Manchester City V Liverpool: Premier League – live

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Hope comes successful galore forms. Faith. An improbable quality connection. A crescendo of specified defiant beauty that you concisely hide nan utter authorities of everything. And a 2-2 tie astatine nan Stadium of Light. Brian Brobbey’s precocious equaliser for Sunderland against Arsenal past nighttime was exceedingly bully news for Manchester City and Liverpool, who should beryllium afloat of nan joys going into this afternoon’s crippled astatine nan Etihad Stadium.

They person nan chance to adjacent nan spread connected Arsenal to 4 and 5 points respectively. That’s nan bully news; nan bad news is that only 1 of them – tops – tin do it. City and Liverpool look to beryllium hitting their stride aft dodgy spells earlier successful nan season. City person won 10 of nan past 13 successful each competitions; Liverpool ended their slump pinch defiant victories complete Aston Villa and Real Madrid.

They kept cleanable sheets successful some games, too. That won’t beryllium truthful easy against Erling Haaland, nan reddish vino of immoderate modern cleanable expanse metaphor. Haaland is successful rampant form, pinch 10 goals successful his past six games astatine nan Etihad, and has gone to different level this season. He was vaguely competent beforehand.

Kick disconnected 4.30pm.