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Jürgen Klopp explains team selection v Stoke City

Dejan Lovren, Emre Can, Gini Wijnaldum, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane are all included in Liverpool’s team for the clash with the Potters, while Dominic Solanke comes in for his first Premier League start.

Jordan Henderson, James Milner, Daniel Sturridge, Philippe Coutinho and Mohamed Salah are among the Reds’ substitutes, but Ragnar Klavan (illness) and Adam Lallana (minor muscle problem) miss out.

Explaining his selection pre-match, Klopp said: “Raggy is ill, that’s how it is at this time of the year, in late November in the north-west of England - it can happen.

“And Adam, it’s a minor muscle thing, nothing really serious but he needs a few days to recover from that and then he’s back in training and then in the squad.