Liverpool - Brighton & Hove Albion
Liverpool host Brighton with visitors in blistering form
Liverpool welcome Brighton to Anfield on Sunday with the visitors four points and two places ahead after seven rounds. Brighton have won all five recent matches; Liverpool have won four of their last five but sit fifth with twelve points from seven played.
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Brighton's perfect run meets Liverpool's recovery
Brighton's recent form is flawless: five consecutive wins, including a 5-0 victory over Crystal Palace. They sit third on sixteen points with a goal difference of plus-eighteen, the best outside the top two. Liverpool have taken twelve points from the same number of games and occupy fifth, though four wins in their last five recent matches suggest momentum. The exception was a 0-3 defeat to Manchester City. Their most recent result was a 4-3 win over Villarreal.
The head-to-head record over the last five meetings is split: Liverpool have won three, Brighton two. Those encounters have produced sixteen goals in total, and the margins have been narrow, four of the five were decided by a single goal.
What the market expects
The market-implied probability gives Liverpool a 44.8 per cent chance of winning at home, Brighton 30.4 per cent and the draw 24.8 per cent. That spread is tighter than the four-point gap in the table or the contrast in recent results would suggest. A Brighton win would lift them to nineteen points from eight games; a Liverpool win would close the gap to one point, taking them to fifteen from eight. The market sees the home fixture as enough to level what the form line says is uneven.
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Will Brighton's five-game winning run end at Anfield on Sunday?
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