Manchester City vs Liverpool EPL Football 23 Dec 2013

With the most lethal front of the Premier League, Manchester City and Liverpool promise a feast of goals when they meet Thursday in the traditional Boxing Day English football. Liverpool's leader to come to Christmas for the first time since 2008, largely thanks to the 19 goals from Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez. The team added 42 points in the campaign.

Only Manchester City have scored more times. The team of coach Manuel Pellegrini, third in the standings to a point of Liverpool and Arsenal, rede pierced 51 times in 17 rounds.

The visit to Manchester City will be a litmus test for Liverpool, which has only 17 players available for the match.

In the center of the field highlights the quality and youth of players like Henderson (1 goal ) , Sterling ( 3 goals ) and Coutinho (1 goal ) , which will have to meet the significant drop of Gerrard .

Offensive player has the most championship form , Luis Suarez , top scorer in the Premier League after scoring 19 goals in only 12 matches since the first days of the season through suspension was lost , but the computer can tell the low Sturridge . As alternatives on the bench will be the Spanish Iago blades , which , since returning Luis Suarez has had few minutes Luis Alberto has also provided many opportunities .

Pellegrini have absences Zabaleta defenses ( 15 games , 1 of them as a substitute ) , Richards ( 2 games) and Nastasic ( 9 games , 1 of them as a substitute and 1 goal ) and striker Kun Aguero ( 15 games , 1 them as a substitute and 13 goals) , is also definitely Jovetic ( 3 games, 2 of them as a substitute ) .

The visitors , Rodgers will be without the Coates ( 0 games) and Jose Enrique ( 8 games , 2 of them as a substitute ) defenses , midfielder Gerrard ( 15 games and 3 goals ) and striker Sturridge ( 12 games , 1 them as a substitute and 9 goals) also left-back Flanagan ( 7 games ) is doubtful .