It was all smiles at Melwood as the Liverpool squad prepared for Friday night’s meeting with Huddersfield Town at Anfield.
The Reds take on Jan Siewert’s side as they look to put the onus back on Manchester City in the hunt for the Premier League title.
Pep Guardiola’s side beat Manchester United on Wednesday night to go back to the top of the table, with just three league fixtures remaining this season.
There was no Mohamed Salah in training, with the Egyptian attending the Time 100 Gala in New York City on Tuesday night.
However, the club maintain that he will be back by Thursday and will be in contention to face the Terriers at Anfield.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Rhian Brewster were both present in training and could be a step closer to making their comebacks on Friday.
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Liverpool played well but they could not overcome an early mistake from Alisson that led to Arsenal’s only goal in a 1-0 loss to the Gunners at Anfield. It is Arsenal’s first victory at Anfield since 2012.
As expected, Andoni Iraola made several changes to the Starting XI ahead of the huge EPL clash with Arsenal. Trey Nyoni gets a surprise start in front of Ryan Gravenberch in the midfield while Dominik Szoboszlai return to the bench after recovering from injury.
The match with Arsenal is Liverpool’s 7th of 9 games before the November international break. Therefore, expect Andoni Iraola to continue to rotate heavily and go back to a pretty standard lineup for recent EPL matches. In fact, this is the exact same lineup used against Brighton so it’s a good bet he will go…