Arne Slot has determined to take a powerful squad to Anfield to play West Ham within the League Cup, with 18 gamers noticed on the crew bus.
Whereas Slot could determine to take a number of gamers out of the beginning XI, he’ll nonetheless have a powerful squad and bench to name upon, ought to Liverpool want it.
Forward of the match, a supporter filmed the crew getting off the bus and strolling into the Titanic Resort, giving us an concept of the choice we are going to see towards West Ham.
18 Liverpool gamers noticed
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Goalkeepers: Kelleher, Jaros
Defenders: Van Dijk, Quansah, Gomez, Alexander-Arnold, Bradley, Tsimikas, Robertson
Midfielders: Mac Allister, Szoboszlai, Jones, Endo, Morton
Forwards: Salah, Gakpo, Jota, Chiesa
The plain names not on that checklist are Ibrahima Konate, Ryan Gravenberch, Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez and Trey Nyoni.
This doesn’t essentially imply they received’t be concerned – they could gone into the resort whereas the digital camera wasn’t recording and never been noticed.
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For a few of these gamers, it is smart that they’d be rested for the West Ham recreation.
Konate has began each match for Liverpool since approaching at half time within the Premier League opener at Ipswich. In the meantime, Gravenberch has performed from the beginning in each recreation for membership and nation this season.
Diaz, too, has had a heavy workload over the previous few months.
For Nunez and Nyoni, it’s extra doable that they simply weren’t noticed on digital camera as including them to the equation would deliver the squad dimension to twenty, the utmost allowed for a League Cup fixture.
What we are able to say is that Jarell Quansah, Joe Gomez and Conor Bradley are all anticipated to start out, as are Curtis Jones, Cody Gakpo, Diogo Jota and Federico Chiesa.
As well as, we might see Kostas Tsimikas change Andy Robertson whereas Wataru Endo ought to get his first membership begin of the marketing campaign.
On his choice for the match, Slot stated: “I need all of them to play. Sadly that’s not doable, as a result of you may solely title 11.
“However we are going to play with the absolute best crew and that may generally additionally imply that different gamers which have performed rather a lot are perhaps a bit extra drained.
“So which means, as a result of the variations are so small, that I’ll choose for this recreation completely different gamers.”
