Liverpool visit King Power Stadium on Saturday to take on Leicester City as they hope to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League table and win their opening 4 Premier League games for the first time in their history.

Liverpool are the only team yet to concede a goal this season, keeping three clean sheets thanks to the efforts of Liverpool’s back four and new signing Alisson, who was very impressive in last week’s victory over Brighton.

1. Our opponents:

Leicester City sit 7th in the Premier League table with 6 points after winning two of their opening three games.

Jamie Vardy was sent off when the Foxes faced Wolves in their second Premier League game of the season, meaning that he will not feature when Liverpool travel to Leicester. This comes as good news to Liverpool as Vardy has scored in each of Leicester’s last 5 meetings with the Reds.

Midfielder Matty James is a long-term absentee for Leicester with an Achilles injury, and new signing Caglar Soyuncu is also unlikely to feature as he is not fully fit.

2. Team news:

Defender Dejan Lovren is still unavailable as he builds up fitness following an abdominal injury. The Croatian has been called up for international duty and he is likely to return to training during the international break.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Rhian Brewster remain long-term absentees for Jurgen Klopp’s side.

Klopp has named an unchanged starting lineup for Liverpool’s first three games this season, but with the international break coming up followed by a crucial month for Liverpool, the German certainly can’t risk any big injuries for any of his players.

3. Predicted lineup:



4. What the boss had to say:

On squad depth:

Today it is good but it is needs to stay good. August was always going to be different. Starting three times in a row with same line-up, that won’t happen too many times this season. We didn’t strengthen for August, but for all the other months. The players are in a much better situation now than three weeks ago. We need a good result tomorrow and in all the other games. For that, we need all the players. I’m looking forward to it.

On Liverpool’s new throw-in coach:

I never heard about a throw-in coach (before). I played the game and managed many years but that doesn’t make me a goalkeeper coach, for example. When I heard about Thomas, I wanted to meet him, And it was 100% clear wanted to employ him.

On Vardy suspension:

Jamie causes each teams problem with his style of play. That makes him different to nearly all other strikers in PL. Him not playing will change Leicester style of play slightly but they have good strikers.

On Leicester:

You can see Claude [Puel’s] work is now paying off at Leicester. They have changed the style a bit. It is good football they are playing and are full of confidence especially after the last result [vs Southampton].

On Alisson:

He is a good goalkeeper, so far we have defended well. It’s not like he’s had 20 shots on target to deal with. Hopefully it stays like this. In moments, he needs to be there and so far so good. Nothing to moan about.

Full press conference:

5. Opta match facts:

Leicester have won three of their last four home meetings with Liverpool in all competitions, though they did lose this exact fixture 3-2 last season.

Liverpool have won eight of their last 12 Premier League meetings with Leicester (D2 L2), though they have lost this fixture in two of the last three seasons (2015-16 and 2016-17).

Leicester have lost their last 10 Premier League matches against sides starting the day top of the table, scoring just four goals while conceding 25 in those matches.

Liverpool have won their last four Premier League games without conceding a goal – they last had a longer winning run without conceding in December 2005, a run of eight under Rafael Benitez.

Liverpool are looking to win their opening four games of a Premier League season for the first time. They last opened a top-flight campaign with four wins back in 1990-91 under Kenny Dalglish.

Liverpool have kept three clean sheets in their opening three Premier League games in 2018-19 – the only previous occasion they haven’t conceded in any of their first four league games in a season was back in 2005-06.

Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson could become the fourth goalkeeper in Premier League history to keep a clean sheet in his first four starts, after Alex Manninger (first six), Anders Lindegaard (first five) and Jose Reina (first four).

Since Leicester returned to the Premier League in 2014-15, Jamie Vardy has scored 43% of Leicester’s league goals against ‘big six’ opposition (27 of 63 goals) – however, he is suspended and will miss this match.

50% of the six 90th minute goals scored in the 2018-19 Premier League season have been scored by Leicester (2) or Liverpool (1), while these sides are responsible for 12 of the 37 goals scored in the final minute in 2018 (Leicester with eight, Liverpool with four).

Since the start of last season, Liverpool haven’t won any of the eight Premier League matches when Mo Salah has started but failed to register a goal or assist (D4 L4).

6. Training gallery:

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7. LFC Matchday Image:



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