Liverpool v Manchester City: Premier League – live

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Key events2m agoPreamblePreambleOf all the gin joints in the all the towns in all the world …Manchester City’s first game after being found guilty of breaking the Premier League’s financial rules could have been anywhere: the Etihad, the Gtech Stadium, Portman Road, even Priestfield in the Carabao Cup. Instead, the great scriptwriter in the sky has decided it should be at Anfield – home of Liverpool, their biggest modern rivals and the team most affected by City’s success in the last 15 years.

The atmosphere is always febrile when City visit Anfield; today, it will be off the charts.Under normal circumstances, this would be a good time for City to play Liverpool. They have won five out of five in the Premier League, whereas Liverpool are still learning to speak Andoni Iraola’s coaching language and will be without both Alexander Isak and Cody Gakpo.You don’t need a PhD in rocket science to know these are not normal circumstances.

City will try to focus exclusively on the football – partly because they believe they have irrefutable proof of their innocence, partly because anyone who wants to finish above Arsenal this season needs every point they can get.Nobody, not even Biff Tannen, knows what’s going to happen over the next few hours. In almost 140 years of English league football, there has never been a game like this.Kick off 4.30pm BST.