Liverpool v Arsenal: Express Sport brings you LIVE coverage from Anfield
Liverpool v Arsenal: Express Sport brings you LIVE coverage from Anfield
18: Henderson comes close to making it 2-0. Arsenal give away possession in the middle of the park and Firmino threads a pass to the Liverpool captain who can’t capitalise.
16: GOAL 1-0 The pressure pays as Roberto Firmino heads home from a right-wing cross from Joe Gomez. Glances it past Cech.
14: Liverpool are growing in confidence, seeing much more of the ball and putting the Gunners under pressure.
10: Wondersave from Petr Cech who denies Salah after he combined with Can yet again. The German put a smart ball across the six-yard box which cause the Arsenal defence all sorts of problems.
9: Can has started brightly, plays a deep diagonal ball to Salah but puts too much on it and it goes behind for a goal kick.
7: Alexis Sanchez makes a driving run at the Liverpool back line, plays it through to Danny Welbeck who clips his effort over the bar. He should do better.
5: First chance falls to Liverpool. Mohamed Salah clips a ball to the back post met by Sadio Mane. He plays it back to Alberto Moreno who whips it back in to Emre Can who gets up well but heads over.
2: Slow start to the game, Arsenal seeing most of the ball early on.
KICK OFF
15.50: Karius on his future
Speaking about his tough first season at Anfield, Karius said: “I think i learned a lot from it and going into this season I feel strong mentally and good physically.
“I feel I took the positives out of the bad spell and now, going into my second year, I’m ready to go again and show everyone what I can do.”
15.40: Liverpool players are out
The Liverpool players are out warming up at Anfield and they’re all wearing their Owen McVeigh Foundation t-shirts
Owen passed away from leukaemia three days after diagnosis at Alder Hey hospital in December 2015 .
A special flag in Owen’s memory was created on the Kop designed from an original drawing by his aunt Natalie.
15.30: Klopp explains Mignolet decision
“To rest him, that’s all. Four games in a very short term, for a goalkeeper especially,” he said.
“He didn’t want to rest, it’s not a problem. We spoke yesterday about it and I really thought it made sense, especially because we have the quality in behind.
“It is just because I want to let him have a rest after this really intense time with really good performances for us.
Simon Mignolet has been rested by Jurgen Klopp
STATS
15.25: Liverpool won both Premier League meetings between the two sides last season.
The Reds have not won three top-flight matches on the bounce against Arsenal since a four-match streak from 1996 to 1998.
This clash has produced more goals in the 90th minute or later than any other fixture – 17 to be precise.
MANAGERS
15.20: Arsene Wenger: “Sanchez has worked very hard to be back again and is available.
“He works very hard in training. He gives everything. It’s always difficult to stop him. He looks ready.
“He has not played for a long time so I will have to decide what I do with him abut he is ready to play.”
Jurgen Klopp: “Arsenal are still an outstandingly strong side.
“Alexis Sanchez is probably back for the first time on the pitch, so that gives this team another boost and is, of course, an advantage for Arsenal.
“But I think we can all still remember the atmosphere of Wednesday night and that’s what we want to have again, even though it will be Sunday afternoon. It’s what we want to have again.”
TEAM NEWS
15.00: LIVERPOOL TEAM NEWS
Liverpool Team: Karius, Gomez, Lovren, Matip, Moreno, Henderson, Can, Wijnaldum, Salah, Mane, Firmino
Subs: Ward, Klavan, Alexander, Grujic, Milner, Solanke, Sturridge
ARSENAL TEAM NEWS
Arsenal Team: Cech, Holding, Monreal, Koscielny, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Xhaka, Bellerin, Ramsey, Sanchez, Özil, Welbeck
Subs: Ospina, Mustafa, Kolasinac, Coquelin, Walcott, Lacazette, Giroud
PROVISIONAL SQUADS
Liverpool squad: Mignolet, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Lovren, Moreno, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Can, Mane, Firmino, Salah, Karius, Gomez, Klavan, Robertson, Milner, Grujic, Origi, Solanke, Sturridge.
Arsenal squad: Cech, Ospina, Gibbs, Mertesacker, Holding, Koscielny, Monreal, Mustafi, Bellerin, Nelson, Kolasinac, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Wilshere, Coquelin, Xhaka, Elneny, Ozil, Giroud, Walcott, Sanchez, Iwobi, Welbeck, Lacazette.
HISTORY
Last season: Liverpool 3 Arsenal 1, Arsenal 3 Liverpool 4
Last five league matches: Liverpool D W W D W; Arsenal W W W W L
Top scorers (all competitions): Emre Can, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane & Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) 2; Olivier Giroud, Sead Kolasinac, Alexandre Lacazette, Aaron Ramsey & Danny Welbeck 1
