Liverpool 0-0 Manchester City: Riyad Mahrez squanders the chance to win it after blazing a late penalty over the bar as it ends goalless at Anfield

Maybe Sergio Aguero would have scored it. Maybe Phil Foden would have, too. We’ll never know.

Five minutes to go, game tied at 0-0, penalty to Manchester City at Anfield, Sergio Aguero off the field. Up steps Riyad Mahrez. This, one imagines, is what the record signing was bought to do. Define games. Win matches. Those huge moments on which title campaigns turn. That is why City pursued him. That is why Foden was pushed down the pecking order. He’s a kid and everyone knows what City want. Big men, for big occasions.

Experience. The finished article. That is the scale of their ambition.