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Premier League champions bid to end pre-season tour on a high

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Sam Tabuteau

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Arne Slot’s Liverpool face J-League side Yokohama F Marinos at the Nissan Stadium in their final game of their pre-season tour of Asia.

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Kick off time: 11.30am BST How to watch - LFCTV Liverpool confirmed XI Yokohama FM confirmed XI Standard Sport prediction1 minute agoDefeat last time out for Liverpool

Liverpool were resoundingly beaten by AC Milan in their last pre-season game.

Their 4-2 defeat acted as something of a reality check after comfortable victories over Preston North End and Stoke City.

The Reds will be looking to get back to winning ways this afternoon

8 minutes agoSlot goes strong

Arne Slot has named a strong starting XI against Yokohama FM.

Hugo Ekitike leads the line and he’ll be backed up by Mohammed Salah, Florian Wirtz and Cody Gakpo.

There won’t be too many changes, if any, to this afternoon’s team when the champions take on Bournemouth in their first Premier League game of the season.

16 minutes agoEkitike to play up to 45 minutes

Liverpool manager Arne Slot says Hugo Ekitike will play between 30-45 minutes this afternoon.

He also explained Alisson’s absence from the squad, with the Liverpool shot-stopper returning to Brazil for personal reasons.

Slot to LFC TV: "The guys that start most of them will play 60 minutes for the first time except for Ryan, of course.

Private life is more important in these matters.

"Ekitike can play half an hour to 45 minutes.

It is interesting for fans to see them but I already have a good impression of them.”

20 minutes agoYokohama FM over halfway into the season

For Liverpool, this afternoon’s game is another opportunity to get minutes in the legs as they gear up for the new season.

Yokohama FM, however, are currently in the middle of the J1 League season.

The Tokyo-based side sit in the relegation places and recently appointed head coach Hideo Oshima, promoting him from assistant, to help steer the team to safety by the end of the season in December.

28 minutes agoYokohama FM confirmed XI

Yokohama FM XI: Park; Matsubara; Suzuki, Aziangbe, Quinones Botina; Deng, Yan; Kida, Tanimura, Amano; Elber

Subs: Watanabe, Uenaka, Walsh, Kato, Inoue, Miyaichi, David, Yamana, Araujo, Kimura, Suwama, Matsumura, Asada, Yamamura

39 minutes agoLiverpool's pre-season plans

Liverpool end their pre-season tour of Asia against Yokohama FM this afternoon.

They then travel back to the UK for a double header of friendlies against Athletic Club next Monday.

The Community Shield against Crystal Palace is then the following weekend before the Reds begin their Premier League campaign at home to Bournemouth on Friday 15, August.

47 minutes agoGame to go ahead despite tsunami warnings

This afternoon’s game was at risk of not taking place due to mass tsunami warnings across Japan.

The tsunami warnings followed the world's biggest earthquake in 14 years.

The earthquake, which reached a magnitude of 8.8, was the sixth strongest earthquake ever measured.

Despite the warnings, the game will go ahead, with a sell-out crowd expected at the Nissan Stadium.

54 minutes agoYokohama FM team news1 hour agoEkitike makes debut

Hugo Ekitike has been handed his Liverpool debut this afternoon against Yokohama FM.

The £69m man leads the line for the Reds, who are looking to bounce back from their 4-2 defeat to AC Milan in their last pre-season game.

With all the talk of a Liverpool bid for Newcastle striker Alexander Isak, it feels like Ekitike needs to hit the ground running.

1 hour agoLiverpool team news

Starting XI: Mamardashvili; Bradley, Van Dijk, Konate, Kerkez, Szoboszlai, Gravenberch, Salah, Wirtz, Gakpo, Ekitike

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