European Banker of The Week: Liverpool vs. Brighton (Archive)
Liverpool cashed our play within 13 minutes of play against the Red Devils last weekend. We are now sitting at 2-0 for our European Banker this season, both betting picks have come from the English Premier League. We are going to stick with the Premier League and Liverpool for our Banker of this weekend.
Both teams have been playing amazing this season and Brighton is punching way above their weight, but it hasn’t phased them and a result at Anfield would solidify that.
Brighton & Hove Albion FC vs Liverpool FC
Saturday, October 30, 2021 – 10:00 AM EDT at Anfield
Liverpool Hammer Man Utd
If you missed Liverpool’s previous game against Man Utd, we advise going to watch the highlights because it was a sensational piece of football and Liverpool almost seems to be unbeatable right now. The best way to sum up the match is simple this; Mo Salah scored a hat trick, the first at Old Trafford against Man Utd in almost 100 years, secondly, Man Utd picked up 6 yellows and 1 red, the most they have picked up in a single game in over 20 years.
Jurgen Klopp can put his name in the record books as only the 3rd manager behind Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger to have picked up 20+ undefeated matches on three or more occasions. Liverpool is in 2nd position with 21 points, they are just 1 point behind league leaders, Chelsea. Although Brighton is playing some good football right now, sitting in 5th place and ahead of the likes of Man Utd, Tottenham, Leicester City, and Arsenal.
They are severe underdogs here as they are priced up at +1200. Liverpool is as low as -455 on the money line. Although Liverpool will have to be wary of their opponents today as they failed to beat them in both matches last season, drawing away from home and suffering defeat on home soil.
Brighton Have Finally Arrived
This Brighton team has been threatening to arrive for some time now, they had the highest xG last season out of all the teams in the bottom half of the league table and conceded way too many goals. We have long been a fan of this Brighton team and the squad that they have built with manager Graham Potter. Brighton also has something to play for here as a rare win would see the first time ever in their history that they would have recorded back-to-back wins against Liverpool.
The Englishman is arguably one of the top English coaches in football right now. Brighton would do amazing to finish inside the top 6 this season and they most likely won’t, but hey we can dream, nobody saw the Leicester City league title coming did they?
Neal Maupay has finally started to justify his transfer fee of 20 million, having netted 4 goals in 9 games thus far this season, he hasn’t scored in the previous three leagues games, but he will come hot again, and what better way to get back on the scoreboard than away to Liverpool.
Liverpool vs. Brighton Pick
We have found a gem of a play in this game, and although we firmly believe you could play a multitude of bets here and cash them, such as over 2.5 goals in the betting odds and possibly both teams to score. The official pick for us here is the over 10.5 corners. As any corner better’s will know, Liverpool has been a solid corner team this season as over 65% of their games are seeing the corners go over.
Liverpool has averaged a massive 8.25 corners per game whilst on home soil, Brighton away from home has allowed an average of 5.5 corners. Whilst looking at Brighton, they have picked up an average of 5 per away game, Liverpool allows 4 per home game. It’s clearly the Liverpool corners average that’s too big to ignore here, and if Brighton were to take that lead, that would be ideal for our play.
Either way, Liverpool doesn’t stop attacking, and Brighton will have their share of chances going forward. We think Liverpool might win this game 2-1 or 3-1, in terms of the corner count, it’s always difficult to call the correct amount but if we had to take a stab at it we would say Liverpool to pick up 7 corners and Brighton 5.
Soccer Pick: Over 10.5 Corners at -110 with BetOnline (visit our BetOnline Review)
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