Arteta and Klopp seeking perfect recipe to end the City Supremacy

Arsenal are further down the track towards a title-winning team while Liverpool wrestle with a volatile streak.

DIFFERENT STAGES: Liverpool's German manager Jurgen Klopp (L) embraces Arsenal's Spanish manager Mikel Arteta after the English Premier League football match between Liverpool and Arsenal at Anfield in April.

Got on a lucky one. Came in at 18-1*. I’ve got a feeling, this year’s for me and you. Well, perhaps. On the other hand, we could just wait until April, the Guardiola spring surge, some post-op Kevin De Bruyne, and take another look then.

For now, Arsenal’s trip to Anfield on Saturday evening looks like a rare opportunity for Jürgen Klopp and Mikel Arteta. In an agreeably cinematic turn, and with all due deference to the presence of Aston Villa in the mix, the penultimate game of the pre-festive pile-up is in effect a playoff for the key ceremonial role of Top Of The League On Christmas Day.