Match preview
A Liverpool team in poor form welcomes their rivals a rampant City side to Anfield on Sunday, so on paper City should be confident of another win.
Liverpool sit in 10th place in the table with 13 points behind Manchester City. In the past, a match between these two teams have often been billed as potential title deciders.
After a Champions League match in which they defeated Rangers 7-1, the Reds have gained new momentum that suggests that this fixture could live up to expectations.
In their midweek drubbing of Rangers, Mohamed Salah arguably dropped his best performance of the season so far – scoring a 6-minute hat trick, which is the fastest in Champions League history at Ibrox will get his blood pumping for this game.
Erling Haaland’s excellent performance lately will be a cause for concern for Liverpool manager especially when Virgil van Dijk and the rest of his defenders have been fluffing their lines of late. They have to be at their best in order to keep him from scoring.
Manchester City have scored 13 goals in their last three matches and the big Norwegian striker was rested in midweek as the Cityzens drew a blank in Copenhagen.
While Jurgen Klopp’s team currently has several injured members, Pep’s squad is close to full strength.
Since 2019, Manchester City have not won at Anfield, and experts expect that to happen on Sunday. Can a revitalised Liverpool find a way to stop Manchester City from continuing their streak up the table?
Liverpool vs Man City H2H
Liverpool | 3 – 1 | |
Man City | 2 – 3 | |
Man City | 2 – 2 | |
Liverpool | 2 – 2 | |
Liverpool | 1 – 4 |
Liverpool vs Man City form guide
Liverpool’ last 5 games – DWLDW
Rangers | 1 – 7 | |
Liverpool | 0 – 0 | |
Arsenal | 3 – 2 | |
Liverpool | 2 – 0 | |
Liverpool | 3 – 3 |
Man City’ last 5 games – WWWWD
0 – 0 | ||
4 – 0 | ||
5 – 0 | ||
6 – 3 | ||
0 – 3 |
Key facts
- Out of 221 matches played between Liverpool and Manchester City, the latter won 58 times and Liverpool have 107 victories.
- Liverpool have never gone six games without a win in the history of their Premier League against City; however, they recently went five winless game runs against Manchester City.
- Liverpool have scored at least two goals in each of their last four games against Manchester City in any competition. This has never happened to a team led by Guardiola in five consecutive matches.
- Liverpool have won more matches against reigning Premier League champion teams than any other team. They have won 22 matches against six other teams.
- Liverpool have managed only 10 points from their eight Premier League games so far – their worst record at this stage of this season since the 2012-13 campaign.
- Previous matches between Liverpool and Manchester City have averaged 3.13 goals while BTTS has happened 67% of the time.
Liverpool vs Man City prediction
Here are what we think are likely to happen in this fixture:
- EITHER TEAM TO WIN @ 1.23
- OVER 2.5 GOALS @ 1.47
- HAALAND TO SCORE @ 1.76
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