Class and xG

Norwich won the promotion clearly, but looking at the underlying data they were only the 2nd best Championship team after superb Brentford, and they have now sold star player Buendia - he was involved in about 43% of Norwich goals last season! - and the top striker Teemu Pukki is not as fresh and good and surprising than what he was in their last relegation season with his 11 goals.

Liverpool suffered from injuries last season, they ended up 3rd, could had been 2nd even with a lot of weakened staff.

Form

Norwich suffered from several covid cases and they had to cancel 3 of their preseason friendlies. They did manage to play 5 matches, 4 of them against lower league opponents, and then one away at Newcastle which they lost 3-0.

Liverpool played 4 games after tougher opponents, but they had several players who were involved with international competitions in the summer.

Coaching and tactical approach

Same coaches, pretty much same to be expected than previously. The Liverpool strikers by the way occupy positions 1,2 and 4 in the stats of “runs to the box”, Firmino being the absolute top man. Guess there will a lot of box action also today

Team news

A lot of confirmed absentees at Norwich, but even more doubts and covid patients and recovering patients. I do not want to guess the lineup, but none of them would make the Liverpool bench, or maybe Cantwell would.

Ay Liverpool there were not much transfer action, but their main news is that Van Dijk is back from injury. They miss Robertson, Henderson is a doubt. Tsimikas did get a lot of praise from his preseason performances as a left back.

Below one lineup guess from one media. Liverpool might be more or less so, but I doubt that at Norwich it could be something else.

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诺维奇轻松拿到了升级的名额，但从基础数据来看，他们只是排在出色的布伦特福德之后，而且他们现在已经出售了明星球员布恩迪亚——上赛季他参与了诺维奇约 43% 的进球！ - 顶级前锋 Teemu Pukki 并不像他在上一个降级赛季中以 11 个进球那样出色和令人惊讶。

利物浦上赛季伤病缠身，他们最终排名第3，即使在大量人员受伤的情况下也可能排名第2。

诺维奇最近遭遇了新冠肺炎疫情的影响，他们不得不取消了 3 场季前友谊赛。他们踢了 5 场比赛，其中 4 场是对阵低级别联赛的对手，然后是客场 0-3 输给纽卡斯尔。

利物浦踢了4场比赛，对手也都比较强大，但他们有几名球员在夏天参加了国际比赛。

两队都是相同的教练，与以前的预期几乎相同。顺便说一下，利物浦前锋在“占据禁区”的统计数据中占据了第 1,2 和 4 位，菲尔米诺是绝对的头号人物。估计今天也会有很多在禁区内的活动。

诺维奇有很多确认的缺席球员，但更多的疑似新冠患者以及康复者。我不想猜测阵容，但他们甚至都不会成为利物浦的替补，或者坎特威尔会。

是的，利物浦没有太多的转会行动，但他们的主要消息是范戴克伤愈复出。他们缺少罗伯逊，亨德森出战存疑。 Tsimikas 作为左后卫在季前赛表现得到了很多赞誉。

以上是来自一家媒体的一个阵容猜测。利物浦可能或多或少是这样。

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