Ipswich vs Liverpool Betting Tips & Preview

Ipswich Town to win

Ipswich Town are the pick to beat Liverpool in this Premier League fixture, and it comes down largely to the shape both sides are in right now. The hosts have won each of their last three completed matches, carrying real momentum into this one, while Liverpool have gone winless in their last five outings, with three draws and two defeats among them. Our model puts Ipswich Town's chances of victory at 43.9%, which makes them the most likely single outcome even before factoring in the current run of form on both sides. The odds on offer for this pick sit at 5.50, but that's simply the number available at time of writing rather than the reason behind the selection — this is about which result we think is most probable, not about chasing a price.

Recent Form

Ipswich Town go into this match on the back of three straight wins, seeing off Queens Park Rangers, Sunderland and Leicester City in their last three completed fixtures, all played at home. That's a tidy little run and suggests a side that has found some rhythm and confidence going forward, particularly given all three results were positive ones on their own patch.

Liverpool's recent form tells a very different story. Their last five completed matches produced just two points from a possible fifteen by way of results alone — a defeat to Manchester United, a draw with Chelsea, a loss to Aston Villa, a draw with Brentford, and most recently a draw away at Newcastle United. There's no win in that sequence at all, and three draws in five games points to a team that is currently short of the cutting edge needed to turn contests in their favour.

Head-to-Head

History between these two clubs is heavily skewed toward Liverpool. Across the last five meetings, the record reads Ipswich Town 0 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses. Liverpool won the two most recent encounters — a Premier League meeting in January 2025 and another in August 2024 — and also came out on top in both fixtures played back in 2002. The one blemish on an otherwise perfect record for Liverpool in this set was a draw back in April 2001. On paper, then, this is not a fixture that has been kind to Ipswich Town historically, and it's a run they'll be hoping to finally break given their current form.

Team News

Ipswich Town are without two players at present. Ashley Young continues to be sidelined with a hip flexor problem, a spell on the sidelines that has run since late January 2026, while Kasey McAteer has been out since early May 2026 with an issue described only as an unknown injury.

Liverpool have their own absentees to contend with. Hugo Ekitiké remains out with an Achilles tendon rupture suffered in April 2026, a significant injury that will keep him unavailable for the foreseeable future, and Joe Gomez has been missing since late July 2026 with a muscle injury. Both sides head into this one with a couple of notable names missing, though neither list appears severe enough to be the deciding factor on its own.