Jordan Henderson returns for Liverpool as Jurgen Klopp makes 10 changes for the Carabao Cup visit from Leicester City.
Tyler Morton is the only player who keeps his place from Sunday's 2-2 draw at Tottenham as he starts in midfield alongside captain Henderson and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Henderson missed the game at Spurs with a cold but was not one of the players currently sidelined with a positive COVID-19 test as Virgil van Dijk, Fabinho, Thiago Alcantara and Curtis Jones' respective convalescences go on.
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At the back, it's a start for Conor Bradley at right-back as Kostas Tsimikas comes in for the suspended Andy Robertson on the left with Billy Koumetio making his full debut at centre-back next to Joe Gomez.
It's Gomez's first start since the 2-0 win over Preston in the previous round back in late October.
Neco Williams is named in the fairly unfamiliar position of wide right of the front three as Roberto Firmino makes his first start since the draw with Brighton at the end of October.
Takumi Minamino completes the lineup on the left of the attack with the likes of Diogo Jota, Naby Keita and Ibrahima Konate all in reserve on the substitutes' bench.
Liverpool: Kelleher; Bradley, Koumetio, Gomez, Tsimikas; Henderson, Morton, Oxlade-Chamberlain; N. Williams, Firmino, Minamino.
Subs: Pitaluga, Konate, Milner, Keita, Jota, Gordon, Beck, Quansah, Woltman.
Leicester: Schmeichel, Ricardo, Ndidi, Soyuncu, Thomas, Soumare, Dewsbury-Hall, Tielemans, Maddison, Daka, Vardy.
