This Saturday is the day: the great classic between Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City and the Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool. Leader and second respectively (one point away) in the Premier. The two teams that have won each English league since 2017-18 (5 City and Liverpool). The rivalry between the two coaches who have had the most impact on football in recent times, that of City, Guardiola, and Liverpool’s, Klopp.
Within City-Liverpool The two top scorers of the team face each other Premier: Erling Haalandwith 13 points, and Mohamed Salah with 10. The leading scoring team of the tournament so far, city (with 32 in 12 days), against the third, the Liverpoolwith 27 like him Newcastle), both after the Unai Emery’s Aston Villa, 29). And the team with the fewest goals scored, the ‘red’ (10, tied at Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal). compared to the second who received the least, the ‘citizen’ (12).
But there are other figures about it City-Liverpool. According to Sofascore data, by far the most important member of Guardiola’s team so far in the Premier League is absent Haaland, but Rodri, with 3 goals, 2 assists, and 1.2 key passes per game, along with 6.8 ball recoveries. For him Liverpoolthe most important is wrong (10 goals, 4 assists, score per 105 minutes, made 2.25 key passes and made 11 chances.
In the battle of the ‘nines’, Haaland surpasses Darwin Núñez with 13 goals scored in 4, with 3 assists for the Norwegian and 4 for the Uruguayan, clearly on an upward trend. Haaland He makes 43.5 percent of the clear opportunities in goals and points every 79 minutes. Darwin Nunez, 23.1 percent of clear chances and gets a goal every 152′.
Overall, also analyzing global data at team level, the Sofascore study rates the performance of City of Manchester so far in this Premier with 7.28 and on Liverpool, with 7.06. Although in possession of the ball, 62.5 percent for the ‘Citizens’ compared to 58.8 for the ‘Reds’. Taken together, this review provides cityalso due to the match being played at the Etihad, a 57 percent chance at citya 24 to Liverpool and 19% to have a tie. Of course, Klopp, in their entire career, lost 12 times. Guardiolawith 10 wins for pep and only 5 ties. No one wins Pep is more than Klopp.
Source: La Verdad
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