Liverpool under 2.5 goals

Liverpool's team sheet is the story. Jeremie Frimpong, Conor Bradley, Giovanni Leoni and Ryan Gravenberch are all out, and Hugo Ekitike's Achilles injury removes the centre-forward, leaving a projected front line of Florian Wirtz behind Rio Ngumoha, Bradley Barcola and Trey Koumas, two of them teenagers, for a trip to Istanbul.

The risk is the quality that remains: Alisson, Virgil van Dijk, Dominik Szoboszlai and Alexis Mac Allister still start, and Wirtz can open a defence on his own, so three away goals is not unthinkable. With the striker gone and both right-backs missing, a big Liverpool scoreline asks a lot. The bet: Liverpool under 2.5 goals.