Much has been made of the potential title decider between Manchester City and Liverpool and for good reason. What everyone loves more than a tight title race is a close tussle between two clubs in which the sides involved face off in the run-in.
While City’s clash with the Reds on Sunday is not a final-day encounter, most neutrals will reckon the gameweek 31 clash between teams seperated by one point is preferable to the 2018/19 season when the second meeting between both clubs was held in January 2019.
Pep Guardiola’s troops claimed a 2-1 success, a game perhaps remembered for John Stones’ goal-line clearance, but what followed was a run-in where there was little drama.
For the neutral, an encounter between both clubs so late in the season is just what the doctor ordered, but are supporters expecting too much from Sunday evening owing to the relative one-sidedness of this particular fixture?
Regardless of Liverpool’s transformation into of Europe’s top sides and undoubtedly a relentless winning machine under Jurgen Klopp, wins at the Etihad Stadium have been few and far between. This is despite the acquisitions of Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah, who joined the Reds in 2016 and 2017 respectively and have been tremendously good for the Reds in the last half-decade or thereabouts.
Neither were at the club in November 2015 when the Merseyside outfit thrashed Manuel Pellegrini’s Citizens 4-1, with goals from Philippe Coutinho, Roberto Firmino and Martin Skrtel following an Eliaquim Mangala own goal.
The following six games have witnessed only four goals from Liverpool, with the last five involving Mane and Salah seeing the Reds score three just three times at the Etihad.
With only one goal between them in those games, GOAL tak
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