Brentford v Liverpool: Premier League – live | first division

Brentford: Flekken, Collins, Ajer, Mee, Roerslev, Jensen, Norgaard, Janelt, Reguilon, Toney, Maupay.

Substitutes: Wissa, Jorgensen, Ghoddos, Onyeka, Strakosha, Lewis-Potter, Damsgaard, Baptiste, Yarmolyuk.

Liverpool: Kelleher, Bradley, Konate, van Dijk, Robertson, Mac Allister, Endo, Jones, Jota, Núñez, Díaz.

Substitutes: Gomez, Salah, Adrian, Gakpo, Elliott, Tsimikas, Gravenberch, McConnell, Quansah.

Brentford welcomes Yoane Wissa and Frank Oneyka back from Afcon, but has lost Josh Dasilva to a knee injury that almost certainly ended his season prematurely. Rico Henry, Bryan Mbeumo, Aaron Hickey and Kevin Schade remain out.

Mo Salah, Brentford's main tormentor at Anfield in November, has been declared fit after recovering from the hamstring injury that ended his Afcon appearance, while Joe Gomez is also available after recovering from illness.

Conor Bradley is also back after missing Liverpool's last two games following the death of his father, Joe. The Northern Ireland youngster could start in place of Trent Alexander-Arnold, who suffered a new knee injury during Liverpool's victory over

Caoimhin Kelleher is likely to continue in goal for Liverpool, while Alisson, who missed the last game through illness, is now sidelined with a hamstring problem. He joins Thiago Alcantara, Joel Matip, Dominik Szoboszlai and Stefan Bajetic in the treatment room.

Having played one more game than a Manchester City side that looms ominously in their rearview mirror, Liverpool travel to Brentford's Gtech Community Stadium with a two-point lead over the reigning champions in the summit of the first division. They face a Brentford team whose season has been up and down, with some of their performances negatively affected by injuries to key players and the suspended absence of Ivan Toney for the first five months of the season.

Liverpool were left without comfortable winners of the corresponding accessory at Anfield in November, a match in which the hosts did not get their way and “came under pressure and not just because of Brentford's counter-attacking power”, according to Andy Hunter, the Guardian's Merseyside man.

Thomas Frank's team comes into this game with its tail held high on the back of a 2-0 victory against the wolves at Molineux last weekend, while their Merseyside visitors have won nine of their last 10 games in all competitions. Kick-off in west London is at 12:30pm, but in the meantime we'll have plenty of team news and preparations.