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Liverpool vs Chelsea

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Anfield

Date: 21st January 2023

Kick-off time – 12:30 GMT

Chelsea will travel to Anfield this Saturday looking to make it back-to-back league wins against a struggling Liverpool side.

Liverpool have been in miserable form, losing six of their opening 18 league games this season. Their last league outing was a 3-0 loss to Brighton that had Jurgen Klopp apologising to the away fans at the end of the game.

This is arguably the worst state the club has been in since Klopp took over, and the German has been vocal about his attempts to solve the issues, particularly in defence where the Reds have kept just two clean sheets in their last ten competitive games.

Liverpool did win in their last outing, a 1-0 win over Wolves to keep the supporters on their side for one more game. However, they will have to keep that performance up in this game as they try to draw closer to the top-four sides who are eight points ahead.

Meanwhile, Chelsea will look to make it back-to-back wins when they visit Anfield on Saturday.

The visitors ended a woeful run of three straight losses with a narrow 1-0 win over Crystal Palace last time out.

That win was just their second from their last ten PL encounters (D3, L5) and took them level on points with Liverpool having played a game more.

That result also saw them record their second clean sheet in their last 13 competitive matches, following a run of five straight in October.

They will now hope to scale another height, which is winning an away game with their current five-game PL away winless streak (D2, L3), their longest since a run of seven in 2015/16.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Premier League Fixtures:

December 7, 2024
Everton 01:00 Liverpool
December 26, 2024
Manchester City 13:30 Everton
AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Crystal Palace
Southampton 16:00 West Ham United
Chelsea 16:00 Fulham
Nottingham Forest 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Newcastle United 16:00 Aston Villa
Wolverhampton Wanderers 18:30 Manchester United
Liverpool 21:00 Leicester City
December 27, 2024
Brighton & Hov… 20:30 Brentford
Arsenal 21:15 Ipswich Town
December 29, 2024
Leicester City 15:30 Manchester City
Tottenham Hotspur 16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Fulham 16:00 AFC Bournemouth
Crystal Palace 16:00 Southampton
Everton 16:00 Nottingham Forest
West Ham United 18:15 Liverpool
December 30, 2024
Aston Villa 20:45 Brighton & Hov…
Ipswich Town 20:45 Chelsea
Manchester United 21:00 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 16 12 3 1 37 16 +21 39
2 Chelsea 17 10 5 2 37 19 +18 35
3 Arsenal 17 9 6 2 34 16 +18 33
4 Nottingham Forest 17 9 4 4 23 19 +4 31
5 AFC Bournemouth 17 8 4 5 27 21 +6 28
6 Aston Villa 17 8 4 5 26 26 +0 28
7 Manchester City 17 8 3 6 29 25 +4 27
8 Newcastle United 17 7 5 5 27 21 +6 26
9 Fulham 17 6 7 4 24 22 +2 25
10 Brighton & Hov… 17 6 7 4 27 26 +1 25
11 Tottenham Hotspur 17 7 2 8 39 25 +14 23
12 Brentford 17 7 2 8 32 32 +0 23
13 Manchester United 17 6 4 7 21 22 -1 22
14 West Ham United 17 5 5 7 22 30 -8 20
15 Everton 16 3 7 6 14 21 -7 16
16 Crystal Palace 17 3 7 7 18 26 -8 16
17 Leicester City 17 3 5 9 21 37 -16 14
18 Wolverhampton Wanderers 17 3 3 11 27 40 -13 12
19 Ipswich Town 17 2 6 9 16 32 -16 12
20 Southampton 17 1 3 13 11 36 -25 6

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