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Liverpool and Southampton face off in Anfield, Liverpool, in play for the second round of the English League Cup semi-finals. In the first round of this tie, Southampton beat Liverpool 0-1.
The history of the last 15 games between the two teams favors slightly, the Southampton team: in this number of games, the visiting team has won 7 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses.
Liverpool
Liverpool come to this game with a 2-1 defeat at home to Swansea by 2-3, putting an end to the two straight games without losing: Roberto Firmino scored both goals. To reach this stage of the competition, Liverpool eliminated the Burton, Derby County, Tottenham and Leeds United teams.
For the past 10 games, Liverpool have scored 1.5 goals and conceded an average of 0.8 goals per game. It is worth mentioning that 60% of these games finished with less than two goals in the final score.
The best moment of the Liverpool team, is between the 46 ‘to 60’, when they scored 7 goals and suffered only 3 goals. In the 6 games in which he opened the scoring, in 4 of these games he won in the late 90 ‘. For this game coach Jürgen Klopp can not count on injured Matip, Danny Ings and Grujic, in addition to CANio player Sadio Mané.
Southampton
The Southampton team comes to this game with a 3-0 win at home to Leicester, winning their second consecutive win in several competitions: the team goals were scored by Ward-Prowse, Rodriguez and Tadic. In the previous qualifiers of the League Cup, Southampton have beaten Crystal Palace, Sunderland and Arsenal.
Analyzing the last 10 games it is possible to verify that the visitors scored on average 1.2 goals and suffered on average 1.3 goals per game, showing some weaknesses in both sectors. It is worth mentioning that 60% of these games finished with more than 2.5 goals in the final scoreboard.
In addition, the players of Claude Puel opened the scoring in 6 of the 10 previous games, and in 3 of these games managed to leave winners in the late 90 ‘. It will be noted that the period in which Southampton suffers the most goals, is between 76 ‘to 90’: 7 goals conceded in total. It seems that the visiting coach can not count on Davis, Targett, Austin, McCarthy, Pied and Boufal, players who recover from injury.
Prediction: over 2.5 goals @ 1.70