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Manchester City – Liverpool, match of the eighth day of the Premier League, Etihad Stadium, 6:30 p.m. Bulgarian time.
Gol.bg’s forecast:
Manchester City welcome Liverpool to their Etihad in the battle of the English champions for the past two years. At the moment, the situation with the ‘citizens’ is not very good, since the team is in 12th place in the standings, but only 5 points separate Pep Guardiola’s team from the ‘reds’, who started the round as leaders of the classification. Separately, City has one game less.
So tonight’s Manchester derby looks like a match that can determine the fate of both teams in the title fight.
Man City will once again be left without the top scorer in club history, Sergio Agüero, who is recovering from a sprain. Gabriel Jesús is ready to start as a starter, although he had a slight injury problem. On the other hand, Ferran Torres performed more than well in the center attack position and would also be useful at some point in the match. Fernandinho and Benjamin Mendy are still out.
The good news for Guardiola is the condition of Rodri, Aymeric Laporte and Ruben Dias.
Liverpool will be without Thiago Alcantara, who missed six straight games with a knee injury. Virgil van Dyke, Fabinho and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will also be off the Jurgen Klopp accounts.
The coach of the ‘reds’ will have a serious dilemma for his attack, where Diogo Jota made a serious request for a starting place. The Portuguese scored a hat-trick against Atalanta this week and has already scored 6 goals in his last 4 games for Liverpool. So it will be interesting if Klopp will bet on Roberto Firmino or Jota. There is an option to release both of them in a new formation: 4-2-3-1.
Joel Matip and Joe Gomez are expected to team up in center defense, though Nathaniel Phillips and Reese Williams have been doing well in recent weeks.
Result: 2: 2
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