Live on Sky Sports 1: Sun 13.30: Liverpool are 13/2 (BetVictor) to net twice without reply against Southampton in the Premier League.
Liverpool’s summer recruitment drive has seen them plunder the talent pool at Southampton three times, securing the signatures of Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren and thanks to a quirk of the fixture computer, the trio will make their Reds debuts against their former club on Sunday.
It’s just 4/11 at Stan James that they start their Anfield careers with a bittersweet victory while it’s 9/1 with BetVictor for the points to head south with the Saints, one of only two teams to defeat Liverpool on their own patch last term, and bet365 post 19/4 against a stalemate.
Lovren was actually the match winner in that Anfield meeting last September but his transfer to Merseyside has been part of a St Mary’s exodus and new Southampton boss Ronald Koeman is subsequently in the middle of a rebuilding project on the south coast.
Brendan Rodgers’s troops are worthy favourites then and bookies expect them to dominate their televised opener, Winner.com pricing them at 10/11 to be in possession of a lead at both the interval and full-time.
Ladbrokes offer 31/10 about a home triumph by a one-goal margin and but the bulk of the cash so far has been for outcomes related to a more comfortable Liverpool success. In Skybet’s handicaps for example, Rodgers’s men have attracted support at even money when kicking off a goal in arrears, BetVictor consider 2-0 (13/2) to be the most likely scoreline and it’s 6/5 courtesy of betway for the Reds to win ‘to nil’.
In attack, bet365 quote Daniel Sturridge at 4/1 to break the deadlock, the same price William Hill mark against Rickie Lambert and for punters seeking higher odds in the first scorer betting, Dejan Lovren is 25/1 (BetVictor) to put Liverpool 1-0 up this time around.
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