Brentford vs Liverpool

18 January 2025 · Premier League · 2024/25 · Referee Andy Madley

Full time 0 – 2

Half-time: 0–0

Darwin Núñez 90+1’, 90+3’

Match summary

Liverpool beat Brentford 2-0 on the road. It was goalless at half-time.

Darwin Núñez put Liverpool ahead in stoppage time, set up by Trent Alexander-Arnold and Núñez made it 0-2 in stoppage time, set up by Harvey Elliott.

The chances backed that up: Liverpool created 4.18 expected goals (xG) from 37 shots to Brentford's 1.20 from 11.

Match stats

11 Shots 37

6 Shots on Target 8

2 Corners 15

2 Yellow Cards 3

0 Red Cards 0

1.20 xG 4.16

1.20 Non-penalty xG 4.16

8 Deep Completions 23

Key events

Brentford Liverpool

Kick-off

Half-time0-0

90+1’

Darwin Núñez
Assist: Trent Alexander-Arnold

0-1

90+3’

Darwin Núñez
Assist: Harvey Elliott

0-2

Full-time0-2

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Brentford

Mads Roerslev
Christian Nørgaard

Liverpool

Konstantinos Tsimikas
Dominik Szoboszlai
Darwin Núñez

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Brentford 1.20 xGLiverpool 4.18 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Liverpool attacking Brentford attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Mark Flekken	GK	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Mads Roerslev	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.66	1
Nathan Collins	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Sepp van den Berg	DEF	90	1	0.06	0.00	0
Keane Lewis-Potter	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.03	1
Christian Nørgaard	MID	90	1	0.09	0.06	1
Vitaly Janelt	MID	67	0	0.00	0.04	1
Bryan Mbeumo	MID	90	4	0.23	0.09	1
Mikkel Damsgaard	MID	82	0	0.00	0.10	1
Yehor Yarmolyuk	MID	90	2	0.05	0.00	0
Yoane Wissa	FWD	90	2	0.72	0.14	3
Kevin Schade	Sub	23	1	0.05	0.00	0
Mathias Jensen	Sub	8	0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Alisson	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Trent Alexander-Arnold	DEF	90		1	4	0.07	0.85	5
Ibrahima Konaté	DEF	90			3	0.10	0.43	2
Virgil van Dijk	DEF	90			2	0.17	0.09	1
Konstantinos Tsimikas	DEF	66			0	0.00	0.06	2
Ryan Gravenberch	MID	90			1	0.03	0.12	2
Alexis Mac Allister	MID	81			4	0.25	0.09	3
Mohamed Salah	MID	90			3	0.27	1.01	7
Dominik Szoboszlai	MID	81			7	0.50	0.02	1
Cody Gakpo	MID	88			3	0.73	0.36	4
Luis Díaz	FWD	66			6	0.85	0.06	1
Darwin Núñez	Sub	24	2		4	1.23	0.00	0
Andrew Robertson	Sub	24			0	0.00	0.22	3
Curtis Jones	Sub	9			0	0.00	0.02	1
Harvey Elliott	Sub	9		1	0	0.00	0.62	1
Federico Chiesa	Sub	2			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Brentford win 16% Avg odds 6.04

Draw 19% Avg odds 4.97

Liverpool win 65% Avg odds 1.48

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Brentford L D L W D

Liverpool W W W D D

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Liverpool 2-0 Brentford, 25 Aug 24 Next meeting: Brentford 3-2 Liverpool, 25 Oct 25 All Brentford vs Liverpool meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.