Liverpool See Off Ipswich 2-0 to Claim First Win of the Season

Liverpool finally got their Premier League season up and running on Friday night, beating Ipswich Town 2-0 to claim a first win of the campaign at the third attempt.

The visitors struck twice without reply and kept a clean sheet, turning the two draws that opened their season into a solid return of five points from three matches.

The key details

• Final score: Ipswich Town 0-2 Liverpool
• Liverpool: first win of the season, unbeaten, fifth in the table on five points
• Ipswich: a second straight defeat, 13th in the table on three points
• Fan prediction: 100% of FanTribe users who predicted this match backed an away win

Positions and points according to the Premier League table; fan prediction figure from FanTribe's prediction data.

Liverpool off the mark

According to the Premier League table, the win moved Liverpool onto five points from three matches — one win and two draws, six goals scored and four conceded — and left them sitting fifth, a point behind Manchester City, Arsenal, Hull City and Chelsea. All four of those sides have six points from only two games, so Liverpool will hope one or more of them falter as the matchweek plays out.

After opening the season with two draws, taking all three points — and keeping a clean sheet in the process — gives Liverpool something to build on as the season gathers pace.

Second straight defeat for Ipswich

Ipswich began the campaign with a win of their own, but this was a second consecutive defeat for the Tractor Boys, and the defensive numbers are becoming a real concern. According to the Premier League table, they sit 13th with three points from three matches, having scored four times and conceded eight — and no side in the division has shipped more.

Four goals in three matches is a respectable attacking return, but tightening up at the back looks the obvious priority if that opening-day win is not to become a distant memory.

The fans called it

FanTribe's pre-match prediction data made Liverpool the universal pick for this fixture: 100% of the fans who logged a prediction went for an away win, with neither an Ipswich victory nor a draw picking up a single vote. It was a modest sample — one prediction in all — but an emphatic one, and it proved exactly right.

For Liverpool, the challenge is turning a first win into a run of them; for Ipswich, fixing the division's leakiest defence — as the Premier League table shows — is the clear priority.

Goal-by-goal detail for this fixture was unavailable at the time of publication, so this report focuses on the final result and its implications for the table.