New club records are on offer to the champions at Anfield – namely 64 home league games unbeaten and scoring in 39 successive top flight league matches at home – but Jürgen Klopp is unlikely to have given them a second thought during a damaging international break. Joe Gomez’s knee injury, Jordan Henderson’s groin scare and Mohamed Salah’s positive Covid-19 tests have increased Liverpool’s selection problems before meeting a Leicester team enjoying the club’s best start to a top-flight season. It was Leicester, incidentally, who ended Liverpool’s 63-game unbeaten run at Anfield in 1981. Andy Hunter
Sunday 7.15pm Sky Sports Premier League
Venue Anfield
Last season Liverpool 2 Leicester 1
Odds H Evens A 5-1 D 3-1
Referee Chris Kavanagh
This season G5 Y20 R0 4 cards/game
LIVERPOOL
Subs from Adrian, Kelleher, Tsimikas, R Williams, Koumetio, Thiago, Keïta, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Shaqiri, Minamino, Origi
Doubtful Thiago (knee), Oxlade-Chamberlain (knee), R Williams (hip)
Injured Henderson (groin, 28 Nov), Salah (coronavirus, Dec), Alexander-Arnold (calf, Dec), Gomez (knee, unknown), Van Dijk (knee, unknown)
Suspended None
Discipline Y7 R0
Form WLDWWD
Leading scorer Salah 8
LEICESTER
Subs from Ward, Jakupovic, Morgan, Thomas, Albrighton, Pérez, Iheanacho, Gray, Under, Choudhury, Praet, Pereira, Ndidi
Doubtful Castagne (hamstring), Pereira (knee), Ndidi (hip)
Injured Soyuncu (hip, Dec), Amartey (hamstring, unknown)
Suspended None
Discipline Y19 R0
Form WLLWWW
Leading scorer Vardy 8
