The year 2021 has not treated Liverpool nicely as the last 7 EPL games show.

Results are a bit weaker than performances suggest, but they are not what they used to be. Injuries combined with unreal hectic schedule explain a lot of it.

Today the injury situation looks like this,

that it is no wonder Liverpool had to make panic signings and they now for the central defense. Normally the new guys Ben Davies from Preston and young turk Kabak from Schalke would not be Liverpool class, but now they are! Perhaps Henderson - Nathaniel Phillips are given now a rest from the cb duty!

The visiting City side have been clearly the best side in the league recently. They have won last 9 EPL games, and conceded one goal in the run! The last 7 games are a good example of their form:

Pep Guardiola’s City have played a more slow-tempo football this season. Corona, the amount of matches and the problem they have had with defending counters are pretty much now all solved with a ball possession football.

It has led to less created xG, but even so it has improved their defensive performance which also shows in the statistics. Against the weak teams they give close to 0 chances to score, and vs the better teams it still almost only the half than instead what Liverpool concede.

Last round Liverpool played poorly v Brighton and there seems to be room for improvement at every department. Against City Liverpool can not lose the ball so easily as they did vs Brighton’s less known players.

So we can expect a cautious approach from Liverpool who are afraid of mistakes, and of losing. City are happy to have the ball and see what happens.

Expecting a low-scoring game, but if someone wins this it has to be City.

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与过去7场英超比赛相比，2021年对利物浦并不好。

战绩比表现的更差，但已经不是过去的样子了。受伤和不真实的繁忙日程解释了很多。

今天的伤病情况是这样的，如图2。

这也难怪利物浦不得不做出恐慌的签约，现在他们需要中卫。通常情况下，来自普雷斯顿的本·戴维斯和来自沙尔克的年轻的特克·卡巴克都不是利物浦的级别，但现在他们是了!也许亨德森-纳撒尼尔-菲利普斯现在可以从执勤中得到休息了!

客队显然是最近联赛中最好的球队。他们赢得了最近9场英超比赛，在比赛中丢了一个球!最后7场比赛就是他们状态的一个很好的例子:

瓜迪奥拉所在的曼城本赛季踢的是慢节奏的足球。科罗娜，比赛的数量和他们遇到的防守反击的问题现在几乎都用控球足球解决了。

它导致了更少的创造xG，但即使如此，它也改善了他们的防御性能，这也在统计中显示。对阵弱队时，他们几乎没有进球的机会，而对阵强队时，他们几乎只有一半的机会，而不是利物浦的失球。

上一轮利物浦对布莱顿的表现很差，现在看来每个方面都有改进的空间。对曼城的比赛中，利物浦不能像对布莱顿的那些不太出名的球员那样轻易丢球。

所以我们可以期待利物浦的谨慎态度，他们害怕犯错，害怕失败。曼城很高兴能有这个球，看看会发生什么。

期待一场低分的比赛，但如果有人赢了这场比赛，那一定是曼城。