Manchester City and Liverpool are the two teams fighting it out to be crowned Premier League champions come May.

It's very tight at the top, with the Reds in first on 82 points from 33 games, while City are on 80, having played 32 times.

That means every result and every match weekend from here until the end of the season will be vital.

On Sunday, both teams are in action as Pep Guardiola's Man City visit Crystal Palace, while Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool host Chelsea.

There's no room to slip up as even just one dropped point could see either team miss out on Premier League glory.

But even though this is a massive weekend in the domestic calendar, both sides will have one eye on their midweek Champions League fixtures.

On Wednesday, City and Liverpool have a chance to book their places in the competition's semi-finals.

Those crunch matches come just three days after both sides play in the league. So once again, the scheduling of the domestic football calendar has been called into question.

Gary Lineker tweeted on Saturday to say that he can't believe the two teams are being made to play potential title deciders just 72 hours before important UCL second leg ties.

"Crazy that both Liverpool and Manchester City play tomorrow," he wrote.

"No other sides in Europe that are still in the Champions League would ever play on a Sunday before midweek CL fixtures. The Premier League needs to look after their own."

Lineker raises a very good point. Other European leagues often move fixtures forward a day or two so teams competing in the Champions League have a little more time to rest.

It's not just City and Liverpool who can feel hard done by this time either.

Manchester United face Barcelona at the Camp Nou on Tuesday night, having played against West Ham at teatime on Saturday. That's quite a tight turnaround too.

With a number of English teams amongst the favourites to win the Champions League this year, it seems bizarre that the PL still won't do its part to help, even while other European leagues do.

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