'All of a sudden' - Gary Neville makes bold Liverpool prediction as Man City fear explained

Gary Neville has said he is intrigued to see how Liverpool deal with the expectation of beating Manchester City this weekend - insisting he has never seen the Etihad outfit so vulnerable under Pep Guardiola.

City, who have won the last four Premier League titles, travel to Anfield on Sunday afternoon off the back of a six-game winless run in all competitions.

Liverpool, meanwhile, are top of both the Premier League and Champions League and have won 17 of the 19 games since Arne Slot took over as head coach in the summer.

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Sunday, then, hands the Reds the opportunity to extend their lead over Guardiola's side at the top of the table to 11 points after City's recent defeats to Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion and Bournemouth.

Neville, though, believes Liverpool will have enough to consign the Etihad outfit to another defeat, but admitted he was interested to see how Slot's men deal with the tag of 'favourites'.

“I think Liverpool versus Manchester City is really interesting,” Neville said on It's Called Soccer! “I’m doing the game and can’t wait for it because there is a lot riding on it. I’ve never seen City look as vulnerable in the Pep Guardiola era.

“Jamie Redknapp mentioned this and I thought it was a really good point, where he said that the pressure, all of a sudden, in this fixture is on Liverpool in the sense that everyone will expect Liverpool to win because everyone is beating City!

“What will that do to Liverpool? I think Liverpool will win. Looking at City at this moment in time, when you feel that intensity and passion that Liverpool have, I think they could run all over them is my gut feeling.

“But there is that Pep Guardiola, these group of players have achieved a lot in this last four, five years, you could never write them off. Is this the day that basically they’re poked that much that they stir and something happens? It could be but my feeling is that Liverpool will win this game.

“But the pressure, I think, is on Liverpool to win, more than it is on City to win because of what has happened. It’s mad to think that City have lost all those games in a row, it’s intriguing and I’m looking forward to it already.”