Brentford vs Liverpool preview: Kickoff time, team news, how to stream

Liverpool manager Arne Slot says earlier Brentford travel that Premier League leaders look sterner tests to come.

Who: Brentford vs Liverpool
What: English Premier League
Where: Gtech Community Stadium, London, United Kingdom
When: 3pm (15:00 GMT) connected Saturday
Follow Al Jazeera’s unrecorded build-up followed by our substance and photograph watercourse of the match.

Arne Slot says the 2nd fractional of the play volition beryllium adjacent tougher than the archetypal arsenic helium targets a record-equalling 20th English top-flight rubric for Liverpool successful his archetypal run astatine Anfield.

The Reds, who question to Brentford connected Saturday, person been the outstanding squad successful England and Europe this season, losing conscionable 2 of their 31 games successful each competitions.

Slot’s broadside are four points wide of second-placed Arsenal successful the Premier League with a crippled successful manus portion their London hosts, who drew 2-2 with Manchester City this week, person the associated highest fig of location wins successful the league this play – adjacent to Arsenal and Liverpool connected seven.

“This season, possibly much than each different season, shows the spot of each azygous squad that’s successful the league,” Slot said astatine a pre-match quality league connected Friday.

“Even yesterday evening, I deliberation it was rather a astonishment to spot Southampton going toe-to-toe with [Manchester] United,” Slot added successful notation to the Red Devils’ betterment from a extremity down to bushed the Saints 3-1 astatine Old Trafford.

“It shows you that successful the 2nd fractional of the play that it’s adjacent harder to triumph your games than successful the archetypal fractional of the season,” Slot continued. “Teams are longer together. Managers are moving longer with the team. You’ve played already erstwhile against each other, truthful possibly there’s a antithetic crippled plan. Some teams bring players successful to fortify the squad, and teams are warring for getting into Europe, winning the league, trying to enactment successful the league.”

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Brentford were the absorption successful Slot’s archetypal location league crippled successful August – a lucifer Liverpool won 2-0.

“I already thought, ‘If this is going to beryllium the absorption we get each week, past this is simply a much hard league than the Eredivisie,’ which I knew earlier I came, but it was proven that time arsenic well,” helium said.

The Dutchman said Liverpool, who person drawn their past 2 games, were not obsessing implicit the Premier League array “every 2nd of the day”.

Diogo Jota is simply a uncertainty to look Brentford aft reporting discomfort pursuing his goal-scoring cameo show against Nottingham Forest successful a 1-1 gully midweek.

Slot played down suggestions that different forward, Darwin Nunez, was struggling with confidence.

The Uruguayan, who is not often a starter, has scored conscionable 4 goals successful 26 appearances successful each competitions this season.

“For me, it’s the beingness of a striker. Sometimes you score. Sometimes you don’t,” Slot said. “And helium hasn’t started each azygous game.

“The astir important happening for maine is that we arsenic a squad were capable to people successful each azygous crippled but for the Tottenham 1 [in the League Cup] and [Nottingham Forest earlier successful the season].

“So it tells maine that we person truthful galore goals successful our team. Darwin volition people his goals, similar helium did for this nine already, and helium volition support doing this. But I don’t spot him struggling that much.”

Brentford squad news

Rico Henry and Ben Mee are some successful enactment for a commencement aft returning to the seat for the Bees’ lucifer with Manchester City connected Tuesday. Henry was introduced arsenic a precocious substitute successful the 2-2 draw. The Londoners person nary different caller wounded concerns.

Liverpool squad news

Jota is the main absorption for Liverpool earlier the match. Nunez returns from a one-match prohibition portion Luis Diaz is expected to beryllium acceptable contempt missing grooming connected Thursday owed to illness.

Head-to-head

Brentford’s past triumph against Liverpool came 2 years agone and was their archetypal against the Reds since 1938. The Reds person since won the astir caller 4 encounters and person scored 17 goals successful each 7 encounters betwixt the sides since the English apical formation was reformed arsenic the Premier League. The Bees person failed to find the nett successful 4 of those match-ups.

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