Liverpool vs Southampton

27 November 2021 · Premier League · 2021/22 · Referee Andre Marriner

Full time 4 – 0

Half-time: 3–0

Diogo Jota 2’, 32’
Thiago Alcántara 37’
Virgil van Dijk 52’

Match summary

Liverpool won comfortably, 4-0 at home to Southampton. Liverpool led 3-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Diogo Jota put Liverpool ahead in the 2nd minute, set up by Andrew Robertson, Jota made it 2-0 in the 32nd minute, set up by Mohamed Salah, and Thiago Alcántara made it 3-0 in the 37th minute. In the second half, Virgil van Dijk made it 4-0 from a corner in the 52nd minute, set up by Trent Alexander-Arnold.

The chances backed that up: Liverpool created 3.07 expected goals (xG) from 20 shots to Southampton's 1.06 from 7.

Match stats

20 Shots 7

6 Shots on Target 3

5 Corners 7

0 Yellow Cards 1

0 Red Cards 0

3.07 xG 0.97

3.07 Non-penalty xG 0.97

14 Deep Completions 2

Key events

Liverpool Southampton

Kick-off

Diogo Jota
Assist: Andrew Robertson

1-0

2’

Diogo Jota
Assist: Mohamed Salah

2-0

32’

Thiago Alcántara

3-0

37’

Half-time3-0

Virgil van Dijk
Assist: Trent Alexander-Arnold

4-0

52’

Full-time4-0

Bookings

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

Southampton

Jan Bednarek

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 3.07 xGSouthampton 1.06 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Southampton attacking Liverpool attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Alisson	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Trent Alexander-Arnold	DEF	90		1	0	0.00	0.18	2
Ibrahima Konaté	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Virgil van Dijk	DEF	90	1		1	0.06	0.03	1
Andrew Robertson	DEF	90		1	0	0.00	1.40	4
Fabinho	MID	90			0	0.00	0.09	2
Jordan Henderson	MID	69			1	0.04	0.22	3
Thiago Alcántara	MID	61	1		1	0.05	0.00	0
Mohamed Salah	FWD	90		1	4	0.22	0.84	2
Diogo Jota	FWD	83	2		7	2.45	0.08	1
Sadio Mané	FWD	90			3	0.12	0.00	0
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain	Sub	29			2	0.11	0.04	1
James Milner	Sub	21			1	0.02	0.00	0
Takumi Minamino	Sub	7			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Alex McCarthy	GK	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Lyanco	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Mohammed Salisu	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Jan Bednarek	DEF	48	1	0.07	0.00	0
Valentino Livramento	MID	90	0	0.00	0.05	1
Romain Perraud	MID	90	1	0.03	0.00	0
Oriol Romeu	MID	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
James Ward-Prowse	MID	90	0	0.00	0.07	1
Armando Broja	FWD	90	1	0.23	0.00	0
Che Adams	FWD	48	0	0.00	0.00	0
Adam Armstrong	FWD	90	4	0.73	0.00	0
Nathan Redmond	Sub	42	0	0.00	0.00	0
Nathan Tella	Sub	42	0	0.00	0.37	2
Kyle Walker-Peters	Sub	1	0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Liverpool win 77% Avg odds 1.25

Draw 15% Avg odds 6.50

Southampton win 8% Avg odds 11.34

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

Form going into the game

Liverpool W W D L W

Southampton W D W W L

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Liverpool 2-0 Southampton, 08 May 21 Next meeting: Southampton 1-2 Liverpool, 17 May 22 All Liverpool vs Southampton 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.