Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Liverpool & Leicester City face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Carabao Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Not a lot of time to rest for the host team, as they played a Premier League match only three days ago. That game was an away game at Tottenham Hotspur, so at least Liverpool are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Liverpool form and stats
Last season their Carabao Cup adventure ended in the 8th finals.21 points is a decent return from 9 Premier League games here at Anfield for Liverpool. The data says 6 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses.
Liverpool drew their last game, 2-2 away at Tottenham Hotspur. Defender Alexander-Arnold got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 8.14/10. Alexander-Arnold served one assist, hit four key passes and won 6 of 8 duels.
Previous to that game, a Premier League home match hosting Newcastle United in a game that was won 3-1.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Liverpool matches with similar probabilities have ended with three wins, zero draws and zero defeats (from three games).
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Liverpool, as the Premier League home game vs Leeds United is only four days away.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (22 in 9 games), Liverpool's attacking play is working. Liverpool are not conceding a lot of goals here at Anfield in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 9 matches.
Leicester City form and stats
They also participated in Carabao Cup last season. This ended in the 3rd round.As the visiting team in Premier League matches, Leicester City have produced an overall stat of 2-3-3 so far.
The supporters enjoyed Leicester City's previous game versus Newcastle United, a Premier League 4-0 win played at home. As mentioned above, Leicester City was the only team on the pitch versus Newcastle United in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task. Maddison got a match rating of 9.25 in that game, top player of the team. Maddison scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 23 successful passes (of 28 total).
It was a Europa League defeat before that one as the away game against Napoli wasn't a success with a 2-3 loss.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Leicester playing away, we found two games. Results were zero away wins, zero draws and two home wins.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Leicester City manager Rodgers as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Manchester City.
The travelling fans enjoy Leicester's attacking play in away games, having scored 12 goals in 8 league matches away. Leicester's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 15 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: seven - one - two (Liverpool wins - draws - Leicester City wins). As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Salah Ghaly 15 goals |  D. Teixeira da Silva 10 goals |   J. Vardy 9 goals |
Liverpool missing players
Leicester City missing players
| Liverpool | Leicester City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 19 | 9 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 69 | 29 | Scored | S | 20 | 44 | ||
| 21 | 8 | Conceded | C | 22 | 40 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 84% | ||
| 72% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 68% | ||
| 56% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 20% | ||
| 48% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 83% | 68% | ||
| 52% | 58% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 16% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 16% | ||
| 7.4 | 8.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 5.1 | ||
| 3 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.2 | 5.4 | ||
| 1.3 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.5 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 18.7 | 19.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.9 | 12.1 | ||
| 6.8 | 6.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.7 | ||
| 41% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 38% | ||
| 8 | 7.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.9 | 14 | ||
| 3 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 4.5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Manchester City | 18 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 44 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 35 | 44 |
| 2 | Liverpool | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 50 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 9 | 35 | 41 |
| 3 | Chelsea | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 39 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 27 | 38 |
| 4 | Arsenal | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 27 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 32 |
| 5 | West Ham United | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 28 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 28 |
| 6 | Manchester United | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 26 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 27 |
| 7 | Tottenham Hotspur | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -1 | 26 |
| 8 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | -1 | 25 |
| 9 | Leicester City | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 27 | 27 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 0 | 22 |
| 10 | Aston Villa | 17 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 23 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 14 | -2 | 22 |
| 11 | Crystal Palace | 17 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 24 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 20 |
| 12 | Brentford | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 12 | -1 | 20 |
| 13 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 16 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 8 | -3 | 20 |
| 14 | Everton | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 16 | -8 | 19 |
| 15 | Southampton | 17 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 19 | -10 | 17 |
| 16 | Leeds United | 18 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 36 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 21 | -18 | 16 |
| 17 | Watford | 16 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 21 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 14 | -10 | 13 |
| 18 | Burnley | 15 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -7 | 11 |
| 19 | Newcastle United | 18 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 41 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 21 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 20 | -23 | 10 |
| 20 | Norwich City | 17 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 34 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 20 | -26 | 10 |
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