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Liverpool has not won a Premier League game in 42 days but will look to get back on track against Aston Villa this weekend, shortly after Arsenal has taken on Burnley at Turf Moor.
Arne Slot has confirmed that Ryan Gravenberch could be back and available to start, but Alexander Isak and Curtis Jones are likely to remain out. Alisson Becker and Jeremie Frimpong will be absent, while Giovanni Leoni is set to be sidelined for months.
"[Winning duels and physical battles] gets more and more important in every Premier League game, let alone in games of ours," Slot said when he was asked about how he hopes to improve results.
"It's never helpful if you end a game of football against [Manchester] United with conceding a set-piece and you start another one [at Brentford] in the Premier League and you concede after five minutes from a throw-in, from a set-piece.
"I'm not 100 percent sure if I'm correct, we had to defend 16 set-pieces and 15 we defended well. But we are in this moment of time where 15 isn't enough because we conceded 16.
"The first one, someone said to me — who worked in a completely different department — that no plan survives the first contact and that is also a little bit what makes it difficult.
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"If you are five minutes in the game and you are 1-0 down — that's never helpful for confidence for the plan you are having.
"If I liked a little part of the game, it was the part after we conceded the 1-0, because at that moment of time we were creative, we created our chances but we couldn't score.
"And then in the last 10 minutes it became more of their game again and eventually the way we conceded the 2-0, that is something that is far from our standards."
In the United Kingdom, the game will be shown live on TNT Sports 1 and will be available to stream live through the channel's app.
In the United States, the match is set to be on USA Network and Telemundo.
As part of NBC's coverage in the US, Gary Neville will join presenter Rebecca Lowe and fellow pundit Lee Dixon. Peter Drury and Stephen Warnock will commentate.
The game will kick off at 8 pm local time, which is 4 pm ET and 1 pm PT.
Team news-wise, Aston Villa will be without Youri Tielemans and Emi Buendia. Harvey Elliott can't face his parent club as he is on loan from Liverpool for this season.
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