The Reds are the most prolific side in this season’s competition so far, with 28 goals, and have navigated the play-offs, group stage and last-16 round without defeat on their return to the elite level of European football.
An emphatic aggregate victory over FC Porto paved the way for an all-Premier League showdown with a club producing the fluid, free-flowing possession style preached by Pep Guardiola.
A modern classic unfolded in their last meeting in January. Liverpool triumphed at Anfield that day by the odd goal in seven, inflicting City’s only defeat of the league campaign to date.