Liverpool vs Man City: Premier League – teams, prediction, Haaland, charges

Who: Liverpool vs Manchester City
What: Premier League, matchday 6
Where: Anfield, Liverpool, United Kingdom
When: Sunday, October 11, astatine 4:30pm section clip (15:30 GMT)
How to follow: Al Jazeera Sport volition bring you each the build-up and unrecorded updates from 12:30 GMT.

Manchester City volition look the afloat fury of Anfield connected Sunday erstwhile the Premier League leaders face aged rivals Liverpool successful their archetypal crippled since being recovered blameworthy of breaking the competition’s fiscal rules.

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City tin expect a hostile reception from Liverpool fans aft an autarkic committee recovered they arranged “sham” deals to artificially inflate revenues and trim costs by much than £900 cardinal ($1.2bn) betwixt 2009 and 2018.

The fiscal breaches occurred during a play successful which City won 3 Premier League titles and galore different trophies, with Liverpool struggling to interruption the Etihad Stadium outfit’s silverware monopoly.

City person appealed against the devastating verdict and manager Enzo Maresca was bullish that they volition overturn the archetypal ruling. But the Premier League play is present stuck successful stasis awaiting a ruling connected the entreaty and immoderate imaginable sanction.

Liverpool supporters person often created a febrile ambiance for City’s visits since they emerged arsenic rubric contenders pursuing the takeover by their Abu Dhabi-based owners successful 2008.

This weekend’s showdown is apt to acceptable a caller modular for vitriol directed astatine City’s players and fans.

What is the contention surrounding Man City?

An autarkic committee found Man City guilty of astir each of the 115 charges of breaching the Premier League’s fiscal rules betwixt 2009 and 2018.

The Premier League said the committee recovered that City utilized schemes during the affected play to look to comply with fiscal rules.

City person continued to protestation their innocence and person lodged an appeal, but if the determination is upheld, past points deductions, fines, transportation embargoes and relegation are each possible punishments for the club.

‘A brutal day’ awaits Man City astatine Anfield

A societal media station promoting a “Bus greeting” has urged Liverpool supporters to stitchery adjacent ‌‌the stadium respective hours earlier kickoff with flags, banners, pyrotechnics and flares up of the accomplishment of the City players’ bus.

Merseyside Police said determination would beryllium an due policing cognition ⁠⁠in spot connected the day.

“If they privation an knowing of however aggravated the crippled is going to be, past Anfield volition archer them similar you would ne'er believe,” erstwhile Manchester United skipper and England defender Gary Neville said connected The Overlap podcast.

“I fishy determination whitethorn beryllium banners, determination volition surely beryllium chanting. There volition beryllium a reception similar you person ne'er seen for them astatine Anfield … it volition beryllium a brutal day.”

Over the past 12 years, Liverpool person finished 2nd to City connected 3 occasions. Only 1 of those, successful 2013-14, came during the play nether scrutiny successful this fiscal breach controversy.

But City’s rivals judge the wrongdoing successful that play built the foundations for a aureate epoch nether erstwhile brag Pep Guardiola, who stepped down astatine the extremity of past season.

Liverpool supporters acceptable disconnected flares to greet the Manchester City squad manager astatine Anfield connected December 1, 2024 [Carl Recine/Getty Images]

Liverpool vs Man City: Predictions

Opta’s supercomputer has handed City a 40.7 percent accidental of triumph connected Sunday.

Liverpool person a 34.6 percent probability, portion determination is simply a 24.7 percent accidental of a draw.

What person the coaches said?

In his pre-match league connected Friday, Man City’s manager Maresca said helium has absolute religion the nine volition triumph its appeal and rejected immoderate proposition that City’s haul of silverware implicit the past 15 years was present tainted.

“I wholly spot the club,” said Maresca, who was appointed manager successful June but besides antecedently worked astatine City arsenic portion of Guardiola’s coaching staff.

“I spot the nine due to the fact that I spot the radical and this is besides the crushed wherefore I joined the club. … There is not different nine successful the satellite wherever I would similar to be.”

His Liverpool counterpart, Andoni Iraola, said the lack of clarity implicit City’s future is causing uncertainty passim the Premier League.

“I deliberation the worst happening astir apt is the uncertainty, that nary 1 knows what’s going to happen,” Iraola said.

“But we person to absorption connected Liverpool – beryllium the champion nine we tin be, the champion squad we tin beryllium and that’s my challenge.”

Enzo Maresca and Manchester City are expected to person a hostile reception astatine Anfield connected Sunday [AFP]

How person Man City and Liverpool played this season?

While disconnected the field, Man City are embroiled successful a immense controversy; connected the pitch, they’ve been the champion squad this season.

City are apical of the Premier League’s points array with 15 points, winning each 5 games truthful far.

Liverpool are sixth successful the standings, having won doubly and drawn 3 times. They are connected 9 points, six down City.

When did Man City and Liverpool past meet?

Man City and Liverpool past met connected April 4 this twelvemonth successful the FA Cup quarterfinals.

Erling Haaland scored a hat-trick and Antoine Semenyo added different extremity arsenic City thrashed Liverpool 4-0 astatine the Etihad.

Liverpool vs Man City: Head-to-head

(Only successful the Premier League)

• Matches: 58
• Liverpool wins: 23
• Man City wins: 14
• Draws: 21

Liverpool vs Man City: Last 5 Premier League matches

• Liverpool 1-2 Man City (February 8, 2026)
• Man City 3-0 Liverpool (November 9, 2025)
• Man City 0-2 Liverpool (February 23, 2025)
• Liverpool 2-0 Man City (December 1, 2024)
• Liverpool 1-1 Man City (March 10, 2024)

Liverpool vs Man City: Form guide

(Last 5 matches, latest first; lone Premier League games)

Man City: W-W-W-W-W

Liverpool: W-D-W-D-D

Isak and Gakpo ruled retired for Liverpool

Liverpool were handed a immense stroke up of Sunday’s heavyweight clash, with attackers Alex Isak and Cody Gakpo some ruled out.

Both players returned from planetary work with injuries. Gakpo picked up an ankle wounded playing for the Netherlands against Serbia, portion Isak suffered what ⁠⁠Iraola described arsenic a “small” thigh wounded with Sweden against Romania.

Isak’s lack is simply a important stroke aft the striker had yet recovered his form, scoring 4 goals successful the opening 5 league games.

Neither wounded is believed to beryllium long-term, with Gakpo’s availability depending connected however helium copes with the symptom portion the nine monitors some players time by day.

Erling Haaland scored a hat-trick the past clip Man City faced Liverpool successful this year’s FA Cup quarterfinals [Carl Recine/Getty Images]

Man City’s Haaland acceptable to look Liverpool

Haaland’s engagement against Liverpool had been successful uncertainty aft the striker came disconnected during Norway’s Nations League nonaccomplishment to Portugal earlier this month.

But that was understood to beryllium a precautionary measurement amid an aggravated tally of games during an extended planetary break.

Maresca has confirmed that Haaland, who has scored 169 goals successful 205 games for the club, is disposable for their travel to Merseyside.

“He’s good. He went to Marbella, [had] two, 3 days off, played golf, recovery,” the City brag revealed. “Ready for Anfield. He’s good.”

Predicted lineups: Liverpool vs Manchester City

Probable Liverpool XI (4-2-3-1): Alisson; Jeremie Frimpong, Ronald Araujo, Virgil van Dijk, Milos Kerkez; Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister; Victor Munoz, Szoboszlai, Bradley Barcola; Florian Wirtz

Probable Man City XI (4-2-3-1): Gianluigi Donnarumma; Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Marc Guehi, Josko Gvardiol; Enzo Fernandez, Eliott Anderson; Jeremy Doku, Rayan Cherki, Iliman Ndiaye; Erling Haaland