Brighton vs Liverpool LIVE: Premier League team news and line-ups – UK Times

Mohamed Salah needs just one more goal involvement to equal the all-time record for a single Premier League campaign.

Salah’s next goal involvement will see him level the competition’s overall best of 47 by Andrew Cole in 1993-94 and Alan Shearer in 1994-95 across 42 matches.

He already has the 38-game record, with 28 goals and 18 assists, and Liverpool head coach Arne Slot says it would have been difficult to keep him out of the team as he chases more records!

Arne Slot names a very different team and hands a first Premier League start to Federico Chiesa, although Mohamed Salah starts too.

Virgil van Dijk drops out for the first time this season and is replaced by Jarrell Quansah, with Harvey Elliott also handed a start.

Elsewhere, Luis Diaz, Andy Robertson and Curtis Jones drop out too. Conor Bradley starts again but Trent Alexander Arnold is on the bench.

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Konate, Quansah, Bradley, Tsimikas, Gravenberch, Szoboszlai, Chiesa, Elliot, Salah, Gakpo.

Subs: Kelleher, Robertson, Gomez, Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold, Endo, Jones, Nunez, Diaz.

There’s no Joao Pedro in the Brighton squad – due to personal reasons. Simon Adingra comes into the side with Yankuba Minteh on the other side of striker Danny Welbeck.

Lewis Dunk returns to the bench, but Adam Webster remains in the defence alongside Jan Paul van Hecke. Brajan Gruda keeps his place after scoring in the win at Wolves.

Brighton XI: Verbruggen, Wieffer, Van Hecke, Webster, Estupinan, Baleba, Ayari, Adingra, Gruda, Minteh, Welbeck

Subs: Rushworth, Julio, Hinshelwood, Dunk, Veltman, Gomez, Howell, O’Riley, Mitoma

Brighton XI: Verbruggen; Wieffer, Van Hecke, Webster, Estupinan; Baleba, Ayari, Gurda; Minteh, Welbeck, Adingra

Liverpool XI: Alisson; Bradley, Konate, Quansah, Tsimikas; Gravenberch, Elliott, Szoboszlai, Salah, Chiesa, Diaz.

Mohamed Salah joined the backing of Trent Alexander-Arnold when he revealed to Gary Neville that he was “surprised” to hear the 26-year-old booed and told Gary Neville that he hopes the reception will be different for his final two games of the season.

“Absolutely,” Salah replied when asked if he was saddened by the reception. “I was surprised because it is not how we react as Liverpool fans. We shouldn’t react this way with anyone. We always appreciate the people who came here, even if it was for six months.

“Imagine someone who gave his all for 20 years. It shouldn’t be like this and I hope it will change in the next game — Brighton or the last game of the season — because he deserves a farewell.”

Jamie Carragher said he understood why sections of Liverpool supporters wanted to express their anger towards Trent Alexander-Arnold but added that booing players while they are on the pitch is a “step too far”.

Carragher, who was at Liverpool for his entire career, explained on Sky Sports that fans were hurt by Alexander-Arnold’s decision to leave but said he was disappointed to see them booing during the game.

Arne Slot said he would be prepared to play Trent Alexander-Arnold again this season after the departing Liverpool vice-captain was booed by some fans at Anfield last week.

“The thing I consider is I want to win a game of football and if we think we can win with Trent, I owe it to his team-mates and to the fans, because they (Liverpool) hired me to win as many games of football as possible,” said Slot.

“And if I think there’s a better chance of winning with Trent, then I will (pick him).

“If I think it’s a distraction or whatever can happen for us not to play a good game of football, then I might make another decision.”

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot was on the beach this week – quite literally, as he headed to party in Ibiza after the Reds won the Premier League.

Did you see me this week on social media?” the Dutchman quipped at his press conference. “But even if you are celebrating over there, it doesn’t mean the whole day you aren’t thinking about something else.

“But a larger part of my mind now is already into next season, than it would have been had the next two games still been decisive for us.

“It’s a normal situation that my thoughts, if I’m on the couch tonight, are more into next season than they would have been if the games were still very important.”

Brighton remain in the hunt for a top-eight finish, with a return to European football still on the cards for the Seagulls.

Crystal Palace’s FA Cup win has changed the picture only slightly, as the Eagles are heading into the Europa League regardless of where they finish in the Premier League.

For the visitors, Joe Gomez is the only injury absentee, though the England defender will hope to be back for the final game of the season next week.

Slot may go with a similarly strong line-up to the one he fielded against Arsenal, which mean Conor Bradley could start again ahead of Trent Alexander-Arnold.