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<\/p>\nTeam news confirmed from Anfield as Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz return to the side to face Burnley<\/p>\n
Hugo Ekitike spoke about his on-field relationship with Florian Wirtz(Image: )<\/p>\n
Hugo Ekitike starts for Liverpool as Ryan Gravenberch returns for the visit of Burnley in the Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n Arne Slot makes six changes in total from the team that progressed to the FA Cup<\/a> fourth round on Monday evening at the expense of League One outfit Barnsley.<\/p>\n Ekitike has missed the recent draws with Fulham and Arsenal after a hamstring scare but returned as a substitute on Monday night with his 12th goal of the campaign in the 4-1 win over Barnsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Arne Slot hints at Liverpool transfer priority as Marc Guehi \u00a320m deal agreed<\/a>READ MORE: Arne Slot addresses Xabi Alonso and manager sackings as Liverpool boss makes admission – ‘No clue’<\/a><\/p>\n France international Ekitike leads the line with Cody Gakpo selected off the left and Florian Wirtz and Dominik Szoboszlai also selected in advanced positions.<\/p>\n Wirtz created a goal for Ekitike and scored himself off the bench on Monday and is back in the start from the start this afternoon.<\/p>\n Jeremie Frimpong starts at right-back as Milos Kerkez returns on the left side. Ibrahima Konate comes back into the team to partner captain Virgil van Dijk in the centre as Alisson Becker starts.<\/p>\n Alexis Mac Allister drops to the bench with Gravenberch returning alongside Jones in midfield. Japan skipper Wataru Endo is also available on the bench if needed.<\/p>\n Liverpool<\/strong>: Alisson; Frimpong, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Jones; Wirtz, Szoboszlai, Gakpo; Ekitike.<\/p>\n Subs<\/strong>: Mamardashvili, Gomez, Robertson, Mac Allister, Endo, Chiesa, Ngumoha, Nyoni, Ramsay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team news confirmed from Anfield as Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz return to the side to face Burnley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,42799,6,2444,19,17,11,12,560,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-289486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-florian-wirtz","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-hugo-ekitike","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-liverpool-fc","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115911335864271357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}