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Today's Liverpool vs Man City live stream sees the visitors attempting to stop the rot at the home of the league leaders — and you can watch it from anywhere with a VPN . Liverpool couldn't have picked a better time to play their close rivals. Arne Slot's side have lost just once in the Premier League so far this season and sit comfortably at the top of the table. They survived a scare against Southampton last time out, coming back from 2-1 down to win 3-2, and will have boosted confidence even further by comfortably beating Real Madrid on Wednesday night to maintain their 100% record in the Champions League . Man City, meanwhile, haven't won in six, although they managed to end a five-match unbeaten run with a draw against Feyenoord in midweek. That doesn't quite tell the full story, though, because Pep Guardiola's side threw away a 3-0 lead in the last 15 minutes to share the points instead. Will this tie against the league leaders bring the best back out of them? Tune in to find out who comes out on top. Read on to make sure you don’t miss any of the EPL action with our how to watch Premier League live streams guide. Is Liverpool vs Man City free to watch? Yes – in Azerbaijan. State TV channel Idman TV provides free (geo-restricted) streams of a handful of Premier League games – including Liverpool vs Man City. No password/sign up. Traveling? Use NordVPN (save 70%) to unblock your usual Azerbaijani streaming service when traveling outside of Azerbaijan. Watch Liverpool vs Man City from anywhere Away from home at the moment and blocked from watching the soccer on your usual subscription? You can still watch Liverpool vs Man City live thanks to the wonders of a VPN (Virtual Private Network). The software allows your devices to appear to be back in your home country regardless of where in the world you are, making it ideal for viewers away on vacation or on business. Our favorite is NordVPN . It's the best on the market — find out why we love it in our NordVPN review . Using a VPN is incredibly simple. 1. Install the VPN of your choice . As we've said, NordVPN is our favorite. 2. Choose the location you wish to connect to in the VPN app. For instance, if you're away from the U.S. and want to view your usual American service, you'd select U.S. from the list. 3. Sit back and enjoy the action. Head to a service listed below that's showing Liverpool vs Man City and watch the game. Watch Liverpool vs Man City in the U.S. Viewers in the U.S. can watch an Liverpool vs Man City live stream on USA Network , which is available with most cable TV packages. For cord-cutters, one option is Sling TV . The Sling Blue package is priced from $40/month ($20 for your first month) and it comes with more than 40 channels including USA. Or you could go for Fubo . Its Pro Plan costs $79.99/month, but it gives you 150+ channels for that hefty investment, including USA Network, plus lots more for sports fans to enjoy. USA is also on YouTube TV , Hulu + Live TV and DirecTV Stream . If you're outside of the U.S. but have one of these subscriptions, you can watch an Liverpool vs Man City live stream by using a VPN such as NordVPN . Can you watch Liverpool vs Man City in the U.K.? Sky Sports is hosting the Liverpool vs Man City live stream in the U.K. at 4:30 p.m. in the afternoon local time. It will go out on the Sky Sports Main Event and Premier League channels. Sky Sports subscribers can also watch the football on mobile devices via the Sky Go app that's available for iOS, iPadOS and Android devices, along with Xbox and PlayStation consoles. If you want to sign up, you can check out Sky TV deals and packages for today's best prices. Or, if you don't fancy being locked into a contract, you could opt for a Now Sports membership with plans starting from £14.99/day. If you're not in the U.K., you can still follow your usual Liverpool vs Man City live stream by using one of the best VPN services, such as NordVPN . How to watch Liverpool vs Man City in Canada Canadians can watch the Liverpool vs Man City live stream on Fubo , the home of Premier League soccer in Canada. The Sports Monthly plan gets you all Premier League matches, as well as games in Ligue 1, Serie A and the Coppa Italia, plus 70 channels including beINSports and MLB Network. It costs $29.99/month. If you're willing to fork out a larger sum all at once, a Sports Quarterly plan costs CA$79.97, which means you'll pay CA$26.66 per month. However, for the best value you'll want a Sports Annual plan which costs CA$279.99 (that's CA$23.33 per month). The Quarterly and Annual plans also allow you to watch the Premier League in 4K. Canadians stuck abroad who still want their usual service can use a VPN such as NordVPN to make their streaming device believe it's back home in Canada. Watch Liverpool vs Man City in Australia Aussies can watch the Liverpool vs Man City game on Optus Sport , which has the rights to all 380 Premier League games this season. Optus can be accessed via a dedicated mobile or tablet app, and also on Chromecast and Apple TV, costing $24.99/month. An Annual Plan is also available for $229. Not in Australia right now? You can simply use a VPN like NordVPN to watch all the action on your Optus account as if you were back home. Watch Liverpool vs Man City in New Zealand Kiwis can access a Liverpool vs Man City live stream via the Sky Sport Now streaming service, which gives you just the Sport channels but for a reduced cost of $29.99/week, $49.99/month or $499.99/year. You can also watch the game on Sky Sport 4. Kick-off is at 4 a.m. NZDT in the early hours of Sunday morning. 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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Honey, they shrunk the catalogs. While retailers hope to go big this holiday season , customers may notice that the printed gift guides arriving in their mailboxes are smaller. Many of the millions of catalogs getting sent to U.S. homes were indeed scaled down to save on postage and paper, resulting in pint-sized editions. Lands’ End, Duluth Trading Company and Hammacher Schlemmer are among gift purveyors using smaller editions. Some retailers are saving even more money with postcards. Lisa Ayoob, a tech-savvy, online shopper in Portland, Maine, was surprised by the size of a recent catalog she received from outdoor apparel company Carbon2Cobalt. “It almost felt like it was a pamphlet compared to a catalog,” she said. Catalogs have undergone a steady recalibration over the years in response to technological changes and consumer behavior. The thick, heavy Sears and J.C. Penney catalogs that brought store displays to American living rooms slimmed down and gave way to targeted mailings once websites could do the same thing. Recent postal rate increases accelerated the latest shift to compact formats. The number of catalogs mailed each year dropped about 40% between 2006 to 2018, when an estimated 11.5 billion were mailed to homes, according to the trade group formerly known as the American Catalog Mailers Association. In a sign of the times, the group based in Washington rebranded itself in May as the American Commerce Marketing Association, reflecting a broadened focus. But don't expect catalogs to go the way of dinosaurs yet. Defying predictions of doom, they have managed to remain relevant in the e-commerce era. Retail companies found that could treat catalogs with fewer pages as a marketing tool and include QR and promo codes to entice customers to browse online and complete a purchase. Despite no longer carrying an extended inventory of goods, catalogs are costly to produce and ship. But they hold their own in value because of growing digital advertising costs, helping retailers cut through the noise for consumers barraged by multi-format advertisements, industry officials say. In an unlikely twist, notable e-commerce companies like Amazon and home goods supplier Wayfair started distributing catalogs in recent years. Amazon began mailing a toy catalog in 2018. That was the same year Sears, which produced an annual Christmas Wish Book Wish starting in 1933, filed for bankruptc y. Fans of printed information may rejoice to hear that apparel retailer J.Crew relaunched its glossy catalog this year. Research shows that the hands-on experience of thumbing through a catalog leaves a greater impression on consumers, said Jonathan Zhang, a professor of marketing at Colorado State University. “The reason why these paper formats are so effective is that our human brains haven’t evolved as fast as technology and computers over the past 10 to 20 years. We retain more information when we read something on paper. That's why paper books remain relevant," Zhang said. “The psychology shows that three-dimensional, tactile experiences are more memorable.” Pint-sized presentations still can work, though, because the purpose of catalogs these days is simply to get customers’ attention, Zhang said. Conserving paper also works better with younger consumers who are worried about the holiday shopping season's impact on the planet, he said. Postal increases are hastening changes. The latest round of postage hikes in July included the category with the 8.5-by-11-inch size that used to be ubiquitous for the catalog industry. Many retailers responded by reducing the size of catalogs, putting them in a lower-cost letter category, said Paul Miller, executive vice president and managing director of the American Commerce Marketing Association. One size, called a “slim jim,” measures 10.5 by 5.5 inches. But there other sizes. Some retailers have further reduced costs by mailing large postcards to consumers. Lands' End, for one, is testing new compact formats to supplement its traditional catalogs. This year, that included folded glossy brochures and postcards, along with other formats, Chief Transformation Officer Angie Rieger said. Maine resident Ayoob said she understands why retailers still use catalogs even though she no longer is a fan of the format. These days, she prefers to browse for products on the internet, not by flipping through paper pages. “Everybody wants eyeballs. There’s so much out there -- so many websites, so many brands,” said Ayoob, who spent 35 years working in department stores and in the wholesale industry. Targeting customers at home is not a new concept. L.L. Bean was a pioneer of the mail-order catalog after its founder promoted his famous “Maine Hunting Shoe” to hunting license holders from out-of-state in 1912. The outdoor clothing and equipment company based in Freeport, Maine, is sticking to mailing out regular-sized catalogs for now. “By showcasing our icons, the catalog became an icon itself,” L.L. Bean spokesperson Amanda Hannah said. "Even as we invest more in our digital and brand marketing channels, the catalog retains a strong association with our brand, and is therefore an important part of our omni-channel strategy, especially for our loyal customers.”Dec. 29—When Penguins coach Mike Sullivan decided to break up his stars into two separate power-play units on Nov. 7, he wasn't certain how long he would stick with that. "I just felt at the time that we were stale and from a process standpoint we weren't where we needed to be. ... I wasn't sure how that was going to go," he admitted Sunday evening. "You never really know until it actually plays out in front of you." Considering those changes are still intact today, yeah, it's safe to say it went OK. The power play came up big again in Sunday's 3-2 win over New York at PPG Paints Arena, helping the Penguins split their weekend back-to-back versus the Islanders. They went 2 for 2 on Sunday, getting their final two goals on the power play. It was the fifth time they scored two or more goals on the power play since Thanksgiving. The Penguins have capitalized on 19 of their 68 power plays — with no shorthanded goals against — since Sullivan split up Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin last month. "[One thing that] it has done has created an opportunity for us to have two pretty good power-play units," Sullivan said. "And on any given night, one of them could be better than the other one, because we've got some talented people on both." It's been Crosby's quintet more often, but both units got one against the Islanders. On the first, scored by Michael Bunting, the Penguins did a few of the things that have keyed their success. They had a clean entry into the zone — one area that the coaching staff has really harped on. Bunting won a puck battle to help them reestablish possession. Then the Penguins went right to work with a straight-ahead mindset. When the puck came to Crosby below the goal line, he didn't reset up high. Instead, he hit Bunting in the slot with a no-look pass, and he beat goalie Marcus Hogberg. "In my experience of being around our star players, that is when they are at their very best, because it's not any set plays," Sullivan said. "It's just them playing instinctive hockey." Malkin got credit for a power-play goal in the third period that made it a 3-0 game. That ended up being the winning goal, the power play making the difference again. "Right now it's working extremely well for us, and we'd be foolish to tinker with it," Sullivan said of that unit, which has seven goals over the team's last four games. O'Connor fights back The last time that Drew O'Connor got a goal in an NHL game, the Penguins had just sent down Rutger McGroarty, Tristan Jarry hadn't yet gone on his conditioning stint to the American Hockey League and Lars Eller was still a member of the Penguins. That's how long his drought has lasted. It's 32 games now dating back to Oct. 18. The way Friday's 6-3 loss on Long Island went, it was fair to wonder if Sullivan would make O'Connor a healthy scratch on Sunday and give the winger a chance to reset. But Sullivan kept him in the lineup and he responded with an inspired performance. "I thought this was the best game that he has played in two months," Sullivan said. O'Connor got inside offensively — something he hasn't done much of lately — and unloaded two shots from the slot in the first period. He hustled to win back pucks at 5-on-5 and on the power play. Sullivan felt his speed as noticeable, especially in the puck pursuit. And O'Connor rushed to defend Cody Glass in the second period. All and all, this effort was more like what the Penguins are used to seeing from the 26-year-old, who did everything but put the puck in the net against the Islanders. "If he plays the game like that, night in and night out, he's gonna score," Sullivan said. Bunting brings it (again) After an uncharacteristically quiet first month of the season for a premier pest with a little scoring touch, Bunting is back to making his presence felt on most nights. "He gave us a lot of momentum. I hated playing against him throughout the years," Glass said. "He went through a little bit of a rough patch at the beginning of the year. But once he got back to his game — he was getting in opponents' faces and getting back to the net front — he started producing more. He's getting rewarded for it." That was the case Sunday. He had a hand in each of the Penguins' first two goals. Bunting drove the net to set up Anthony Beauvillier off the rush 3:54 into the game. He later pushed the lead to 2-0 when he cashed in Crosby's pass on the power play. He has buried four goals in the last three games and has seven goals and 14 points in the last 13 to provide Pittsburgh with needed scoring from beyond its first line. So, yeah, Bunting is having a blast right now helping the Penguins keep on rolling. "I'm having fun. We're winning, too. Everyone is playing well and I find that when the team is having success, individuals are having success, as well," he said. "And it's going around this whole room and you can see that. We want to keep this going." Penguins hold on late Islanders coach Patrick Roy, somewhat ironically, was one of the NHL's pioneers at pulling the goalie earlier than usual for an extra attacker. He did that Sunday before Anders Lee beat Alex Nedeljkovic with 7:01 left. Bo Horvat added another 3:11 later with the New York net empty again. The Penguins held on at the end to take the rematch. Despite a few anxious moments late in the game, it was a much better performance than what the Penguins had put on the ice one night earlier, according to Sullivan. Added Glass: "We played our game. Obviously, they had a couple of 6-on-5 goals, which sucked. And we gave them momentum on their power play. But I felt like we did a really good job of answering back 5-on-5, and our power played stepped up." Ice chips —Crosby officially surpassed Mario Lemieux for the most assists in Penguins history when he set up Bunting in the second period. That was his 1,034th NHL assist. The lively crowd at PPG Paints Arena gave him a loud ovation when it was announced. From one legend to another. pic.twitter.com/hLTmRvPipk — Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) December 30, 2024 —Kris Letang suffered a lower-body injury on Saturday and sat out Sunday's win. —With Letang out, Nathan Clurman made his NHL debut Sunday. He skated on the third pair. He was the fourth Penguins player to make his NHL debut this season. —Nedeljkovic was sharp even though this was just his third start in the month of December. He finished with 29 saves. He was at his best when the Islanders were on the power play late in the second period, making six of his saves at that moment. —Marcus Pettersson sat out another game with a lower-body injury, making it six in a row. However, there is a chance the blue-liner could return in the coming days. Coming up The Penguins will not practice Monday after the weekend back-to-back. They next will travel to Detroit, and ring in the New Year against the Red Wings on Tuesday. (c)2024 the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Visit the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at www.post-gazette.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
