A week after announcing he would leave Liverpool at the end of the season, Jürgen Klopp has a chance to register his 200th Premier League win in a clash with Chelsea.
Will these teams cancel each other out again? Bookmaker 10bet offers odds at 4.75 for an eighth consecutive draw in the match-up. The odds are at 1.55 for Liverpool to win and 5.50 for Chelsea to get all the points.
※ Current Odds Date & Time: January 30th, 3:00 P.M. (EST)
Liverpool will be back in Premier League action for the first time since beating Bournemouth 4-0 on Jan. 21. The team has coped well with the absence of Mohamed Salah and sits at the top of the league, 17 points ahead of Chelsea.
The Blues have improved lately but are still far off the pace compared to the best sides in the league. They are in danger of matching a club record of conceding multiple goals in six consecutive Premier League away outings.
Salah might be out, but the Liverpool attack has remained extremely sharp. Both Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez bagged a brace against Bournemouth and also found their way on the scoresheet over the weekend in a 5-2 FA Cup win over Norwich.
The Chelsea offense has flowed through Cole Palmer lately. The former Man City man has scored five goals in his last six appearances and will look to find the back of the net in a third consecutive league outing on Wednesday.
Chelsea has done well to avoid defeat against Liverpool in recent meetings, but the team boasts just one league win at Anfield since 2014. Mauricio Pochettino’s men are hoping to become the first team to beat Liverpool at their place since Real Madrid in February last year. In league matches, the Reds are on a 22-game unbeaten run at home, winning 17 of the outings.
This will be the 13th head-to-head meeting for Klopp and Pochettino. The latter has always struggled in the clashes, beating Klopp just once while suffering six defeats. Pochettino hasn’t even found a way to keep a clean sheet against Klopp’s Liverpool side since playing out a 0-0 draw with Tottenham in the German’s first-ever Premier League game on Oct. 17, 2015.
On Wednesday, Klopp will take charge of his 318th game in the Premier League. He’ll hope to become the seventh manager to reach 200 wins in the league, with Pep Guardiola being the only manager to hit the milestone in fewer games.
