Overview.
Liverpool opened their Champions League (CL) group stage by losing 2-0 at Napoli, but are still heavy favourites at fortress Anfield: they won five of their six CL home matches last season (D1), and are unbeaten in 22 European home games. Additionally, they’ve kept a clean sheet in five straight CL home fixtures.
The ‘Reds’ have won nine of 11 competitive matches this season (one after penalties), and have scored in every game bar that Napoli defeat, netting an average of 2.0 goals on average per game (extra-time excluded). Somewhat curiously, one of last season’s tightest defences has conceded in eight of those 11 matches so far.
Enter Salzburg, who might be just the team to exploit that – the Austrians have scored a whopping 45 goals across their last ten competitive matches (4.5 on average, extra-time excluded) including six on CL matchday one – their first group stage fixture for 25 years! The visitors opened their season with eight straight domestic wins and have won 11 of 12 competitive matches so far (one after extra-time). In fact they’ve scored at least two goals in nine of the 12 first halves they’ve played this season.
Match Info and Score Prediction.
Competition: EUROPE Champions League Kick off: 02.10.2019, 19:00 UTC. Venue: Anfield (Liverpool). |
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