Sky Sports made a blunder involving Erling Haaland on Sunday, having mistakenly announced the striker was on the bench for Manchester City in their Premier League clash with Liverpool.
The two titans are set to do battle at the Etihad Stadium at 4.30pm today.
City fans had been hoping that Haaland would start, especially after being benched for the midweek 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid in the Champions League.
Initially, Sky Sports commentators working on Newcastle's clash with Nottingham Forest announced that Haaland was on the bench.
Sky Sports made a blunder involving Erling Haaland on Sunday, having mistakenly announced the striker was on the bench for Manchester City in their Premier League clash with Liverpool
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But they had to perform a U-turn just seconds later, confirming the former Borussia Dortmund and Red Bull Salzburg star wouldn't be taking part in the match.
City have gone strong for the match as they look to continue their charge towards next season's Champions League.
Ederson starts in goal, with Rico Lewis, Abdukodir Khusanov, Nathan Ake and Josko Gvardiol deployed in defence.
Nico Gonzalez, Phil Foden and Kevin De Bruyne make up their midfield.
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And City have gone with Phil Foden, Savinho and new signing Omar Marmoush as they look to claim all three points.
As for Liverpool, Arne Slot has made just one change to the side that drew 2-2 with Aston Villa on Wednesday night.
Luis Diaz has come in for Diogo Jota, with the rest of the Reds' starting XI unchanged.
Alisson starts in goal, behind a back four consisting of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk and Andy Robertson.
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Erling Haaland misses out for Man City as they prepare to face Liverpool in the Premier League
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Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai will occupy the midfield positions.
And Diaz starts up top, with Mohamed Salah and Curtis Jones also making up their attack.
Regarding Haaland, meanwhile, Pep Guardiola has hit back at comments made by Jamie Carragher on the City striker.
Carragher had suggested that Haaland had missed the Real Madrid match because he didn't fancy going up against Antonio Rudiger.
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Yet Guardiola was furious with those words, with the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss saying: “Oh, God. Did he say that? Jamie Carragher said that? Oh God.
"Don’t laugh. I don’t know why he makes that suspicious, you know that?
"Did he say that Haaland didn’t want to play the game? It’s not nice – and it’s not true.
"He was crazy to play the game. He had a problem with his knee and he could not play.”
Man City boss Pep Guardiola was furious with comments made by Jamie Carragher about Erling Haaland ahead of tonight's Premier League clash with Liverpool
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On if City finish in the top four this season, Guardiola added: “Unbelievable. Wow. We go to dinner, you and me. I invite you. You choose the restaurant, I pay, 100 per cent for sure, it will be a big achievement. It’s true.
“The last seasons we also had problems but always we were able to find solutions. But this amount of the problems that we have, you know I could not handle it.
"But still we have three months ahead of us and the target is to qualify for the Champions League for next season, to be there.
"Not to be in the draw like today, it happened. We were not there. We have to fight to be there. Of course we are going to try. It would be a big success.”
