David Moyes, the manager of West Ham, makes two changes to the team that was defeated by Crystal Palace 5-2 the previous game.
After sitting out last week due to a back ailment, Jarrod Bowen takes his position on the field, replacing James Ward-Prowse, who is benched. Alphonse Areola takes Lucasz Fabianski’s position in goal in the interim.
Nayef Agerd and defenseman Konstantinos Mavropanos are still out due to injuries.
Alvarez, Kudus, Paqueta, Bowen, Antonio, Emerson, Soucek, Areola, Coufal, Zouma, Ogbonna, and West Ham XI
Replacements: Phillips, Cornet, Ings, Casey, Phillips, Johnson, Cresswell, Ward-Prowse, and Mubama
Five players are benched as Jurgen Klopp makes major changes to the Liverpool team that lost the Merseyside derby in midweek.
Most notably, Cody Gakpo starts after missing the last game because of the birth of his child, and Mo Salah sits on the substitutes bench.
Dominik Szoboszlai, Wataru Endo, Harvey Elliott, and rookie Jarrell Quansah have taken the places of Ibrahima Konate, Darwin Nunez, Curtis Jones, and Ibrahima Konate on the bench.
While Stefan Bajcetic is starting for the first time since September after recovering from a calf injury, Diogo Jota and Conor Bradley are still out.
Liverpool starting lineup: Endo, Elliott, Gakpo, Diaz, Gravenberch, Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk, Quansah, Robertson, MacAllister, and MacAllister
The substitutes are Kelleher, Gomez, Konate, Nunez, Salah, Jones, Tsimikas, and Bajcetic.
