Brighton vs Liverpool – Confirmed Lineups: Star man keeps place in side, Mane benched

Liverpool travel to the south coast hoping to keep their unbeaten run of five league games alive against Brighton.

The Reds have won four of their last five Premier League games scoring 14 goals in the process.

Liverpool are coming off the back of a 3-0 victory versus Stoke City which was their first away clean sheet this season.

Away games featuring Liverpool have provided a league-high 31 goals.

Jurgen Klopp will be without  Joel Matip who has been ruled out with a muscle injury following the Stoke Clash.

Ragnar Klavan has made the bench after returning from illness.

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Adam Lallana is not yet fit to return while Nathaniel Clyne also out.

Emre Can has kept his place in the starting line-up for the second Premier League game running.

The midfielder of Turkish origin will however, be deployed as a centre-back.

The 23-year-old has featured as a centre-back and full-back at times for Liverpool and Germany.

When asked about the changes Klopp told the official Liverpool website: ”

Explaining the changes, Klopp said: “We have an injury problem with Joel Matip, Joe Gomez is ill, Ragnar Klavan was ill until yesterday – he didn’t train with the team even yesterday so we took him here to see how he felt today. 

“A few other changes not because of injuries, that’s the situation, [we’re] a little bit different in the defence line.”

Brighton vs Liverpool – Confirmed Lineups

Liverpool starting lineup: Mignolet, Alexander-Arnold, Lovren, Can, Moreno, Milner, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Coutinho, Salah, Firmino

Subs: Karius, Klavan, Grujic, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Mane, Solanke, Sturridge.

Brighton starting lineup: Ryan, Bruno, Duffy, Dunk, Bong, Knockaert, Propper, Stephens, Brown, Gross, Murray

Subs: Krul, Goldson, Schelotto, Kayal, Izquierdo, March, Hemed