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Liverpool and Stoke meet at Anfield in a match of the 18th round of the Barclays Premier League. At this stage, the history of direct confrontations is favorable to the home team, which has 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in the last 7 games. Indeed, the last time they met at this stadium was on 10-04-2016, in a game for the Barclays Premier League that ended with Liverpool’s win by (4-1). The goals of the match were scored by Alberto Moreno (8 ‘), D. Sturridge (32’) and D. Origi (65 ‘) for Liverpool and Bojan (22’) for Stoke.
Liverpool
The home team are currently in 2nd place with 37 points, after 11 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses. In the penultimate match, he won away to Middlesbrough by (0-3). In the last match, he won away to Everton by (0-1). In the last 7 home games for the league, Liverpool have recorded 5 wins and 2 draws, having won 17 points out of 21.
In this competition, you have not lost any of the last 7 games in your stadium. His attack has scored regularly as he has scored goals in 8 of the last 10 games in this competition.
Liverpool come to this game very motivated, due to victory in the field of the great rival Everton, by 0-1, in game that Sadio Mané scored the only goal of the team. In this home team, coach Jürgen Klopp is expected to keep the score in 4-3-3 when he manages to attack the ball. Right-back Sadio Mané, the goal scorer in the final game, is Liverpool’s best finisher with 8 goals scored. For this match the German coach can not count on Danny Ings, Origi, Grujic, Coutinho and Joel Matip, all injured.
Stoke
After 5 wins, 6 draws and 6 losses, the visiting team is in 11th place, having won 21 points. In the last match, they drew 1-1 with Leicester City at home (2-2), after their previous match drew at home in a game against Southampton (0-0). In the league, Stoke had 9 points out of 24, after 2 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses in their last eight away games. In the games played as a visitor there are some more frequent results: at the end of the first 45 ‘0-0 (3 in 9 games) and at the end of the game 1-1 (3 in 9 games). His attack has scored regularly, as he has scored goals in 8 of the last 10 games for this competition. In their away games there is a tendency towards few goals, since 6 of their last 8 games by the competition finished with Less than 2.5 goals. In 17 games in this competition, he suffered the first goal 8 times and never managed to turn the score. In the last 10 away games for all competitions there has been 1 period that stands out: suffered 5 of his 11 goals between minutes (61’-75 ‘).
Stoke City come to this game with a 2-2 draw at home to Leicester, adding to their third consecutive game without a win in this league: goals were scored by Bojan and Allen. In this away game coach Mark Hughes must line up an eleven very similar to the last game, namely the 4-2-3-1 with Walters being largely responsible for plaguing the defensive line of the home team. It is important to note that Joe Allen is the great highlight of Stoke City with 5 goals scored. For this game the coach does not have Arnautović, suspended, as well as Cameron, Ireland, Butland and Bardsley, players who are injured.
Prediction: Liverpool Win @ 1.33