Liverpool vs Sheffield United LIVE: Latest Premier League updates

The Reds have won 12 of their 15 home league games this season, scoring 40 times along the way – more than any other club on home soil.

Sheffield United, meanwhile, are sitting on a record of one win in 14 away this term, scoring 12, conceding32.

Liverpool are five goals away from scoring 700 under Jurgen Klopp in league fixtures.

The Premier League’s bottom club should not, in all fairness, be the ones to force the first big upset in the sprint finish, but the top flight does have a habit of throwing up unexpected results when the pressure builds most.

Not, however, on home soil for the biggest teams.

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has no worries about Mohamed Salah’s misfires in front of goal because he keeps coming up with important moments when they need them most after his second-half winner against Brighton returned the Reds to the top of the Premier League.

Luis Diaz’s volley just before the half-hour allowed the hosts to recover from Brighton striker Danny Welbeck’s opener inside 90 seconds, but the Reds needed a clear head and a clinical touch from their Egypt international to secure a 2-1 victory.

Salah had 12 attempts on goal, his most in a Premier League match and the most on record by a Liverpool player in the competition.

Sheffield United’s solitary Premier League away victory this season was 3-1 against Luton in February. They have drawn their previous two league games so could be on track for a famous win this evening.

Liverpool are the current favourites to win the Premier League title following the goalless draw between Arsenal and Manchester City at the weekend.

That result left the Reds with a two-point lead over the Gunners who have since jumped back above them in the table. The fluctuations of the title are not something Jurgen Klopp is focusing on and says that the next match is all that matters.

“It’s obviously nothing we are really aware of. The situation for us is Sheffield United and not who is the favourite,” he said, “I am pretty sure when we lost at Arsenal we were not favourites after that matchday. Maybe rightly so or not, I don’t know and I don’t care.

“I think I said in the last press conference, one of the most important things to get through this period is just to ignore the outside mess, because that goes up and down and is emotional and all these kind of things. We have to be professional.

“We have to be emotional but in the right way. We have to be the best version of ourselves, we have to try to play the best football we can play and then let’s see what the outcome is.

“There are no guarantees, there are just opportunities. The clearer you see the opportunity, the more likely you can take it. That’s it.”

Liverpool’s only defeat in 39 home league games against newly promoted sides came against Fulham in March 2021. They have won 32 and drawn six such matches during that time.

The 0-0 draw against Manchester United in December is Liverpool’s only clean sheet in the last nine home league matches.

He was bold, he was brash, but Roberto De Zerbi’s Anfield audition did little to convince a sceptical audience he has what it takes to succeed Jurgen Klopp as the Liverpool title charge rumbled on at Anfield on Sunday.

The Brighton boss set things up perfectly pre-match, insisting he is not sure where his future lies beyond this season, with Manchester United another potential destination.

Given his lack of managing at the very top level, the doubters needed to see something special from Brighton on Sunday, a lesson on par with that they put on at Old Trafford earlier this season, to convince them the Italian is Klopp’s rightful heir.

With games coming in quick succession throughout the entirety of the rest of the season having a strong squad of players is crucial if teams, like Liverpool hope to win silverware at the end of the year.

Jurgen Klopp spoke about the schedule and how important having a fit and firing squad is for their chances of winning trophies.

“Thursday, Sunday, Thursday, Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday – these are our next six games,” said the manager, “So we need the squad, we need everybody who can come back.

“We need, yeah, in an ideal world full strength, which is probably not possible because they come back but somebody else will not be available.

“That’s how it is; the games are too intense, everybody is fighting for everything. It’s really, really a tough period but exciting as well. Looking forward to it. Tomorrow and all the games coming up.

“They are all difficult for different reasons, because first and foremost they are football games, that’s always difficult. But we are really looking forward to it, I cannot say it differently.”