PREMIER LEAGUE FRIDAY: We preview Friday’s Premier League fixture between SOUTHAMPTON v LIVERPOOL with a recommended BETDAQ bet and extended match stats.
SOUTHAMPTON V LIVERPOOL
8pm We have Friday Night Football to enjoy tonight as Southampton host Liverpool. The title race this season between Liverpool and Manchester City has been excellent viewing and it’s bound to go all the way to the final day. Liverpool simply have to keep winning and hope that City slip up somewhere. City are definitely playing the better football at the moment, but that late goal at Anfield to beat Spurs at the weekend would have given the whole club huge belief that this is their year.
The match odds at the time of writing currently trade; Southampton 8.8, Liverpool 1.46 and the draw is 4.9. Southampton come into this fixture in good form and they are battling very hard to stay in the Premier League. They have a bit of a cushion over Cardiff after their recent results now, but after beating Spurs 2-1 in their last home game – Liverpool can’t afford to take this one lightly.
Aside from drawing 0-0 with Manchester United and Everton away from home recently; Liverpool’s games have been jam packed with goals. The 1.46 on them to win in 90 minutes looks a little on the short side and we feel that over 2.5 goals offers more value at 1.76. Southampton have been scoring recently and that has obviously given them some good result – they struggled in this area at the start of the season but they have improved and we can see plenty of action in this one.
We fully expect Liverpool to win and go back to the top of the Premier League, however we can see Southampton scoring at some stage too – over 2.5 goals looks the best value here at 1.76.
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MATCH STATS
- Southampton are winless in their last five Premier League meetings with Liverpool (D2 L3), failing to score each time.
- Liverpool have won their last three Premier League games against Southampton – they’ve never won four in a row against Saints in their league history.
- Southampton have won five of their 10 Premier League games against Liverpool at St Mary’s – they’ve only beaten Everton more often at the ground in the competition (6).
- This will be Southampton’s first top-flight home game on a Friday since December 1991 (1-1 vs Notts County) with all five of their such games in the Premier League coming away from home (W1 D2 L2).
- Liverpool have won five of their last six Premier League games on a Friday (D1) since a 2-4 loss at Arsenal in April 2004.
- Southampton are looking to win three consecutive Premier League games for the first time since May 2016 (a run of four).
- Liverpool have conceded just nine goals in 16 away league games this season, the joint-fewest along with Man City. In fact, they’ve shipped more than once on one occasion on the road this season, in what was their only league defeat so far in 2018-19 (1-2 vs Man City).
- Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has scored in all three of his Premier League appearances against Southampton, netting four goals in total.
- Mohamed Salah hasn’t scored in any of his last eight appearances in all competitions for Liverpool – his longest run without a goal since a run of 10 games with Roma between November 2015 and January 2016.
- Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp won the only previous meeting between him and Southampton’s Ralph Hasenhüttl, with Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund beating VfR Aalen 4-1 in a German Cup match in October 2012.
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