Hi again everyone and welcome to this Friday edition of ESPN FC. I'm Alexis

Eunice alongside Stevie Nicol, a very confident Stevie Nicol, I would say, and Craig Burley. Well,

we're going to find out in just a bit because you bet. A lot more confident than last Thursday. He has got a bit of a glow about him and I wonder what that is. We'll see if he still has the glow after this weekend because we're going to... He's like breath. We're sitting in front of the fire or day. He's just come up with ten flights of stairs. We're kicking off things in the Premier League because like I said, it's a big one this Sunday number two versus number

three in the standings at the moment. Manchester City going up against Liverpool. Let's have a look

at the odds to see how the bookies think this one will go. And surprise, surprise, Manchester

City, just a slight favourites probably has to do with the fact that they will be at home at the Etihad.

Right, let's get straight into it.

Neda Manoa is joining us as well as Frank Labuff, but Stevie Nicol, you know I'm going to start

with you on this one.

Do you feel like you're a bit more optimistic going into this one after what we saw from

Liverpool against Villa and of course against

Real Madrid. Absolutely. If you'd asked me that question this time last week, I would have been

telling you how they were going to lose, why they were going to lose and how many they were going to

lose by. But now, it's amazing what happens in the space of a week. The optimism has returned.

And it's, everything I'm thinking about is positive, to be quite frankly, eh?

Wow.

Well, I'm positive.

The crisis averted.

Well, I'm, I think it's still a little early. It's a couple of games.

The last one obviously being a huge performance and result.

So yeah, I'm more confident in Liverpool going forward, 100% up until Villa.

I didn't look like anybody had actually kicked the ball with each other for, well, ever. So going forward, yeah.

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