Premier League :Leicester City vs. Liverpool Live Football Score 13 Feb 2021
Leicester vs Liverpool, Saturday 12.30pm
When Liverpool meet Leicester, Liverpool usually win. Liverpool have won the last three matches between these two and going further back, they have won six of the last seven meetings. Leicester were tipped by many as the team to end Liverpool’s spectacular home record in November but fell to a convincing 3-0 defeat. Despite Liverpool’s problems, there is still a gulf in class, especially when analysing Leicester’s last two performances against Wolves and Brighton in the FA Cup. Jurgen Klopp has never lost three straight Premier League matches. Away win.
My betting angle for the match revolves around Roberto Firmino, who is a spectacularly gifted footballer but not a natural goalscorer. That is seen through his expected goals data according to actual goals. In the last three seasons, the chances falling his way should have equated to 35.63 goals yet he’s only recorded 27 – for a player playing at this level, that’s a huge underperformance. However, one area of his game significantly underrated is his heading ability, nine of those 27 goals during that period have come via a header, that’s 30 per cent of his ratio. Only Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Chris Wood have scored more.
Third hosts fourth in the Premier League on Saturday lunchtime when high-flying Leicester City welcome champions Liverpool to the King Power Stadium.Three points separate the two sides in the table after 23 games, and the visitors arrive at the King Power looking to bounce back from successive league defeats for the first time under Jurgen Klopp.Klopp had been warning for weeks that Liverpool’s main fight this season is for a top-four spot rather than for the title, even before last Sunday’s chastening 4-1 defeat at home to Manchester City.
While a couple of costly and uncharacteristic Alisson Becker errors gave the scoreline a slightly skewed look, the facts are increasingly grim for a Liverpool side already a whopping 24 points off the pace they set last season.The Reds were 19 points clear at the top after 23 games of 2019-20 but now find themselves 10 points adrift of leaders Manchester City having played a game more, not to mention five points behind second-placed Manchester United and three off Saturday’s hosts.
Liverpool’s superior goal difference over Leicester means that victory this weekend would lift them back up to third, but anything less than that would open the door to Chelsea, who are now just a point behind following their resurgence under Thomas Tuchel, to leapfrog the champions into the top four.Some may even consider Leicester as slight favourites for this match given that Liverpool have won just two of their last nine league outings, including back-to-back defeats for the first time under Klopp.
