AFC Bournemouth vs Liverpool Preview

AFC Bournemouth vs Liverpool

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Vitality Stadium

Date: 1st February 2025

Kick-off time – 15:00 GMT

Premier League’s most in-form duo, Bournemouth and Liverpool will face off this Saturday at the Vitality Stadium for the 24th Round of the 2024/25 Premier League season.

The Cherries have enjoyed a surge up the Premier League table thanks to a run of eleven games without defeat (W7, D4). The most recent of those came in a 5-0 win over Nottingham Forest which lifted them into the top seven ahead of the weekend.

As a result,  the dreams of a first-ever European qualification are beginning to spread around the Vitality Stadium. The home crowd will be in full voice once again, having seen their side lose just twice at home all season (W7, D3), with two of those wins coming against the might of Arsenal and Manchester City.

However, the upcoming visit of Liverpool could well prove to be the ultimate test, considering Bournemouth have lost 11 of their 12 Premier League games against the team starting the day at the top of the table (W1). Also, Liverpool have been dominant in this encounter, winning eleven out of the 13 head-to-head meetings between both sides  (D1, L1), with that run including eight clean sheets and an aggregate scoreline of 42-6.

The Reds come into this tie on the back of a rare loss in the Champions League- their third loss in 35 games this campaign (W27, D5). With their top-two standing in the Champions League secured prior to that loss, Arne Slot was able to rotate many of his top stars who should be fresh for this tie, having last played in a 4-1 rout of Ipswich at Anfield last week which maintained their six-point lead at the summit.

While the Reds’ rearguard has been far from impenetrable of late, they still boast the division’s joint-best defensive record pre-round and kept a clean sheet in September’s reverse fixture (3-0).

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

February 19, 2025
Aston Villa 20:30 Liverpool
February 21, 2025
Leicester City 21:00 Brentford
February 22, 2025
Everton 13:30 Manchester United
AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arsenal 16:00 West Ham United
Fulham 16:00 Crystal Palace
Ipswich Town 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Southampton 16:00 Brighton & Hov…
Aston Villa 18:30 Chelsea
February 23, 2025
Newcastle United 15:00 Nottingham Forest
Manchester City 17:30 Liverpool
February 25, 2025
Brighton & Hov… 20:30 AFC Bournemouth
Crystal Palace 20:30 Aston Villa
Wolverhampton Wanderers 20:30 Fulham
Chelsea 21:15 Southampton
February 26, 2025
Manchester United 20:30 Ipswich Town
Tottenham Hotspur 20:30 Manchester City
Nottingham Forest 20:30 Arsenal
Brentford 20:30 Everton
Liverpool 21:15 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 25 18 6 1 60 24 +36 60
2 Arsenal 25 15 8 2 51 22 +29 53
3 Nottingham Forest 25 14 5 6 41 29 +12 47
4 Manchester City 25 13 5 7 52 35 +17 44
5 AFC Bournemouth 25 12 7 6 44 29 +15 43
6 Chelsea 25 12 7 6 47 34 +13 43
7 Newcastle United 25 12 5 8 42 33 +9 41
8 Fulham 25 10 9 6 38 33 +5 39
9 Aston Villa 25 10 8 7 35 38 -3 38
10 Brighton & Hov… 25 9 10 6 38 38 +0 37
11 Brentford 25 10 4 11 43 42 +1 34
12 Tottenham Hotspur 25 9 3 13 49 37 +12 30
13 Crystal Palace 25 7 9 9 29 32 -3 30
14 Everton 25 7 9 9 27 31 -4 30
15 Manchester United 25 8 5 12 28 35 -7 29
16 West Ham United 25 7 6 12 29 47 -18 27
17 Wolverhampton Wanderers 25 5 4 16 35 54 -19 19
18 Ipswich Town 25 3 8 14 23 50 -27 17
19 Leicester City 25 4 5 16 25 55 -30 17
20 Southampton 25 2 3 20 19 57 -38 9

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