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Football tipster Andrew Beasley has honours being shared at the Amex on Sunday.

Brighton v Liverpool Bet Builder Betting tips

By / Football Tips / 10 months ago

Brighton v Liverpool Bet Builder Tips

Draw
Both Teams to Score
Mohammed Salah to Score
Under 10.5 Corners
Over 3.5 Cards

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Premier League: Brighton v Liverpool
Amex Stadium
TV: Sky Sports Main Event/Premier League

Any team that loses obviously has a bad weekend but Brighton and Liverpool can each claim to have endured the worst of match week seven. The former was beaten 6-1 at Aston Villa while the latter lost to a last-minute goal at Tottenham.

Not only that, but the Reds had a goal disallowed thanks to the Video Assistant Referee not knowing that the offside he was checking had been given as offside, despite the man holding the flag on the sideline and the ironic cheers from the home crowd. Still, an easy mistake to make, eh?

Jurgen Klopp had two men sent off – meaning Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota will be missing here – and Cody Gakpo suffered a bad injury. You have to wonder if he’d have traded with Roberto De Zerbi for a routine 6-1 loss.

Draw

Perhaps not, but it leaves Liverpool with a depleted squad as they head to a venue where they really struggled last season. The Reds’ 3-0 defeat in the Premier League at the Amex was in the running for their worst performance of 2022/23 (which is a crowded field), then they lost 2-1 in the FA Cup.

Brighton also got a 3-3 draw at Anfield in De Zerbi’s first match, a game they should really have won having been 2-0 up. It means the Seagulls have lost just one of their last six meetings with the Reds, and there aren’t many teams who can say likewise.

Both teams were in Europa League action on Thursday, with Brighton drawing 2-2 in Marseille having been 2-0 down. Liverpool, meanwhile, huffed and puffed and squeezed past Union Saint-Gilloise 2-0 at Anfield.

It all makes this tough to call. Liverpool are more experienced with the swift turnaround between European and domestic commitments but Brighton have home advantage and the better of the head-to-head in recent times.

Hell, let’s sit on the fence and say draw. The Seagulls haven’t had one in the league this season while the Reds’ last stalemate was on the opening weekend. It’s overdue.

Both Teams to Score

Liverpool have really struggled to keep opposing sides at bay this season, even though they’ve won most games. Collecting four red cards in the first seven matches will make things difficult defensively, after all. Klopp’s boys also only have one shutout in their last six matches against Brighton, one in five at the Amex, but they usually score against them too.

And this has been a theme for these clubs in 2023/24. All seven of the Seagulls’ league matches have seen them score and concede, while Liverpool’s 3-0 victory against Aston Villa is the only exception on their part. Both teams scoring feels more inevitable than the referee making some kind of error we’ll have to debate endlessly afterwards.

 

Mohamed Salah to Score

You would imagine Klopp’s front three for this match will be Mohamed Salah, Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz thanks to the absentees.
Nunez is an intriguing prospect as he only got about half an hour against Brighton last season even though Liverpool faced them three times. His chaos could cause issues for a defence which tends to give up several good chances every week. Sadly for Darwin, he’ll probably miss them.

Diaz scored at the Amex in 2022 – getting nearly knocked out by Robert Sanchez for his trouble – but it’s hard to look past Salah. The Egyptian has scored four goals in his six previous league visits to the south coast and can add another to his tally on Sunday afternoon.

Under 10.5 Corners

Both teams were in the Premier League’s bottom eight for corners per game last season and while Brighton have risen a little this term they remain in the bottom half for this stat.

Liverpool’s ascent up this all-important table has been more noticeable but it comes with an asterisk. Across the three games in which they’ve had a man sent off there has been an average of 14.3 corners, with 9.3 in the other games. Maybe they’ll get another red card here, it’s been that sort of season. Assuming they don’t and the game is played with a degree of control, there should be fewer than 10.5 corners.

Over 3.5 Cards

Despite the disciplinary mayhem occurring in Liverpool’s matches, Brighton’s games have seen even more cards. There has been at least four in every league match they have played, and the same is true for three of the last four clashes of these teams at the Amex.
Referee Anthony Taylor will be treading on eggshells around Klopp for this one after what happened last weekend.

Nonetheless, with an average of 3.9 yellow cards per game since the start of 2021/22, Taylor should be certain to wave over 3.5 here considering Brighton’s record.

Brighton v Liverpool Bet Builder Tips

Draw
Both Teams to Score
Mohammed Salah to Score
Under 10.5 Corners
Over 3.5 Cards

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