Brentford vs Liverpool: Unbeaten Brentford Host a Liverpool Side Without the Suspended Ryan Gravenberch

Result, Saturday 17 October: Brentford 1-2 Liverpool.

Brentford vs Liverpool kickoff time and how to watch

The game kicks off at 15:00 BST on Saturday 17 October 2026 at the Gtech Community Stadium in Brentford.

• UK: 15:00 BST
• US Eastern: 10:00 a.m. ET
• US Pacific: 7:00 a.m. PT
• US TV: Peacock (as listed by ESPN)

All of matchweek 7 is on our Premier League fixtures page.

Form and the table

Brentford are fourth with 10 points from two wins and four draws. With Manchester City and Everton, they are one of three sides yet to lose a league game this season, and they have scored in all six, 12 goals in total, while conceding six. Their last five league games read D, D, D, W, D: 1-1 at Leeds United, 1-1 at home to Sunderland, 2-2 at Bournemouth, 3-0 at home to Chelsea and 2-2 at Aston Villa on 10 October. They also won 2-1 at Reading in the Carabao Cup on 15 September, and they have not played since the draw at Villa Park.

Liverpool are ninth with nine points from two wins, three draws and one defeat, with seven goals scored and seven conceded. Their last five league games read D, W, D, W, L: 2-2 at home to Nottingham Forest, 2-0 at Ipswich Town, 0-0 at home to Fulham, 1-0 at Bournemouth and a 3-0 home defeat by Manchester City on Sunday, their first league loss of the season. They are unbeaten away from Anfield (two wins, one draw) but have not won there (two draws, one defeat). In September they beat Atlético Madrid 2-1 in the Champions League and Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 in the Carabao Cup, and on Wednesday they won 6-3 at LASK Linz, with a hat-trick from Bradley Barcola; our LASK vs Liverpool report has the details.

One point separates the clubs. Brentford are three points behind third-placed Brighton & Hove Albion and eight behind the leaders, Manchester City, and sit above Everton and Chelsea, also on 10 points, on goal difference. Liverpool are level on nine with Leeds United, Hull City and Ipswich Town. A win would take Brentford to 13 points, Brighton's current total, while a win for Liverpool would lift them to 12, two points above Brentford. Saturday's game is Liverpool's third in seven days, and they host Villarreal in the Champions League on Tuesday 20 October. The Premier League table updates after every game.

Brentford vs Liverpool team news

Liverpool are without Ryan Gravenberch, who was sent off for a second yellow card against Manchester City. Sports Mole reported on 11 October that a dismissal for two bookings carries a one-match Premier League ban, which falls on this game; he was available in the Champions League and started in Linz. Sky Sports reported on Tuesday that Alexander Isak, Cody Gakpo and Dominik Szoboszlai were injured and would miss the trip to LASK, and that Iraola was unsure whether they would be available against Brentford. Isak is Liverpool's top league scorer with four goals in five appearances, and Gakpo leads the team with three league assists, according to ESPN. Liverpool manager Andoni Iraola took off his center-backs, Ronald Araújo and Jérémy Jacquet, in the second half in Linz to rest them, saying afterward that Liverpool were "playing in less than three days against Brentford" (liverpoolfc.com).

For Brentford, Kevin Schade, their top league scorer with three goals according to ESPN, went off with a shoulder injury seven minutes into the second half at Villa Park, and Jannik Schuster was taken off at half-time with an ankle problem, the club reported on 10 October. Fantasy Football Scout noted on 11 October that Mikkel Damsgaard was out for that game and that Sepp van den Berg, fit again, made his first matchday squad of the season.

I'm not totally sure how he is.

Keith Andrews, Brentford head coach, on Kevin Schade after the Villa game, via brentfordfc.com, 10 October

We found no later update on Schade or Schuster by Wednesday, and team news may change at the managers' pre-match press conferences.

Brentford vs Liverpool head to head

Liverpool won three of the last five meetings, but Brentford won the most recent one at the Gtech Community Stadium, 3-2 in October 2025, and the last game between the clubs, at Anfield in May, finished 1-1.

Brentford vs Liverpool: key numbers

Brentford have conceded once in three home league games, and both of their home wins finished 3-0, against Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea. Liverpool have conceded twice in three away games and kept a clean sheet in both away wins.

How they lined up last time

Both clubs started in a 4-2-3-1 in matchweek 6. The starting lineups, as listed by ESPN:

• Brentford, in the 2-2 draw at Aston Villa: Caoimhín Kelleher, Kristoffer Ajer, Jannik Schuster, El Hadji Malick Diouf, Michael Kayode, Keane Lewis-Potter, Vitaly Janelt, Yehor Yarmoliuk, Igor Thiago, Kevin Schade, Jaidon Anthony.
• Liverpool, in the 3-0 home defeat by Manchester City: Alisson Becker, Virgil van Dijk, Jérémy Jacquet, Milos Kerkez, Ronald Araújo, Florian Wirtz, Alexis Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch, Lewis Koumas, Bradley Barcola, Víctor Muñoz.

Our Aston Villa 2-2 Brentford report and our Liverpool 0-3 Manchester City report have the goals, cards and changes from those games. In Linz on Wednesday, Iraola made four changes from the City game, bringing in Jeremie Frimpong, Kostas Tsimikas, Trey Nyoni and Rio Ngumoha, according to liverpoolfc.com's match report.

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How this preview was built: the kickoff time, venue, US TV listing, results, head-to-head meetings, season leaders and lineups come from ESPN's match data. The table after matchweek 6 is our own, computed from ESPN full-time results. Team news, the suspension and the quotes come from Sky Sports, Sports Mole, brentfordfc.com, Fantasy Football Scout and liverpoolfc.com.