Jamie Carragher changes his tune on Liverpool opinion ahead of Man City fixture

Liverpool big defending Premier League champions Manchester City successful a imaginable rubric showdown astatine Anfield connected Sunday - and Jamie Carragher has issued updated predictions

Jamie Carragher has U-turned connected his prediction for Manchester City to triumph the Premier League rubric up of their showdown with Liverpool.

City question to Anfield connected Sunday knowing their title defence hangs successful the balance pursuing a miserable tally of form. Pep Guardiola ’s broadside person mislaid 5 and drawn 1 of their past six games successful each competitions, with injuries and a nonaccomplishment of assurance severely hampering them.

Liverpool clasp an eight-point pb implicit City, which they tin summation to 11 with a win, and are playing superbly nether Arne Slot. The Reds person 31 points from a imaginable 36 truthful acold and tin telephone upon the services of a red-hot Mohamed Salah.

Like many, erstwhile Liverpool defender Carragher backed City to triumph a 5th Premier League rubric successful a enactment – and a seventh from the past 8 seasons – earlier the run kicked off. But helium is rowing backmost connected that prediction up of Sunday’s match.

“I deliberation I would alteration that close now, if I was asked close now,” Carragher told Sky Sports. “I cognize there’s inactive a agelong mode to spell – not conscionable Liverpool, I really deliberation Arsenal mightiness decorativeness supra Manchester City, adjacent though Manchester City are supra them astatine the infinitesimal but I deliberation their problems successful midfield.

“I’m going to spell with Liverpool to triumph the league now. I deliberation they volition beryllium the bookies’ favourites, and I deliberation they’ve got a sizeable lead. I inactive deliberation it volition beryllium a precise choky run-in whether that’s Manchester City trying to get astatine them oregon Arsenal coming backmost astatine them arsenic well.”

Carragher is convinced that the wheels person travel off for City, who are missing cardinal midfielders Rodri and Mateo Kovacic done injury. Guardiola’s broadside threw distant a 3-0 pb astatine location to Feyenoord successful the Champions League successful mid-week and look a shadiness of their erstwhile selves.

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"With immoderate hesitation, I volition marque a prediction which – due to the fact that of the Guardiola origin – whitethorn travel backmost to haunt me," Carragher wrote successful his Daily Telegraph column. “If City suffer to Liverpool, their rubric defence is implicit earlier Christmas.

"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.

"But City would request to spell into the Christmas docket looking susceptible of going connected 1 of their prolonged winning sequences. No 1 analysing their performances could presume they volition not suffer much of the 25 games remaining aft the Anfield trip. On existent form, City could suffer different 5 oregon six."

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