Crystal Palace vs Liverpool Prediction & Betting Tips - Premier League

Prediction published on 21/01/2022, 06:50  by Daniel Ngulu | Modified on 21/01/2022 at 07:50 in Premier League Predictions

An unfortunate Joachim Andersen own goal denied Crystal Palace victory in their last game, but they have another chance as Liverpool pays them a visit this Sunday. Crystal Palace go to this game with 24 points and placed 11th, facing off with second placed Liverpool who are on 45 points. Palace go into this game without a number of their top players, who are taking part in the 2021 AFCON in Africa. Jordan Ayew should be back in time for this game though after his nation, Ghana suffered early elimination. Senegalese midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate and Ivory Coast’s Wilfried Zaha are still at the competition with their nations though. Palace are coming from a 1-1 draw with Brighton and will have to up their game in anticipation of a tougher challenge. They’ve managed just one clean sheet in five matches, that coming against a low scoring Norwich City. In the Premier League, Palace have gone to the break trailing in three of the last five matches, and only led in one, against Norwich.

Liverpool come into this game straight from a 2-0 win over Arsenal, at the Emirates, to book a place in the League Cup final. They haven’t shown signs of missing their lead scorers Mo Salah and Sadio Mane who are at the AFCON competition, and neither has Naby Keeita been missed. The Reds have been able to work well in the trio’s absence and only failed to score in one of the four matches played without them. Liverpool are unbeaten in five matches, scoring two or more in four of them and have three straight clean sheets ahead of this fixture. They’ve played just one league game without the AFCON trio, and thrashed Brentford 3-0; here they head with just one loss in their last 10 league games. In three of their last five matches, Liverpool have led at half time and full time.