Chelsea vs Liverpool Prediction: Are we expecting goals from both teams?

In the central match of the first round of the English championship Chelsea at home stadium Stamford Bridge will face Liverpool. This match will begin on August 13. In the last four face-to-face matches, the teams failed to score. Are we expecting goals from both teams?

The London team finished the Premier League campaign only in 12th place, could not do anything on the European stage, and performed poorly in cup competitions. Now at the helm of Chelsea is Mauricio Pochettino, well known for reaching the Champions League final with Tottenham and improving the quality of Southampton's game. Aubameyang, Pulisic, Azpilicueta, Mount, Zakaria, Felix, Mendy, Kante, Coulibaly, Loftus-Cheek, Havertz, and Kovacic have all left the Londoners. These players would have made a great team, but some never made it at the club; the rest just needed a new career challenge. The Londoners played five games in pre-season; they beat Wrexham, Brighton, and Fulham and drew with Newcastle United and Borussia Dortmund.

Jordan Henderson and Fabinho, who have been core players for several years, left the Merseyside club; Henderson was the captain and is already considered a team legend. In addition to them, Roberto Firmino also went to Saudi Arabia, and veterans Milner and Keita will no longer play for Liverpool. The team signed McAllister and Soboslaya, but their transfer campaign is incomplete. All of Liverpool's pre-season matches were highly productive: the club beat Karlsruhe (4:2), Leicester City (4:0), and Darmstadt (3:1), drew with Greuther Fürth (4:4) and lost to Bayern (3:4). In the previous EPL campaign, Liverpool had a strong second half, but due to a large number of misfires in the first part failed to qualify for the Champions League - the Reds finished fifth and will play in the Europa League.

The last four personal meetings between Chelsea and Liverpool did not please with productive kicks in regular time. This statistic will change in the next match. Aristocrats and Reds failed in the EPL and unsuccessfully played in the European arena. Unsurprisingly, the management of both clubs decided to make changes in the squads. What to say about Chelsea, the Londoners are the most active club in the transfer window.

Here is an interesting statistic: in the history of the EPL, Chelsea lost in the first round only five times - 20 wins and five draws. The match at Stamford Bridge will be exciting, and the teams will show an active game in attack and, most likely, share the points.