Brighton vs Liverpool Betting Preview (EPL: Nov. 28)
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The reigning champion of the Premier League has dropped too many points this season, but Liverpool remains the top favorite for winning the title once again. According to their boss Jurgen Klopp, the Reds have “up to eight” serious title competitors. With such an open race, there’s no room for dropping points anymore; they need to win the Brighton vs Liverpool game.
Luckily for the Reds’ fans, their team is going be stronger than it was in the Leicester City at Liverpool game. The reason is that several of their key men will return after being sidelined due to health reasons.
- Date: Saturday, November 28, 2020
- Time: 9.30 PM (EDT)
- Place: Amex Stadium in Brighton, United Kingdom
- Competition: English Premier League
- TV: NBC Sports
- Streaming: Peacock, Amazon Prime
Liverpool’s Injury Crisis Is Over
Jurgen Klopp has been raging about the Premier League rules regarding substitutes. The league has reverted to only three subs per team in a game, after allowing up to five in the post-COVID-19 part of the 2019-20 season.
Other leagues have kept the five-subs rule, hopeful it would help reduce injury issues. That’s actually the main argument why Klopp has been urging the Premier League to change its rules. The thing is that Liverpool has had serious injury problems this season.
Last Sunday, in the game against the Foxes, they were without a number of their first-team players, including stars like:
- Mohamed Salah (COVID-19)
- Jordan Henderson (muscle injury)
- Andy Robertson (hamstring injury)
- Virgil Van Dijk (knee injury)
- Trent Alexander-Arnold (calf injury)
- Fabinho (thigh injury)
- Thiago Alcantara (knee injury)
- Joe Gomez (knee injury)
The good news is that some of these guys will be making their return ahead of the Brighton vs Liverpool game. Salah, Henderson, and Robertson are 99% certain to be ready for that game, which is certainly good news for the Reds.
Liverpool’s 100% Winning Score Against Brighton in the Premier League
Since Brighton got promoted to the Premier League in 2017, the Seagulls have lost every single game against Liverpool.
In fact, the last time the Reds didn’t win a Brighton vs Liverpool clash was back in 1991, when the two played 2:2 in the FA Cup. The most recent time when Brighton beat Liverpool was in 1984.
Can they do it this year? Very unlikely. Even though Brighton has never had such a strong team, they just don’t come anywhere near Liverpool, even with the Reds struggling with injuries.
To see what we’re talking about, take a look at the predicted XI for the Brighton vs Liverpool game.
As you can see, Liverpool’s lineup looks superior to the one of Brighton. Furthermore, knowing that Liverpool needs a win to keep in the Premier League title race, you can be sure all of these players will be super-motivated to win.
Brighton vs Liverpool Betting Prediction
Anything but a Liverpool win would be a big surprise. However, the odds on Liverpool aren’t that lucrative, with most sportsbook offering the odds somewhere in the ballpark of -222.
If you’d like to spice it up, why not go for some soccer prop bets in the Brighton vs Liverpool game? For example, you could bet that Mohamed Salah is going to score. He’s been out of the Liverpool squad since November 8, when he scored a penalty in his team’s draw with Manchester City.
Knowing that he’s scored 8 goals in 8 Premier League games this season, it’s obvious he’s very likely to get back in the scoring mode.
Apart from player betting, you may also want to consider betting on corners. Liverpool is likely to attack most of the time in this game, with plenty of crosses coming from the full-backs Robertson and Milner. A lot of those crosses are expected to get headed away into corner by Brighton defenders.
This makes us think there are going to be at least 10 corners in the game, which seems like a good opportunity for those bettors who are into soccer stats betting.