LFC Live - Alexis Mac Allister drops Liverpool team news hint as Arne Slot explains Alexander Isak dilemma

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Liverpool lock horns with Everton at Anfield as Arne Slot looks to extend his side's unbeaten start to the season.

On Wednesday night, the Reds enjoyed a last-gasp win over Atletico Madrid in the Champions League.

Virgil van Dijk fired Liverpool to victory in the dying embers of stoppage time, heading the ball through a crowd of bodies and past Jan Oblak.

The Blues have had a week or so to recharge their batteries after they shared points with Aston Villa.

Everton are unbeaten since they lost to Leeds United on the opening weekend of the new Premier League campaign, winning two and drawing the other.

Nevertheless, Mac Allister has posted a pre-match graphic preview of the Merseyside Derby to his Instagram story.

Historically, this suggests that the 26-year-old midfielder will be involved in some capacity.

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Dominik Szoboszlai has also done the same, hinting that he too will start against David Moyes' side.

Speaking to reporters ahead of this afternoon's clash, Slot discussed Liverpool's 'special' derby with Everton.

The Reds boss said: "When we faced them last season they had a very good spell as well – and it wasn’t a spell because they just kept on going with that and into this season again also.

"I think they’ve made some good signings and one of them is of course a player on loan who was worth £100m in the past, someone paid £100m for him and he is doing so well for them, Jack Grealish.

So yeah, looking forward to the game tomorrow because every Anfield game is special but this derby is even more special."

On whether he would consider playing Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike as a front two, Slot said: "I consider, of course, because you consider many things and it depends always on how well they are doing, so if both of them are in the best form of their life you would even consider it more, playing them together.

"But it’s also clear that we have a certain structure, which has mainly been 4-3-3 [and] playing with three midfielders, but the amount of times we have, at the end phase of the game, played with two nines, that has happened quite a lot as well.

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"Hugo can indeed also play from the left differently from Cody [Gakpo] or Rio [Ngumoha] and that’s the good thing about our squad, we have multiple options.

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