Man City vs Liverpool LIVE early team news and predicted line-ups

Manchester City will be hopeful of returning from the international break on a high today as they welcome Liverpool to the Etihad Stadium in the Premier League's early kick-off.

Much of the talk ahead of the match this weekend has centred around star striker Erling Haaland. The Norwegian talisman had to withdraw from international duty due to a groin injury.

Haaland did not feature in training on Thursday but in his pre-match press conference, Pep Guardiola refused to rule the striker out of the game, instead saying he would wait until the end of Friday's session to make a call on Haaland's fitness. Should he not be fit to start, we can expect to see Julian Alvarez feature having impressed in City's last match vs Burnley.

One player who is definitely missing for the Blues is Phil Foden. The Englishman underwent surgery to remove his appendix and has been ruled out of today's match.

Follow all the updates and analysis from the Etihad below.

Klopp's side have arrived in Manchester ahead of today's game and MEN Sport identified 20 Liverpool players who have made the short journey.

Among them was Darwin Nunez who has overcame injury to be available for selection this lunchtime.

Read who else has been included here.

Hello and welcome to MEN Sport's coverage of Manchester City's clash vs Liverpool.

We will be building up to the lunchtime meeting between these two rivals throughout the morning as well as providing updates live from the Etihad