Liverpool vs Manchester City: Premier League Matchweek 13 Preview and Prediction
Our expert has made his picks for the upcoming round of matches. The league table is now taking shape as we embark on a busy run until the festive period. Liverpool have raced into an eight-point lead over struggling champions Manchester City, while Southampton are starting to become detached at the bottom.
Matchday 13 will see matches spread across Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with Brighton & Hove Albion kicking things off at home to Southampton.
West Ham playing at home to Arsenal in a key London derby is the highlight of five matches being played on Saturday, while Chelsea versus Aston Villa is among the marquee fixtures on Sunday.
The game of the week, though, is undoubtedly at Anfield, where leaders Liverpool take on Man City. Man City is on an astonishing six-match winless run across all competitions, including five defeats.
Ahead of what looks set to be an entertaining group of Premier League fixtures, let’s check our expert's match predictions.
Liverpool vs Man City Preview and Prediction
City’s capitulation saw them set several unwanted records. They became the first team in Champions League history to lead a match by three goals as late as the 75th minute and fail to win. It was also the first time they’d not won a game in which they led by three goals since May 1989 against Bournemouth in the second tier (3-3). For Guardiola, it was the first time in his managerial career that he’d failed to win a match having led by three or more goals.
So, a trip to Anfield to face Arne Slot’s rampant Liverpool – who are eight points clear at the top of the Premier League heading into the weekend – is hardly the match Guardiola would have wanted as he looks to get City back on course.
Liverpool, now the clear Premier League title favourites according to our expert, come into this one on the back of beating Real Madrid 2-0 in the Champions League, with Alexis Mac Allister and Cody Gakpo on target as the Reds put the European champions to the sword.
In his managerial career, Guardiola has only lost more games to Tottenham (nine) than he has to Liverpool (eight). Indeed, he has won just six of his 22 meetings with the Reds (27%), his lowest win rate against any side he has faced more than five times in all competitions.
Liverpool’s only Premier League defeat this season was a 1-0 loss to Nottingham Forest at Anfield. They have won seven of their eight league games since then (D1), scoring at least twice in seven of those.
Liverpool vs Manchester City Head-to-Head
City have won just one of their last 21 Premier League away games against Liverpool (D7 L13), beating them 4-1 in February 2021. They have not won at Anfield with fans in attendance since May 2003 (2-1).
Liverpool have won just one of their last nine Premier League games against City (D5 L3), a 1-0 home victory in October 2022.
The away side has won just six of the 54 Premier League meetings between Liverpool and City, the lowest percentage of any fixture to be played more than 30 times in the competition (11%).
PREDICTION: BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE @1.48
Brighton & Hove Albion vs Southampton: HOME WIN @1.40
West Ham United vs Arsenal: OVER 2 @1.28
Chelsea vs Aston Villa: HOME WIN OR DRAW @1.23
Manchester United vs Everton: 1 DNB @1.21
SPANISH LA LIGA
Barcelona vs Las Palmas: HOME WIN @1.20
Real Valladolid vs Atletico Madrid: UNDER 3.5 @1.23
Villarreal vs Girona: OVER 2 @1.29
Real Madrid vs Getafe: HOME WIN @1.36
GERMAN BUNDESLIGA
RB Leipzig vs VfL Wolfsburg: 1 DNB @1.30
Union Berlin vs Bayer 04 Leverkusen: OVER 1.5 @1.28
Werder Bremen vs VfB Stuttgart: BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE @1.42
Borussia Dortmund vs Bayern Munich: OVER 2.5 @1.40
