It can be hard at times to separate your heart and your head when looking to bet on Liverpool. It’s natural to always want to back the team to do well, even if sometimes things don’t quite go according to plan.
Looking at the stat sheets and pinpointing the areas where Liverpool excel is a great way of getting head and heart to line up.
If you like to put a Bet Builder on Liverpool matches, there are a few key areas where the team tends to perform better than the league averages. When you’re sticking your legs into a betting calculator to figure out your returns, these are some markets that are well worth considering.
Both teams to score
One Bet Builder market to check out with Liverpool is both teams to score. While it’s never nice to want The Reds to concede, the stats show that they let goals in more often than not.
During the 2025/26 Premier League season, both teams scored in 61% of Liverpool’s games. This is well above the league average of 53%. These goals aren’t coming in bunches, either. Liverpool has conceded goals in 70.6% of its league games so far this season, averaging 1.3 per game. This means the stat can’t be written off as a few unfortunate heavy defeats.
One of Arnie Slot’s biggest challenges this summer will be rebuilding a defence that has become uncharacteristically leaky. Until then, it’s worth considering the ‘both teams to score’ market.
Most shots on target
Despite conceding too many goals, Liverpool are still very good at limiting opportunities for its opponents. The league average for shots on target per game is 4.17, with The Reds holding the opposition to an average of just 3.56 shots on target per game. Conversely, Slot’s men outperform the league average and have 4.58 per game.
A common Bet Builder market is which team will have the most shots on target, and Liverpool are always worth considering here. No matter how the goals wind up being distributed, The Reds are significantly more likely to have more shots on target than their opponents.
Total cards
One area where Liverpool have always excelled under Arnie Slot is discipline. The Reds pick up considerably fewer cards than other teams, averaging just 1.65 cards per game compared to a league average of 1.98. These clean games are also reflected in Liverpool’s opponents, with the teams they face collecting a below-average 1.82 cards per game, too.
Liverpool doesn’t have any individual players with discipline issues, either. The worst offender this year is Dominik Szobaszlai, with eight yellows and a red to his name. Otherwise, Slot has his team keeping their noses clean. Even Virgil van Dijk, who leads the league in clearances, only has four yellows.
This means it’s well worth looking at the total cards markets in Bet Builders, and giving serious thought to whether it’s worth adding an under market to your slip.
Unsurprisingly, Liverpool don’t give away many fouls, either. They average just 9.94 per game, well below the league average of 10.83, with opponents committing 10.41 fouls per game. Team fouls markets aren’t always available for Bet Builders, but the fact that Liverpool are so clean means they’re worth a look for a standalone wager.
