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Liverpool, Chelsea Line-up Confirmed


Sun 20 Sep 2020 | 04:41 PM
Mohamed Helba

One hour before, the Premier League most awaited clash between Liverpool, the last season's champions, and Chelsea. Here are the confirmed line-up.

Liverpool's head coach has announced his eleven men players, who will start against the Blues; the Egyptian star Mohamed Salah will lead the front line.  Thiago Alcantara is on the substitutes' bench for the Reds.

Liverpool will make one change from their opening-day win over Leeds, with Fabinho replacing Joe Gomez and expected to play at centre-back.

Joe Gomez  and Joel Matip (minor muscle issue) are ruled out due to injuries. so Fabinho will partner Virgil van Dijk in defense.

On the other hand, Frank Lampard revealed his confirmed line-ups for tonight's encounter, as Kai Havertz and Timo Werner make their Stamford Bridge debuts from the start, and Reece James is again preferred at left-back. Jorginho is captain on the occasion of his 100th Chelsea appearance.

The Line-ups is as follows:

Liverpool (4-3-3): Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Fabinho, Van Dijk, Robertson, Wijnaldum, Henderson, Keita, Mane, Salah, Firmino.

Subs: Adrian, Thiago, Milner, Jones, Minamino, Tsimikas, Origi.

Chelsea (4-3-3): Kepa, James, Christensen, Zouma, Alonso, Kante, Jorginho (c), Kovacic, Havertz, Werner, Mount.

Subs: Caballero, Tomori, Azpilicueta, Barkley, Hudson-Odoi, Abraham, Giroud.