Ileana Sanchez
Dailysports's expert
Southampton
Liverpool
On May 28, St Mary’s Stadium (Southampton) will host the match of the 38th round of the English Premier League, in which Southampton will compete with Liverpool. The battle will start at 17:30 CET.
Southampton
The team changed the owners at nearly the same time as Chelsea. And it became a kind of clone of “the Aristocrats” in terms of problems with them. Dragan Šolak also did not skimp on the players and tried to save the season through several coaching replacements. Nevertheless, “the Saints” not only failed to live up to expectations (to be honest, the predictions about them had been quite optimistic), but also completely disappointed. It is the team, which “closed” the standings without any hopes. Nowadays, the once-strong midfielder has got 24 miserable points and is logically in the last place of the table, far from the closest opponent – and this happens with a famous fan, Rishi Sunak, who is the current Prime Minister of Great Britain. Speaking about 9 previous rounds, Ruben Sellés’ team lost 8 times, and the only exception was a bright draw in the battle against Arsenal – the team, leading 2-0 and 3-2, lost the advantage during the game.
Liverpool
The club provided its many fans with another desperate race. The season seemed to be a complete failure (no one remembers the summer victory in the battle against Manchester City in the Super Cup, because of the rather lukewarm reception of the higher mentioned tournament in the British football society), except for individual highlights such as the defeat of United. All the tournaments were lost; moreover, the team fell down into the middle of the standings at the peak of the crisis in the Premier League. Still, a draw-back in the struggle with Arsenal made Klopp’s wards produce the victories, shortening the distance to stumbling Manchester United and Newcastle. The higher mentioned series ended in 7 confrontations. The penultimate round crashed the hopes of “the Reds” in a battle against Aston Villa – that match resulted only in a 1-1 draw, which means that the legendary club will spend the next season without the Champions League.
The statistics of head-to-head matches
Liverpool has won 10 of 11 previous head-to-head matches.
Predictions
Bookmakers do not believe that “the Saints” will be able to “slam the door”. We are waiting for the victory of Salah and the company with “a -1.5 goal handicap” (odd: 2.08).
