Mark Lawrenson Makes His Prediction As Liverpool Face Leicester

Mark Lawrenson Makes His Prediction As Liverpool Face Leicester

Former Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson does not expect Liverpool to take all three points when the Reds play Leicester City at Anfield this evening.

The BBC pundit is very concerned with the lack of available centre-backs and he can’t see Jurgen Klopp’s side keeping a clean sheet, especially with Jamie Vardy leading the line for the Foxes:

“Liverpool are short of fit centre-halves and they also need to find a way of dealing with Jamie Vardy’s pace… Nat Phillips is a natural centre-half of course, but his real strength is heading and Leicester never really load the box and send in a lot of crosses.”

“Liverpool right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold is out too and whether it is Neco Williams or James Milner who replaces him on Sunday, it will be as part of a back four that have never played a competitive game together as a unit before. Vardy is probably scenting blood. They will do very well to keep him quiet.”

Lawrenson has gone for a 1-1 draw. It’s a fair prediction considering the fact that Liverpool will have so many players missing for the fixture. Joe Gomez, Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Jordan Henderson, Mo Salah and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain have all been ruled out, while there are doubts over the likes Fabinho and Thiago Alcantara.

Taking just one point may not seem like a good result but with the Reds playing Brighton, Wolves and Fulham in the coming weeks, there will be opportunities to make up ground before the Tottenham game in December. A win tonight, even with so many absentees would, though, be a massive boost to the team’s title challenge.

David Tully

David Tully

David has worked as a football reporter for the last fifteen years. Having started as an intern at Snack Media, he then went on to become a freelancer, working on various different sites. At the start of 2023, he took up his current role as content writer for National World's Football News Network.