6.25pm GMT
Sheff Utd: Ramsdale, Ampadu, Jagielka, Bryan, Baldock, Norwood, Lundstram, Fleck, Stevens, McBurnie, McGoldrick. Subs: Sharp, Mousset, Lowe, Burke, Foderingham, Osborn, Brewster, Ndiaye, Maguire.
Liverpool: Adrian, Alexander-Arnold, Phillips, Kabak, Robertson, Jones, Wijnaldum, Thiago, Salah, Firmino, Mane. Subs: Milner, Keita, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Shaqiri, Origi, Rhys Williams, Neco Williams, Ojrzynski, Hughes.
6.23pm GMT
Chelsea and Manchester United have just finished playing out a Stamford Bridge stalemate:
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6.22pm GMT
Sad news to begin this evening: the former West Ham manager and England coach, Glenn Roeder, has died aged 65:
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6.16pm GMT
Jürgen Klopp has something of a knack for memorable quotes. “Confidence is a small flower and obviously someone has stamped on it,” the Liverpool manager reflected following last month’s home defeat by Burnley. Even in his worst-case scenario, Klopp could not have envisaged that loss against Burnley beginning a sequence of four consecutive home defeats: Brighton, Manchester City and Everton, most painfully from Liverpool’s point of view, have all stormed the Anfield fortress since. If heavy-metal football is what Liverpool play, to borrow another famous Kloppism, they are currently experiencing their Some Kind of Monster phase. Their best result of late came on the road, a 2-0 Champions League win against RB Leipzig, so perhaps a trip to rock-bottom Sheffield United is just what they need in order to plant the seeds of a spring revival.
As for Chris Wilder’s Sheffield United, it’s hard to remember a time they were last in full bloom, even if they have improved after a relentlessly miserable run before Christmas. The Premier League’s 20th-placed team have notched up just 11 points and currently sit 12 adrift of 18th-placed Fulham. But this evening’s assignment against the champions does not look nearly as intimidating as it would have done just a few months ago. Team news, pre-match reading and more coming up.
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