In my opinion, this time Liverpool more favorable for winning the match than Manchester City have bad trend performance without winning yet in last five consecutives matches. Manchester City still difficult for winning the match after three easily goals conceded when facing Feyenoord at Champion League match after leading awhile over 3 goals.
Liverpool have consistent performance not unbeaten yet 5 games in UEFA Champion League and have unbeaten 8 consecutives matches in premier league, this season Liverpool have quit well performance than Manchester City and looks Pep Guardiola will continue their bad trend result. Playing at home match against Manchester City give advantage for Liverpool and never got bad result when playing at home indeed in Champion League or Premier League matches.
I agree, if it was some other team then I would say that City wouldn't lose, they already failed to win for six in a row, so they will fight hard and win, if this was some midtable team, or even low level team, then we would see City fight hard and win easily. However, when it comes to Liverpool, this is basically a win or go home type of game so Liverpool will play their best game, it would basically allow them to have a huge gap with City, and have a much easier coasting towards the title run.
This is also exactly why it will be very crucial for City to win, because while they did badly for the last six games, recovering from those is fine, as long as they get three points here, City can recover easily, but if they lose this one too, then recovering will be very hard.