For the past few seasons, Liverpool and Manchester City have dominated the Premier League. However, since the start of the new competitive year, Liverpool really don't look like themselves. The giant of English and world football looks as if he simply ran out of "fuel". Eleventh place in the championship is not something Jurgen Klopp's fans are used to, there is more and more criticism of the German manager, but he believes in his chosen ones. On the other hand, Manchester City is, along with Arsenal, the most dominant force in England at the moment. Pep Guardiola upgraded his machine with the fantastic Erling Halladn, who has as many as 15 goals on his account after nine matches played. Liverpool come into this match after a fantastic game against Rangers and a big 7-1 win, but it has to be admitted that Rangers really played extremely poorly in that match. The very quality of the players that both teams have is definitely on Liverpool's side and they needed a game like this. To keep everyone's mouths shut, to keep the critics quiet, at least for a few days, and for the team, even though it's butchered by injuries, to see that it hasn't forgotten to play football. But to compare Rangers and Manchester City would be really frivolous. Today's game will be a good indicator of whether it was a momentary flash or Liverpool are returning to their old ways. They have a lot of absences and very important players, like Alexander Arnold, who was very successfully replaced by Gomez in Scotland. But Gomez can be one of Liverpool's weaker points in this match, because unlike that match, he will have players like Grealish, Bernardo Silva, Mahrez, Foden opposite him, it all depends on who Guardiola decides to put on that side.

Manchester City are looking really strong at the moment and despite drawing against Copenhagen, nobody should be able to finish that draw. The question is how much Guardiola asked his players to play, and it is very possible that they saved themselves to a great extent for this match. It is unusual to see that City is not on the first place in the table in this part of the championship and that can be one of the additional motives for them in this match. Looking at the goal difference, Manchester City is the team that has the best attack and the best defense in the entire league and Liverpool will have a lot of problems against such a defense. Manchester City is equally good both at home and away, in the last more than 25 games they have only one defeat. As always, derby matches are very uncertain and very difficult to predict, but I honestly think that the overall atmosphere in both teams is currently on the side of Manchester City. I don't expect that Liverpool will enter this match defensively, first of all they will try to impose their rhythm, but I think that City has enough experienced players who will be able to withstand the initial pressure and that they will take control of the match after that. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a very open game today with plenty of goals, but I just have to give the edge to City at this point.

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在过去的几个赛季里，利物浦和曼城一直统治着英超联赛。然而，自从新赛季开始以来，利物浦看起来真的不像他们自己了。这位英格兰乃至世界足坛的巨人看起来就像是“燃料”用完了。联赛第11名并不是克洛普的球迷所习惯的，对德国主帅的批评越来越多，但他相信他所选择的球员。另一方面，曼城和阿森纳是目前英格兰最具统治力的球队。瓜迪奥拉升级了他的“机器”——出色的哈拉德，他在9场比赛中打进了多达15球。利物浦在与流浪者的比赛中取得了一场精彩的比赛，并以7比1大胜，但必须承认流浪者在那场比赛中真的踢得非常糟糕。两支球队的球员都很有实力，他们需要一场这样的比赛。让所有人闭上嘴巴，让批评的人安静下来，至少在几天内，让这支球队，即使它被伤病折磨，也要看到它没有忘记踢足球。但是将流浪者队和曼城队进行比较实在是太轻率了。今天的比赛将是一个很好的指标，表明这是短暂的闪光，还是利物浦正在回归他们的老路。他们有很多缺席的球员和非常重要的球员，像亚历山大·阿诺德，他在苏格兰非常成功地被戈麦斯取代。但戈麦斯在本场比赛中可能是利物浦的弱点之一，因为与那场比赛不同的是，他的对手将有格里利什、贝尔纳多·席尔瓦、马赫雷斯、福登等球员，这完全取决于瓜迪奥拉决定让谁在那一边。

曼城现在看起来非常强大，尽管战平哥本哈根，但没有人能完成平局。问题是瓜迪奥拉要求他的球员踢多少球，很有可能他们在很大程度上为这场比赛保留了自己。在这部分联赛中，曼城不在积分榜的首位，这是不寻常的，这可能是他们参加这场比赛的额外动机之一。从净胜球来看，曼城是整个联赛中拥有最好的进攻和最好的防守的球队，而利物浦在面对这样的防守时会遇到很多问题。曼城在主客场都同样出色，在过去的25多场比赛中他们只输了一场。和往常一样，德比比赛非常不确定，很难预测，但我诚实地认为，两支球队的整体氛围目前都站在曼城一边。我不认为利物浦会以防守的方式进入这场比赛，首先，他们会努力施加他们的节奏，但我认为曼城有足够的经验丰富的球员，他们能够承受最初的压力，他们会在那之后控制比赛。如果我们今天看到一场非常开放的比赛，有很多进球，我不会感到惊讶，但我只能在这一点上给曼城优势。