Liverpool travel to the Etihad Stadium on Sunday to face Manchester City – 4.30pm kick off UK time – before the International break disrupts the only football that matters for the final time this calendar year.
The Reds have three matches to fit in before the end of the month following the ‘break’, with December seeing Liverpool play eight times to see out the year, in what is a heavily condensed season pushing the players of all clubs to breaking point.
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