Premier League Preview: Liverpool Vs Manchester City

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Dwelling fans at Anfield will get to celebrate Premier League match time when Manchester City check out Liverpool in match week 32 on Monday, April 11.

The game is the second of a two-legged contest the 1st, hosted by Manchester City on August 23, 2010, was won 3- by City, who had been boosted by a brace of objectives by their talismanic striker, Carlos Tevez. Manchester City's Arab owners had invested over a million pounds on summer signings and the result was observed by some as justification. Liverpool's poor showing could be attributed to the board room wrangles the club was going by way of at the time, and which were eventually put to rest by the transfer of ownership to NESV. Nevertheless, City would feel that their title credentials had been underlined by the result, against a significant team.

City went into the lead on 13 minutes when Gareth Barry latched on to a cross from Milner who in turn had been fed a pass by Adam Johnson. Liverpool had their own scoring probabilities and it was Joe Hart's brilliance among their posts that kept shots from Ngog and Torres out of the net. A different scoring attempt, by Gerrard, went in vain right after it struck the post and rebounded into play.

Head to head, Liverpool have established a 3-1 benefit in the last 10 league games played in between the sides, with the remaining 6 matches drawn.

In their last 6 league games, Liverpool have registered 2 wins, three losses and a draw Manchester City have won 2 of their last four, though drawing the remaining one. Of their 15 dwelling games this season, Liverpool have won 9, drawn two and lost four, whilst Manchester City have won 6 of their 15 games on the road, while losing 5 and drawing the remaining four.

In match week 31, Liverpool lost 2-1 away at West Brom Manchester City beat Sunderland 5- at residence.

Liverpool's fortunes have fluctuated because the arrival of Kenny Dalglish, and the Anfield squad will want to play to prospective in a game that could boost them immensely at the fag finish of their Premiership campaign. At present in sixth spot, a win against City could propel the Reds to a European qualification. That stated, Man City who are 10 points adrift of leaders Man United will want to win most of their remaining seven games to keep their fading title hopes alive. Liverpool will not have it very easy, despite house benefit.

Liverpool's starting eleven against West Brom had the following players: Reina, Carragher, Skrtel, Agger, Johnson, Kuyt, Spearing, Lucas, Meireles, Carroll and Suarez. Kyrgiakos, Wilson and Cole were utilized as substitutes.

Manchester City had the following men in their beginning eleven against Sunderland: Hart, Boyata, Kompany, Lescott, Kolarov, Y Toure, De Jong, Silva, Johnson, Tevez and Balotelli. Wright-Phillips, McGivern and Vieira featured as substitutes.