Manchester City v Liverpool Betting Tips – ICC, 25th July 3.00pm
We have an all-Premier League clash as part of the International Champions Cup happening in midweek. Reigning English champions Manchester City will be taking on the challenge of Liverpool. City opened their summer in the USA with a loss against Borussia Dortmund, while Liverpool have been having a really busy summer including a game against Dortmund as well on Sunday night which they also lost.
Manchester City News and Form
The Citizens opened their International Champions Cup account on the weekend with a 1-0 defeat against Borussia Dortmund in Chicago. A first-half penalty from Mario Gotze was enough to get the Germans the win. City were pretty much playing a youth side throughout, which was to be fully expected. New summer signings Riyad Mahrez did get a run out, while Leroy Sane came on to see some game time. Joe Hart even got the second half of the game between the sticks and produced a top save. You wouldn’t imagine that city are going to be a great deal stronger for this game at this stage of the summer. Naturally looking at this game and over 2.5 goals at bet365 is going to have some appeal. It will probably be an exciting and open game between the pair who will be duelling it out in the Premier League title soon. The starting elevens in this game are going to be nothing like the ones that are going to happen when they meet up in competition this season. One notable performance from their game against Dortmund came from young forward Jack Harrison who looked really sharp.
Liverpool News and Form
After Dortmund had done with Man City, Liverpool had a crack them on Sunday evening as Jurgen Klopp faced his old side. The Reds lost 3-1. Liverpool have been the big spenders of the Premier League so far during the summer, shelling out a big chunk of cash in total on Fabinho, Naby Keita, Xherdan Shaqiri and broke the goalkeeper transfer record to get Alisson to the club. So there have been a lot of additions to the Reds and that is important from the perspective of depth for them as once against they will be challenging on all fronts. They lacked that during last season. So this is a good summer at the International Champions Cup for them to get their new players settled and after this, they will go and face Manchester United this one and this will already be their sixth game of the pre-season. So even though their players who took part at the World Cup are going to be reintegrated slowly, the players Klopp is using at the moment should be sharp. Liverpool tend to have a Plan A and that’s it, so expect plenty of attacking momentum from them. We have to back both teams to score in this International Champions Cup game on Wednesday.
Manchester City v Liverpool Head to Head
Four times these two met last season with all of those games ending over 2.5 goals as expected. They traded wins in the Premier League (both home wins) while Liverpool won both legs of their UEFA Champions League meeting. In the overall history between the two clubs (competitive) Liverpool are 89-45 ahead.
Manchester City v Liverpool Betting Odds*
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* (Betting Odds were taken from July 22nd, 2018 at 4:51 p.m.)
Manchester City v Liverpool Predictions
Liverpool to win: This is going to be about the respective depth that those two clubs have in their ranks. It’s hard to take much from their games against Borussia Dortmund because of the changes in personnel. We are simply going with Liverpool to be the better of the two in what is likely to be a fun and open game.
