Liverpool vs Brentford Bet Builder, Sunday 24 May

prediction and reasoning

Liverpool should play this on the front foot at Anfield, with plenty of possession, wide pressure and bodies arriving around the box. Brentford are not a side to just sit there and disappear though, and their attacking threat gives this game a strong chance of opening up at both ends.

Liverpool have the firepower to score at home, but they have not looked watertight enough defensively to treat Brentford as a clean-sheet job. If the game stretches, both sides have enough quality to find the net and push the total past two goals.

Dominik Szoboszlai should be heavily involved if he starts in that advanced Liverpool role. He likes shooting from distance, attacks cut-backs well and gets into the areas where loose clearances drop. Against a Brentford side likely to defend deep for spells, one clean strike on target is very realistic.

Igor Thiago gives Brentford their main route into the game. He has the physical presence to occupy Liverpool’s centre-backs and the movement to attack space when Brentford break. With Liverpool pushing high, he should get at least one good sight of goal.

Liverpool over five corners also fits the expected pattern. If they dominate the ball and keep Brentford pinned back, blocked crosses, wide attacks and sustained pressure should naturally drive the corner count. This is exactly the kind of Anfield game where Liverpool can rack them up.

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