Alan Shearer makes bold prediction for Liverpool vs Man City - 'They could overpower them'

Liverpool are being heavy backed to adhd to Manchester City's woes and prolong their torrid spell and Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer believes the Reds volition outclass their struggling rivals

Alan Shearer has tipped Liverpool to "overpower" Manchester City successful their immense Premier League rubric clash this play and tin lone spot a triumph for Arne Slot's men.

Pep Guardiola's men question to Anfield connected Sunday knowing different decision would widen Liverpool's pb astatine the apical to 11 points and each but extremity their rubric defence.

City are successful woeful signifier and person failed to triumph a crippled successful six matches stretching backmost to precocious October. A 4-0 location nonaccomplishment to Tottenham past week has sent the squad into a situation and followed that effect with a 3-3 gully astatine location to Feyenoord aft going 3-0 up.

Liverpool are being heavy backed to adhd to City's woes and prolong their torrid spell and Match of the Day pundit Shearer believes the Reds volition outclass their struggling rivals.

Speaking to Betfair, helium said: "Unless City tighten up and fortify up successful midfield, Liverpool could overpower them there. There are truthful galore large battles to look guardant to. Whoever Pep decides to play astatine left-back has a immense situation connected manus also.

"With the signifier that Man City are in, Liverpool astatine Anfield and the guardant options they have, I can’t spot thing different than a Liverpool victory."

Shearer is not the lone pundit to measurement successful connected the crippled aft Jamie Carragher predicted that a nonaccomplishment for City this play could spell the extremity of their rubric race.

"With immoderate hesitation, I volition marque a prediction which – due to the fact that of the Guardiola origin – whitethorn travel backmost to haunt me," helium said successful hisDaily Telegraph column. If City suffer toLiverpool, their rubric defence is implicit beforeChristmas.

"An 11-point spread would beryllium excessively much. That is not needfully due to the fact that Liverpool would agelong distant to triumph the Premier League. Arsenal and Chelsea person a existent accidental this season, too."

However, erstwhile City manager Stuart Pearce insisted the club's critics should "write them disconnected astatine their ain peril" and said helium wouldn't beryllium amazed if Guardiola inactive won the league.

"They’re suffering astatine the infinitesimal but if you constitute City off, you bash it astatine your ain peril," helium said. "They’re that good. Their manager isworld-class and we speech astir satellite people astatine the driblet of a chapeau but he’s possibly the champion manager that’s ever lived.

"He’s that bully astatine what helium does and if he’s inactive astatine the helm driving City on, if they triumph thePremier Leagueor the Champions League this twelvemonth it wouldn’t astonishment me."

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