Leicester City v Liverpool: Premier League – live!

01 September 2018 10:49
Premier League updates from the 12.30pm BST kick-offThe Fiver: sign up and get our daily football emailAnd feel free to email scott.murray@theguardian.com 11.49am BST Jurgen Klopp speaks! “Bringing back Jordan Henderson makes sense for the game today. We have to be rock solid in all departments as Leicester are a good footballing team. So we need to defend very well, be really compact. So it helps that the boys are used to it; this midfield played the last third of the last season unchanged. It’s about being fresh and being desperate to be on the pitch. We have to improve in each department, and be ready today, to show we are here for the three points. We want to defend and fight. Thank God I have a selective brain so I forget the losses against Leicester! But we have won here as well. It’s clear they have quality, it’s a difficult place, let’s try at least!” 11.38am BST Leicester City make two changes to the team sent out to beat Southampton last weekend. Marc Albrighton and Rachid Ghezzal come into the midfield; Daniel Amartey and Kelechi Iheanacho drop to the bench.Liverpool make the first change to their starting XI this season. Naby Keita, who was a little out of sorts against Brighton, drops to the bench, the club captain Jordan Henderson wearing the armband from the get-go for the first time in 2018-19. 11.32am BST Leicester City: Schmeichel, Pereira, Morgan, Maguire, Chilwell, Mendy, Ndidi, Albrighton, Maddison, Gray, Ghezzal.Subs: Evans, Iheanacho, Ward, Amartey, Okazaki, Iborra, Fuchs.Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, van Dijk, Robertson, Wijnaldum, Henderson, Milner, Salah, Firmino, Mane.Subs: Keita, Sturridge, Moreno, Lallana, Mignolet, Shaqiri, Matip. 10.52am BST Leicester are one of Liverpool’s bogey teams. The Foxes have beaten the Reds at the King Power in each of the last three seasons, 2-0 and 3-1 in the League, 2-0 in the League Cup. Throw in a couple of famous FA Cup wins in the sixties, and a habit of winning at Anfield in the eighties and nineties, and Jurgen Klopp’s side should be right to be wary of a club that have Liverpool’s number. Continue readingreadfullarticle

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