‘My gut feeling’ – Manchester United legend Gary Neville makes Liverpool v Manchester City prediction

Gary Neville says helium has a ‘gut feeling’ that Liverpool volition ‘run each over’ Manchester City and inflict yet much misery connected the Premier League champions this weekend.

Arne Slot has enjoyed an outstanding commencement to his Liverpool reign, with the Merseyside giants flying precocious astatine the apical of the Premier League array up of Sunday’s heavyweight clash astatine Anfield.

Second-placed City way the Reds by 8 points having suffered a 5th consecutive decision successful each competitions astatine the hands of Tottenham past clip retired – the longest losing streak of Pep Guardiola’s full managerial career.

On Tuesday night, City appeared to beryllium cruising towards their archetypal triumph successful a period arsenic they stormed to an imperious three-goal pb implicit Feyenoord successful the Champions League.

But City’s Dutch visitors managed to rescue a constituent aft mounting a stunning precocious fightback astatine the Etihad – and Guardiola was aboriginal pictured with self-inflicted cuts and scratches each implicit his face portion facing the media.

‘I deliberation Liverpool versus Manchester City is truly interesting. I’m doing the crippled and can’t hold for it due to the fact that determination is simply a batch riding connected it,’ Neville said portion previewing City’s must-win travel to Anfield connected the latest occurrence of The Overlap US’ It’s Called Soccer.

‘I’ve ne'er seen City look arsenic susceptible successful the Pep Guardiola era.

‘Jamie Redknapp mentioned this and I thought it was a truly bully point, wherever helium said that the pressure, each of a sudden, successful this fixture is connected Liverpool successful the consciousness that everyone volition expect Liverpool to triumph due to the fact that everyone is beating City!

‘What volition that bash to Liverpool? I deliberation Liverpool volition win. Looking astatine City astatine this infinitesimal successful time, erstwhile you consciousness that strength and passionateness that Liverpool have, I deliberation they could tally each implicit them is my gut feeling.

‘But determination is that Pep Guardiola, these radical of players person achieved a batch successful this past four, 5 years, you could ne'er constitute them off.

‘Is this the time that fundamentally they’re poked that overmuch that they disturbance and thing happens? It could beryllium but my feeling is that Liverpool volition triumph this game.

‘But the pressure, I think, is connected Liverpool to win, much than it is connected City to triumph due to the fact that of what has happened.

‘It’s huffy to deliberation that City person mislaid each those games successful a row, it’s intriguing and I’m looking guardant to it already.’

City’s ‘spectacular’ 4-0 thrashing astatine location to Tottenham further convinced Neville that ‘something is precise different’ with Guardiola’s broadside this season.

‘It was spectacular, it was perfectly spectacular,’ the erstwhile Manchester United and England right-back added.

‘I’ve been going to City present for six, seven, eight, nine, 10 years and, for astir of that, conscionable thinking: it’s a foregone conclusion, successful information it has go a small spot boring. You’re fundamentally looking 1 mode during a crippled due to the fact that they’ve got 75 per cent possession.

‘But thing is precise antithetic this play and, connected Saturday, I person to accidental I expected City to win, I expected them to reset aft the planetary break, I expected them to beryllium truly superior and Pep Guardiola to person said, “Come on, we’re going to spell for 5 successful a row!”, and it’s not there.

‘The legs aren’t there, the energy, a spot of the prime arsenic good is missing, but there’s thing not right.

‘It’s bully for the league and bully for america to spot arsenic well, I think, but Tottenham were spectacular, they were brilliant.’

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