Man City 2 Liverpool 3

THIS was the type of fightback and victory that must make all Liverpool fans believe they really have a team to win the title.

What a win and what a game this was.

What a striker Liverpool have in Fernando Torres, who had the honour of claiming this famous club’s 1,000th Premier League goal yesterday.

And what character is running through the veins of this Kop side.

Rafa Benitez’s men were two-down at the break and seemingly out of the game.

City were attacking with flair and conviction, while Torres was not getting a sniff at the other end.

We know what boss Benitez can do in his half-time team talks, though.

We also know the character instilled in this great club to grab glory from seemingly the most desperate of situations.

Remember their most famous ever rise from the ashes in Istanbul in 2005. Then they were three-down to AC Milan, only to win the Champions League final on penalties.

Two goals here from Torres and an injury-time winner by Dirk Kuyt completed this ‘impossible’ and left a capacity Middle Eastlands with its belly as low as a sand snake.

Yet City had enjoyed a fantastic start, taking the lead after 19 minutes.

Shaun Wright-Phillips, the architect of so much that was good about the home team in the first half, got things going.

Charging down the wing, he cut the ball into the area and then retrieved it when Jo lost possession.

This time he fired it in to Robinho and Alvaro Arbeloa flipped a weak clearance straight to Stephen Ireland.