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Rooney backing Liverpool to beat Manchester City to Premier League title

Wayne Rooney has predicted Liverpool will win the Premier League title, preventing last term's winners Manchester City from becoming champions for the third straight season.

Rooney, a former Manchester United captain and the club's all-time record goalscorer, faces seeing his old team's two fiercest rivals fight for the title for the second campaign in a row.

Liverpool moved eight points clear at the top after Saturday's dramatic defeat of Leicester City, James Milner's 95th-minute penalty securing a 17th successive league win, with City in action at home to Wolves on Sunday.