Liverpool take on Wrexham in their second pre-season friendly of the summer in New York on Wednesday night
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Liverpool are used to being the main attraction pretty much wherever they go in pre-season, but things might be different at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night.
Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney's Wrexham will provide the opposition in the Big Apple, with the Welsh club gearing up for another attempt at reaching the Premier League, having just missed out on the Championship playoffs last season.
The cameras are sure to be trained on the pair as they take in the action, but what sort of Liverpool side will we be seeing on the pitch after the 4-2 win over Sunderland in their first pre-season friendly of the summer?
Our Reds writers have picked the teams that they would like to see.
Mark Jones
Centre-back is obviously the area in which Liverpool are desperately short, and so someone is going to have to be pressed into service there who might not want to be. Ryan Gravenberch, you've just spoken about wanting to be a 'leader', so step right up.
The Dutchman can get his first 45 minutes of pre-season as an emergency defender alongside Mor Talla Ndiaye, with Jeremie Frimpong building up his fitness again at right-back and Milos Kerkez on the left.
With Gravenberch needed elsewhere, Trey Nyoni can come into midfield alongside captain Dominik Szoboszlai, while I'd be tempted to see what Josh Abe can do off the right-hand side.
Lewis Koumas then gets a start against his fellow Welshmen on the left, and Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak return to the fold.
My team (4-2-3-1): Mamardashvili; Frimpong, Ndiaye, Gravenberch, Kerkez; Nyoni, Szoboszlai; Abe, Wirtz, Koumas; Isak.
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Richard Garnett
I used to cover Wrexham matches earlier in my journalism career when they were in the National League, so to see the North Wales club playing against Liverpool in a preseason friendly, where it is suggested that they could be the main turn, is absolutely surreal. There's plenty of interest in the Red Dragons of course, but I'm not having it that they will be a bigger draw than the 20 times English league champions!
Joe Gomez lasted less than 10 minutes as captain of the Reds last time out, in a clear reminder that the Reds still need to make an addition to their ranks who can play centre-back. Ifeanyi Ndukwe replaced Liverpool's longest-serving current player and he can have a start against Wrexham alongside 18-year-old Mor Talla Ndiaye. Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez, who both have hugely important seasons ahead of them, can start on their respective full-back rolls.
Midfield has a more familiar look, with Dominik Szoboszlai and Ryan Gravenberch pulling the strings alongside the impressive Trey Nyoni. I'd leave Florian Wirtz on the bench for this one and go with Kieran Morrison and Rio Ngumoha either side of Alexander Isak. Everyone's getting a game anyway so non-starters shouldn't panic!
My team (4-3-3): Mamardashvili; Frimpong, Ndiaye, Ndiaye, Kerkez; Nyoni, Szoboszlai, Gravenberch; Ngumoha, Isak, Morrison.