Southampton vs Liverpool Betting Tips: Latest odds, team news, preview and predictions

Friday night football comes from St Mary's as Southampton play host to Premier League title contenders Liverpool.

Jurgen Klopp's men can go back to the top of the table with victory in Hampshire. Southampton, though, are scrapping for survival and will put up a real fight here.

Latest odds

Saints are aiming for a third successive Premier League win for the first time since 2016. The stage is set, then, for a fascinating fixture between two teams desperate for precious Premier League points.

Southampton are a 7/1 (8.0) shot with William Hill to claim a vital victory. Liverpool are a 42/100 (1.42) chance to maintain their title challenge by picking up all three points and going above Manchester City in the process.

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The same firm go 18/5 (4.60) that both sides are forced to settle for a share of the spoils from Friday's fixture.

Team news

Shane Long and Michael Obafemi will miss out for the hosts. Joe Gomez and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are sidelined for the visitors. Neither side has any fresh concerns.

Former Southampton striker, Sadio Mane, will hope to play a prominent role for the Reds. Mohamed Salah has scored in each of his previous three Premier League appearances against Southampton and the Egyptian striker will be desperate to end his eight-match goal drought here.

Goals galore

There have been goals at both ends in all but one of Southampton's last 10 matches at St Mary's while Liverpool have failed to keep a clean sheet in any of their last four fixtures.

Goal

William Hill go 8/11 (1.73) that there are at least three goals scored in this contest. The same firm offer 10/11 (1.91) that there are goals scored at both ends.

Predictions and Tips

Liverpool could well march on in Hampshire, but Klopp's charges may not have things entirely their own way.

Defensively, the Reds have struggled a little in recent weeks. Indeed, the men from Merseyside have conceded in four successive matches, having previously kept five consecutive clean sheets.

Meanwhile, the home side have scored in all but two of their 17 matches since Hasenhuttl's took up the reins and will hope that cutting edge could see them upset the odds.

William Hill's 2/1 (3.0) quote, then, for Liverpool to win and both teams to score could well prove popular here. The selection would have landed in five of the last seven fixtures that Klopp's charges have won.

Liverpool to win and both teams to score at 2/1 (3.0) for a 1pt stake with William Hill William Hill