Liverpool
- Liverpool have 12 points after six matches in this season’s UEFA Champions League, placing them 9th, while Marseille have nine points from the same number of matches, putting them at 16th.
- The game between Liverpool and Marseille on Wednesday is a fascinating clash between two of European soccer's brightest young minds in managers Arne Slot and Roberto De Zerbi.
- In possession, Slot’s team plays a 4-2-3-1 with inverted full-backs and a double pivot, but without the ball, they use a compact 4-3-3/3-4-3 press, with trigger-based pressing.
- Liverpool are undefeated in that same period, and have shown that they can get a result away from home, with two draws and no defeats on the road.
Marseille
- De Zerbi, meanwhile, has made Marseille into a high-energy possession side who can shape-shift into a 3-2-5 or a 3-1-6 at the top of their possession phases, with a front line that harasses the ball carrier and a central midfield that overloads the space around them.
- The Italian is unafraid to take risks, and his team have become something of a free-flowing, risk-taking team under his leadership, which suits Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang down to the ground.
Key Players
- While Aubameyang is Marseille’s creative hub in the final third, with 5 assists in 6 UEFA Champions League matches, making chances for his team to exploit gaps in the opponent’s defense, Florian Wirtz has been on fire for Liverpool, with the German scoring 3 of the Reds’ last 5 goals.
- His creativity, and that of Liverpool in general, has been on point recently, but their defense has let them down.
Betting Insights
- Liverpool are the slight favourites, at 1.94, with Marseille just behind them at 3.6.
- The over 2.5 goals option is also looking attractive at 1.62.
Prediction
With Liverpool undefeated and the greater points tally, we’re backing the visitors to edge out a closely fought game.
