Liverpool team news confirmed from the London Stadium as Florian Wirtz and Alisson Becker return and Mohamed Salah drops to the bench for the clash with West Ham United
Picture inside the Liverpool dressing room before the Premier League match against West Ham United at the London Stadium on November 30, 2025View Image
Florian Wirtz returns for Liverpool as Mohamed Salah drops to the bench at West Ham United. Alisson Becker also returns in goal after recovering from an illness.
Wirtz has missed the last two games with an injury that was detected during the recent international break with Germany but the attacking midfielder is back in the side that sees Reds boss Arne Slot select four midfielders. Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai and Ryan Gravenberch also start.
Joe Gomez starts his first Premier League game for 11 months - when the Reds won 5-0 here just after Christmas last year - but the versatile defender begins at right-back as Curtis Jones drops out. Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk and Milos Kerkez complete the back four.
Alexander Isak starts up top with Hugo Ekitike on the bench after suffering a back injury in the second half of Wednesday's 4-1 defeat to PSV. Cody Gakpo also starts the match in the capital.
Slot has a number of attacking reinforcements on the bench with Salah alongside Ekitike,Federico Chiesa and Rio Ngumoha.
Jones and Wataru Endo also make the bench as Liverpool aim to turn around a run that has seen them lose nine of the last 12.
Alisson Becker returned from a hamstring injury after two months out last week in the 3-0 loss to Nottingham Forest but was absent from the loss to PSV in the Champions League after succumbing to illness.
However, the Brazil international returns in place of Giorgi Mamardashvili.
Liverpool: Alisson; Gomez, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Szoboszlai, Wirtz; Isak, Gakpo. Subs: Mamardashvili, Salah, Ekitike, Chiesa, Ngumoha, Endo, Jones, Nyoni, Robertson.
West Ham: Areola, Wan-Bissaka, Todibo, Mavrapanos, Diouf, Magassa, Potts, Fernandes, Bowen, Paqueta, Wilson. Subs: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Kilman, Igor, Fullkrug, Guilherme, Rodriguez, Soucek, Irving.
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