Manchester City vs Liverpool Preview


Manchester City vs Liverpool

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Etihad Stadium

Date: 10th April 2022

Kick-off time – 16:30 GMT

Premier League top two sides Manchester City and Liverpool will square up at the Etihad this Sunday in a highly anticipated clash that could determine the direction of the title this season.

Manchester City come into this tie on the back of a hard-fought 1-0 win over Atletico Madrid in the Champions League. That win keeps their chances of progressing to the next round of the UCL in their hands.

In the Premier League, their last outing was a 2-0 win over Sean Dyche’s Burnley. That win kept their slender one-point lead over Liverpool alive.

And so, they come into this fixture looking to extend that slender lead at the top of the Premier League table to four points

They will be confident of getting a win in this game given their run of form. They are currently on a run of three consecutive wins while they have kept six clean sheets in their last eight games.

However all of their defencive strengths will be tested against a Liverpool side that has scored 2+ goals in seven of their last ten away games.

Jurgen Klopp’s side come into this tie on the back of a 3-1 win over Benfica in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Champions League. That win almost guarantees them a place in the next round of the UCL. And so, they will turn their attention to leapfrogging Manchester City at the top of the table with a win in this game.

If they can achieve that, it will be considered a miracle considering that they were out of the title race before December trailing City by 15 points after a 2-2 draw with Chelsea in January.

But since dropping points in that game, Jurgen Klopp’s men have won ten of the PL games they have played. In fact, they have only lost one game since that draw with Chelsea in all competitions, winning 17 out of the 20 games they have played since then (two draws).

They are arguably the most in-form team in Europe at the moment as evidenced by their run of eight successive away wins–a first in the club’s history.

And so, on paper, they appear to be the more in-form team and will fancy their chances of inflicting their 21st PL win over City in 50 head-to-head meetings (D10, L9).

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Premier League Fixtures:

December 7, 2024
Everton 01:00 Liverpool
December 26, 2024
Manchester City 13:30 Everton
AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Crystal Palace
Southampton 16:00 West Ham United
Chelsea 16:00 Fulham
Nottingham Forest 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Newcastle United 16:00 Aston Villa
Wolverhampton Wanderers 18:30 Manchester United
Liverpool 21:00 Leicester City
December 27, 2024
Brighton & Hov… 20:30 Brentford
Arsenal 21:15 Ipswich Town
December 29, 2024
Leicester City 15:30 Manchester City
Tottenham Hotspur 16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Fulham 16:00 AFC Bournemouth
Crystal Palace 16:00 Southampton
Everton 16:00 Nottingham Forest
West Ham United 18:15 Liverpool
December 30, 2024
Aston Villa 20:45 Brighton & Hov…
Ipswich Town 20:45 Chelsea
Manchester United 21:00 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 16 12 3 1 37 16 +21 39
2 Chelsea 17 10 5 2 37 19 +18 35
3 Arsenal 17 9 6 2 34 16 +18 33
4 Nottingham Forest 17 9 4 4 23 19 +4 31
5 AFC Bournemouth 17 8 4 5 27 21 +6 28
6 Aston Villa 17 8 4 5 26 26 +0 28
7 Manchester City 17 8 3 6 29 25 +4 27
8 Newcastle United 17 7 5 5 27 21 +6 26
9 Fulham 17 6 7 4 24 22 +2 25
10 Brighton & Hov… 17 6 7 4 27 26 +1 25
11 Tottenham Hotspur 17 7 2 8 39 25 +14 23
12 Brentford 17 7 2 8 32 32 +0 23
13 Manchester United 17 6 4 7 21 22 -1 22
14 West Ham United 17 5 5 7 22 30 -8 20
15 Everton 16 3 7 6 14 21 -7 16
16 Crystal Palace 17 3 7 7 18 26 -8 16
17 Leicester City 17 3 5 9 21 37 -16 14
18 Wolverhampton Wanderers 17 3 3 11 27 40 -13 12
19 Ipswich Town 17 2 6 9 16 32 -16 12
20 Southampton 17 1 3 13 11 36 -25 6

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