Liverpool midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai misses today's match against Manchester United through illness with Curtis Jones playing ahead of the Hungarian in the huge Premier League clash at Anfield.

Arne Slot has gone with Jones alongside Ryan Gravenberch and Alexis Mac Allister. Harvey Elliott and Wataru Endo are options in reserve, as well as the likes of Darwin Nunez and Federico Chiesa.

Szoboszlai is unwell. He might otherwise have been in line to start having been sensational against Spurs on his last start. Since then, he was benched against Leicester and then suspended for the game at West Ham, and now misses out through no fault of his own.

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"The rivalry between Liverpool and United is one that people all around the world are aware of and the main reasons for that are the history and success of the two clubs involved and the quality of the contests that take place between them," Slot writes in his pre-match program notes.

"The temptation for some will be to be drawn to the league table and to draw conclusions about what could happen today based solely on that. For me, this could only ever be a mistake. Even with my extremely limited knowledge of this fixture as a participant, I know full well that this is a game that comes down to performance on the day and not points on the board beforehand.

"This is not to say I do not recognize that United have been in a tough moment of late. Their results have not been what they would want, and this is something that everyone at their club will want to put right. I would imagine they will feel that there would be no better place to start this process than at Anfield.

"United are historically a club which plans and invests to be successful. It was exactly the same during my first summer in the Premier League when they once again underlined their ambition in the transfer market to add to a squad which already had a lot of quality. The problem is we live in an era in which the expectation is that success should always follow immediately but the reality is that, more often than not, time is needed to build something meaningful."