Expected Liverpool line-up for Leicester clash: No Mo Salah?

This is the expected Liverpool line-up for their clash with Leicester City. The Reds have many significant injuries and may be without Mohamed Salah.

Leicester City sit two places above champions Liverpool, topping the Premier League table presently. Jurgen Klopp‘s side were startlingly thrashed by Aston Villa, and have conceded more points than one would expect at this time.

Unfortunately for Foxes fans, their team has suffered many injuries – as is the issue with every English top-flight side, a byproduct of a congested coronavirus fixture list – yet the back-up brigade have been a revelation under manager Brendan Rodgers’ tactically astute tutelage.

Basically, the understudies such as Christian Fuchs – who started every one of the current six contest winning streak – have produced more than satisfactory displays in testing circumstances. Thus helping the outfit to unpredictable victory after victory.

Liverpool have more injures than Leicester City

In a boost to the King Power men, the Reds’ Mohamed Salah is very unlikely to feature due to a positive test for COVID-19, as per Liverpool Echo. Foxes of Leicester extends its best wishes to the Egyptian King.

Salah must now undertake an isolation period of 10 days. Which, by my calculations, makes him unavailable until November 23 – with Leicester playing at Anfield on the 22nd.

Left-back Andrew Robertson is another doubt for next Sunday; Joe Gomez, Virgil Van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are all injured. While Thiago Alcantara and Kostas Tsimikas probably won’t play any roles, Fabinho is more likely to be seen.

Liverpool predicted XI

Alisson; James Milner, Joel Matip, Nathaniel Phillips, Neco Williams; Jordan Henderson, Georginio Wijnaldum Naby Keita; Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane, Diogo Jota.

Klopp could easily transition back to a type of 4-3-3 formation now that his entire first-choice defence is decimated.