Image source, Getty ImagesFormer Manchester United defender Gary Neville on Sky Sports: "Anfield is a very difficult ground to win at. Those City players and staff are celebrating together. Liverpool fans are singing 'you're going down'.
"So you get a sense of the background of this game. You don't know where City are going to end up but you can't take that performance away from Enzo Maresca and his players."
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I've heard people suggest that Manchester City's players will be frazzled because of what is going on with the club off the pitch, but I don't see it that way.
I suspect that, along with the City fans, there will be this siege mentality now where they think, "everyone hates us, everyone wants us to lose, everyone wants us to be relegated" - even if I don't think that is actually the case, because there are actually a lot of balanced football fans out there.
City are likely to get a hostile reception at Anfield but I think they will be able to handle it.
Liverpool are still a work in progress under Andoni Iraola too. They have not convinced me so far when I've watched them this season.
Based on all of that, I am going for City here. I can just picture Erling Haaland scoring their winner, and celebrating with a big grin on his face.
Sutton's prediction: 1-2
Tom McCoy
BBC Sport journalist
BBC Sport examines some of the key themes before Sunday's match (16:30 BST), with Manchester City likely to face a hostile atmosphere away to Liverpool in their first game since being found guilty of breaching Premier League financial rules.
Will sense of injustice raise Anfield volume?
This promises to be a unique occasion in the rivalry between these clubs, and not only because it will be their first meeting since 2015 without either Jurgen Klopp or Pep Guardiola in the dugout.
Liverpool and Manchester City have been the Premier League's two most successful clubs in recent years, but a question mark now hangs over many of City's achievements after an independent commission found the club guilty of breaching the league's financial regulations between 2009-10 and 2017-18.
City maintain their innocence and have appealed against the verdict. But if it is upheld, Liverpool supporters would be entitled to wonder whether some of English football's biggest prizes might otherwise have ended up at Anfield.
Liverpool were runners-up to City in the league in 2014 and lost to them in the League Cup final two years later. Although the breaches they have been found guilty of happened before Klopp's side reached their peak, many of the players City signed between 2009 and 2018 helped deny the Reds the title in 2019 and 2022, when the Merseysiders finished second despite collecting more than 90 points.
But for all the controversy surrounding the fixture, Liverpool's immediate concern is ending their wait for a first home league win under Andoni Iraola.
That task has been complicated by injuries to top scorer Alexander Isak and the in-form Cody Gakpo on international duty, placing greater onus on Florian Wirtz to prove his worth. The 23-year-old has scored only one club goal since January but was on target in Germany's win over Serbia on 1 October.
Wirtz has yet to fully convince since joining for a fee that could rise to £116m, but it is not for want of trying. He has covered an average of 11.9km per 90 minutes, the fourth-highest figure in the Premier League this season and ranks second for distance covered at high speed.
Can Maresca help City shut out the noise?
Manager Enzo Maresca has rejected suggestions that Manchester City's achievements have been tainted by the guilty verdict.
At Friday's news conference, Maresca said he "completely trusts" the club, bullishly insisting the right time to discuss the case would be "when we win the appeal". The Italian added his job was to manage the "noise" surrounding City and concentrate on the immediate task of winning Sunday's game.
His chances of doing so have been boosted by the availability of Erling Haaland, who scored five goals in three games against Liverpool last season. The striker is fit despite being forced off during Norway's defeat by Portugal last weekend.
Should Maresca maintain his perfect start with City, he would join an illustrious group of managers to win their first six Premier League matches in charge.
His City predecessor Pep Guardiola achieved the feat in 2016, as did fellow Italian Carlo Ancelotti with Chelsea in 2009 and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after taking charge of Manchester United during the 2018-19 season. Those three were all making their debuts in the English top flight, unlike Maresca, whose first Premier League season came with Chelsea in 2024-25.
Image source, Getty ImagesIf I was manager of Manchester City now, after they were found guilty of breaking Premier League financial rules, my whole psychology with my group of players this week would encompass one major point: "No-one is going to like us, but we won't care."
When the Premier League returns this weekend, the spotlight will be on one game in particular - at Anfield.
As well as preparing for such a huge match, City's players will be arriving back from international duty and going straight into an off-field fight that has turned into a media frenzy.
The allegations seem relentless with finger-pointing from every Tom, Dick and Harry jumping on the bandwagon in hammering a club that has dominated the Premier League for over a decade.
It feels like every positive gained by City over the period in question and beyond has been smashed into oblivion. Yet, despite all of the above, the club have remained firm in denying all charges.
So, where does this leave Enzo Maresca and his City players as they prepare to take on Liverpool?
First, although they have not been involved in any of the allegations about the club breaking the Premier League's financial rules, they must understand that supporters at all away grounds will be baying for their blood.
City have become a team that, whenever they play, will provide an opportunity for all critics to attack them, and from all angles.
So, as the manager, Maresca must first act to reassure his players that the club is not in any way going to take a step back from defending their own position, and also the position of the players, staff and supporters.
Once that is established, I would then expect every player to concentrate on what they are being paid for, which is to win games.
There should be no distractions or any questions that do not relate to the games they are involved in. No excuses about what is happening off the field would be tolerated, and that would be my final word on the matter.
