Aiming for their first Premier League win of 2025 at the third attempt, leaders Liverpool face a taxing trip to the Gtech Community Stadium to meet Brentford on Saturday afternoon.
Arne Slot‘s men could only manage a 1-1 draw with title rivals Nottingham Forest on Tuesday evening.
Liverpool still hold an insurmountable four-point advantage with a game in hand, but they have started stuttering ever so slightly in 2025.
Failure to triumph in West London would also see Liverpool go three Premier League games without a win for the first time since May-August 2023, but Slot is yet to lose a top-flight away game in charge of the Reds, whose unbeaten run in the competition now stands at an exceptional 16 matches.
Clean sheets are also extremely hard for Brentford to come by against Liverpool, who have won each of their last four Premier League head-to-heads and have scored in all but one of their 22 meetings, only drawing a blank in a 0-0 First Division draw in 1936.
Liverpool’s offensive ranks will be strengthened by the return of Darwin Nunez from suspension on Saturday.
Goals at both ends are almost always a guarantee at the Gtech Community Stadium, where Brentford should sense an opportunity against a Liverpool side who have failed to carry their 2024 ruthlessness into 2025 so far.
However, Slot is not short of options for change whatsoever, and Brentford still have not kept a single clean sheet at home this season, so the Reds should be able to fight fire with fire and get their title pursuit back on track.
Credit: sportsmole.co.uk
