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Liverpool v Leicester City: match preview

New club records are on offer to the champions at Anfield – namely 64 home league games unbeaten and scoring in 39 successive top flight league matches at home – but Jürgen Klopp is unlikely to have given them a second thought during a damaging international break. Joe Gomez’s knee injury, Jordan Henderson’s groin scare and Mohamed Salah’s positive Covid-19 tests have increased Liverpool’s selection problems before meeting a Leicester team enjoying the club’s best start to a top-flight season. It was Leicester, incidentally, who ended Liverpool’s 63-game unbeaten run at Anfield in 1981. Andy Hunter

Sunday 7.15pm Sky Sports Premier League

Venue Anfield

Last season Liverpool 2 Leicester 1

Odds H Evens A 5-1 D 3-1

Referee Chris Kavanagh

This season G5 Y20 R0 4 cards/game

LIVERPOOL

Subs from Adrian, Kelleher, Tsimikas, R Williams, Koumetio, Thiago, Keïta, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Shaqiri, Minamino, Origi

Doubtful Thiago (knee), Oxlade-Chamberlain (knee), R Williams (hip)

Injured Henderson (groin, 28 Nov), Salah (coronavirus, Dec), Alexander-Arnold (calf, Dec), Gomez (knee, unknown), Van Dijk (knee, unknown)

Suspended None

Discipline Y7 R0

Form WLDWWD

Leading scorer Salah 8

LEICESTER

Subs from Ward, Jakupovic, Morgan, Thomas, Albrighton, Pérez, Iheanacho, Gray, Under, Choudhury, Praet, Pereira, Ndidi

Doubtful Castagne (hamstring), Pereira (knee), Ndidi (hip)

Injured Soyuncu (hip, Dec), Amartey (hamstring, unknown)

Suspended None

Discipline Y19 R0

Form WLLWWW

Leading scorer Vardy 8