Arne Slot makes two Liverpool changes as Federico Chiesa decision made for Milan

Arne Slot makes two changes to his Liverpool team as they are hosted by AC Milan in the Champions League on Tuesday evening. Kostas Tsimikas and Cody Gakpo come into the side at the expense of Andy Robertson and Luis Diaz as the Reds play their first game in Europe's premier competition for 18 months.

Slot has mad just one change in his four Premier League games to date with Ibrahima Konate replacing Jarell Quansah after being introduced for his centre-back colleague at the halfway-point of the 2-0 win at Ipswich Town last month.

However, Gakpo and Tsimikas now come into the side in place of Diaz and Robertson with the Netherlands international expected to line up on the left side of the attack alongside the more central Diogo Jota and Mohamed Salah. Both Robertson and Diaz are part of the substitutes at San Siro.

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Federico Chiesa, as Slot revealed on Monday night, starts on the bench and could make his Reds debut having signed from Juventus for £12m in the final week of the transfer window last month. Chiesa hasn't played a competitive game since Italy were knocked out of the European Championship in late June.

Alisson starts behind a back four of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Virgil van Dijk and Tsimikas with Ryan Gravenberch and Alexis Mac Allister sitting deeper in midfield and Dominik Szoboszlai ahead of them.

Liverpool: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Van Dijk, Tsimikas; Gravenberch, Mac Allister; Salah, Szoboszlai, Gakpo; Jota.

Subs: Kelleher, Jaros, Gomez, Endo, Diaz, Nunez, Chiesa, Jones, Robertson, Quansah, Morton, Bradley.