Liverpool vs Arsenal

24 August 2019 · Premier League · 2019/20 · Referee Anthony Taylor

Full time 3 – 1

Half-time: 1–0

Joel Matip 41’
Mohamed Salah 49’ (pen), 59’

Lucas Torreira 85’

Match summary

Liverpool won 3-1 at home to Arsenal. Liverpool led 1-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Joel Matip put Liverpool ahead with a header in the 41st minute, set up by Trent Alexander-Arnold. In the second half, Mohamed Salah made it 2-0 from the penalty spot in the 49th minute, Salah made it 3-0 in the 59th minute, set up by Fabinho, and Lucas Torreira pulled one back to make it 3-1 in the 85th minute.

The chances backed that up: Liverpool created 2.79 expected goals (xG) from 25 shots to Arsenal's 0.99 from 9.

Match stats

25 Shots 9

5 Shots on Target 3

6 Corners 4

1 Yellow Cards 1

0 Red Cards 0

2.79 xG 0.99

2.03 Non-penalty xG 0.99

9 Deep Completions 7

Key events

Liverpool Arsenal

Kick-off

Joel Matip
Assist: Trent Alexander-Arnold

1-0

41’

Half-time1-0

Mohamed Salah
Penalty

2-0

49’

Mohamed Salah
Assist: Fabinho

3-0

59’

85’

Lucas Torreira

3-1

Full-time3-1

Bookings

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

Liverpool

Fabinho

Arsenal

David Luiz

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.

Liverpool 2.79 xGArsenal 0.99 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Arsenal attacking Liverpool attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

Hover or tap a shot for the player, minute and xG.

Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Adrián	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Trent Alexander-Arnold	DEF	90		1	3	0.18	0.42	6
Joel Matip	DEF	90	1		1	0.06	0.02	1
Virgil van Dijk	DEF	90			1	0.03	0.00	0
Andrew Robertson	DEF	90			3	0.12	0.58	3
Fabinho	MID	90		1	0	0.00	0.31	4
Jordan Henderson	MID	90			1	0.04	0.00	0
Georginio Wijnaldum	MID	71			2	0.12	0.00	0
Mohamed Salah	FWD	90	2		5	1.60	0.09	1
Roberto Firmino	FWD	88			6	0.36	0.00	0
Sadio Mané	FWD	79			3	0.28	0.30	4
James Milner	Sub	19			0	0.00	0.00	0
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain	Sub	11			0	0.00	0.00	0
Adam Lallana	Sub	2			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Bernd Leno	GK	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Ainsley Maitland-Niles	DEF	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
David Luiz	DEF	90		1	0.05	0.00	0
Sokratis	DEF	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Nacho Monreal	DEF	90		1	0.04	0.00	0
Granit Xhaka	MID	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Matteo Guendouzi	MID	88		0	0.00	0.00	0
Joe Willock	MID	83		0	0.00	0.04	1
Dani Ceballos	MID	63		0	0.00	0.00	0
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	FWD	90		2	0.28	0.12	2
Nicolas Pepe	FWD	90		4	0.54	0.26	1
Lucas Torreira	Sub	27	1	1	0.08	0.04	1
Alexandre Lacazette	Sub	7		0	0.00	0.00	0
Henrikh Mkhitaryan	Sub	2		0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Liverpool win 66% Avg odds 1.47

Draw 19% Avg odds 4.96

Arsenal win 15% Avg odds 6.34

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

Form going into the game

Liverpool W W W W W

Arsenal L D W W W

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Liverpool 5-1 Arsenal, 29 Dec 18 Next meeting: Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool, 15 Jul 20 All Liverpool vs Arsenal 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.