Prediction Premier League - Liverpool vs Sheffield United

Premier League - Liverpool vs Sheffield United
Match Time: 04-04-2024 02:30 Thursday (GMT+8)
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Liverpool

For the seventh time this season, Liverpool successfully came from behind to collect maximum points in a Premier League fixture as they beat Brighton & Hove Albion 2-1 at Anfield on Easter Sunday.

Danny Welbeck stunned the Kop when he fired the Seagulls into a two-minute lead, but the Reds turned the contest on its head thanks to strikes either side of half time from Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah, the latter eventually netted his 16th league goal of the campaign after having a record 12 shots across the 90 minutes – the most by any player in a single top-flight game thus far.

With nine games remaining, Jurgen Klopp's men sit top of the table and hold the advantage in the enthralling three-way title race, as they - at the time of writing - sit two points clear of second-placed Arsenal and are three points better off than reigning champions Manchester City, who played out a drab goalless draw with the Gunners on Sunday.

Pep Guardiola believes that Liverpool are now the 'clear favourites' to win the title, although it still remains tight at the top and the Reds could lose their spot at the summit if either or both of Arsenal and Man City win their encounters against Luton Town and Aston Villa respectively on Wednesday night.

Liverpool, who have lost just one of their last 22 Premier League games, will be confident of success on Thursday as they are unbeaten in their last 28 top-flight matches at Anfield, winning 17 of those, while they have also won each of their last six league meetings with Sheffield United by an aggregate score of 13-1.

Sheffield United

Sheffield United were seemingly on course to pick up just their fourth Premier League victory of the season last weekend when they were leading 3-1 at home to Fulham, courtesy of goals from Ben Brereton Diaz (2) and Oli McBurnie, with just four minutes of normal time remaining.

However, Bobby De-Cordova Reid pulled one back for the Cottagers before in-form striker Rodrigo Muniz scored a spectacular acrobatic goal to restore parity in the 93rd minute and snatch a point from the Blades in dramatic fashion.

Defensive errors once again proved to be Sheffield United's undoing and letting a two-goal lead slip so late in the game was "a difficult one to take" for Chris Wilder, who has just nine matches remaining to help the Blades reduce the seven-point gap to safety.

One small positive to be taken from last weekend's result is that Sheffield United avoided defeat for the second successive game – drawing with both Fulham and Bournemouth – and they head into Thursday's clash at Liverpool having picked up four points from their last three away fixtures, twice as many as they accumulated in their first 11 on the road this season.

Success has been hard to come by at Anfield, though, as the Blades have lost 10 of their last 12 away league meetings with Liverpool – the exceptions being a goalless stalemate back in March 1975 and a 2-1 triumph in April 1994.

Prediction: Liverpool 5-1 Sheffield United