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Liverpool vs Villarreal: Champions League prediction, stats and bet builder tips

Liverpool
Champions League
Yesterday · 19:00 UTC
VS
Anfield

Villarreal
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Liverpool
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Top picksStarting XI only
Highest-confidence selections across every marketMost likely tackle99S. Mouriño
VIL · CB
VIL · CBMost likely foul94S. Mouriño
VIL · CB
VIL · CBMost likely shot90C. Gakpo
LIV · ST
LIV · STMost likely booking85S. Mouriño
VIL · CB
VIL · CBMost likely fouled79P. Gueye
VIL · CM
VIL · CMMost likely SoT60N. Pépé
VIL · ST
VIL · STMatch outcome
Dixon-Coles Bivariate Poisson
LIV66.5%DRAW18.3%
VIL15.2%Most likely score2–19.5% · xG 2.67–1.20
Over 1.589.6%Over 2.572.6%Over 3.551.2%Under 2.527.4%BTTS65.0%
InputsClub strength rating 1729 vs 1754 (rating diff -25), built from league table position and recent form.Uncertainty bands ±120 / ±120 widen the Poisson tails for low-data sides.Competition Champions League, home advantage applied to the home lambda.
How the markets fall outλH 2.67, λA 1.20 feed a 0-5 probability grid with Dixon-Coles low-score correction.1X2 sums the grid by sign of (x − y); goal lines sum cells where x + y ≥ threshold; BTTS sums cells with x > 0 AND y > 0.Mode scoreline is the highest single-cell probability on the grid.
Goals and form
The record behind the projection, at this venue and in this competition
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at home
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away
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Goal or assist
Only genuine shouts · model + recent form · click any pick for reasoningShot on target 1+ / 2+
Top picks · best shout highlighted · click any pick for reasoningNPN. PépéVillarreal · ST
60low
1+best shout6075% hit2+2225% hit
SoT/90 0.99·Shots/90 2.56
Last 521110
A regular goal threat who works the keeper.
AIA. IsakLiverpool · ST
60low
1+best shout6064% hit2+1614% hit
SoT/90 1.18·Shots/90 2.58
Last 501011
A regular goal threat who works the keeper.
GMG. MikautadzeVillarreal · ST
56low
1+best shout5655% hit2+3035% hit
SoT/90 1.37·Shots/90 2.87
Last 502110
A regular goal threat who works the keeper.
Shots 1+ / 2+
Top picks · best shout highlighted · click any pick for reasoningCGC. GakpoLiverpool · ST
90high
1+best shout9075% hit2+5844% hit
Shots/90 2.69·SoT/90 0.77
Last 501112
Gets his shots off regularly.
BBB. BarcolaLiverpool · ST
86high
1+best shout8674% hit2+4937% hit
Shots/90 2.74·SoT/90 1.21
Last 501154
Gets his shots off regularly.
AIA. IsakLiverpool · ST
86high
1+best shout8679% hit2+5150% hit
Shots/90 2.58·SoT/90 1.18
Last 523132
Gets his shots off regularly.
Yellow card
Top picks · click any pick for the reasoningSMS. MouriñoVillarreal · CB
85high
Cards/90 0.42·YC 15
Last 5✕✕✕✕
His workrate keeps him in the foul mix.
IAIlias AkhomachVillarreal · ST
74high
Cards/90 0.48·YC 9
Last 5✕✕✕✕
His workrate keeps him in the foul mix.
JGJ. GomezLiverpool · CB
73high
Cards/90 0.39·YC 6
Last 5✕✕✕✕✕
His workrate keeps him in the foul mix.
Fouls committed 1+ / 2+
Top picks · best shout highlighted · click any pick for reasoningSMS. MouriñoVillarreal · CB
94high
1+9487% hit2+best shout6153% hit
Fouls/90 1.99·YC 15
Last 521002
His workrate keeps him in the foul mix.
SCSanti ComesañaVillarreal · CM
91high
1+best shout9194% hit2+4439% hit
Fouls/90 1.66·YC 7
Last 521111
His workrate keeps him in the foul mix. Foul-to-card ratio 10: gets away with it.
PNPau NavarroVillarreal · CB
82medium
1+best shout8269% hit2+4639% hit
Fouls/90 1.52·YC 6
Last 512012
His workrate keeps him in the foul mix.
Fouls drawn 1+ / 2+
Top picks · best shout highlighted · click any pick for reasoningPGP. GueyeVillarreal · CM
79medium
1+best shout7979% hit2+5763% hit
Drawn/90 2.31·Dribbles/90 0.56
Last 513220
Drawn fouls are a regular part of his game.
IAIlias AkhomachVillarreal · ST
75medium
1+best shout7563% hit2+390% hit
Drawn/90 2.97·Dribbles/90 1.75
Last 501101
Fouls follow him around: defenders can’t live with him.
APAyoze PérezVillarreal · ST
71medium
1+best shout7171% hit2+3224% hit
Drawn/90 2.13·Dribbles/90 1.13
Last 511201
Drawn fouls are a regular part of his game.
Tackles 1+ / 2+
Top picks · best shout highlighted · click any pick for reasoningSMS. MouriñoVillarreal · CB
99high
1+9987% hit2+best shout9480% hit
Tackles/90 4.09·Int/90 1.02
Last 541002
A tackling machine, he’s everywhere.
CRCarlos RomeroVillarreal · CB
99high
1+9986% hit2+best shout7543% hit
Tackles/90 2.63·Int/90 1.04
Last 511018
A busy defensive presence who throws himself in.
PNPau NavarroVillarreal · CB
93high
1+9369% hit2+best shout7554% hit
Tackles/90 2.84·Int/90 0.83
Last 521210
A busy defensive presence who throws himself in.
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Liverpool vs Villarreal: how to use this page
How do I use BetBuilderAI to build a good bet on Liverpool vs Villarreal?
Start from the numbers, not the names. Open Raw data to see every player in the fixture ranked by hit rate or per-90 for the prop you want, check Streaks for who is already on a run, then add your legs in Build your bet, where the combined price accounts for them being correlated.
Each tab does one job:
- Build your bet. assemble the slip leg by leg and the combined price accounts for the legs being correlated, which a naive multiplication does not. Golden picks, value picks and plays flag where the model disagrees with the bookmaker, and you can push a finished slip to the community and climb the tipster leaderboard.
- Predictions. the model’s call on every market above, with the components it used rather than just the output.
- Streaks. every active run in the game, so you can see who has made 1+ tackle in thirty straight matches and whether they did it against this opponent last time. Filter by competition, player or team.
- H2H. the recent meetings between these two, with average goals, the scorelines, the both-teams-to-score rate, and which players hit which props in the last two.
- Raw data. every player in the fixture as a filterable list, sortable by hit rate or per-90, so you can pull the ten most-fouling players in the game and take one straight into your builder.
- Stat pack. a shareable snapshot, the top five in each category with their last-five hit rates, for sending to whoever you are betting with.
Which player props can I price for Liverpool vs Villarreal?
We price 8 player markets for Liverpool vs Villarreal: anytime goalscorer, goal or assist, shots 1+ and 2+, shots on target 1+ and 2+, tackles 1+ and 2+, fouls committed 1+ and 2+, fouls won 1+ and 2+, to be booked. Each one shows the season hit rate, the per-90 rate and the last five results for every player in the fixture, so you can judge a leg before it costs you.
Team markets alongside them:
- match result
- over and under 1.5, 2.5 and 3.5 goals
- both teams to score
- most likely scoreline
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Do you show players who are not in the starting XI?
Not once we know who is. Backing a player who starts on the bench is the most expensive mistake in a bet builder and the easiest to make, because most stats pages never update. Until the team sheets are published we show every fit player, then every board filters itself to the confirmed XI.
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- Boards carry a "starting XI only" marker once a team sheet is confirmed.
- Lineups land about an hour before kick-off.