Alexander-Arnold's lay-off but they faced a period of relentless pressure from City in the first half.
Gabriel Jesus eventually regained City's lead before the break but it was all square again when Sadio Mane slotted home 46 seconds into the restart.
The drama continued as Sterling thought he'd made it 3-2 before his goal was chalked off for offside following a VAR check.
With seven games remaining, City retain their slim one-point advantage over Liverpool at the top of the table and the two rivals will face off again in six days' time for a place in the FA Cup final at Wembley.
Elsewhere, Leicester continued their fine run of recent form as homegrown talent Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall played a starring role in a hard-earned win over Crystal Palace.
The Foxes started slowly at the King Power Stadium but Dewsbury-Hall carved Palace open with a superb ball for Ademola Lookman to fire home, before whipping his own finish high into the net six minutes later.
The 23-year-old's moments of quality proved telling in a fixture both sides could have been forgiven for looking past given their mid-table status and with key cup fixtures in the coming week.
Palace - who missed early chances through Wilfried Zaha, Jean-Philippe Mateta and Joachim Andersen - refused to give in after the break and Youri Tielemans' foul on Jordan Ayew in the penalty area offered them a route back into the match.
Zaha saw his penalty saved and when VAR pointed to encroachment in the area by home defender Caglar Soyuncu, his retaken penalty was also palmed away by Kasper Schmeichel, only for the Ivory Coast international to head in the rebound.
It prompted a spirited 10 minutes from Palace - who went close through a Jeffrey Schlupp flick - but their seven-game unbeaten run ends. Leicester now have four wins and a draw from their past six league games - form that lifts them to ninth in the table, one place above the beaten visitors.
