Manchester City v Liverpool

Striker Daniel Sturridge could be fit enough to feature against former club Manchester City on Saturday, says Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp.

From there, Klopp’s troops were absolutely rampant, and raced into a 3-0 lead thanks to goals from Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino that left a strangely lacklustre City reeling in front of their home supporters.

Jurgen Klopp has hailed a “perfect” Liverpool performance as they smashed Manchester City on their own patch.

Sergio Aguero pegged one back before the break, but a Martin Skrtel volley late in the second half secured the dominant win. “It was not our night and we have to turn the situation around quickly because we have an important game [against Juventus] on Wednesday night”.

The hosts set out to deny City any time and space at the Etihad Stadium and it worked perfectly, while at the other end Liverpool were clinical in front of goal. It is hard to understand, the performance was very low in defending, attacking.

Liverpool are also winless in their last six Premier League games away to Manchester City. A lot of teams have important players injured for different reasons because the intensity is too high or they play too many games.

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“It will be hard because he has gone so many days without playing”, said Pellegrini.

They come into the clash on a nine-game unbeaten run, but will be hoping for a better showing than their goalless draw with Aston Villa last time out. We tried to bring as many players as possible that have trained over the last 12 or 13 days. We tried to change at half-time but it was the same.

Saturday will be a big day for 20-year-old England global Raheem Sterling, due to play against Liverpool for the first time since leaving them in the close-season for a fee that could rise to nearly 50 million pounds ($76.25 million). “I think that we not only demonstrate now that without Sergio (or) any important players, we can play”.