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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: Alisson; Frimpong, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Jones; Wirtz, Szoboszlai, Gakpo; Ekitike.<\/p>\n Subs: 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":249815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7573,42,25038,1547,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-249814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-florian-wirtz","tag-headlines","tag-hugo-ekitike","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}