Liverpool vs Luton LIVE commentary: Reds battle injury crisis as bid to hold on to top spot ahead of Wembley final: kick-off time, team news and how to follow

Liverpool will look to overcome their growing injury crisis when they return to Premier League action against Luton Town this week.

The Reds' threadbare squad is in Carabao Cup final action on Sunday that has forced them to tighten the games.

Jurgen KloppThe team maintained its place at the top of the table after a 4-1 victory at home. Brentford last weekend, but suffered a triple injury to take his walking wounded to double figures.

With Wembley rivals Chelsea enjoying a full week of rest, Liverpool return to Anfield trying to maintain their gap Arsenal.

Luton slipped into the relegation zone after EvertonThe 1-1 draw against crystal Palace Monday, but I have one less game.

The Hatters have never won a league game at home against Liverpool, but they did draw 1-1 with the Merseysiders in the first leg.

Liverpool vs Luton: substitutes ready

Liverpool's injury list means every available player will need to be used for Klopp to continue his assault on four trophies.

The Reds' substitutes have been directly involved in 20 goals in the Premier League this season, with Mohamed Salah and Cody Gakpo each scored and assisted off the bench last time.

In fact, 20 is the highest number the Reds have recorded in a Premier League season, along with 2015/16.

Fortunately for Liverpool, talisman Salah should be able to continue his exploits in west London as he chases more history.

The Egyptian has been directly involved in 24 Premier League goals for Liverpool this season (15 goals, 9 assists). If he assists one more goal this season, he will become the second player in the competition's history to record 10+ goals and 10+ assists in five different campaigns, after Wayne Rooney.

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• Liverpool have never lost a home league game against Luton (L14, W8, D6), and this is their first such match since the Reds' 2-1 victory in January 1992.
• Luton have played away at Liverpool without winning more often than any other opponent in their professional league history (14), while Liverpool have only faced Grimsby Town (18) at home in the league without losing never more so than the Hatters.
• Only four newly promoted teams have won their first Premier League match against Liverpool at Anfield: Newcastle United (1993-94), Barnsley (1997-98), Watford (1999-00) and Blackpool (2010-11).

Liverpool vs Luton: team news

The locals suffered three new injuries against Brentford, Diogo Jota and Curtis Jones leaving the stadium on crutches.

Darwin Nunez was substituted at half-time with an unspecified muscle injury and is unlikely to be at risk ahead of Sunday's final.

Liverpool is left without a goalkeeper Alicia Beckervice-captain Alexander-Arnold and summer signing Dominik Szoboszlai.

Reds' packed treatment room still includes long-term casualties Thiago Alcantara, Joel MatipBen Doak and Stefan Bajcetic.

Luton lost top scorer Elias Adebayo in the warm-up prior to the defeat against United, to add to his own injury list.

Mads Andersen and Wonderful Nakamba They are still out of the game along with the captain Tom Lockyer – which is still not available.

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• Liverpool have lost just one of their last 54 Premier League games at Anfield (W41 D12), losing 1-2 to Jesse Marsch's Leeds in October 2022. They are unbeaten in 24 home league games since that defeat against Leeds (19V 5E). .
• Luton are unbeaten in three away league games (W1 D2), picking up more points (5) and scoring more goals (8) in this run than they managed in their first eight Premier League away games before. of this (4 points, 1V 1E 6D). ; 7 goals).
• Liverpool have won each of their last 11 Premier League games played on Wednesdays since a 1-0 defeat to Brighton at Anfield in February 2021. At home, the Reds have only lost two of their last 50 games in the competition on this day of the week (S35 D13).

Liverpool vs Luton: What has been said?

Speaking to talkSPORT about his growing injury crisisKlopp said: “But that's our life.

“It's a lot of frustrations, but I don't remember it ever being easy since I've been here, so in some ways this is the Liverpool way: we have to do it on a bit of a bumpy road, but that's the way it is.” , but we take it and continue until someone whistles the game or we no longer have 11 players. It's always: 'Let's keep going.'

“Today was a top-notch team performance against a super tough opponent. It was our best performance in a long time. And that after yesterday our goalkeeper (Alisson) also left the field due to injury, but our 1-B version (Kelleher) came in and had an incredible game.

“I'm very happy that everyone can see how good it is.”

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• Liverpool's Luis Díaz has scored in his last two Premier League games at Anfield, while against newly promoted sides at home and away in the competition, he has been directly involved in six goals in nine appearances (5 goals, 1 assist) .
• Carlton Morris has scored in Luton's last two away league games against Burnley and Newcastle. The last player to score in three consecutive Premier League away games for a promoted team was Aleksandar Mitrovic with Fulham between October 2022 and January 2023.
• Mohamed Salah has been directly involved in 24 Premier League goals for Liverpool this season (15 goals, 9 assists). If he assists one more goal this season, he will become only the second player in the history of the competition to register 10+ goals and 10 goals. + assists in five different campaigns, after Wayne Rooney (5).

Liverpool vs Luton: talkSPORT coverage

This Premier League clash will take place on Wednesday, February 21.

talkSPORT will have live, exclusive coverage from Anfield, with kick-off scheduled for 7.30pm

talkSPORT is the only UK broadcaster offering full national coverage of this game, with our coverage presented by Adrian Durham.

The comment comes from Sam Matterface and the former England striker. Dean Ashton.

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