Key occasions
Loads occurring within the early video games. Anthony Gordon has simply equalised for Newcastle at Bournemouth, and Noni Madueke has scored a second-half hat-trick to place Chelsea 5-2 up at Wolves.
Staff information
Arne Slot continues the systematic destruction of Jarell Quansah’s self-confidence by changing him with Ibrahima Konate. That’s the one change from the workforce that began at Ipswich final week.
Brentford nearly make one change: Keane Lewis-Potter in, Kevin Schade out. That just about definitely means a swap to a again 5. The 2 new signings from Liverpool, Fabio Carvalho and Sepp van den Berg, are on the bench.
Liverpool (4-2-3-1) Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Konate, van Dijk, Robertson; Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Salah, Szoboszlai, Diaz; Jota.
Substitutes: Kelleher, Endo, Gomez, Nunez, Gakpo, Elliott, Tsimikas, Quansah, Bradley.
Brentford (5-3-2) Flekken; Roerslev, Collins, Pinnock, Ajer, Lewis-Potter; Norgaard, Janelt, Jensen; Mbeumo, Wissa.
Substitutes: Valdimarsson, van den Berg, Schade, Carvalho, Onyeka, Mee, Yarmolyuk, Damsgaard, Trevitt.
Referee Stuart Attwell (Warwickshire)
Preamble
Arne Slot, welcome to Anfield. The standing of Liverpool supervisor is such {that a} residence debut counts as a significant occasion, one which has occurred solely 5 instances this century For those who embody caretakers, which is strictly what we’re going to do because it helps the half-arsed narrative we’re peddling, Chelsea have had as many in final two years.
It absolutely received’t all the time be this fashion, however the transition between Jurgen Klopp and Slot has been very clean. Despite the fact that Liverpool didn’t get Martin Zubimendi, they give the impression of being in first rate form and began the season with an finally emphatic 2-0 win at Ipswich.
Their opponents as we speak are the nice regenerators: Brentford. They don’t change supervisor too typically however their workforce continues to evolve, and final week they beat Crystal Palace 2-1 with out Ivan Toney, who was not noted due to the distraction of that bloody open window. He’s absent once more as we speak; we’ll have the remainder of the workforce information shortly.
Kick off 4.30pm.
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