Liverpool vs Bournemouth prediction: ENGLAND: Premier League betting tips on match 2024-09-20 14:00.
[p]Arne Slot’s 100% winning start at Liverpool ground to an abrupt halt in their last Premier League outing – a shock 1-0 defeat at home to Nottingham Forest. Liverpool didn’t have time to lick their wounds as they again found themselves 1-0 down within three minutes against AC Milan in midweek UEFA Champions League action, but this time showed their powers of recovery to run out 3-1 victors.[/p]
[p]The Reds will now make a swift return to Anfield looking to right last week’s wrongs, or they risk losing back-to-back Premier League games for the first time since that forgettable run of six home league defeats between January and March 2021 under Jürgen Klopp. With that in mind they’ll happily welcome Bournemouth to Merseyside, a team they’ve handsomely beaten in ten of their last 11 H2Hs (L1), with those ten wins coming by an aggregate score of 37-3![/p]
[p]To compound the visitors’ fears, they’re making the trip north in awful form having won just one of their last eight matches (D2, L5) following their 1-0 loss to Chelsea last time out. A piece of Premier League history was made in that game, albeit for the wrong reasons, with the 14 yellow cards brandished being the most seen in a match in the competition’s history! [/p]
[p]Andoni Iraola’s men will take encouragement in their sole victory recently coming on Merseyside, also in record breaking fashion, where they beat Everton 3-2 despite still trailing 2-0 until the 87th minute, making it the latest a team has trailed by 2+ goals in the Premier League and still managed to win. The Cherries will know that heading to Anfield poses a significant step up in opposition, which will be worrying considering they’ve lost 25 of their last 29 Premier League away games against sides starting the day in the top-four (W2, D2).[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Bournemouth could become the fourth different club that Mohamed Salah has scored ten Premier League goals against, with the Egyptian currently on nine in as many H2Hs – none of the four of those that arrived at home served to open the scoring. The visitors could look to emulate Forest’s tactics and keep it tight before striking late, in which case Antoine Semenyo could be their man since four of his last six goals have come after the 80th minute. [/p]
[p]Hot stat: The first half has been higher scoring half in six of the last eight H2Hs.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Peter Stavrinou[/i][/p]