Liverpool v Manchester City live stream and match preview, Sunday 16 October, 4.30pm BST
Liverpool v Manchester City live stream and match preview
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Liverpool host Manchester City in the showcase fixture of the Premier League weekend, with the Reds hoping to inflict a first defeat of the season on Pep Guardiola’s side.
These two clubs have battled it out for the title in recent years, but that looks unlikely to be the case this term after a dreadful start from Liverpool.
Jurgen Klopp’s side have picked up 10 points from eight games and sit 13 points behind City ahead of their meeting at Anfield, albeit with a game in hand.
City’s record of seven wins and two draws in nine games is impressive, but not enough to put them top, as they sit one point behind leaders Arsenal.
Both sides were in midweek Champions League action; Liverpool demolished Rangers 7-1 at Ibrox, while 10-man City played out a 0-0 draw against Copenhagen.
It was a hugely encouraging result for the Reds and set them on track again after a 3-2 defeat away to Arsenal last weekend.
For City, the stalemate in Denmark ended a six-match winning run in all competitions, although some key players were rested and Sergio Gomez was sent off after half an hour, making it a decent result in the circumstances.
Among those rested was Erling Haaland, who will be fresh and ready to try and add to his astonishing 15-goal Premier League haul at Anfield.
Liverpool can take encouragement from their recent meetings with City; they are unbeaten in the last four meetings, drawing both league games 2-2 last season and winning clashes in the FA Cup semi-final and Community Shield.
The Reds are without the injured Luis Diaz, Joel Matip, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Naby Keita, Arthur Melo and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
But Curtis Jones could make it and Andy Robertson returned to fitness to feature from the bench against Rangers.
For City, Kyle Walker, John Stones and Kalvin Phillips will miss the trip to Merseyside.
Liverpool line-ups
4-4-2: Alisson; Milner, Gomez, van Dijk, Robertson; Elliot, Fabinho, Thiago; Salah, Firmino; jota
Manchester City line-ups
4-3-3: Ederson; Akanji, Dias, Ake, Cancelo; De Bruyne, Rodri, Gundogan; Bernardo, Haaland, Foden
Form
Liverpool: WLWDW
Man City: DWWWW
Referee
Anthony Taylor will be the referee for Liverpool v Manchester City.
Stadium
Liverpool v Manchester City will be played at Anfield.
Other games
Liverpool v Manchester City is the final match of the weekend in the Premier League.
Kick-off and channel
Kick-off is at 4.30pm BST on Sunday 16 October and it is being shown on Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Main Event. See below for international broadcast options.
VPN guide
Use a VPN to watch Premier League football from outside your country
If you’re out of the country for a round of Premier League fixtures, then annoyingly your domestic on-demand services won’t work – the broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!). You'll be blocked from watching it, which is not ideal if you’ve paid up for a subscription and still want to catch the action without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.
But assistance is on hand. To get around that, all you have to do is get a Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs. A VPN creates a private connection between your device and t'internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and won't automatically block the service you've paid for. All the info going between is entirely encrypted – and that's a result.
There are plenty of good-value options out there, and FourFourTwo currently recommends:
International Premier League TV rights
• UK: Sky Sports and BT Sport are the two main players once again, but Amazon also have a slice of the pie in 2022/23.
• USA: NBC Sports Group are the Premier League rights holders, with the Peacock Premium streaming platform showing even more than the 175 games it aired last season. If you pick up a fuboTV subscription for the games not on Peacock Premium, you'll be able to watch every game.
• Canada: The way to watch Premier League football in 2022/23 is fuboTV, which has exclusive rights to all the action.
• Australia: Optus Sport will screen every game of the Premier League season. Non-subscribers can access the action via a Fetch TV box and other friendly streaming devices.
• New Zealand: Sky Sport are serving up all 380 games – plus various highlights and magazine shows throughout the week, as well as the Champions League.
