Liverpool team vs Tottenham confirmed as Dominik Szoboszlai and Florian Wirtz decisions made

Liverpool has confirmed its starting XI for the Premier League game with Tottenham, with decisions confirmed on Dominik Szoboszlai and Florian Wirtz

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot.(Image: Harry Murphy - Danehouse/Getty Images)

Dominik Szoboszlai is fit enough to start for Liverpool against Spurs in the Premier League today after he picked up an ankle knock in the Reds' win over Brighton last weekend.

Arne Slot said on Friday morning that the player was set to train later that day. Szoboszlai has recovered sufficiently to be involved in a fixture in which he excelled and scored last season.

Alisson Becker is in the Liverpool goal, with Conor Bradley, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk and Milos Kerkez making up the back four. Ryan Gravenberch and Curtis Jones are the deepest-lying two in midfield, where both have played well of late.

Szoboszlai, Florian Wirtz and Alexis Mac Allister are in front, behind Hugo Ekitike. The French forward has netted a brace in each of his last two games for Liverpool in the Premier League (Leeds United and Brighton).

Jeremie Frimpong returns from injury to take a place on the bench. Alexander Isak is also among the subs.

"I think winning always gives a good feeling and good spirit for a team that had so many changes during the summer," Slot said in his pre-match press conference as he previewed the game.

"The league table, the first 12, 13, 14, 15 teams are so close to each other that winning or losing matters a lot, with one exception although [Manchester] City are coming closer and closer to Arsenal now, but Arsenal are quite far away from us.

Dominik Szoboszlai offered an encouraging sign for Liverpool during training(Image: Getty Images)

"I think the main thing for us is to build on what we are building on in the last five games. I think with the exception of Brighton maybe, because we did concede a lot of chances against them.

"But the other games we were solid defensively and that's a good base, combined with that the players are getting more and more ready to compete at Premier League intensity as a group.

"So, I think we can expect more from us in the upcoming part of the season than what we've shown before, but I assume that everybody would expect that [of themselves] as well.

"I think it's always helpful for a manager to work on the training pitch with the players, especially if you bring in players – not all of them but a few of them — a little bit later in the window.

"With Alex [Isak], for example, he's the best example of that on the first of September. But you can also influence players if you play a game and you do video meetings.

"So, it's not an excuse for our results, not at all. But I would prefer to have more of these weeks than we have because it's a way of implementing either new things or pointing out more and more or stressing on things we have to do better than we did them before.

"I liked it, and next week is the same, so that is almost a mini-pre-season for us."

Liverpool starting XI: Alisson; Bradley, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Jones; Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Wirtz; Ekitike. Subs: Mamardashvili, Isak, Chiesa, Robertson, Frimpong, Nyoni, Ramsay, Ngumoha, Lucky.