Welcome along to live coverage of Liverpool’s trip to Bournemouth. The Reds - eight points clear at the top of the table and riding a 32-game unbeaten streak in the Premier League - face a team that is out of form and coming off a defeat which left Eddie Howe feeling "as low as I've felt as Bournemouth manager.” He’ll be without his top scorer today, so could be in for a long afternoon. Full team news is coming up next.

The players are about to make their way no the pitch. The Bournemouth players have jackets with "Afobe" written on the back in support of their former colleague whose 2-year-old daughter sadly passed away last month.

Howe has been linked with the vacant managerial job at Liverpool's city neighbours this week, but he said he was "a little bit embarrassed with the speculation if I am honest after our recent run of results" and insisted he is committed to the Cherries.

One thing that isn't perfect is Liverpool's defence. It's now 13 matches in all competitions since they kept a clean sheet.

By contrast, Klopp said pre-match that he is delighted to have "people with half a brain at least" in reference to his players' understanding his rotation policy. "There's no time for rest but we have to try to give players a rest here and there and others have to perform," he said, adding that he was expects to see "desire" on the pitch if not "perfection".

The last of those Bournemouth defeats, against 10-man Crystal Palace, left Howe "hugely disappointed". He described his team's display as "very predictable" and said it didn't have "enough intelligence, enough creativity, enough flair, enough flamboyance" - but accepted the ultimate blame lied with him. Thanks to Everton's win, Bournemouth will start this game just one point above the relegation zone.

Bournemouth enter this game on a run of four straight Premier League defeats. They have never lost five in a row in the competition.

Liverpool have won each of the clubs' last four meetings, with the aggregate score 14-0.

Liverpool have a very busy run of fixtures coming up, so that Klopp has been able to rotate his team this week is a big positive. He will face questions if they don't win here, but you'd have to say that this afternoon's team is stronger than the one that demolished Everton in midweek. With such a commanding lead in the title race, many think fixture congestion catching up with them is the only way Liverpool can lose it from here. If the derby was their first serious test of that, they passed it with flying colours.

Salah has scored in each of his last four games against the Cherries. Including this hat-trick, he has six goals in four games against them.

Having rested several key players for the Merseyside Derby, Jurgen Klopp rings the changes. James Milner is the only member of the front six that started on Wednesday night to retain his place, with Mo Salah and Roberto Firmino both coming back into the side. Joe Gomez will presumably be playing at right-back. Sadio Mane, star of the show on Wednesday and perhaps Liverpool's best player in 2019, is on the bench.

LIVERPOOL: Alisson, Gomez, Lovren, Van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Milner, Keita, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Firmino, Salah. Subs: Adrian, Alexander-Arnold, Jones, Elliott, Mane, Shaqiri, Origi.

Howe makes two changes to the Bournemouth team. Ryan Fraser - linked with a move to Anfield recently - replaces Harry Wilson, who cannot face his parent club, while Simon Francis is in for the injured Adam Smith. Ex-Liverpool man Dominic Solanke, who is still without a goal since moving to Bournemouth, starts up top alongside Callum Wilson.

BOURNEMOUTH: Ramsdale, Francis, Mepham, Ake, Rico, Danjuma, Billing, Lerma, Fraser, Wilson, Solanke. Subs: Boruc, STacey, Simpson, Surman, Gosling, Cook, Ibe.