Manchester City-Liverpool, for the Carabao Cup: without Julián Álvarez, but with Haaland, Guardiola’s men resume activity

After the World Cup feature played in Qatar which saw the Argentina national team as winners, clubs around the world have started to resume their calendar despite some players still being on holiday. In England, for example, there will be activity this Thursday.

The Manchester City led by Pep Guardiola faces the competitive Liverpool by Jurguen Klopp at the Etihad Stadium for the Carabao Cup looking to keep advancing and make it to the quarterfinals of the tournament. The game is broadcast by ESPN and the referee for the match will be David Coote. The city team coming off defeat and elimination of Chelsea in the third round of the tournament after beating them 2-0will present some changes in the starting team such as goalkeeper Ederson who will be replaced by the 30-year-old German Stefano Ortega Moreno which adds three games in the club where he received only one goal.

In addition, the Spaniard will suffer the loss of the recent world champion Giuliano Alvarez who is still in a period of rest after being active until last Sunday with the Argentina national team. The footballer will have a week’s holiday with the possibility of extending it to ten days, according to the coach.

From the start the Norwegian striker will go in attack Erling Haaland looking to increase his formidable stats that he has collected in a short time with the jersey of citizens. Furthermore, in the starting eleven he will have great players like the Belgian Kevin DeBruynethe Algerian Riyad MarezGerman Ilkay Gundogan among others.

On the other side there will be the London team, which wants to cancel Pep’s team after the stop at the World Cup. The team that Klopp coaches advanced to the round after batting Derby country of England’s Third Division in a tough match which was called on penalties (from 3 to 2).

Even Liverpool spares nothing and will put most of the players who are usually owners like the Egyptian Muhammad Salathe charrua Darwin Nunez, Thiago Alcantara Y James Milner.

The Dutch centre-back will not be present in the team coaching the German Virgil Van Dijk who did not join the squad after ending his World Cup participation with the Netherlands.