A team collides Liverpool vs Manchester City This evening, Sunday, at Anfield Stadium, in a fiery summit in the 28th round of the English Premier League Championship for the current season 2023-24.
Liverpool vs Man City
Liverpool enters today’s match armed with the ground staff and the crowd to achieve victory and three points to ensure it continues to lead the English Premier League standings against the first title candidate, Manchester City.
Jurgen Klopp, the coach of Liverpool, hopes to benefit from the wonderful technical condition of his players after restoring the services of his star and Reds top scorer Mohamed Salah, who returned from injury after an absence that lasted for several weeks and made an enjoyable appearance in the final minutes of the Sparta Prague match in the European League, which ended with a score for the team. .
It is expected that the Premier League leaders will enter the match without their Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson Becker, English full-back Alexander Arnold and Portuguese striker Diogo Jota, and there is a possibility that defender Ibrahima Konate will be absent after being substituted against Sparta Prague due to injury.
Liverpool vs Manchester City match date
The Liverpool match against Manchester City will take place at 6:15 pm today, Sunday, and will be broadcast on beIN Sports HD 1.
The match between the two teams in the first round ended in a 1-1 draw at Etihad Stadium, and witnessed a heated argument at the end between Guardiola and Darwin Nunez, the Liverpool striker, who is undergoing a major artistic revival in the current period by scoring 8 goals with 3 assists in the last 10 matches..
On the other hand, Manchester City enters the summit match against Liverpool in high spirits after qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Champions League after repeating its victory over Copenhagen of Denmark, back and forth, with one score, 1/3..
Manchester City achieved 9 wins against one draw in the last 10 rounds, while Liverpool stumbled with a draw and a loss compared to 8 wins in the same period of the English Premier League competition..
English Premier League standings
Before the start of Round 28, Liverpool topped the English Premier League standings with 63 points, collected from winning 19 matches, drawing 6 and losing two matches, scoring 64 goals and conceding 25..
While the Manchester City team came in second place in the English Premier League table with 62 points collected by winning 19 matches, drawing 5, losing 3 matches, scoring 62 goals and conceding 27.
History of Liverpool’s confrontations against Man City
Historically, the Liverpool teams met against Manchester City in 139 matches. Before today’s confrontation, the Reds were able to win 67 matches compared to 33 for the Citizens, while 39 matches ended in a draw between them.
Liverpool players scored 252 goals compared to 174 for Manchester City, while at the top of the scoring charts for both teams is the legend Ian Rush, with 15 goals, followed by the duo, Kenny Dalgic, and Mohamed Salah, with 10 goals.
Manchester City is superior in marketing value by 1.26 billion euros, compared to 868 million for Liverpool, while the list of most expensive players is topped by Norwegian star Erling Haaland, with a value of up to 180 million euros, compared to 75 million for Liverpool midfield star Soboslaj.