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Crystal Palace v Liverpool 2/1 Bet Builder Tips, Predictions & Cheat Sheet

Crystal Palace v Liverpool 2/1 Bet Builder Tips, Predictions & Cheat Sheet

Thursday 8 August, 20244 min read
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The 104th edition of the Community Shield sees Liverpool take on Crystal Palace at Wembley with the sides meeting at the national stadium for the very first time.

Crystal Palace v Liverpool Bet Builder Tips
  • Crystal Palace v Liverpool
  • English Community Shield
  • 15:00
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Florian Wirtz to have 1+ Shots on Target

Florian Wirtz has settled in well to his new surroundings following his £100 million move to Liverpool from Bayer Leverkusen. He’s already scored his first goal for the Reds, which came in a pre-season friendly against Yokohama Marinos and will look to announce himself in English football on Sunday. 

Wirtz had 78 shots across his 31 appearances in the Bundesliga last season (2.98 per 90). 39 of those attempts found the target (1.49 per 90), giving Wirtz a shot accuracy of exactly 50% which is an excellent record for a player with this level of shot volume.

This record returned 10 Bundesliga goals for Wirtz, adding to the 11 he scored in the 23/24 season. Wirtz was also effective in the Champions League for Bayer Leverkusen last season, registering seven goal contributions across his nine appearances in the competition. Wirtz managed 14 shots on target across those games in the Champions League (1.65 per 90). 

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Marc Guehi to Commit 1+ Fouls

Marc Guehi has once again been the subject of intense transfer speculation this summer but looks to be staying put at Palace for now seeing as it would be difficult for the Eagles to replace him this late on in the window. Guehi committed 24 fouls across his 34 appearances for Crystal Palace in the Premier League during the 24/25 season (0.71 per 90).

This is a marginal increase from his average in the 23/24 Premier League season (0.62 per 90), mostly due to the slight change in position for Guehi. Prior to Oliver Glasner’s appointment, Guehi was playing in a central defensive two and didn’t contest as many duels, but under the Austrian coach, Guehi finds himself in more 1v1 duels as one of the outside centre backs of a back three.

This is particularly notable when Palace get caught with their wing backs high up the pitch, which means Guehi has to step into wide areas where he isn’t the most comfortable and explains his slight increase in fouls committed last season. Even if Guehi does line up as the central centre back, Liverpool’s dynamic frontline should still be able to draw fouls from the 25-year-old. 

Guehi is likely to line up against Mohamed Salah if he starts as one of the outside centre backs. Salah won 39 fouls across his 38 Premier League appearances last season (1.04 per 90). He’ll be supported by Jeremie Frimpong, who can add an extra layer of explosiveness to Liverpool’s attack down that side. Frimpong averaged 1.20 fouls won per 90 in the Bundesliga last season.

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Liverpool to Win

Liverpool are the pre-season favourites to win the Premier League title and retain the trophy for the first time in their history. It’s unlikely that the campaign will unravel as straightforwardly as that but this curtain-raiser for the season should give us a taste of what we can expect from Arne Slot’s side this campaign. 

Liverpool only lost four of their 38 games in the Premier League during the 24/25 campaign, so overcoming the Reds will require the very top level of Palace’s performance, similar to how they overcame Manchester City in the FA Cup final. However, Palace have been embroiled in a summer of turmoil with multi-club ownership issues, demoting them to the Conference League after originally qualifying for the Europa League. This situation has had a knock-on effect on Palace’s summer signings - the Eagles have made just two signings at the time of writing. 

Liverpool avoided defeat in both fixtures against Crystal Palace last season, claiming a 1-0 win at Selhurst Park before drawing 1-1 with Oliver Glasner’s side at Anfield late on in the season. Liverpool’s attacking quality and depth should be too much for a Palace side that will have one eye on their Conference League qualifying tie, which takes place next week.

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📂 Crystal Palace v Liverpool Cheat Sheet

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📈 Crystal Palace v Liverpool Form & Tactics

Liverpool have been proactive in ensuring that they maintain the 10-point gap between themselves and the potential challengers to the Premier League title. Their summer spending has topped £250 million, and there are still rumours that Liverpool will continue to add to their spending, with the future of Alexander Isak still to be settled.

Liverpool have a very strong squad, so it can be difficult to pick out holes which the opposition could exploit, but I think that the Reds could be vulnerable in the full back areas. Milos Kerkez is an excellent signing and shouldn’t have too many issues having played in the Premier League for Bournemouth last season, but between Conor Bradley and Frimpong, I think opposition sides will look to target Liverpool down that side.

Crystal Palace risk not making the most of the opportunity that has presented itself to the club following their first-ever major trophy as they beat Manchester City to the FA Cup in May. The summer that has followed has been marred by the dilemma of which European competition the Eagles will be competing in next season, which has had an effect on their summer spending, and could end up hanging over the club all season. 

At the time of writing, Crystal Palace will be competing in the Conference League during the 25/26 season, should they be able to battle through a qualifying game, which takes place in the coming weeks. Palace’s focus is likely to be on this qualifying game as opposed to the Community Shield. That being said, Oliver Glasner has assembled an excellent side that could excel on the counter-attack here with the front three of Ismaila Sarr, Jean-Philippe Mateta and Eberechi Eze. 

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Chris Kavanagh

  • Chris Kavanagh averaged 4.44 cards per game and 21.40 fouls given per game across his 25 appointments in the PL last season. 

  • Chris Kavanagh is one of the most experienced referees currently officiating at this level; only Michael Oliver and Anthony Taylor officiated more games in the PL last season than Chris Kavanagh.

📊 Crystal Palace v Liverpool Key Stats

  • Liverpool scored more goals than any other side in the Premier League last season (86) and have further strengthened their attacking line with the likes of Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz. 

  • Liverpool scored 2+ goals in 31 of their 38 games in the Premier League last season (81%).

  • Liverpool have only lost one of the last 10 head-to-head meetings between these sides. 

  • Crystal Palace’s defensive record since the turn of the year is really impressive - they didn’t concede a single goal from the quarter-finals onwards in the FA Cup as they went on to lift the trophy. 

  • Crystal Palace ended the 24/25 season on an eight-game unbeaten run across all competitions. 

  • Daniel Munoz was one of Palace’s most effective players last season from right wing back, registering 13 goal contributions across his 46 appearances in all competitions for the Eagles.

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