Sunday takes full focus for the Premier League's heavyweights as Liverpool host Manchester United and Arsenal travel to Manchester City
Three live matches on Sky Sports HD over the weekend
With European competition having returned in midweek, Sunday takes full focus for the Premier League's heavyweights as Liverpool's meeting with Manchester United comes under the greatest scrutiny.
The second day of the weekend also sees matches between defending champions Manchester City and Arsenal, Newcastle United and Norwich City, and Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers.
Chelsea do not have as long to rest as they host Stoke City on Saturday, while Southampton welcome Aston Villa, Everton travel to Swansea City, West Bromwich Albion take on Reading, West Ham United and Sunderland meet and Fulham travel to Wigan.
Anfield will be the scene for the weekend's most emotional match when
Liverpool play their first home game since the publication of the Hillsborough Independent Panel's report into the 1989 tragedy where 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death. North West rivals
Manchester United are the visitors and there have been pleas from both sides for a show of respect on what will be a highly-charged Sunday lunchtime kick-off, which is live on
Sky Sports 1HD and
3D. Liverpool will be looking for their first Premier League win of the season. Meanwhile, United, who did not convince when defeating Galatasaray in the UEFA Champions League, have not won at Anfield in five attempts in all competitions and will hope to address that statistic if they have the opportunity to close the current two-point gap on table-topping Chelsea.
Strength in depth
Manchester City, who suffered a painful, late defeat at Real Madrid on Tuesday in the Champions League, welcome
Arsenal to the Etihad Stadium later on Sunday afternoon in what is always an engrossing encounter and is also live on
Sky Sports. Given the amount of former Gunners players in the City squad, there is a keen rivalry between the two clubs and there have been four red cards in their last four Premier League games. Arsene Wenger's Arsenal, who won at Montpellier in Europe and last weekend hammered Southampton, currently sit above City on goal difference in the table in what is already a familiar looking top four.
Tottenham picked up their first league win of the season when defeating Reading last weekend and Andre Villas-Boas will want to build on that against London derby rivals
Queens Park Rangers at White Hart Lane. Mark Hughes' side have themselves yet to record three points in 2012/13 and they sit in the relegation zone. They have also been rocked by the news Andrew Johnson has been ruled out for the majority of the season with a knee ligament injury. But there were signs of promise last weekend when becoming the first club to take points from Chelsea in the current campaign, so Hughes will hope to address terrible away form which has taken just three points from the last available 45. Tottenham could be slightly weary after their Europa League outing against Lazio.
Newcastle made their much anticipated return to European football on Thursday when taking on Maritimo in the Europa League and they come back to domestic duties against
Norwich. It has been a busy week for Alan Pardew's squad, having also played on Monday in the thrilling 2-2 draw at Everton, and it remains to be seen if they have the necessary strength in depth. They can rely on strong home league form after
