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Liverpool vs Brentford

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Anfield

Date: 16th January 2022

Kick-off time – 14:00 GMT

Liverpool will welcome Brentford to Anfield this Sunday for the 22nd round of the 2021/22 Premier League season.

The Reds come into this tie on the back of a disappointing Carabao Cup game against Arsenal in midweek. Despite dominating the game from start to finish and playing with a man advantage for over 70 minutes following an early red card to Granit Xhaka for a reckless foul on Diogo Jota, Liverpool could only draw the game. That result leaves their chances of progressing to the Carabao Cup final hanging in the balance ahead of the return leg at the Emirates.

That game also offered Jürgen Klopp who is  missing his key attacking players Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah (both away with their national teams at the ongoing AFCON) a sense of what his team will be without the duo.

Nevertheless, the German will fancy his side’s chances of picking up maximum points against Brentford and end their three game winless run in the league.

With Manchester City not looking like they will drop points, the Merseyside outfit cannot afford to drop points and will have to be on their best to win against this side, especially judging by the trouble the Bees gave them the last time both teams met.

Thomas Frank’s side played out an entertaining 3-3 draw with Klopp’s men in the reverse fixture, with Ivan Tooney in particular troubling the hosts.

That game at the Brentford Community Stadium showed the rest of the league what this Brentford side is about and proved that on their day they can hurt any side.

However, the visitors come into this tie on the back of a disappointing loss to Southampton in midweek. Frank’s men were beaten 4-1 by Ralph Hassenhuttle’s side last Tuesday thanks to goals from Jann Bednarek, Alvaro Fernandez (own goal) Armado Broja and Che Adams, with Vitaly Janelt scoring what was a consolation goal for Brentford.

That loss was the Bee’s ninth loss of the season and pushed them down to 13th place with 23 points. Although they are in no danger of relegation at the moment as they are currently 12 points clear of the relegation zone, they will still be aware that things can change easily in the PL and they will want to win this game to push themselves up the table.

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

November 23, 2024
Leicester City 13:30 Chelsea
AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Brighton & Hov…
Arsenal 16:00 Nottingham Forest
Aston Villa 16:00 Crystal Palace
Everton 16:00 Brentford
Fulham 16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Manchester City 18:30 Tottenham Hotspur
November 24, 2024
Southampton 15:00 Liverpool
Ipswich Town 17:30 Manchester United
November 25, 2024
Newcastle United 21:00 West Ham United
November 29, 2024
Brighton & Hov… 21:00 Southampton
November 30, 2024
Brentford 16:00 Leicester City
Crystal Palace 16:00 Newcastle United
Nottingham Forest 16:00 Ipswich Town
Wolverhampton Wanderers 16:00 AFC Bournemouth
West Ham United 18:30 Arsenal
December 1, 2024
Chelsea 14:30 Aston Villa
Manchester United 14:30 Everton
Tottenham Hotspur 14:30 Fulham
Liverpool 17:00 Manchester City

Premier League Table

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

Latest Premier League Results

November 10, 2024
Chelsea 1 - 1 Arsenal
Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 2 Ipswich Town
Nottingham Forest 1 - 3 Newcastle United
Manchester United 3 - 0 Leicester City
November 9, 2024
Liverpool 2 - 0 Aston Villa
Brighton & Hov… 2 - 1 Manchester City
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 - 0 Southampton
West Ham United 0 - 0 Everton
Crystal Palace 0 - 2 Fulham
Brentford 3 - 2 AFC Bournemouth
November 4, 2024
Fulham 2 - 1 Brentford
November 3, 2024
Manchester United 1 - 1 Chelsea
Tottenham Hotspur 4 - 1 Aston Villa
November 2, 2024
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 - 2 Crystal Palace
Southampton 1 - 0 Everton
Nottingham Forest 3 - 0 West Ham United
Liverpool 2 - 1 Brighton & Hov…
Ipswich Town 1 - 1 Leicester City
AFC Bournemouth 2 - 1 Manchester City
Newcastle United 1 - 0 Arsenal

 

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