{"id":466839,"date":"2026-02-08T17:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466839\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:31:13","slug":"liverpool-vs-manchester-city-live-latest-updates-from-anfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466839\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool vs Manchester City LIVE: Latest updates from Anfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> welcome <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"94fd5d7e-35b1-9d52-c9f2-4a37259bea36\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> to Anfield on Sunday, in a fixture famous for its title-race implications, and you can follow it all live with ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>City come into the game a mammoth nine points behind league leaders <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"feb44e87-58fa-9597-2691-b3c32768ebe4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a>, knowing that anything other than a win would surely be curtains for their inconsistent title charge.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool&#8217;s title defence, on the other hand, has been up in flames for weeks now, and they sit five points behind rivals <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ebc2fd0-35d3-733b-5666-b75035a3bce9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=360\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a> in fourth &#8212; something they will be eager to put right facing off against the old enemy at home in what is always a blockbuster clash.<\/p>\n<p>Follow live updates below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool welcome Manchester City to Anfield on Sunday, in a fixture famous for its title-race implications, and you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-466839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}