Liverpool - Huddersfield. Premier League (England). 28/10/17. Goals.

As a rule, in many matches all the most interesting happens in the second half, but there is a category of teams and matches in which a stronger team likes to solve the task of winning a match in the first half, and then teams calm down. Most likely, in such matches there is a clear favorite.

Let's try to look for such teams and matches. To do this, let’s use the tool“Relation of indicators”, which can be found on the tournament page on the website of advanced football statistics https://corner-stats.com. We will compare 2 indicators - "Goals: 1 Half" to "Goals: 2 Half".

Let's explore English Premier League. Let's take the relation "goals in the 1st half" to "goals in the 2nd half" (the smaller the relation of a team, the greater part of goals scored in the first half in a team’s matches):

So, we have two candidates: Middlesbrough and Liverpool.

Middlesbrough flew out of the Premier League, but Liverpool plays like a favorite in the match against Huddersfield.

The ratio of goals for Liverpool is 0.95, which means that more goals were scored in the first half in matches where Liverpool took place in the seasons 2016-2017.

Huddersfield has similar ratio and demonstrates the lowest score of 1.04 in the 2016/17 season in Championship:

There is the thing that illustrates that with a slight advantage in Huddersfield matches, the number of goals in the first half is the same as in the second.

Unfortunately, the teams did not play games with each other in recent seasons, but using the "similar matches" tool, you can explore the trend for both teams:

• Both teams scored more goals in the first half in 4 of Liverpool's 9 home games with teams similar to Huddersfield, in the 2016-2017 seasons in the Premier League:

• Both teams scored more goals in the first half in 3 of 5 away matches of Huddersfield with the teams that are similar to Liverpool in 2016-2017 seasons;

The team of Corner-stats.com believes that Liverpool will solve the task of winning the match in the first half, and therefore the 1^st half will have more goals than the second one and the bet on the Half with the most goals: 1 half at 3.00 odds  at the Bet365 will be profitable.

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