The English Premier League enters its last meters .. Learn about the confrontations between Manchester City and Liverpool

Manchester City and Liverpool resume their fierce battle for the English Premier League title with the season entering its final meters, after the "warrior" break imposed by the international matches window.

With the league reaching its 31st stage, City leads the standings by only a point from Liverpool, and both of them aspire to more than one Premier League title because there is still a chance in front of the first to score a hat-trick and in front of the second to win a historic quadruple.

After the difference between the two teams was 14 points, Liverpool rose up and presented a series of wonderful matches, to return strongly to the circle of conflict and threaten City to give up the title.

What increases the pace of competition between the two teams is that they will meet twice this month, the first in the league at Al Ittihad Stadium on the tenth of April in a match that may have a decisive outcome to determine the destination of the title, and the second one a week later at Wembley Stadium in the cup semi-finals.

Watford's visit to Liverpool's Anfield stadium, and City's trip to Burnley Stadium, are supposed to be easy tasks for the teams of German coaches Jurgen Klopp and Spain's Josep Guardiola, at least on paper, taking into account the two tests that await them during the middle of next week in the first leg of the quarter-finals. Champions League.

Liverpool's Spanish midfielder Thiago Alcantara, who won the Champions League with Barcelona and Bayern Munich, admitted that "in my years in football, I have not had an exciting month with important and exciting matches every three days. That would be great."

City and Liverpool should beware of Burnley and Watford before thinking about Tuesday's matches in Manchester against Atletico Madrid and in Portugal against Benfica, respectively, because their rivals for Saturday's matches are struggling to get away from the relegation zone and will fight fiercely.

Klopp has a difficult task in the team after a stressful and very sensitive week for some of his stars, especially the Egyptian Mohamed Salah, who fell again in front of his Senegalese colleague Sadio Mane, who booked with his colleagues the Qatar World Cup 2022 card at the expense of the “Pharaohs”, again superiority to his colleague, who also lost to him the Cup Final. African nations.

In light of the joy of the Portuguese Diogo Jota leading his country to the world finals through the European supplement, the frustration will be dominating the other Colombian Liverpool star Luis Dias, as a result of his country’s failure to reserve one of the South American cards to Qatar 2022.

The opportunity will be in front of Liverpool, the winner nine times in a row in The league has put City under pressure and top for the first time since October, as it opens the stage on Saturday, hosting Watford.

London's battle for the Champions League rages

Aside from the title struggle, Chelsea seem to be third, 10 points behind Liverpool, which largely guarantees its participation in the Champions League, in which it continues this season's campaign to defend the title, but it collides in the quarter-finals with Real Madrid, the record holder for the number of titles (13).

Despite suffering from the circumstances imposed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions that affected its Russian owner Roman Abramovich, German coach Thomas Tuchel's team was not affected in terms of results, as it leads in third place, 5 points behind its fourth neighbor Arsenal, before their matches Saturday with Brentford and Monday with Crystal Palace, respectively.

Waiting to visit its neighbor Crystal Palace on Monday, the other London team, Tottenham, led by its Italian coach Antonio Conte, the attacking duo Harry Kane and the South Korean Son Heung-min, with the support of Swedish newcomer Dejan Koloshevsky, will try to remove the "gunners" from the last fourth qualifier for the Champions League in the event Sunday's win over visiting Newcastle by two or more goals.

It is true that Manchester United is also still in the fight for the ticket to qualify for the Champions League, in light of its four points behind Arsenal, the fourth, but the team of German coach Ralph Rangnick must achieve some consistency in its results from now until the end of the season, starting with its hosting of Leicester City. Saturday.

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