It will look incredibly early in the year to be considering European football (unless youre a Wolves fan), but Liverpools face-off with Chelsea in the UEFA Super Cup has a nice feel to it — an intriguing curtain-raiser to the continental soccer season.
Champions League winners Liverpool picked up from where they left off prior campaign, putting Norwich into the sword in the Premier League opener. In what had been a regarding opening screen for Frank Lampard to digest were very far on the receiving end of a demolition project at Old Trafford. The barefaced stats look OK as much as Chelsea are worried, but a 2.18-1.33 xG shortage informs a more damning narrative; Chelsea had lots of efforts, but David de Gea was seldom stretched. ??
It needs to be pretty interesting on Wednesday, however, the outcome is outside any doubt in my view; Chelsea defended poorly against Manchester United, and while they did sabotage the hosts early on, it is not enough to convince me they will lay much glove on Jurgen Klopps guys.
There are not enough targets on this Chelsea side. Although Eden Hazards reduction may take a while to get over, the mustard will not cut at a top six centre-forward needs to.
You know exactly what you buy with Liverpool at this point, and it will be a lot for Chelsea.
In 17/10, Liverpool to triumph using a -1 disability looks a solid bet. The last meeting between these two finished 2-0 in the Reds favour, and also Liverpool look so much more powerful in most departments than the adversaries of Wednesday. ??
We were treated to our talk of VAR-fuelled controversy in Europe last season, and with UEFAs interpretation of what constitutes a penalty being much more powerful than the Premier Leagues, Im funding a.
We watched Chelsea concede a penalty against Manchester United this weekend–Kurt Zouma the guilty party–and believing only 3 sides obtained more penalties from the Premier League compared to Liverpool last year, I would suggest the probability of the referee pointing to the place are rather high, especially as it is a cup final (or types ).
Either way, its not outlandish think VAR will take centre stage, although Naturally, Chelsea could win a punishment. ??
I have gone a rogue but it is for Virgil Van Dijk to score.
Hear me out here…
Although his record in the first part of his Liverpool career was strangely plump for a person of such stature, VVD has scored seven goals.
Obviously, Liverpool have an entire variety of gamers that will (and probably will) score on Wednesday, but Van Dijk has already opened his account for the season with a goal against Norwich, also 25/1 for the Dutchman to obtain the net first against what seems like a pretty porous Chelsea is likely worth a nibble.
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