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Liverpool vs Manchester City

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Anfield

Date: 1st December 2024

Kick-off time – 16:00 GMT

Liverpool will renew their rivalry with Manchester City this Sunday when both sides meet in a Premier League top-of-the-table clash at Anfield.

Liverpool continued their impressive run of form under Arne Slot in midweek as they followed up a 3-2 win over Southampton last weekend with a professional 2-0 win over Real Madrid in the Champions League. Both wins extended their leads at the top of the Premier League and Champions League table and ensures they come into this tie with a six-game winning run and a 15-game unbeaten record (W14, D1).

Now having toppled the champions of Spain and Europe, and the champions of Germany in Bayer Leverkusen at Anfield this season, they prepare to welcome the champions of England, against whom they’ve lost just one of the last 21 Premier League home H2Hs (W13, D7).

There’s no better time for them to play Man City who are experiencing by far their worst run in recent memory. The Citizens have failed to win any of their last six games (L5, D1), with their midweek Champions League outing the most bizarre in that time.

After racing to a three-goal lead against Dutch side Feyenoord, Pep Guardiola’s side conceded three goals in the last 15 minutes of the game, eventually drawing the game 3-3. It was the first time in Pep Guardiola’s 942-game managerial career that he’s seen any of his teams fail to win after leading by three goals.

That draw did at least arrest a five-game losing streak prior but has now put the Spanish boss on the brink of going seven games without a win for the very first time in his illustrious career. Three of those defeats occurred in the Premier League which has opened up a massive eight-points gap between them and Liverpool so losing a fourth top-flight game in succession for the first time since August 2008 here could prove fatal to their hopes of securing a fifth-successive Premier League crown.

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

April 7, 2025
Leicester City 20:00 Newcastle United
April 12, 2025
Manchester City 12:30 Crystal Palace
Brighton & Hov… 15:00 Leicester City
Nottingham Forest 15:00 Everton
Southampton 15:00 Aston Villa
Arsenal 17:30 Brentford
April 13, 2025
Chelsea 14:00 Ipswich Town
Liverpool 14:00 West Ham United
Wolverhampton Wanderers 14:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Newcastle United 16:30 Manchester United
April 14, 2025
AFC Bournemouth 20:00 Fulham
April 16, 2025
Newcastle United 19:30 Crystal Palace
April 19, 2025
Brentford 15:00 Brighton & Hov…
Crystal Palace 15:00 AFC Bournemouth
Everton 15:00 Manchester City
West Ham United 15:00 Southampton
Aston Villa 17:30 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 31 22 7 2 72 30 +42 73
2 Arsenal 31 17 11 3 56 26 +30 62
3 Nottingham Forest 31 17 6 8 51 37 +14 57
4 Chelsea 31 15 8 8 54 37 +17 53
5 Manchester City 31 15 7 9 57 40 +17 52
6 Aston Villa 31 14 9 8 46 46 +0 51
7 Newcastle United 29 15 5 9 49 39 +10 50
8 Fulham 31 13 9 9 47 42 +5 48
9 Brighton & Hov… 31 12 11 8 49 47 +2 47
10 AFC Bournemouth 31 12 9 10 51 40 +11 45
11 Crystal Palace 30 11 10 9 39 35 +4 43
12 Brentford 31 12 6 13 51 47 +4 42
13 Manchester United 31 10 8 13 37 41 -4 38
14 Tottenham Hotspur 31 11 4 16 58 45 +13 37
15 Everton 31 7 14 10 33 38 -5 35
16 West Ham United 31 9 8 14 35 52 -17 35
17 Wolverhampton Wanderers 31 9 5 17 43 59 -16 32
18 Ipswich Town 31 4 8 19 31 65 -34 20
19 Leicester City 30 4 5 21 25 67 -42 17
20 Southampton 31 2 4 25 23 74 -51 10

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