Liverpool and Chelsea are going to play on Wednesday the 31st of January at 8:15 pm in the 22nd week of the Premier League. The match will take place in Liverpool at the Anfield. The referee will be Paul Tierney.
Liverpool is in the 1st place in the standings with 48 points. It comes from a 0-4 win against AFC Bournemouth in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 14 times, draw 6 times, and lost once.
Liverpool won the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 30th of September against Tottenham Hotspur and the score was 2-1.
Chelsea sits in the 9th place in the league with 31 points. It comes from a 1-0 win against Fulham in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 9 times, draw 4 times, and lost 8 times.
Chelsea won the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 24th of December against Wolverhampton Wanderers and the score was 2-1.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Liverpool
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (21 times).
Jürgen Klopp is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: Alisson, Andrew Robertson, Virgil van Dijk , Ibrahima Konaté, Joe Gomez, Dominik Szoboszlai , Curtis Jones, Darwin Núñez, Luis Díaz and Diogo Jota.
Suppose that this will be the line-up, the average age of Liverpool would be 27.40.
There are doubts about the presence of Alexis Mac Allister.
Joël Matip, Konstantinos Tsimikas, Thiago Alcântara, Stefan Bajčetić, Wataru Endo , Ben Doak and Mohamed Salah will definitely miss the match.
Chelsea
Chelsea has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (15 times or 71.43%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (15 times), 3-4-2-1 (3 times), 4-3-3 (2 times) and 3-5-2 (once).
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero is expected to play against Liverpool with the following players: Djordje Petrovic, Ben Chilwell, Thiago Silva, Benoît Badiashile, Axel Disasi, Enzo Fernández, Moisés Caicedo, Raheem Sterling, Conor Gallagher, Cole Palmer and Armando Broja.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Chelsea would be 26.09.
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero will probably not be able to employ Trevoh Chalobah, Levi Colwill, Malo Gusto and Christopher Nkunku because of injury.
Robert Sánchez, Marc Cucurella, Wesley Fofana, Reece James, Roméo Lavia, Andrey Santos, Lesley Ugochukwu and Nicolas Jackson will definitely miss the match.