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LIVERPOOL 0-0 LEICESTER
-The game is underway at Anfield
Confirmed team news
Liverpool: Alisson, Milner, Fabinho, Matip, Robertson, Wijnaldum, Keita, Jones, Jota, Mane, Firmino
Subsidiaries: Adrian, Minamino, Tsimikas, Origi, Phillips, Clarkson, Williams
Leicester: Schmeichel, Albrighton, Fofana, Evans, Fuchs, Justin, Mendy, Tielemans, Barnes, Maddison, Vardy
Subs: Ward, Morgan, Thomas, Choudhury, Praet, Under, Iheanacho
MATCH PREVIEW
Leicester are heading to Anfield having spent the weekend as Premier League leaders and Brendan Rodgers may deny his old club a chance to hit a new club record of 64 league matches at home without losing.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said: “Leicester didn’t just show last year how good they can be, this year too. They changed their style a little perhaps because of the injuries they had.
“A good example of how you can deal with an ‘injury crisis’. He did really well, he’s in a good moment, he has a clear idea of how he wants to play.
“It’s difficult and of course they are contenders for everything. They were last year for a long, long period and this year they have more experience in situations.”
He added of Leicester’s top scorer Jamie Vardy: “His speed, above all, is incredible. How he uses that, how smart he is, how he developed his game over the years – he’s a huge threat to everyone.
“He plays in a good way with the last line, he takes risks in these situations. But his technical level is also very good, not only in the shot, but in the first touch and all these kinds of things. Jamie is a good player. Player , I have to say.
“It’s always a challenge to defend him and the only way I know to defend him is to make sure he doesn’t get the pass he wants. That means we have to defend everyone else as well.”
While former Reds boss Rodgers, who has been in Leicester since February 2019, said: “Liverpool are an incredible club, they have been Premier League champions and European champions.
“They are a first-rate team. We know we have to do our best to get a result. They have first-rate players.
“We have seen it ourselves with our injuries that the players have come in and have done really well and that will be the same for them. It will be a very tough game.
“It is extremely difficult. Even with missing players, it is still a world-class team of players. You will have to be aggressive in defense and clinical in attack.
“You want to play the best and clearly they have been.”
He added when asked about possible title hopes for the Foxes: “I haven’t even thought about it. We have only played eight games.
“We want to maintain the humility that we have in the group and prepare as best we can for each game.”
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