📊 Form Guide

Liverpool

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Liverpool, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 0-1 Champions League triumph vs Paris Saint-Germain.

In that game, Liverpool managed 29% possession and 2 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. The scorer for Liverpool was Harvey Elliott (87'). On the other side, Paris Saint-Germain had 27 shots at goal with 10 on target.

In their prior 6 games, Arne Slot's Liverpool have celebrated scoring a total of 10 times - an average number of goals per match equal to 1.67.

Leading up to this clash, Liverpool:

• are unbeaten in the league by Southampton in their last 6 matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 11 league matches at home. A run that they'll hope to extend here.

Southampton

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Chelsea in Premier League competition, Southampton will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Southampton had 40% possession and 7 shots at goal with 2 on target. Chelsea had 19 attempts at goal with 10 on target. Christopher Nkunku (24'), Pedro Neto (36'), Levi Colwill (44') and Marc Cucurella (78') scored for Chelsea.

In a total of 5 of the previous 6 clashes involving Southampton, three or more goals have been hit. The overall average number of goals per game in that spell is 3.33, with the number of goals averaged by Southampton working out to 0.67. We shall soon see if that trend will be continued on here.

Coming into this meeting, Southampton haven't beaten Liverpool when having played them away from home in the previous 9 league games. A really bad run.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A study of past results between these clubs stretching back to 17/05/2022 reveals that these encounters have been a source of anguish for Southampton. They have not managed to get themselves any wins whatsoever whereas Liverpool have been too good for them, winning in 83 per cent of those matches played.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 26 overall which averages out at 4.33 goals per match.

🗞️ Team News: Liverpool

Tyler Morton (Shoulder injury), Conor Bradley (Muscle injury) and Joe Gomez (Hamstring injury) are unavailable for Liverpool gaffer Arne Slot.

It seems likely that The Reds could use a 4-2-3-1 formation this time, utilising Alisson Becker, T. Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk, K. Tsimikas, Wataru Endo, Curtis Jones, Mohamed Salah, Harvey Elliott, Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez.

📰 Team News: Southampton

Southampton boss Ivan Jurić has to choose a team with limited availability. Juan Larios (Fitness), Ross Stewart (Fitness) and Ryan Fraser (Calf injury) can’t be considered.

There’s a good chance that The Saints appear most likely to play in a 4-4-2 formation, settling for Aaron Ramsdale, T. Harwood-Bellis, Armel Bella-Kotchap, Jack Stephens, Yukinari Sugawara, Lesley Ugochukwu, Joe Aribo, Kyle Walker-Peters, Mateus Fernandes, Kamaldeen Sulemana and Paul Onuachu.

💭 Prediction

We believe that Liverpool will probably get a lot of shots on goal and make them count.

At the same time, Southampton might well find it a difficult task to score a goal of their own - but, we do see them hitting back at some stage here, too.

We can therefore see a pretty comfortable 3-1 winning score for Liverpool at the end of the 90 minutes.

Victor Martins, 14:03 08/03/2025