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Hello and welcome to LIVE updates of Liverpool’s Champions League Group B clash at Atletico Madrid. Kick off 20.00 BST.

Champions League / Group Stage
Cívitas Metropolitano / 19.10.2021
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Ibrahim Mustapha

Updated 19/10/2021 at 21:21 GMT


2'
H2H: Atletico 3 wins, 2 draws, Liverpool 1 win.
1st Half
1'
KICK OFF! Liverpool get this Champions League Group B contest up and running.
19.55
Almost show time! Klopp made a lot of people giggle in his pitch-side, pre-match media duties when he gave his view on Luis Suarez not starting.
I'd have paid good money to be in the meeting where Diego told him he wasn't starting!"
19.50
300 UP! Roberto Firmino makes his 300th appearance for Liverpool tonight. He is the 60th player to reach the landmark for the club and the ninth from overseas.
19.45
19.40
OPINION: Klopp is right, Salah is currently the best player in the world
19.35
Virgil can Dijk: "We don't need any extra motivation. We are playing in the Champions League, the most prestigious cup in Europe. The boys worked hard for it last year to make sure that we play Champions League. We just want to go out there and show our qualities. The only thing we will use from the game that we played last time is to analyse them. We don't need extra motivation. We know how tough it's going to be and we have to be very good to get a good result. We are looking forward to it."
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19.30
Klopp on Atletico: “We lost both games the last time against them. I'm a positive person but I'm not that positive to think we have these games in our pockets. They have changed players and system so we face a different animal, but not a weaker one. The core are still together, and have been for a while, and they know how to win football games."
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'I respect Atletico but I don't like their style of football' Klopp on Atletico encounter

19.25
Diego Simeone on Liverpool and Mo Salah: "Mohamed Salah is an extraordinary player. He has been playing at a fantastic level for the last few years with Liverpool and his national team."
He added: "They (Liverpool) are going through a fantastic spell of football, they seem to have a different rhythm, and it is a pleasure to see them play. They have no fear to leave spaces at the back. They press high, play a high line, have speed."
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Simone hoping for 'fantastic day' against Liverpool

19.20
Of course, Liverpool and Atletico Madrid are renewing acquaintances in the Champions League for the first time since a hugely dramatic round of 16 tie in 2020. Eurosport Spain's Felix Martin previews this tantalising clash.
19.15
Liverpool stick with the same outfield 10 that thumped Watford at the weekend - but Alisson does return between the sticks in place of Caoimhin Kelleher.
Fabinho is on the bench.
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19.10
Antoine Griezmann leads the Atletico attack with former Liverpool forward Luis Suarez named on the bench. That is one of four changes Diego Simeone has made from Atleti's last match prior to the international break, which was a 2-0 victory over Barcelona. Felipe, Kieran Trippier and Geoffrey Kondogbia all get the nod.
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19.05
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CONFIRMED TEAMS - ATLETICO: Oblak, Trippier, Felipe, Kondogbia, Hermoso, Carrasco, Lemar, Koke, De Paul, Joao Felix, Griezmann... Subs: Lecomte, Gimenez, Luis Suarez, Correa, Lodi, Llorente, Herrera, Cunha, Vrsaljko /// LIVERPOOL: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk, Matip, Robertson, Keita, Milner, Henderson, Salah, Mane, Firmino... Subs: Adrian, Kelleher, Fabinho, Konate, Gomez, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Minamino, Jota, Tsimikas, Origi, Phillips, N Williams