Aguero looks to keep up record in title crunch
MANCHESTER City’s Sergio Aguero is planning to keep up his brilliant strike rate in home games against Liverpool after tagging tomorrow’s showdown a ‘huge game’.
The City record goalscorer has scored in all six games he has played against the Scousers at the Etihad Stadium – including last season’s 5-0 win. That is balanced out by the fact that he has never scored at Anfield – two statistics which reveal City’s differing fortunes home and away against the current league leaders.
Aguero will notch his 250th career goal if he keeps that home run going in the clash of the top two on Thursday, but he pays little heed to such things.
“I’m not the type of guy who keeps a tally of that kind of thing,” he said.
“Of course, I want to score as much as I can to help the team win, and if that’s the way it panned out against Liverpool so far, then I hope I can keep the streak going at the Etihad in this meeting – and dispel it when we next face them at Anfield.
“Football always gives a chance to even the score.”
City need to win to slash Liverpool’s lead at the top to four points and re-ignite a title race that was slipping away from them before they won at Southampton on
Sunday.
Aguero said he is not at all surprised by the pace being set by Jurgen Klopp’s team.
“This season has shown, once more, that the Premier League is among the most competitive leagues in the world,” he said.