article_snippet.sent: Despite Mario Balotelli's gloating, City's eventual defeat is actually more beneficial to City's eventual defeat now-Liverpool side .
article_snippet.sent: While Manchester United's blitz of Manchester City went on to leave the Italian red-faced anyway, the fact that a defeat for the champions was beneficial for his current club will not have gone unnoticed either.
article_snippet.sent: Instead, Mario Balotelli seemed to throw Mario Balotelli weight behind Mario Balotelli former employers rather than clinging on to now-Liverpool's slim hopes of Champions League qualification that look like his former employers will only open up if Manchester City's slump continues.
article_snippet.sent: Controversial striker Mario Balotelli listens in as Brendan Rodgers talks Brendan Rodgers team through a training session .
article_snippet.sent: Mario Balotelli and Brendan Rodgers now
article_snippet.sent: And with Manuel Pellegrini's side having lost six of Balotelli and his Liverpool team-mates last eight in all competitions the Anfield club maintain a small chance of taking a top four place, even if it isn't at the top of Mario Balotelli's list of priorities.
article_snippet.sent: The 24-year-old has had his run-ins with the red half of Manchester before, famously celebrating a goal with his 'Why always me' shirt at Old Trafford in 2011 and clashing with Rio Ferdinand after a win over Newcastle United at Wembley in the same year.
highlights_snippet.sent: But the now-Liverpool striker benefited more from City losing derby .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: the now-Liverpool striker  and the now-Liverpool striker  