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when and where

We face Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday 11 October with the game scheduled for kick-off at Anfield at 16:30 (UK).

The game will be shown live in the UK on Sky Sports.

Supporters living around the world can find out how they can tune in via our global listings, courtesy of livesoccertv.com.

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Tue 20 Oct

Champions League

Man City

20:00

BST

AEK Athens

Live audio coverage

Listen to live audio commentary of our game with Liverpool live on CITY+.

The perfect place to follow the match is our CITY+ audio commentary service which will be unapologetically City-centric with Alistair Mann joined by summariser Michael Brown as the pair guide fans through proceedings on the pitch.

They will paint the pictures with words and give you blow-by-blow observations of what’s happening as we look to make it six successive wins in top-flight games as we head to Merseyside.

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TEAM NEWS 

City make one change for the trip to Anfield.

From the side that started our last competitive game – late September’s thrilling 5-3 league win at home to Sunderland – Nico O’Reilly comes into Enzo Maresca’s starting line-up.

Joško Gvardiol reverts to the bench with the Blues otherwise going with the players that secured that fine victory against the Black Cats.

O’Reilly came back early as a precaution from England’s squad for the recent UEFA Nations League games but is fit and ready to go this afternoon.

Phil Foden is unavailable once more as he completes the last match of a three-game suspension.

Teams

LIVERPOOL XI: Alisson, Araujo, Jacquet, van Dijk, Kerkez, Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Munoz, Wirtz, Barcola, Koumas

Subs: Mamardashvili, Gomez, Endo, Chiesa, Tsimikas, Frimpong, Nyoni, McConnell, Ngumoha

CITY XI: Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias (C), Guéhi, O’Reilly, Anderson, Fernández, Ndiaye, Cherki, Semenyo, Haaland.

Subs: Rulli, Kovačić, Doku, Reis, Gvardiol, Bouaddi, Allan, Khusanov, Lewis

Opposing manager - Andoni Iraola

Since arriving in the Premier League in 2023, Basque-born Iraola has captured the imagination of many with his high octane, energetic style of football.

He took Bournemouth to their record finish of sixth last season before making the move to Liverpool this summer.

It’s a major step for the 44-year-old, who had only been in charge of AEK Larnaca, Mirandes and Rayo Vallecano before joining Bournemouth.

A right-back as a player, he featured most for Athletic Club - making 510 appearances there between 2003 and 2015 before a brief stint with New York City to end his career.

He’s one of the wave of Basque managers currently in the English top-flight, with Mikel Arteta, Unai Emery and Xabi Alonso also hailing from the region.

previous meeting

City hammered Liverpool 4-0 in our last meeting, when the sides played an FA Cup quarter-final at the Etihad Stadium in April.

Erling Haaland scored a brilliant hat-trick and Antoine Semenyo rounded it off as we sealed yet another trip to Wembley.

We won all three meetings with Liverpool last term, winning 3-0 in the league meeting at the Etihad before a dramatic late, late turnaround at Anfield in February.

last time out

This match will be the first back after an extensive international break, with City running out 5-3 winners over Sunderland at the Etihad Stadium in a wildly entertaining game just before the players joined their national sides.

Liverpool won 1-0 at Bournemouth in their last game before the international window, taking them to seven games unbeaten across all competitions at the start of the new season.