Analysts consider Alexander Zinchenko’s team the favorites of the match
7 January in the third round of the FA Cup Arsenal will play Liverpool. According to bookmaker experts, Arsenal are the favorites of the match.
Arsenal win probability estimated as 1×2.06. Liverpool’s chance to win – 1×3.8. The probability that the Arsenal – Liverpool match will end in a draw is 1×3.9.
The draw brought together the championship leaders and some of the favorites of the season already at the stage of the 1/32 finals. Not long ago, Arsenal and Liverpool met in the Premier League, and then Arsenal managed to take points from Anfield (1:1 draw). Today, Liverpool will be solving similar problems. Although, following the meme expression, “not everything is so simple.”
Arsenal failed at the end of last year, losing their last two matches to West Ham and Fulham. Moreover, in December, in four matches the Gunners had only one win and a draw. As a result – fourth place in the table.
Liverpool have won their last two matches in the Premier League and are the sole leader in the championship, where they have not lost in 13 matches. But today Jurgen Klopp will have to do without Mohamed Salah, who scored a double in the match with Newcastle on January 1 – the Egyptian left for the national team for the African Cup of Nations. For the same reason, Arteta will not be able to count on Mohamed Elneny and Takehiro Tomiyasu (the latter will play at the Asian Cup).
The statistics in the confrontation with Arsenal are also in favor of Liverpool. The Reds have won 10 wins, 10 draws and two defeats in their last 22 matches with the Gunners. Away, Liverpool lost only two of their last nine matches to Arsenal, winning four matches. True, Liverpool will have a League Cup semi-final with Fulham three days after the match with Arsenal, so the team will have to keep this match in mind.
But the fact is that the match with Arsenal is important for Klopp. As, in fact, for the Gunners there is another meeting with Liverpool. In the last five head-to-head matches, the teams scored at least two goals per game. It is not surprising that the probability “the total in the match is more than 2” is estimated as 1×1.37. Chance, “that both teams will score” – 1×1.61. And the probability “Arsenal win with -1.5 handicap” is 1×3.45.
Source: Sportarena
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