Liverpool and Brentford will face on Saturday the 6th of May at 5:30 pm in the 35th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be staged in Liverpool at the Anfield. The encounter will be officiated by Anthony Taylor.
Liverpool occupies the 5th position in the table with 59 points. It comes from a 1-0 win against Fulham in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 17 times, draw 8 times, and lost 9 times.
Liverpool won the last 5 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 1st of April against Manchester City and the score was 4-1.
Brentford is in the 9th position in the standings with 50 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against Nottingham Forest in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 12 times, draw 14 times, and lost 8 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Liverpool
Liverpool has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (28 times or 82.35%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (28 times), 4-3-1-2 (2 times), 4-4-2 (2 times) and 4-2-3-1 (2 times).
Jürgen Klopp is expected to play against Brentford with the following players: Alisson, Andrew Robertson, Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konaté, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Fabinho, Curtis Jones, Harvey Elliott, Luis Díaz, Mohamed Salah and Cody Gakpo.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Liverpool would be 26.73.
Stefan Bajcetic Maquieira, Calvin Ramsey, Thiago Alcântara, Naby Keïta, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Roberto Firmino will definitely miss the match.
Brentford
Brentford has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (18 times or 52.94%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (18 times), 3-5-2 (10 times), 5-3-2 (5 times) and (once).
Thomas Frank is expected to play against Liverpool with the following players: David Raya, Rico Henry, Ethan Pinnock, Zanka, Ben Mee, Mads Roerslev Rasmussen, Frank Onyeka, Vitaly Janelt, Mathias Jensen, Bryan Mbeumo and Ivan Toney.
Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Brentford would be 27.55.
Thomas Frank will probably not be able to employ Kristoffer Ajer because of injury.
Thomas Strakosha, Pontus Jansson, Christian Nørgaard and Keane Lewis-Potter will definitely miss the match.