Liverpool travel to play Manchester City on Saturday afternoon as Premier League football is back after a long International break. Despite failing to impress in the 1st three rounds of the season, The Citizens are still big favourites to win the Premier League title being priced at 2.4 with Bet365 followed by Manchester United priced at 3.25 with 10Bet. Manchester City have strengthened in the summer break with some great transfers spending around £220million but having no problem to comply with the FFP regulations. Pep Guardiola has just two strikers at his disposal looking more for quality rather than quantity, Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus being top class strikers.
Liverpool managed to keep Philippe Coutinho but the Brazilian is not happy with the decision, going on strike. He scored on international duty last week but it looks like he will be left out of the squad for this match. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is expected to make his debut but more likely he will enter in the second half if needed. Jurgen Klopp is really happy with his squad brilliant form so far. Salah, Mane and Woodburn scored for their national teams helping them to earn points. Sadio Mane has a great start of the season scoring three goals in the 1st three Premier League fixtures.
Last year\’s match at the Etihad Stadium saw an entertaining 1-1 draw with both sides creating a lot of scoring opportunities. The two teams are level on points after three rounds earning 7 points each. This match is a six pointer with both squads having the chance to win the three points. We will try to stay away from the winners market and focus on the goals market as we believe that this contest should be a goal-fest.
The Reds have a great recent record against Manchester City being unbeaten in their last 5 Premier League mutual encounter and trying to extend it by returning home with the three points. Both teams have scored in 10 of their last 12 mutual encounters, including the last 5 at the Etihad. The Reds are unbeaten away from home since February and they can cause City real problems if they can recreate their last round match against Arsenal or their great Champions League playoffs match against Hoffenheim. Liverpool are priced at 4.25 with the green listed bookmaker Unibet with Manchester City being priced at 1.85 with Bet365 and in other green listed bookmakers. We expect a high-scoring match and if one of the teams will win this game it’ll take a huge performance from them to win the three points.
Best picks for the match:
Both teams to score and over 2.5 goals in the match at 1.8 with Coral
Liverpool to score over 1.5 goals in the match at 2.5 with Coral
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