Manchester City vs Liverpool LIVE!

An 80th-minute goal from Trent Alexander-Arnold secured Liverpool a 1-1 draw with leaders Manchester City on Saturday, keeping Juergen Klopp's team a point adrift of the top spot in the tight Premier League title race. The draw ended a remarkable 23-game winning stretch at Etihad Stadium across all competitions for City.

Erling Haaland, who tops the league with 14 goals, became the fastest player to reach 50 Premier League goals when he slotted in a left-footed shot after a poor clearance from keeper Allison Becker. The 23-year-old took just 48 games to reach the 50 mark, smashing Andy Cole's record of 65.

The marquee match kicked off the return of the Premier League from the international break, and it did not disappoint, with Alexander-Arnold silencing Etihad's sea of sky blue supporters in the 80th minute when Mohamed Salah teed him up on the edge of the box for a blistering low shot into the corner. Read the game back below with our dedicated match blog.

Man City vs Liverpool latest news

• GOAL! Trent levels it up!

• GOAL! Haaland is 50-up in Premier League

• Score prediction: Score draw to kick off weekend

Full-time!

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99min: And that's full time!

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98min: Haaland is INCHES away from another! Guardiola can't believe it.

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97min: Alisson is down and really struggling with his hamstring. Liverpool have made all their subs, and it's the final minute, and City have a corner...

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95min: Bernardo spins smartly and drives at the Liverpool goal but it hits legs and spins away. City really pushing.

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91min: Eight minutes added on.

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88min: The ball is across the line but this time Alisson has genuinely been fouled so it won't count.

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87min: Matip booked for a foul on Doku.

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83min: City win a free kick on the edge of the area. Alvarez fancies it despite his team-mate's thinking otherwise, and he curls it into the wall.

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81min: We've got a great 10 minutes on our hands.

GOAL!

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80min: Seconds after Haaland is denied from close range, Liverpool race up the other end and equalise!

Alexander-Arnold drills home through a sea of legs from inside the area! Superb finish.

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78min: The pace of the game has again dipped somewhat. Liverpool really need to start taking risks.

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75min: Nunez days goes from bad to worse as he's booked for a trip on Foden.

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73min: Szoboszai makes way for Gakpo.

NO GOAL!

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67min: Alisson makes a right mess of a corner and Dias tucks home at the back post... but the goal is disallowed for a supposed foul on Akanji.

The Liverpool goalkeeper has got away with one there.

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65min: Rodri is screaming for handball after his shot deflects off Gravenberch and behind, but it's hit the player's arse and gone behind.

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62min: Matip's header is straight at Ederson.

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61min: Liverpool pushing and win another corner...

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60min: City deal with it well. No trouble.

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59min: Huge jeers from the home crowd as Akanji gives away a corner. It's not supposed to be a corner, the fans know it but the linesman doesn't...

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55min: Klopp rolls the dice. Jota and Jones off, Gravenberch and Diaz on.

CHANCE!

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53min: Alvarez should score! Doku sends Mac Allister to the shops, runs into the area and finds Alvarez in space... but he sends it for a conversion.

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50min: The Etihad crowd wake up as Salah ducks into the area, tries to nutmeg Akanji and is crowded out to concede a goal kick.

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48min: A slow restart to proceedings. Not much atmosphere inside the ground.

Second half

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46min: Anyway, we're back under way.

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Sergio Aguero is repping 4,000 miles away at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

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Almost time for the second half. I can't imagine we will be seeing any changes.

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It's been not as thrilling as perhaps some were expecting, but City have the lead and it's deserved.

Haaland with his 50th Premier League goal in a frankly ridiculous 48 games.

Liverpool have had chances but they keep falling to Nunez, which is far from ideal.

Half-time!

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46min: That's your lot! Liverpool need to improve.

SAVE!

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44min: Foden within inches of a second for City before the break, cutting inside firing towards the bottom corner and Alisson, to be fair, pulls off a superb save.

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43min: City break through Bernardo (stunning turn) and then Doku, who waits and waits and waits before picking Alvarez over Halaand... and it was the wrong choice as his cross-cum-shot is neither.

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41min: Nunez isn't having a great game, again. Salah looks to feed him into the area again but he is a clear yard offside and the City defence just let him go.

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37min: Another let-off for Liverpool as Alvarez fluffs his lines when inside the area.

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35min: Better from Liverpool as they pounce on a slack pass from Akanji to feed Nunez into the area, but the angle is too tight for the forward.

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30min: Liverpool have it all do to now and almost concede a second as Doku ghosts in a bends a shot around the far post.

GOAL!

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27min: Haaland is 50-up in the Premier League in just 48 games!

Alisson won't want to see this back as he gives the ball away, City work it back to Haaland who shoots and the keeper shows week wrists to see the ball roll across the line.

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24min: Definitely a game for the tactical purists at the moment. City still looking the more threatening, but Liverpool are more than a match.

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20min: Alisson taking another risk as Liverpool play out from the back, with Haaland a whisker away from tackle him almost on the goal line.

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17min: Nunez with another great chance as he's fed through on goal but his first touch is poor, his second touch is worse and City clear.

SAVE!

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16min: Salah whips a fine, whipped cross towards Nunez inside the area, which the tall striker flicks his head onto and Ederson does well to push away.

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13min: Liverpool seeing more of the ball but not doing a whole lot with it at the moment. The pace is very slow.

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10min: Heart-in-mouth time for Alisson, who gives the ball away to Foden just outside his own area but the City man cannot capitalise.

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7min: Neville on commentary believes the ball is not running correctly across the turf, but Haaland has no trouble running onto the ball and almost gets past Van Dijk inside the area.

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5min: Foden and Walker down the right this time, dragging the Liverpool defence to the touchline before bringing the ball inside and then to the left but the move breaks down through Haaland.

City on top in these opening stages.

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3min: Mac Allister takes a tumble after colliding with Bernardo. Nothing doing. Liverpool get a chance to get their foot on the ball.

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2min: City aren't messing around. Doku straight down the left and tries to find Haaland, but Van Dijk gets a boot in.

Kick-off!

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1min: Here we go!

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Here come the teams.

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Daniel Sturridge gets a big hug from Klopp on the sidelines, who then makes a pun about Any Given Sunday as it's a Saturday.

It's all going on. Kick-off is five minutes away.

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Almost time at the Etihad. The teams are back in the dressing rooms.

Klopp on Liverpool tactics

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Speaking to Sky Sports: "A little bit of what Chelsea did when they were super aggressive and unpredictable.

"Everyone who pressed made the final step, these kinds of things. The respect they create, the threat they are, it holds you back from time to time because nobody wants to look silly.

"In the best games we ever played, we lost the most challenges. If we let them roll with it, then they are too good and it's really tricky.

"If you can interrupt that rhythm then we can have our own moments. We will see, we are prepared as good we can be but the boys have to do it now."

Pep on Man City tactics

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Speaking to Sky Sports: "Both teams are there [at the top]. We both compete for Premier Leagues, our games have been so, so tight, many times. The quality of the manager, Liverpool itself, the players - it’s there.

"With all due respect to Liverpool, we've prepared the same way. Both teams want to attack, the transitions are unbelievable. I think it’ll be an attractive game, as it has been in the past years.

"If you sit deep, they have a lot of passes. They have good deliveries from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Kostas Tsimikas. Liverpool are a team that are built to run and attack the box quickly."

Two changes from Klopp

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It's two changes for Liverpool as Mac Allister is back from suspension and Jones recovers from injury to start. Endo and Gakpo make way.

Nunez gets the nod up front, alongside Salah and Jota. Diaz will be hoping to come on.

Why Grealish is missing

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So, as expected, Haaland starts after shaking off an injury picked up during the international break.

There is no Grealish in the squad, which Guardiola has confirmed to Sky is due to illness. Doku gets the nod in the attack.

Stones is on the bench, which also features two goalkeepers.

Team news in full

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Man City XI: Ederson, Walker, Akanji, Dias, Ake, Rodrigo, Bernardo, Foden, Doku, Alvarez, Haaland

Subs: Ortega Moreno, Carson, Phillips, Stones, Gomez, Gvardiol, Bobb, Lewis

Liverpool XI: Alissson; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Tsimikas, Mac Allister, Szoboszlai, Jones, Salah, Nunez, Jota

Subs: Gomez, Endo, Konate, Diaz, Gakpo, Elliott, Gravenberch, Kelleher, Quansah

Liverpool XI

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Here's how the visitors look.

Man City XI

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Haaland starts!

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Sounds like I was right, not my colleagues, about Jota. Confirmed teams to come very soon.

Klopp excited but insistent

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Jurgen Klopp says today's top-of-the-table clash with Manchester City is so exciting he would tune in to watch it from anywhere in the world, but says one game does not determine his team's title chances.

"It's not a test on how close we get to City, it's just a really super exciting game, I would watch it wherever on the planet," Klopp told reporters on Friday.

"We have to prepare for it properly and we know we have to be at our best to get a chance. We will see ... Man City are who they are and they're extremely strong and we have to be as strong as possible.

Klopp's team have gone unbeaten in their last five games to climb to within a point of Premier League leaders City in the tight title race.

"A lot of games we were good and deserved what we got," he said. "We needed to get the points.

"With City, I don't know 100%, but they got a point here, a point there, stuff like this, unexpected ones. That's the quality they have, the desire to win the next one that's pretty special."

Latest odds

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Here's how the bookies see this one going (via Betfair).

• Manchester City - 8/13

• Draw - 12/5

• Liverpool - 3/1

City to make it 16 league wins on the bounce, then.

Pep names title challengers

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Guardiola believes Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham and even Manchester United could mount a title challenge this season.

After a poor season last year, where they missed out on Champions League qualification, Jurgen Klopp's side look back to their best and are clear challengers for the title.

"Absolutely," Guardiola said. "Arsenal will be too, I see them as so, so solid. Spurs even, the two defeats they had lately, the feeling when I see the way they are playing and with one game a week, I think they will be there.

"Chelsea start to recover and have one game a week. I think the four or five contenders are there. I don't know if Newcastle will join, maybe United will join us but many things can happen."

Latest on Haaland

10:56 , Alex Young

According to those Twitter leaks everyone loves, Erling Haaland STARTS.

Pinch of salt, and all that. I'm looking at you, FPL players.

Pep talks up Klopp

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Pep Guardiola has called Jurgen Klopp the biggest managerial adversary of his career (presumably much to Jose Mourinho's chagrin).

Guardiola has had some battles over the years, but says Klopp has made him a better manager.

Asked if the German was his biggest rival, he said: "Yes, by far. Because we have faced each other a thousand million times.

"Absolutely, he made me better, he helped me reflect on a lot of things with the problems they have created for us, it's part of when you are many years in this business, him and his teams, here and Dortmund have always been big rivals, good games for both, both teams have a positive approach to the games and always attractive.

"I'm pretty sure he made me a better manager through his teams, and of course, the way we play for them is good with the transitions, they have a lot of space in behind, they are fantastic with the runs, they are a fantastic team, fantastic legs, a top side, no doubt."

Predicted XIs

10:39 , Alex Young

Earlier I suggested that Jota would be the most likely to start for Liverpool over Diaz, Gakpo etc.

My colleagues do not agree, it seems.

Predicted Man City XI: Ederson; Walker, Dias, Gvardiol, Akanji; Rodri, Silva; Doku, Alvarez, Foden; Haaland

Predicted Liverpool XI: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Tsimikas; Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Szoboszlai; Salah, Nunez, Diaz

Score prediction

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Much is dependent on the team City are able to field but Liverpool do not have a good record at the Etihad Stadium. Still, Klopp’s side are full of goals and City can be exposed, as was shown against Chelsea.

A 2-2 draw.

Liverpool team news

10:23 , Alex Young

Ibrahima Konate and Ryan Gravenberch should feature for Liverpool after returning to training.

Curtis Jones and Joe Gomez could also return, while Kostas Tsimikas has calmed fears over his fitness.

Andy Robertson and Thiago remain out.

So, who starts alongside Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah? Diogo Jota the likeliest?

10:17 , Alex Young

Darwin Nunez starts today, according to *very unconfirmed* reports on Twitter.

Interesting.

Will Haaland be fit?

10:13 , Alex Young

Pep Guardiola is dealing with a number of injury problems.

Erling Haaland is suffering with an ankle problem sustained over the international break, as is Ederson, but both are expected to be fit. We are hearing reports the striker is in the squad, which is not a surprise.

Nathan Ake also shook off an injury to train earlier this week.

John Stones will miss out plus there are injury concerns over Mateo Kovacic, Matheus Nunes and Sergio Gomez. Kevin De Bruyne and Sergio Gomez are long-term absentees.

Where to watch

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TV channel: The game will be broadcast on Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Ultra HDR. Coverage starts at 11am GMT ahead of a 12.30pm kick-off.

Live stream: Subscribers will be able to watch a live stream through the Sky Go app.

Highlights: Match of the Day will show highlights when it airs at 10.30pm GMT on Saturday.

Welcome

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Good morning and welcome to the Standard's LIVE coverage of the Premier League clash between Manchester City and Liverpool.

It's the two best teams in the country (look at the table, Arsenal fans) and one huge title test as the top flight resumes after another international break.

Will Erling Haaland be fit? Will Jurgen Klopp complain about the kick-off time and can anyone beat City at home?

Kick-off at the Eithad is at 12.30pm. Stick with us.