Manchester City vs Liverpool prediction: ENGLAND: Premier League betting tips on match 2023-11-24 12:30.
[p]The early kick-off welcomes back the Premier League (PL) in style, as league-leading Manchester City will look to preserve or grow their slender one-point advantage over second-placed Liverpool. City are coming off a PL-classic 4-4 draw at Chelsea, which was the first time in Pep Guardiola’s 882-game managerial career where his side has scored and conceded four times in a match, while Liverpool easily dispatched Brentford 3-0 at Anfield just a few hours earlier.[/p]
[p]After that rollercoaster, the Spaniard will be excited to return to the comforts of the Etihad Stadium, where his team are currently on a mesmeric 23-game winning streak in all competitions, one win shy of the record for the most consecutive home wins by an English top-flight club, set by Sunderland in 1892! That dwarfs Liverpool’s own impressive 23-match run they’re on in league action at any venue, having lost just one of those encounters (W15, D7).[/p]
[p]That Liverpool run started after losing 4-1 at the Etihad in April, City’s ninth home win in their record-chasing venture, and Jürgen Klopp’s seventh straight winless league visit there (D3, L4). But despite all the hosts’ dominance in recent years, the record will still need to be earned considering you’d have to go back to 1937 for the last time the Citizens posted back-to-back league wins against the Reds.[/p]
[p]The Klopp-Guardiola rivalry is also rooted in records, with the 28 duels they’ve shared being each other’s most against any one manager. In that time, Klopp’s 12 wins over Pep, and Pep’s 11 wins against Klopp, is the most either man has lost to any manager they’ve faced![/p]
[p]Key battle: The PL’s top two scorers this season will headline this monumental fixture, where City’s Erling Haaland will be aiming to reach 50 PL goals in only his 48th game, which will smash Andy Cole’s current all-time record of 65 matches. Meanwhile, Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has scored more goals against a Guardiola-managed side than anyone else with his 11 goals against City, and a brace here would see him become the fifth player to notch up 200 goals for the Reds.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: Both teams have scored in 11 of the last 13 H2Hs.[/p]