Eintracht Frankfurt v Liverpool: Line-ups, stats and preview
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Liverpool will search to finish a four-match dropping run after they go to Eintracht Frankfurt within the Champions League on Wednesday.
After a red-hot begin to the season, Liverpool’s type has nosedived, Arne Slot’s males dropping to Crystal Palace, Chelsea and Manchester United within the Premier League whereas additionally coming undone by the hands of Galatasaray within the Champions League.
Liverpool haven’t misplaced 5 video games in a row since September 1953, and a continuation of this present run would ramp up the stress on supervisor Arne Slot and an expensively assembled group of gamers, with the Reds’ free-spending summer season not producing the anticipated outcomes.
Alexander Isak has scored simply as soon as, in an EFL Cup win over Southampton, following his British-record transfer from Newcastle United. Equally, Florian Wirtz has been criticised for his type following a £100million switch from Bayer Leverkusen.
Wirtz supplied an help within the Group Defend in August however has not registered a objective involvement since. Full-backs Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez have additionally endured tough begins.
The one signing who has hit the bottom operating is the person Liverpool signed from Eintracht, Hugo Ekitike.
Together with the Group Defend, Ekitike has scored 5 objectives for Liverpool, and he’ll hope to have the possibility to open his Champions League account towards his former membership.
Even with their dip in type, Liverpool have solely failed to attain as soon as this season, and Slot doesn’t sense that his workforce is dropping confidence amid a downturn in outcomes.
“Can we lose confidence? I can’t see it but, as a result of each single recreation we’ve misplaced, we have been capable of create within the second half an unbelievable quantity of probabilities,” Slot stated after the 2-1 defeat to United.
“When you look again in any respect the three video games we’ve misplaced within the Premier League, if you happen to simply put all of the highlights [next to] one another, you’ll say it’s hardly doable that they lose this recreation.
“So if we will hold producing what we’re doing and do a couple of issues slightly bit higher, then there may be each motive to anticipate that we begin to win soccer video games once more.
“However I can’t promise you that on Wednesday night we’re once more capable of create eight, 9 or 10 open probabilities. I hope so, and with the gamers we’ve then it is going to lead ultimately to us scoring extra objectives.”
There may be trigger to imagine Eintracht will present ideally suited opposition for Liverpool as they intention to get again on observe.
Exterior of the DFB-Pokal, Eintracht haven’t stored a single clear sheet this season and have conceded a minimum of three objectives in 5 video games.
On the similar time, solely Bayern Munich have scored extra objectives than Eintracht’s 19 within the Bundesliga. Dino Toppmoller’s males opened their Champions League marketing campaign with a 5-1 win over Galatasaray, earlier than dropping by the identical scoreline to Atletico Madrid.
There ought to, subsequently, be loads of leisure in retailer on the Waldstadion, however critical questions shall be requested of Slot and his gamers in the event that they fail to benefit from a transparent alternative to cease the rot.
Staff information for Eintracht Frankfurt v Liverpool
The massive health query for Liverpool issues Ryan Gravenberch, who limped out of the defeat to United with an obvious ankle harm. Goalkeeper Alisson stays unavailable.
Curtis Jones might come into the midfield for Gravenberch, whereas it could be no shock to see Slot restore Ekitike to the beginning XI rather than the misfiring Isak.
Eintracht shall be with out Oscar Hojlund due to a muscle drawback, whereas right-back Elias Baum has a hamstring harm.
Anticipated line-ups for Eintracht Frankfurt v Liverpool
Eintracht Frankfurt: Santos; Kristensen, Koch, Theate, Brown; Larsson, Skhiri; Doan, Uzun, Bahoya; Burkardt
Liverpool: Mamardashvili; Szoboszlai, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson; Jones, Mac Allister; Salah, Wirtz, Gakpo; Ekitike
watch Eintracht Frankfurt v Liverpool: TV channel, on-line stream
Eintracht Frankfurt v Liverpool kicks off at 8pm UK time on Wednesday.
Will probably be broadcast on TNT Sports activities 1 and is out there to stream through the Discovery Plus app and on Sky Go for Sky clients with a TNT package deal included.
The stats for Eintracht Frankfurt v Liverpool
- Liverpool have solely misplaced one among their final 15 matches towards German groups within the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (W10 D4), a 4-2 defeat away to Bayer Leverkusen in April 2002.
- The Reds have received the newest 5 such video games by an mixture scoreline of 12-1, and beat RB Leipzig 1-0 and Bayer Leverkusen 4-0 lasrt season.
- Having did not win any of their first six away matches towards German groups within the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (D3 L3), Liverpool have received every of the final 4 in succession.
- Liverpool have misplaced two of their final three video games within the league part of the Champions League (W1), struggling as many defeats as that they had of their earlier 30 matches of the league part/group stage (W26 D2).
Prediction
Shaky on the again and failing to fireplace up entrance, there’s loads of causes to imagine Liverpool may come unstuck once more. Nonetheless, there’s an evident hole in high quality, and it’s one which ought to be sufficient for them to get again to successful methods.
Prediction: Eintracht Frankfurt 2-3 Liverpool
