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Pep Guardiola is set to mark his 1,000th game as a manager in fitting style, as his Manchester City side welcome reigning Premier League champions Liverpool for Sunday’s highly anticipated showdown.

After 10 matches, City hold a slender one-point and one-place advantage over the Reds at the top of the Premier League, though Arne Slot’s revitalized Liverpool have found their form at just the right time.

When Guardiola took charge of his first professional match, Sven-Goran Eriksson was managing Manchester City, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo were leading the line for Manchester United , and Sean Kingston’s "Beautiful Girls" topped the UK charts. Fast forward more than 18 years, and Guardiola will reach the four-figure milestone in Sunday’s Etihad spectacle—a la

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