Liverpool's home games against Manchester City and Arsenal have both been moved to Sunday 4.30pm kick-offs for Sky Sports coverage. The Manchester City game is now on Sunday, October 11, and the Arsenal match follows on Sunday, November 1. Six of Liverpool's first nine Premier League games will be shown live in the UK.
Liverpool's autumn schedule keeps changing
The Premier League's broadcast changes keep pushing Liverpool into live slots early in the season. The first nine fixtures now include Newcastle United away on Sunday, August 23, Nottingham Forest at home on Saturday, August 29, and Arsenal at home on Sunday, November 1, alongside the two reshuffled home games against Manchester City and Arsenal.
That leaves very little room for a quiet run. Liverpool have already been placed on TV six times in those opening nine league matches, which tells you how heavily their fixtures are being used in the broadcast schedule. The City and Arsenal games are the obvious headline picks, but the pattern is broader than those two dates.
The City and Arsenal changes
The wording on the Manchester City game varies slightly between reports, but the outcome is the same: Anfield now hosts it on Sunday, October 11 at 4.30pm. Liverpool's game with Arsenal has also moved to Sunday, November 1, again with a 4.30pm start and Sky Sports coverage.
The Premier League did not frame these changes as a verdict on form, and it should not be read that way. The fixtures are being treated as major live appointments because they sit in the early season calendar with Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal all involved.
The immediate effect is straightforward enough. Liverpool now have two more Sunday evening home games to plan around, and six live UK broadcasts in their first nine league fixtures means the autumn schedule is already built around them.
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