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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Ian Doyle & Paul Gorst & Keifer MacDonald

Liverpool line-ups for Leicester City as Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez decisions made

Paul Gorst - 'The formation has the potential to blow teams away when it all clicks'

The back five for Liverpool almost picks itself currently so expect Alisson Becker to start behind a defence of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk and Andy Robertson. The key, defensively, is how the other three adapt to the tactic of instructing Alexander-Arnold to operate more of a midfielder at times.

In the actual midfield is where the selection dilemmas arrive for Jurgen Klopp. I'm going to stick with the same system against Brentford last time out when the Reds boss almost went for a 4-2-3-1 that changed to a 3-3-3-1 when Alexander-Arnold moved further forward. It allows for an extra goalscorer to be jammed into the side and has the potential to blow teams away when it all clicks.

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