Man City

After a three-week hiatus, find out who the scout has backed to influence proceedings in Fantasy Premier League as City host Liverpool.

[Guardiola](https://www.mancity.com/players/pep-guardiola)'s team secured a thrilling 3-2 victory in the Carabao Cup in our previous meeting with Liverpool - thanks to goals from Haaland, Riyad [Mahrez](https://www.mancity.com/players/riyad-mahrez) and Nathan [Ake](https://www.mancity.com/players/nathan-ake). [Erling Haaland](https://www.mancity.com/players/erling-haaland) bagged his sixth hat-trick of the season during the tie, while [Julian Alvarez](https://www.mancity.com/players/julian-alvarez) (two) and Cole [Palmer](https://www.mancity.com/players/cole-palmer) added the gloss to an impressive result. Mac Allister’s 15 shots and 10 shots in the box are both team-leading totals ahead of his clashes with Brentford and Bournemouth. [De Bruyne](https://www.mancity.com/players/kevin-de-bruyne) (£12.0m) could again prove decisive for City against Liverpool in Gameweek 29 of Fantasy Premier League. [De Bruyne](https://www.mancity.com/players/kevin-de-bruyne) can be a major influence on Saturday lunchtime’s encounter. [Pep Guardiola](https://www.mancity.com/players/pep-guardiola)’s side welcome Jurgen Klopp’s team to Etihad Stadium on Saturday, 1 April, with kick-off scheduled for 12:30 (UK), following six consecutive wins across our previous six outings.

Di Reds dey 19 points behind dia opponents for table – na di biggest gap dem don dey behind City before dem go face dem for a Premier League fixture.

Liverpool don score 13 goals for as many away league games dis season and dem fail to score in four of dia last five top-flight matches away games. Erling Haaland don score 42 competitive goals in 37 games for City - di only players wey don score more before am for one season for a Premier League club na Ruud van Nistelrooy (2002-03) and Mohamed Salah (2017-18), e score 44 for Manchester United and Liverpool respectively. Di Reds dey 19 points behind dia opponents for table – na di biggest gap dem don dey behind City before dem go face dem for a Premier League fixture. City dey aim to win four consecutive league matches for di first time dis season. Liverpool go try to complete a Premier League double against Manchester City for di third time, afta dem do am for 2005-06 and 2015-16. Liverpool go play attacking game, and I dey sure say dem go cause dem some problems, but I still dey worry about di Reds for one side.

Darwin Nunez is available for Liverpool's clash with Manchester City but the trip to Etihad Stadium comes too soon for Luis Diaz and Thiago Alcantara.

Some came back yesterday – Robbo [Andy Robertson] – but will be in training for the first time today. Again, the doctors and especially the player will decide how does he feel. Klopp continued: “Naby is out, he came back with a muscle injury from the national team. “Next week will be an important week for him; this week he was doing parts of training, next week I think most of the things he can do. We will see today. Then we will see.

LONDON – It is nearing the end of the season and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has been plotting ways to win trophies, with his side still in the ...

Now it’s clear that top four is the one thing we can go for. We don’t have a perfect position but it’s possible.” That is a gap where you well and truly start to think it might be over.” For tomorrow City deserve all our attention, we can’t think about the other games. A victory will cut the deficit to five points for a couple of hours at least. “They have to win this game.

A rough stretch, starting with Saturday's game against Manchester City, will define Liverpool's season. The harder work comes after that.

Renard has spent his career traversing the globe in search of a challenge. Then he has to craft a side coherent enough to challenge the best teams in the world. Given the competition, a parade of all that it has achieved under Klopp, all that it has already done, would not be enough to make Liverpool more appealing to Bellingham than Manchester City or Real Madrid. It is not to diminish Scotland’s achievement to suggest this was not a vintage Spain squad. On form, his appearances against Norway and Scotland in the first round of qualifiers should not have been controversial: Joselu has scored 12 goals in 22 games for a struggling Espanyol team this season. It combined them all under a coach who had a clear sense of how he wanted to play, who knew what sort of players he needed, and what he needed them to be able to do. In some areas, it is doubtless still a market leader, but the composite advantage is much smaller. Partly, that is because the idea that teams can be “rebuilt” in short order is a myth. The good news is that the next week brings three games to try to reduce that gap. Universally, though, it is common consensus that the key is Bellingham. There have been times this season when the race to sign Jude Bellingham has taken on a similar air. Every year, in December, the BBC devotes an evening of programming to one of Britain’s longest-running broadcasting traditions.

Erling Haaland could feature for Manchester City in Saturday's crucial Premier League clash against Liverpool as he battles to recover from a groin injury.

“We’ve scored a lot of goals this season. The last training is at 4 p.m. But in the past, we always scored a lot of goals.” But after a series of title fights, Liverpool head to the Etihad 19 points adrift of Guardiola’s men, down in sixth place. City and Liverpool have finished as the Premier League’s top two in three of the past four seasons. “Erling is recovering.

“We have to show up and really go for it,” was the message from Jürgen Klopp ahead of Liverpool's Premier League trip to Manchester City.

In the other games, we performed better, so that’s the easy explanation. In the end, we missed the penalty. We are not dumb, we know the last game we played in Madrid was not a good game, the game before was Bournemouth, not a good game. We had an awful lot of chances against Nottingham Forest – didn’t play a super game, but had an awful lot of chances. A lot of talk now, but in the end it is all about how we perform, how we get into this mood – a chasing mood – and go from there. Now we go 1-0 down and everything changes in the other direction. I was ready and I’m ready again, that’s the cool part of it – you need a few days to just let it settle and then go again. We have to win a lot of games but the more games we win, the more pressure we can make on other teams above us in the table. Last year, nearly four trophies and then this year, early, clear this trophy is gone and then we go out there and we go out there. I have no problem with getting knocked out by Real Madrid – not that I wouldn’t be used to it in my career – but you can play and lose there and everything but we should show more than we did that night. Most of the boys are healthy and let’s try and help them and use them and bring them in the best possible shape and let’s go. Yeah, super-important game, that’s the one thing that’s not different to all the other years because obviously for us super-important, for City super-important.