For all football lovers around the world, let’s welcome back our darling EPL football.
All is set for another football season in England as the 2025/26 English Premier League starts with Liverpool the defending Champion slugging it out with Bournemouth by 8.00pm tonight.
Let’s enjoy this Five Talking Points about the fixture of these two teams.
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(1) Liverpool have won 11 of their last 12 Premier League games against Bournemouth, with the exception being a 1-0 away loss in March 2023.
(2) Bournemouth have taken just one point from 24 available away against Liverpool in the Premier League (W0 D1 L7), losing their last six visits to Anfield by an aggregate score of 23-2
(3) Liverpool haven’t lost their opening league game in any of the last 12 seasons (W9 D3), since a 3-0 loss at West Brom in 2012-13. It’s the longest current run without defeat on MD1 of any Premier League side.
(5) In 33 previous Premier League campaigns, the reigning champions have lost their opening match of the season on just three occasions (W26 D4). However, all three of these have come in the last nine campaigns (Leicester v Hull in 2016-17, Chelsea v Burnley in 2017-18 and Man City v Spurs in 2021-22).
(5) Bournemouth haven’t lost their opening league match in any of the last seven seasons (W3 D4) since a 1-0 loss at West Bromwich Albion in 2017-18.
