Liverpool team vs RB Leipzig confirmed as Luis Diaz and Cody Gakpo decisions made

Liverpool boss has to take on RB Leipzig in the . The Reds have made three changes to the team that beat Chelsea last weekend, with Curtis Jones dropping out.

Caoimhin Kelleher is in the goal, with , Ibrahima Konate, , and Kostas Tsimikas making up the back four. Andy Robertson is taken out of the team, as he was for the win at the San Siro against AC Milan on matchday one.

In midfield, starts against his former club. Jones, who was in the , has been taken out of the side, while Ryan Gravenberch is the number six. Alexis Mac Allister comes back in.

In the Liverpool attack, starts on the right wing, with in for the injured down the middle. Luis Diaz was expected to come back into the team on the left flank having started on the bench last weekend after he came back from a trip to South America in the international break, but he is among the substitutes with Cody Gakpo preferred.

"No matter where you are in the season, it is always better to get the best possible result," Slot said during his pre-match press conference. "That’s also what we are trying to bring in tomorrow. We look at it game by game and we try to bring out the best possible team for tomorrow, for the competition we face in Leipzig, who are doing really well in the Bundesliga.

"They had the difficulty of playing two very difficult teams in the Champions League, that’s the difficult thing of this format — that after two games you can have a league table that doesn’t tell the whole story because you can face teams from group four or you can face the difficult ones in the beginning, and that’s what they had.

"[They are] a very good team and, yes, the fixture list is tough, but what would you expect if you play Champions League and Premier League? The fixture list is then tough and that’s what we like, that’s what we want. We have to deal with it and we like to deal with it."

Liverpool starting XI in full: Kelleher; Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Van Dijk, Tsimikas; Szoboszlai, Gravenberch, Mac Allister; Salah, Nunez, Gakpo. Subs: Jaros, Davies, Gomez, Quansah, Robertson, Endo, Morton, Jones, Nyoni, Diaz.