Liverpool will once again attempt to halt their alarming slump when they take on West Ham this afternoon.
The Reds began the day in 13th place in the Premier League table, having seen their form fall off a cliff over the past two months amid growing pressure on Arne Slot, who can’t afford many more poor results after a hellish autumn.
The champions visit a West Ham side who are just outside the relegation zone but have enjoyed an upturn of late under Nuno Espirito Santo, who inflicted the first defeat of the Dutchman’s Anfield reign while in charge of Nottingham Forest last season.
In his press conference ahead of today’s match, Slot issued cautiously optimistic updates over the availability of Alisson Becker, Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike, all of whom have had illness or injury problems in recent days.
The Liverpool starting XI has now been confirmed – have that trio recovered in time to face the Irons?
Liverpool starting XI to face West Ham
Slot makes four changes from the Reds side which began the humiliating 4-1 loss to PSV Eindhoven at Anfield on Wednesday night.
Alisson has recovered from illness and resumes his place between the sticks, with Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate forming the centre-back partnership. There’s one change to the defence as Joe Gomez comes in at right-back for his first Premier League start of the season.
Ryan Gravenberch and Alexis Mac Allister keep their places in midfield, and there’s also a start for Dominik Szoboszlai. Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak return to the starting XI, with Cody Gakpo completing the starting XI.
Slot makes a big call by dropping Mo Salah to the substitutes’ bench, with Ekitike and Federico Chiesa also in reserve if more firepower is needed. Wataru Endo and Andy Robertson represent experienced options to call upon if required.
You can view the Liverpool starting XI and substitutes below, via @LFC on X:
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Kerkez over robbo again. I really hope this will not make slot lose his job. I really hope I’m not being negative or biased towards kerkez. We really need to win. I’ll apologize if kerkez did not commit any errors and help Liverpool win this match. Fingers crossed. YNWA.
We will lose!! Starting Kerkez over Robertson is courting disaster!! Opposition teams target his side of play to hurt Liverpool. Then there is calamity Konate….I’ll not watch this game.
Whoops ! Who’d’ve thunk it ?
Keep putting the mockers on us, Oubs😄😄!
It seems to work.
Fell asleep after 0-0 halftime and woke up to see the victory scoreline. Well done folks. I apologize for kerkez comments. We kept a clean sheet so kerkez must have played a good or decent game at the very least. Let’s build on the win!
Kerkez showed improvement for me, Red.
It’s what we all want.
It wasn’t even winning ugly, as we stated we would accept, we just put in a good controlled performance.
Hard work and focus.
Arne’s selection and subbing worked well.
Same on Wednesday and next w/end please.