In-form Manchester City welcome a resurgent Liverpool team to the Etihad on Sunday in what promises to be an absorbing affair, with just one point and three places separating the two sides in the Premier League.
City have lost just one of their last 13 games in all competitions, while the Reds ended a run of four straight league defeats with back-to-back victories over Aston Villa and Real Madrid last week.
The game will be Pep Guardiola’s 1000th game in management, having won 12 league titles in that time with Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City as well as three Champions League titles.
And, by his own admission, the City boss could not have picked a more fitting adversary to mark the occasion.
That run of dismal results have left the champions eight points adrift of leaders Arsenal, although a win for Arne Slot over Guardiola would cut that deficit to five.
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Manchester City team news
Rayan Cherki, who excelled against Dortmund in midweek, starts. Matheus Nunes and Nico O’Reilly are again at full-back in an attacking line-up as City are unchanged from the team which beat Bouurnemouth last weekend.
Manchester City: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Nico O’Reilly, Josko Gvardiol, Rúben Dias, Matheus Nunes, Phil Foden, Nico González, Bernardo Silva, Jérémy Doku, Erling Haaland, Rayan Cherki
Liverpool team news
Alexander Isak is on the bench for the Reds, while there is one change from the team which faced Aston Villa in the Premier League.
Florian Wirtz starts with Cody Gakpo on the bench.
Liverpool: Giorgi Mamardashvili, Andy Robertson, Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konaté, Conor Bradley, Alexis Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch, Florian Wirtz, Dominik Szoboszlai, Mohamed Salah, Hugo Ekitiké
How to watch Manchester City v Liverpool
Kick-off for Manchester City v Arsenal is at 4:30pm GMT on Sunday with the game being shown on Sky Sports in the UK as part of their Super Sunday coverage.
Via Now TV, Sky Sports costs £14.99 for a day membership, £28 a month for a 12-month membership or £34.99 a month with no contract.
Sky Sports memberships include access to all 12 live Sky Sports channels and Sky Sports+, which offers live streams and a dedicated channel.
Streaming is available on a vast variety of devices via the Sky GO app.
Manchester City v Liverpool stats
- Liverpool won this exact fixture 2-0 last season but have not claimed consecutive away league victories against City since a run of three between 1987 and 1991.
- Manchester City boast a record of winning 10 of their last 12 Premier League games against reigning champions.
- Despite ending their recent losing run, Liverpool have lost their last three matches away from home and haven’t lost four on the bounce on their travels since Kenny Dalglish was manager in April 2012.
- City are the only team not to score a Premier League goal via a set piece this season. All 20 of their goals coming from open play and they are the first side in Premier League history to score 20 goals in their first 10 games without any coming from a set piece.
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