Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan insists every game is a "final" as title race with Liverpool further intensified on Saturday following wins for each team.
15.04.2022 - 13:07 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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Seven days after serving up one of the most splendid games of Premier League football on record, Man City and Liverpool square up again, this time for a place in the 2022 FA Cup final.
Both sides have since qualified for the semi-finals of the Champions League and it is now odds-on with most bookies that they will be teams fighting out the final of that competition in the Stade de France next month.
City are 6/4 (90 mins only) favourites with Betfred to crush Liverpool's dreams of completing a unprecedented quadruple this weekend, while Liverpool are 15/8 to reach their second final of the season. Whoever wins this tie will be odds-on to lift the FA Cup in May.
It is likely that we will see personnel changes on both sides, especially after two gruelling midweek Champions League fixtures but both Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp will be desperate to win this game and it's unlikely that we will see any let-up in the intensity of last weekend's pulsating encounter.
In essence, there is no reason why this shouldn't be as entertaining as the Premier League clash. Both sides played high defensive lines to condense the space in midfield and that led to more direct passes between the lines.
Liverpool will have more backing from inside the stadium than they did at the Etihad but either way it's hard to split these two sides, especially in the win-draw-win markets.
Klopp, in particular, won't be thrilled by the idea of this game going deep into extra time and possibly penalties given Liverpool play Manchester United in the Premier League on Tuesday night (City play Brighton 24 hours later), but with so little separating the
Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan insists every game is a "final" as title race with Liverpool further intensified on Saturday following wins for each team.
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