It really is time for Manchester City to muster up some kind of response in their Premier League title challenge. The cracks are beginning to show after dropping four points from their last two matches in the Premier League. After being closed out at The Hawthorns on Boxing Day, a confident sounding City headed to the Stadium of Light to face Sunderland on New Year’s Day and were undone by a late Black Cats winner. That has been two consecutive matches where City’s prolific attack has failed to get on the score sheet. That is something which we weren’t expecting to see, not after the prolific rates at which we have seen them score this season. So the question is, are we expecting them to muster a response against Liverpool? At least they are back at the Etihad Stadium where they have a 100% Premier League success rate this season, so that should give them some security at least. City were let off the hook at the top of the Premier League standings, when their rivals United crashed at home to the struggling Blackburn Rovers, in a New Year’s fixture list which produced some very surprising results. So City are still topping the league going into their massive clash with Liverpool, but only on goal difference with the Red Devils. Striker Mario Balotelli is expected to come back into the side after sitting out their New Year’s Day defeat at Sunderland. Two games in three days for City and this is not going to be an easy one for them. In the whole of 2011, Manchester City dropped just two points at home. How will they start their 2012? They are under some mounting pressure at the summit.
Liverpool will get Luis Suarez back into the starting line up for their trip to the Etihad Stadium for Man City v Liverpool betting. The striker sat out their last match with a ban from the FA, but can step back into action. Part of Man City’s wobble at the top of the Premier League Christmas tree over the festive period, has been the fact that opposition have figured out how to disrupt their flowing play, and therefore, the chances aren’t coming for them. We can expect to see more midfield disruption coming from Liverpool, as the Reds are in great shape at the moment at the back. Liverpool were the only side in the top six to win over the New Year, beating Newcastle at home. That came after a couple of disappointing drawn matches against relegation battlers Wigan and Blackburn. The Reds have only conceded two goals in their last five Premier League matches, and so you can’t see them giving too much away against Man City, certainly not being the away team and keeping things tight naturally in that role anyway. The Reds haven’t conceded on their last two away trips in the Premier League and held the high flying City to a draw at Anfield just at the end of November, when a Joleon Lescott own goal gave the Reds a point. While Liverpool have struggled to turn one point matches into three point matches for themselves because of a lack of firepower, they have lost just once in their last fourteen Premier League matches. The Reds have also stopped Man City winning twelve times out of their last thirteen matches. That City triumph over Liverpool came last season though in this fixture, when City ran out 3-0 winners. Liverpool could have Steven Gerrard lining up from the start for them.
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Manchester City v Liverpool Betting Odds
Man City 4/6, Draw 13/5, Liverpool 7/2 at VC Bet
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