Jamie Carragher predicts Liverpool starting XI vs Man City with two key players absent

Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has predicted how Liverpool will line up for their pivotal clash with Manchester City on Sunday.

The Reds currently sit top of the Premier League but are just a point better off than Pep Guardiola’s Man City side in second place. Liverpool will hope to use the Anfield crowd to their advantage in a crucial match in the title race as Jurgen Klopp looks to end his final season as Liverpool boss on a high.

Liverpool look set to continue their journey in the Europa League after an emphatic 5-1 away in their first leg against Sparta Prague, keeping the club in contention for a possible quadruple. There was even more good news to come from the clash in Czechia as several players moved closer to full fitness.

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Both Dominik Szoboszlai and Mohamed Salah featured from the bench in Prague, while Darwin Nunez scored twice after leading the line from the start. It was a welcome boost for Liverpool, easing the club’s injury list, and Jamie Carragher has shared his thoughts on how that could impact the game against Man City.

“I think with the crowd, you’re right with injuries but when you look at the starting 11 - which I won’t be far off first choice - if Salah, Nunez, Szoboszlai are back - you look at the team on paper and go: ‘it’s probably Trent [Alexander-Arnold] and the ‘keeper’ and we’ve known ‘the keeper isn’t going to be available for a while so it isn’t a big shock,” the pundit said on The Overlap’s Fan Debate, sponsored by Sky Bet.

Goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher has been deputising for Alisson Becker, who