Gary Neville said that it is his gut feeling that Liverpool will “run all over” Manchester City when the two sides meet at Anfield on Sunday.
Liverpool and City could barely be in more contrasting form ahead of the fixture, with the Reds having won 17 of their 19 matches so far this season, and City without a win in its last six games.City has a terrible record at Anfield, winning just twice there in the Premier League era, and Neville doesn’t envision that changing this weekend.
“I think Liverpool versus Manchester City is really interesting,” Neville said on The Overlap US. “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.”
