Leicester’s caretaker manager Craig Shakespeare takes control of his first match since the sacking of Claudio Ranieri.

Defender Molla Wague will be absent with a shoulder injury.

Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren could miss a third successive game because of a knee injury.

Daniel Sturridge is still suffering the effects of a virus and is also a major fitness doubt, but Ragnar Klavan has fully recovered from illness.

What the manager say:
Leicester City caretaker manager Craig Shakespeare: “In terms of getting teams prepared, I’d like to think my man-management style can do that. There are enough games there and this squad are good enough to get themselves out of this – that will be the message.

“Momentum is a big word in football. We had that last year. What I would say is they’ve trained well over the last few weeks especially. We’ve refocused ourselves.”

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: “Probably the [Leicester] players have to show a few things and they [will] want to. It is obvious to not let them.

“You saw the Champions League game [against Sevilla in midweek] and the reaction after they scored: it was like two different games before and after they scored.

“Maybe they can keep this and then we have to make it not too easy for them to bring it on the pitch or to not let their confidence grow.

“If we play our best, we will be difficult to play against whoever.”

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

• Leicester won this fixture 2-0 last season with Jamie Vardy scoring twice, but that is their only victory in the last nine Premier League meetings (D2, L6).
• Liverpool claimed a 4-1 victory when these teams met in September and could beat the Foxes home and away in the same season for the first time since 2001-02.

Leicester City

• The Foxes have lost their last five league games – the only previous reigning top-flight champions to lose six in a row was Everton in 1928-29.
• Leicester have kept just two clean sheets in their last 22 games in all competitions, and none in their last 10.
• They are the only team in the top five European leagues not to have scored a league goal in 2017 – they have gone six games without a goal.
• Leicester could equal the club record of seven league matches without a goal, set in the old Division Two between November 1987 and January 1988.
• Jamie Vardy’s goal against Sevilla ended his nine-match barren streak. He has scored in just one of his last 18 Premier League games.

Liverpool

• Liverpool’s victory over Tottenham in their last match ended a winless run of five league games.
• The Reds have gone three matches without an away win in the Premier League (D2, L1).
• Sadio Mane has been directly involved in 15 Premier League goals, more than any other Liverpool player this season (11 goals, four assists).
• Adam Lallana has failed to score or provide an assist in his six league appearances in 2017 after supplying four goals and four assists in his final seven league matches last year.

Source: bbc.co.uk

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