Liverpool boss Arne Slot has named his starting XI for playing Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium. His Reds side could move 11 points clear in the Premier League table with a win with Arsenal having lost at home to West Ham United earlier in the weekend.
Alisson Becker, of course, is in the Liverpool goal, with Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk and Andy Robertson making up the rest of the back four. Kostas Tsimikas is on the bench while Conor Bradley is injured.
In midfield, Liverpool lines up with Ryan Gravenberch at the base. Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai start alongside him. Curtis Jones is on the wing again.
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Mohamed Salah, the Liverpool talisman, starts on the right wing. Luis Diaz is the center forward with Jones wide. Cody Gakpo, who has missed the last two matches with a knock he sustained against Everton in the Merseyside derby, comes back into the squad to make the bench.
"What I always expect from City since Pep is there: a great football team that can play so well," Arne Slot said when he was asked about what he expects from Manchester City in this game. "They've had maybe one or two months in the seven or eight years he's there now that weren't the best.
"Maybe partly because of injuries as well. Injuries come back, they've signed three or four players, I can see them coming back already if you look at the result against Newcastle. So what you expect is what everybody expects if you go to the Etihad if you play against City. You have to suffer as well and work really hard to keep them away from your goal because they are so, so good in ball possession. But they face a strong team as well that hasn't lost for 22 games."
Liverpool starting XI: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson; Szoboszlai, Gravenberch, Mac Allister; Salah, Diaz, Jones. Subs: Kelleher, Quansah, Tsimikas, Endo, Elliott, Jota, Gakpo, Nunez, Chiesa.
