Liverpool-Leeds is a match valid for the fourteenth day of the Premier League and is played on Saturday at 20:45: predictions, TV, streaming
A wide victory over Ajax, who were beaten 3-0 at home on the penultimate day of the Champions League group stage, has enabled Liverpool to secure arithmetic qualification for the round of 16 of the continent’s top competition. The Reds will play out their remaining chances of first place next Tuesday in the Anfield Road clash with Luciano Spalletti’s Napoli, but to overtake the Azzurri they cannot simply win. They will have to do so with more than three goals to spare, as in the first leg the Neapolitans did the trick, winning 4-1 in front of an ecstatic crowd. The success in Amsterdam, however, was balm for a team that continues to be unconvincing.
In the Premier League, after the two victories against Manchester City and West Ham – achieved with minimal effort – it seemed that the chase towards the top positions had begun. And instead, another knockout has arrived, the third in this championship, which has something sensational about it. Yes, because Liverpool fell at home to Nottingham Forest, newly-promoted and bottom of the league. A defeat that complicates the comeback plans of Jurgen Klopp and his men, who are now eighth, -12 from the top momentarily occupied by Arsenal. The German coach is confident of turning the page immediately at Anfield, where he has never lost, winning six of his last seven matches and keeping his goal unbeaten for 270 minutes. Salah and his team-mates will face another team in deep crisis, Leeds.
The Whites are coming off four defeats in a row: last Saturday they were beaten 3-2 by Fulham and have slipped back into the relegation zone. Jesse Marsch’s bench is increasingly shaky as the Elland Road crowd against the Cottagers chanted for predecessor Marcelo Bielsa, never really forgotten in these parts.
Jesse Marsch
The Prediction
Liverpool are likely to get a wide win against a Leeds side who just can’t seem to turn things around. The Reds should score between two and four goals
Liverpool-Leeds line-up probables
- LIVERPOOL (4-4-2): Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, van Dijk, Robertson; Salah, Fabinho, Thiago Alcantara, Elliott; Firmino, Darwin Nunez.
- LEEDS (4-2-3-1): Meslier; Kristensen, Koch, Llorente, Struijk; Adams, Roca; Harrison, Aaronson, Sinisterra; Bamford.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 3-0
