Confirmed Match Officials: Liverpool vs Manchester City (Premier League) | OneFootball

Chris Kavanagh will oversee proceedings from the centre at Anfield this weekend as Manchester City take on Arne Slot’s table-topping Liverpool, it has been confirmed.

The Premier League champions will be desperate to find their form once again this season and stop a rot that is leaving them further and further adrift of the pace-setters heading into a crunch run of fixtures in December.

With five defeats across competitions in a row heading into a new week, and a meeting with Feyenoord in the UEFA Champions League splitting a 0-4 drubbing at the hands of Tottenham and the clash with Liverpool, Pep Guardiola must find solutions to the problems and fast.

It is three successive defeats for Manchester City in the Premier League too, having followed up consecutive 2-1 defeats on the south coast to Bournemouth and Brighton & Hove Albion with that shock scoreline at the Etihad Stadium last Saturday evening.

Liverpool find themselves in much contrasting fortunes having won four of their last five matches, and came from behind to secure victory in a testing clash against Southampton away from home last time out.

Ahead of the meeting between Liverpool and Manchester City, the Premier League have now announced the list of match officials to oversee proceedings at Anfield!

Match Referee

Overseeing proceedings from the role of match referee for Liverpool against Manchester City will be 39-year-old Manchester-born official Chris Kavanagh, the Premier League have confirmed this week.

This will be the ninth top-flight fixture that Kavanagh has taken on so far this season, having issued a total of 49 yellow cards across his eight matches so far, including two yellow card dismissals, two straight red cards, and no penalties awarded.

Manchester City have a relatively positive record in matches overseen by Kavanagh, having come across the official in 12 previous matches and winning eight of those contests, drawing three, and losing just one. Three penalties have been awarded in that time.

The last contest involving Manchester City that had Chris Kavanagh as match referee came away from home too, with Pep Guardiola’s side recording a dramatic 1-2 victory over Wolves at Molineux.

Assistant Referees

Supporting Chris Kavanagh from the roles of assistant referees at Anfield on Sunday afternoon will be Lee Betts and Darren Cann.

Video Assistant Referees

Offering guidance and supporting from Stockley Park’s VAR Hub will be Paul Tierney in the role of Video Assistant Referee, with support from Assistant Video Assistant Referee Tim Wood.

Fourth Official

Standing between the two dugouts and ensuring that all is kept in line between Liverpool’s Arne Slot and Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola will be Anthony Taylor in the role of fourth official.