MatchThe opposition lowdown: Manchester City

Recent form

The reigning champions have gathered 23 points from 12 league games so far this season – with seven wins, two draws and three defeats.

City were held to a late 3-3 draw by Feyenoord in midweek in Champions League action, having been beaten 4-0 at home to Tottenham Hotspur last time out in the top flight.

Overall, Guardiola's team are without a win in their last six matches in all competitions.

Ones to watch

Erling Haaland is the visitors' top goalscorer across all competitions this season having netted 17 times in 18 appearances to date.

Matheus Nunes and Savinho, meanwhile, have been key playmakers, leading the assist charts for City with five apiece so far.

Team news

Jeremy Doku and John Stones are doubtful for the visit to Anfield after missing the midweek draw with Feyenoord.

Ruben Dias provided a boost for Guardiola with his return in the same fixture, though Oscar Bobb, Mateo Kovacic and Rodri are absent due to long-term injury.

What they said

Guardiola

"They are one of the best [teams in the world], the results are proving that. Many players together [and] Arne [Slot] is making an incredible job.

"It's really good [how Slot is evolving the team]. They have maybe a more positional game but the transitions are still from the DNA, from Liverpool, from Jürgen [Klopp], [they] always are there.

"Every corner or free-kick for you is a transition for them, how quick [they are] and the weapons they have up front. Always it has been [like this] since I arrived here: before with [Sadio] Mane, [Roberto] Firmino and [Mohamed] Salah and now with the other players, with [Diogo] Jota, with [Darwin] Nunez, with Luis Diaz and Salah has always been there.

"Always I have a big, big consideration for this football club and nothing has changed, but of course they are doing really well. They lost one game in all competitions [this season], that means they are so stable and they are really good. But that is good, we will learn from that."

Previous meetings

The two Premier League matches between the clubs in 2023-24 each ended in a 1-1 draw, first at Etihad Stadium last November, before the Anfield return in March.

Trent Alexander-Arnold was on target for the Reds away from home, while a penalty from Alexis Mac Allister earned a point on Merseyside.

Pre-match stats

In the Premier League, Liverpool have won 21 of the 54 previous meetings, with 21 draws and 12 losses. At Anfield, they have won 17, drawn eight and lost only two.

However, the Reds have won only one of the last nine home and away league encounters, when Mohamed Salah scored in a 1-0 home victory in October 2022.

Liverpool have failed to score in only one of the last 30 league clashes at Anfield, in a goalless draw in October 2018. That is the only 0-0 stalemate in the last 28 league meetings between the sides.

Both teams have scored in 10 of the last 11 meetings across all competitions. The only clean sheet in that time was by Liverpool in that 1-0 league win in October 2022.

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