Sadio Mane was surprisingly left out of the Liverpool starting lineup for Saturday's lunchtime clash with Brighton. Reds boss Jurgen Klopp, who had admitted he faced a number of "late decisions" over stars, left the Senegalese star on the bench at the AmEx Stadium.
He was joined there by Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson, who has missed the last two matches with a hamstring injury. With fellow midfielder Thiago having not featured since he was injured in the Merseyside derby last month still absent, that meant James Milner and Gini Wijnaldum as the central pairing, as Klopp went with a 4-2-3-1 formation once more and made six changes from the Atalanta defeat in midweek.
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