The Preview: Liverpool vs Man City
The Athletic FC Podcast
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Preview on The Athletic FC, where this week our main focus is Liverpool vs Manchester City.
Mark Carey & Jay Harris join Matt Davies-Adams to preview Sunday’s clash, with City looking to keep the pressure on at the top, as Arsenal have the chance to go 9-points clear when they host Sunderland the day before.
Elsewhere around the league, Spurs head Old Trafford, Brighton face Crystal Palace in the feisty M23 derby, and down the bottom there's a relegation 6-pointer as Leeds take on Forest.
Host: Matt Davies-Adams
With: Mark Carey & Jay Harris
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
Producer: Jay Beale & John Rogers
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Welcome to the preview from the Athletic FC |
| 0:07.7 | It's the show where we get you set for the weekend's Premier League action |
| 0:11.2 | This week we're looking ahead to Liverpool versus Manchester City |
| 0:14.6 | And please welcome my two podcasting pals for this week. |
| 0:21.3 | Mark carries with us. |
| 0:22.2 | How are you? |
| 0:22.9 | Good. |
| 0:23.3 | Thank you, Matt. How are you? Yeah, I'm all right. Thank you. We got Jay Harris with us as well. You okay, Jay? Yeah, I'm all good, guys. Good stuff. Right, later in the show, we'll get into some of the other big matchups of Match Week 25. But first, let's get to our feature presentation. |
| 0:38.9 | So this fixture was the marquee, of Match Week 25. But first, let's get to our feature presentation. |
| 0:44.6 | So this fixture was the marquee matchup in the Premier League over the last decade or so. |
| 0:48.4 | Liverpool out for revenge after City won the reverse 3-0 back in November, |
| 0:55.2 | whilst these citizens are looking for their first league double over the Reds since 1937. Blimey. |
| 0:56.8 | And maybe you remember that season listener. Matt Busby lining up for Liverpool, the magnificently monocard Wilf Wilde leading city to a 5-0 win at Amfield, different times. |
| 1:06.1 | Mark, back in 2026, after five games without a win, Liverpool bounced back against Newcastle last Saturday. What change for Arna Slott's side in that one? I think quite simply, they played against the side who was willing to go a little bit more toe-to-to-toe with them. And when those sorts of games happen for Liverpool, often, not always, they come out on top. If you look at things over the last 18 months. I think that |
| 1:27.5 | it's been a theme of the season for Arna Slott is talking about low blocks and how it is his job |
| 1:33.8 | and Liverpool's job to try and overcome low blocks, but that's been the key thing that's |
| 1:37.5 | frustrated them, especially this season. They haven't been able to break them down in the way that |
| 1:41.7 | they'd like and they haven't been able to put as much intensity into the game. But against Newcastle, there was plenty of intensity from Newcastle and from Liverpool and there was a bit of a slog fest. They were able to kind of, yeah, go toe to toe, go sort of punch for punch, if you like. And Liverpool came out on top because there was more space to go. Newcastle had a go. They were the |
| 2:01.8 | better side in the first 30 minutes, but the spaces were there for Liverpool to run into. You think |
| 2:06.7 | about the second Ekitika goal. Kirk has just played the ball into space for Ekitika to |
| 2:12.3 | basically square up Malik Tiao and get past him. That hasn't been something that Liverpool |
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