EPL: Liverpool seek to compound Swansea’s woes

Liverpool vs Swansea City
Venue: Anfield Stadium
Kick off: 1:30pm

Liverpool host Swansea City in the Premier League as the Reds look to close the gap on Chelsea and pour further misery on Swansea, who have been in distressing form thus far.
Liverpool have not won a Premier League game in 2017, drawing both their matches against Sunderland and Manchester United since the turn of the year.
They were in the lead twice against Sunderland but succumbed to two goals by Jermain Defoe, who scored from the spot twice to break the Reds’ hearts.
Against United, Jurgen Klopp saw his team take the lead through James Milner but Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s equaliser in the dying minutes saw them fail to extend the lead over their arch rivals.
The Reds are currently seven points behind leaders, Chelsea, and cannot slip up in this fixture, as it would allow the Blues to extend their lead even further.
Liverpool play Chelsea in the league next where they will have a chance to close the gap on the leaders should they take advantage of their opponent’s poor form this time around.
Philippe Coutinho should be back in the starting line-up after starting from the bench against the Red Devils.
Meanwhile, Swansea come to the game on the back of a 4-0 thrashing at the hands of Arsenal despite starting the game on the front foot.
The Welsh club are currently bottom of the table on goal difference, albeit only a point from safety, but have to get their act together if they have to stay up this term.
Swansea have managed to win just one of their last 10 games away from home in all competitions losing eight of the same.
The only victory did come in their last league outing away from home and a similar result at Anfield would give them consecutive away league triumphs for the first time since May 2015.

Liverpool Possible XI: Mignolet, Clyne, Lovren, Klavan, Milner, Wijnaldum, Henderson, Can, Coutinho, Firmino, Lallana.
Swansea City Possible XI: Fabianski, Naughton, Fernandez, Mawson, Olsson, Fer, Cork, Ki, Sigurdsson, Routledge, Llorente.