Liverpool vs Tottenham match tips & line-up. Christmas will come ahead of schedule for Premier League fans when the victors have the pioneers in a mouth-watering midweek standoff as Liverpool welcome Tottenham Hotspur to Anfield on Wednesday night.
The different sides are isolated by just objective contrast heading into the challenge, however both will be hoping to bob back from disappointing 1-1 draws at the end of the week.
Match preview
The scene could barely be set all the more enticingly for this Christmas wafer of an apparatus as the class’ best different sides clash under the Anfield lights while level on focuses.
Liverpool and Spurs have an indistinguishable record of seven successes, four draws and one thrashing so far this season, and furthermore have indistinguishable type of two home successes and two away draws from their last four association games.
Wednesday’s challenge additionally sets the class’ best assault in opposition to the group’s best protection, and the best home structure against extraordinary compared to other away records in the division this season.
There are a lot of impeccably ready components to this game, at that point, however in spite of being so all around coordinated in countless regions, it is Liverpool who will go into it as top choices due to a great extent to their home structure.
Agreeable triumphs over Leicester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers in their last two class games at Anfield imply that they have now won 31 of their last 32 such trips, taking a stunning 94 focuses from the 96 on proposal in that time, and scoring 93 objectives as well.
The unbeaten run currently extends back to 65 games, albeit on Wednesday they will confront a Tottenham Hotspur side brimming with certainty that they could be the group to end that run.
Anyway imperious that home record is, Liverpool do in any case have their issues this season – not least in the injury stakes with upwards of nine first-cooperative individuals at risk for missing this game.
Sunday’s 1-1 draw at Fulham was likewise a fifth continuous Premier League away game which Liverpool have neglected to win, implying that they have just dropped 11 focuses this season.
It took the Reds until the 35th game last season to drop their eleventh point, proceeding to drop only 15 all term, while at a similar phase of 2019-20 they were nine focuses good and right now eight focuses clear at the highest point of the table.
There is no uncertainty that their structure has dropped off since securing the title, yet this is a season like no other and, considering their physical issue problems, Jurgen Klopp will be fulfilled to at present be sitting joint-top of the table.
Liverpool were constantly expected to sit in and around the more elite classes of the table this season in the wake of cruising to the title so convincingly last term, however less individuals upheld Spurs to be right up there with them at this phase of the mission.
A 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace on Sunday scratched their title trusts fairly, yet there is regardless developing conviction among the allies that this could be the year they end a 60-year stand by to be delegated champions.
There is valid justification for that as well; Spurs have just beaten Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal this season, notwithstanding getting a valid statement away to Chelsea.
Finishing Liverpool’s long home unbeaten record would be the greatest explanation of their title certifications yet, while they likewise face Leicester and Wolves in their next two group games after Wednesday to cover off a testing merry timetable.
In the event that, toward the finish of the entirety of that, Spurs actually lead the manner in which then it will be difficult for anybody to excuse the odds of Jose Mourinho winning a fourth Premier League title as an administrator, despite the fact that the other side of that will be that a droop in structure could abruptly observe them fall away, such is the tight idea of the table this season.
Spurs are currently unbeaten in their last nine away association games – their longest such run since April 2018 – and, while four of those have been draws, they would presumably view another impasse as a decent outcome on Wednesday night.
Tottenham have likewise won three of their last seven away alliance games against the authoritative first class champions, which is the same number of as they had overseen in their past 40 such matches.
Add to that the Mourinho factor and his capacity to granulate out outcomes when visiting individual ‘enormous six’ resistance and Spurs have a long list of motivations to accept that they can accomplish the uncommon accomplishment of leaving Anfield having gained something as a meeting group.
All things considered, Mourinho has always lost in five past away gatherings with Klopp, which is his most noticeably terrible such record against any administrator in his vocation.
Regardless of whether he can end that hoodoo – and Tottenham can end their helpless late record against Liverpool – stays not yet clear, however it is a finely ready experience which could end up being essential toward the finish of the period.
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Team News
Liverpool had to play the second half against Fulham with a middle back association of Jordan Henderson and Fabinho after Joel Matip was taken off at half time due to back fits.
Klopp has raised expectation that the Cameroonian could recuperate as expected for this match, yet on the off chance that not, at that point either Rhys Williams or Nat Phillips could be drafted in all things considered.
Matip joins a generally protracted rundown of injury concerns, which now includes Diogo Jota and Kostas Tsimikas, both of whom could miss as long as two months subsequent to getting wounds in a week ago’s Champions League dead-elastic against FC Midtjylland.
Virgil van Dijk, Thiago Alcantara, Joe Gomez, James Milner and Xherdan Shaqiri also remain sidelined, while Naby Keita will be evaluated in front of the opening shot subsequent to enduring a new muscle injury.
Tottenham’s physical issue issues are much less extreme, with Erik Lamela and Japhet Tanganga likely to be the lone truants for the guests in this match.
Gareth Bale missed the end of the week draw with Crystal Palace because of ailment, yet Mourinho expects the Real Madrid loanee to possess recuperated in energy for the excursion to Merseyside.
Child Heung-min and Harry Kane are practically sure to begin again having consolidated to score for the twelfth time this season against Palace – as of now the second-most noteworthy count for a whole Premier League season, after Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton’s 13-objective take in 1994-95.
Kane alone has been straightforwardly associated with 19 objectives from his 12 Premier League games this season, and could crush the record for snappiest to arrive at twofold figures in the two objectives and aids a season – right now held by Cesc Fabregas, who oversaw it in 17 games.
Liverpool possible starting lineup:
Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Fabinho, Robertson; Henderson, Wijnaldum, Jones; Salah, Firmino, Mane
Tottenham Hotspur possible starting lineup:
Lloris; Aurier, Alderweireld, Dier, Reguilon; Sissoko, Hojbjerg; Bergwijn, Ndombele, Son; Kane
Head To Head
Liverpool have ruled this apparatus as of late, winning every one of the last five gatherings across all rivalries – a run which incorporates consecutive Premier League pairs and a Champions League last victory a year ago.
Liverpool have never dominated seven continuous matches against Spurs, while the last time Tottenham lost that numerous games in succession to a particular adversary was against Manchester United from September 2001 to September 2004.
In the Premier League alone Liverpool have just lost of their last 15 gatherings with Tottenham and only one of their last 26 at Anfield.
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