It is the time of the year whereby the fiercest teams in the toughest football league in the world, the English Premier League, to face one another, and Manchester City vs. Liverpool will be the highly anticipated matchup this weekend at the Cityzens’ home ground Etihad Stadium. The feisty clash will see the top two teams (City at 28 points while the Kop at 27 points) of this 2023/2024 Premier League Season going up against each other for the best team in the league table after 13 Matchdays, and tensions between the two juggernauts have already prompted the personnel arrange the game with an early kickoff time of 12:30 p.m. GMT due to police concerns of previous crowd troubles.
Match Preview Between Manchester City vs. Liverpool
This prime Manchester City vs. Liverpool matchup over the weekend will be the 193rd time both teams face each other, having played their inaugural game back in the Football League Second Division on 6th September 1893. The head-to-head record between the two Premier League title contenders indicated that the Reds are leading with 91 victories as compared to Cityzens’ 50, with the other 51 games ended as draws, but recent histories will tell you that the game would not be as lopsided as the overall record would suggest, largely due to City’s huge rise to the English top-flight and European club football started more than a decade ago.
The last 10 matches between the two in the Manchester City vs. Liverpool fixture have the former slightly edging out the latter with four wins against three, including the last two meetings where Pep Guardiola’s side scored a total of seven goals in their back-to-back victories against their Saturday opponents.
Furthermore, the Manchester City vs. Liverpool game cannot get any bigger than this Saturday’s game, especially when the home side have won all of their last 23 matches in all competitions, while Liverpool only tasted defeat once in their previous 23 matches in the English Premier League, winning 15 and drawing seven of them; Their only defeat in these games was against Tottenham Hotspur in that controversial 2-1 game.
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Who Will Perform Better, Haaland or Salah?
The most look-forward-to battle in the Manchester City vs. Liverpool clash on Matchday 13 of this season’s English Premier League must be between Norway striker sensation Erling Haaland and Egypt national team captain Mohamed Salah. The former is looking like his old self this year, having scored and assisted 17 and four times in 18 games in all competitions thus far, whereas the latter has a total of 16 goal contributions (12 goals and four assists) under his belt for Liverpool in 2023/2024.
Prior to this weekend, concerns were that the younger Haaland might be unavailable against the Kop in the Manchester City vs. Liverpool matchup due to an injury he picked up in a Norway game, but the player’s participation in Cityzens’ recent training sessions proved that he will be fit for the all-important game of the new season.
Four of Haaland’s 17 goals in 2023/2024 came against BSC Young Boys in the UEFA Champions League, helping the Cityzens to clinch a spot in the Round of 16 in advance as a result. Check out the full match details about the second leg of this Group G Matchday 4 fixture in this article now.
Our Bold Prediction
With the form that Manchester City are in at the moment and that they are playing at home as the no. 1 team in the Premier League this year so far, it would be almost impossible for Liverpool to leave the Etihad with more than a single point.
We at OtherLeague.com would like to forecast the matchup with Guardiola’s Cityzens coming out on top against Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool with a margin of victory of two to three goals and Haaland contributing up front as well. Nevertheless, feel free to leave your very own prediction about the Manchester City vs. Liverpool game down in the comment below as we would love to hear about your thoughts too!
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