{"id":294530,"date":"2023-09-30T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T10:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=294530"},"modified":"2023-09-30T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T10:36:19","slug":"tottenham-vs-liverpool-on-saturday-could-be-a-premier-league-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/tottenham-vs-liverpool-on-saturday-could-be-a-premier-league-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham vs Liverpool on Saturday could be a Premier League thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"
April’s seven-goal thriller between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur went down as an instant Premier League classic.<\/p>\n
Three goals down inside 15 minutes, Spurs fought back against all odds and thought they’d stolen a point thanks to Richarlison’s 93rd-minute equaliser.<\/p>\n
Wrong. There was still enough time for Diogo Jota to send Anfield into raptures with an even later winning goal.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s meeting in north London has just as much potential for goals and drama as two of the Premier League’s most exciting teams at the moment go head-to-head.<\/p>\n
Ange Postecoglou has wasted no time in transforming the outlook at Spurs with his daring front-foot style getting the fans quickly on side.<\/p>\n
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Liverpool have made a confident start to the season but have fallen behind in several games<\/p>\n
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Tottenham have also shown impressive powers of recovery in a number of games this term<\/p>\n
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Both Ange Postecoglou (left) and Jurgen Klopp (right) will give their teams licence to attack in a fixture that often serves up plenty of goals<\/p>\n
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It’s getting results, too, with Spurs undefeated after their opening six league fixtures and encouraged further by the way they twice came from behind against Arsenal in last weekend’s derby.<\/p>\n
Indeed, Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool are one of the few teams with a better record after five victories from their opening six.<\/p>\n
The Reds have constructed a ‘Fab Five’ attack that has the potential to push Manchester City all the way in this season’s title race if they can maintain their winning consistency.<\/p>\n
With Liverpool unbeaten in their last 17 league outings – 10 more than Spurs’ current run – something has to give on Saturday teatime at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n
Neither are short on match-winners. Son Heung-min is stepping up nicely to compensate for Harry Kane’s departure over the summer, with five goals in seven games.<\/p>\n
Richarlison and Dejan Kulusevski have both been on target, while \u00a340million summer arrival James Maddison looks like he’s been at Spurs for years following two goals and four assists.<\/p>\n
They’ve already shown tantalising glimpses of some slick build-up play but perhaps most importantly, Spurs are no longer as ‘Spursy’ as usual.<\/p>\n
Under Postecoglou, they have come from behind at Brentford to draw, come from behind at Burnley to win emphatically and scored two injury time goals to beat Sheffield United.<\/p>\n
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Diogo Jota scored a dramatic late winner as Liverpool beat Tottenham 4-3 back in April<\/p>\n
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Mohamed Salah leads a Liverpool attack certainly not short on potency at the moment\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Diogo Jota (left) and Darwin Nunez (right) also provide a rich seam of goalscoring potential<\/p>\n
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Luis Diaz, seen scoring against Bournemouth, also offers Liverpool threat in front of goal<\/p>\n
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Cody Gakpo celebrates finding the net in Liverpool’s 3-1 Carabao Cup win over Leicester City<\/p>\n
Son’s double then ensured they took a point from a pulsating north London derby last Sunday.<\/p>\n
It quite possibly shows the foundations of a new mental fortitude given they’d almost certainly have crumbled to defeat in many similar scenarios in the past.<\/p>\n
If they avoid defeat against Liverpool, Postecoglou will become only the second Spurs manager in the Premier League era to go his first seven games unbeaten.<\/p>\n
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs LIVERPOOL<\/span><\/p>\n Premier League; Saturday 5.30pm BST<\/p>\n Live on Sky Sports Main Event, Premier League and Ultra HDR\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The other was Antonio Conte, who made it to nine games, but what is for sure is that the current approach is far more exciting and popular.<\/p>\n Coming from behind has become a theme for Liverpool, too, this season. While it’s far from ideal to trail in games – as they’ve done in five of eight matches so far – they’ve stormed back to win every single one.<\/p>\n The latest came in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night when goals from Cody Gakpo, Dominik Szoboszlai and Diogo Jota saw them from behind against Championship leaders Leicester City.<\/p>\n That also illustrated Liverpool’s formidable attacking options right now, arguably unrivalled among their Premier League rivals.<\/p>\n Mohamed Salah has put all that speculation over a move to Saudi Arabia firmly behind him with four goals and four assists in seven outings this season.<\/p>\n If he grabs either a goal or an assist at Spurs, he’ll become only the third player in Premier League history – after David Beckham in 2000-01 and Erling Haaland last season – to record a goal involvement in each of their first seven games.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Son Heung-min celebrates after scoring the second of his equalisers against Arsenal last week<\/p>\n <\/p>\n James Maddison, who signed from Leicester City for \u00a340m over the summer, has also shone<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Richarlison (left) and Dejan Kulusevski (right) are other sharp attacking options for Spurs<\/p>\n Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz have formed an effective front three with the Egyptian, all chipping in with their share of goals.<\/p>\n According to Opta, Salah and Nunez have created a chance for one another every 29 minutes on average in the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n If they don’t get you, Gakpo and Jota are proving more than effective back-ups and the threat of goals from midfield too. Fans were purring over Szoboszlai’s Steven Gerrard-esque rocket against Leicester.<\/p>\n ‘The boy is impressive. Really smart, really nice, good lad, close with everybody,’ Klopp said of the Hungarian in his Friday press conference.<\/p>\n ‘He’s never played the position he’s playing for us before, but we’ve learned together where it can go. He’s a real joy to work with.’<\/p>\n If Klopp’s side can figure out a way not to concede first in pretty much every game, they’ll have a superb chance of silverware this season. But with such firepower at their disposal, such things clearly aren’t an issue.<\/p>\n The most startling element about this fixture – a meeting of two of the so-called ‘big six’ – is how shocking Spurs have been in the recent past.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dominik Szoboszlai celebrates after his stunning strike in Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Leicester<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The thunderbolt was likened to one of Steven Gerrard’s strikes wearing the No 8 shirt\u00a0<\/p>\n They have won just one of their last 21 Premier League games against Liverpool, losing 14 of them.<\/p>\n Spurs were still tenants at Wembley Stadium in October 2017 when they achieved that sole victory and since then, they’ve lost eight of 11 encounters.<\/p>\n With the exception of 2013-14, when Liverpool won 4-0 at home and 5-0 away, in general they’ve been tight contests settled by the odd goal. They just tend to fall Liverpool’s way.<\/p>\n Premier League games between Spurs and Liverpool average 2.94 goals. This has all the ingredients to be another classic of the genre.<\/p>\n It’s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\nIT’S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n