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Liverpool v Chelsea: Prediction, Tips and Odds

Chelsea have won their first three Premier League away matches this season and the Blues are now aiming to upset Liverpool at Anfield this weekend.

Liverpool v Chelsea

Liverpool v Chelsea betting tips and predictions

Draw - 7/2

Liverpool have enjoyed a smooth transition from Jurgen Klopp to Arne Slot, who has won nine of his first 10 matches as Reds boss in all competitions.

Slot has been helped by a soft run of early-season fixtures but his side face an increasingly testing schedule, starting with Sunday's home match against Chelsea.

Liverpool thumped Mauricio Pochettino's Blues 4-1 at Anfield in January and Virgil van Dijk's 118th-minute header sealed victory over the Londoners in the EFL Cup final the following month.

The cagey cup final means eight of the last nine meetings between these clubs have been level after 90 minutes and the stalemate is a tempting price on Sunday.

Liverpool's recent victories have been solid rather than spectacular. Their last two league fixtures produced a 2-1 win at bottom club Wolves and a 1-0 victory at winless Crystal Palace, where Diogo Jota scored the only goal of the game in the ninth minute.

The Reds were given a few scares by Bologna in their 2-0 UEFA Champions League success at Anfield on 2nd October and Chelsea are capable of testing goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher, who is deputising for the injured Alisson.

Enzo Maresca's men have been held to 1-1 league draws by Palace and Nottingham Forest at Stamford Bridge but they won their five games in between by an aggregate score of 17-4.

Chelsea's away victories include a 6-2 rout of Wolves and an excellent 3-0 win at West Ham and, while punters may be wary of backing them at short prices, they look dangerous underdogs on their trip to Liverpool. 

Over 5.5 cards in match - 1/1

Just seven matches into the Premier League season, Chelsea defenders Wesley Fofana and Marc Cucurella have already picked up five yellow cards apiece, earning one-match bans this weekend.

The Blues have received 27 cautions in their first seven games, following on from similar disciplinary issues last season, when Moises Caicedo was booked 11 times in the league and Cucurella and Nicolas Jackson each collected 10 cards.

Six Chelsea players were booked in their last league match against Forest, who had James Ward-Prowse sent off for two bookable offences.

Over 5.5 cards looks a good bet when Maresca's men visit Liverpool, where they will have to work hard to unsettle the home team's rhythm.

Liverpool's last five matches produced card tallies of five, six, five, six and six so referee John Brooks, who sent off Virgil van Dijk in the Reds' win at Newcastle last season, could have a busy afternoon.   

Nicolas Jackson to be first goalscorer - 9/1

Cole Palmer is once again leading the Chelsea goalscoring charts but striker Nicolas Jackson has established himself as a key man for new boss Maresca.

Despite the fierce competition for places in the Blues' forward line, the Senegal international has started all seven of Chelsea's league matches, scoring four goals.

Those strikes have come in the second, 25th, fourth and 18th minutes so Jackson is an appealing bet to open the scoring at Anfield.

He had four shots, two of them on target, on his Chelsea debut against Liverpool last season and the Reds have conceded early goals in their recent wins over AC Milan in the UEFA Champions League and West Ham in the EFL Cup. 

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This article was written by a partner sports writer via Spotlight Sports Group. All odds displayed on this page were correct at the time of writing and are subject to withdrawal or change at any time.

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