Liverpool vs Aston Villa Bet Builder Tips: Card-happy Alexis can spark 11/1 payout

Saturday night football concludes on Merseyside this weekend as Premier League leaders Liverpool welcome an Aston Villa side reeling after three straight losses in all competitions.

Villa, and Tyrone Mings in particular, gave Club Brugge a massive helping hand in their Champions League loss in midweek and they'll have to dig deep to prevent Arne Slot's well-oiled Red machine recording another victory. Read on for my Liverpool vs Aston Villa Bet Builder tips, where I have drawn up an 11/1 four-fold.

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Liverpool to win

It has been near faultless stuff so far from Slot as Liverpool manager. A blip against Nottingham Forest here in September aside, the Dutchman has seven wins in eight games at Anfield.

His side are top of the Premier League entering the weekend and also top the charts in the new-look Champions League with maximum points from four games.

Villa, meanwhile, have hit a mini-skid with defeats against Crystal Palace in the League Cup, Tottenham in the league and Brugge in the Champions League.

Liverpool are unbeaten in eight against the Villans, including six wins for the Anfield club and they should put another three points on the board here.

Under 3.5 goals

Slot's Liverpool are not quite as adventurous as Jurgen Klopp's iteration.

The former Feyenoord boss insists he's a fan of the high press, but suggests he encourages the players to be selective in choosing when to go for the killer pass, which affords his side more control of the game.

None of their five Premier League games at Anfield have gone over three goals so far. Villa shipped four at Spurs during a torrid second half last week and will surely be deploying some pragmatism here. Don't expect a goal fest.

Under 11.5 corners

With that Liverpool determination to control matters has come some unusually low corner counts.

The Reds have recorded low tallies recently against Arsenal (four), Brighton in the EFL Cup (eight) and Leverkusen (four).

In 10 league games, Liverpool have recorded corner tallies as low as one, two and three (twice) and only twice made double figures, against Ipswich and Wolves.

Villa's midweek Champions League defeat to Brugge featured only five corners, so going under 11.5 corners in this Anfield tussle seems a gettable mark

Alexis Mac Allister to be carded

Completing this bet builder is another booking for Liverpool's card magnet, Alexis Mac Allister.

He had eight Premier League cautions in his final season with Brighton and the same number last time around for the Reds.

The Argentine has four cards in six games recently, taking his tally for Liverpool to six already this season in all competitions.

With Morgan Rogers, Jacob Ramsey and Youri Tielemans all capable of swift transition when Villa turn the ball over, Mac Allister is a prime candidate to get into trouble with the referee again.

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