The Preview: Man City vs Liverpool
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This weekend see's FA Cup quarter-final action as squads return from the international break.
Manchester City host Liverpool in a mouthwatering tie, and one that will be Mohammed Salah's final trip to the Etihad Stadium as a Red.
Host: Matt Davies-Adams
Guests: Cerys Jones & Andy Jones
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
Producers: 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 |
| 0:08.5 | It's the show where we get you set for the weekends football |
| 0:11.2 | This week we're looking ahead to the FA Cup quarter finals |
| 0:14.2 | Starting with the modern Premier League classic |
| 0:17.0 | It's Manchester City versus Liverpool |
| 0:19.1 | And on board for this one, we've got Andy Jones. |
| 0:25.5 | How you doing, Andy? Very good, thank you. Good to be back on. He sure is. It's been a while. |
| 0:30.2 | And your sister? No, just somebody with the same name. Garris Jones is here too. Hello. |
| 0:35.1 | You're right, Garris? Yeah, no relation, just to be clear. |
| 0:39.0 | Okay, nice to clear it up because I did just suddenly think it's passed me by, but no. |
| 0:42.7 | Right, later on, we're going to get into the FA Cup action elsewhere, but first let's get to our feature presentation. |
| 0:49.9 | So this has been the blockbuster Premier League fixture during Pep's time at City. |
| 0:54.5 | Could well be the last time he faces Liverpool. |
| 0:56.5 | Rumours of a potential departure at the end of the season swirling. |
| 1:02.5 | Andy, the editors at The Athletic of Tasty with ranking the best Liverpool against City Games of the Guardiola era. |
| 1:09.1 | Which ones came out on top? |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, not just the best, all of them. So there was a lot of games there because it's been |
| 1:14.4 | a long time since this rivalry is going on. But no, it was quite fun just to go back |
| 1:19.1 | through because there's been, as I say, there's been a lot of terrific games. My top one was |
| 1:24.3 | City to Liverpool won January 2019, which is the 98-97 point season. |
| 1:31.7 | It was one of the very, very few games where Liverpool lost and I wasn't that annoyed because |
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