Premier League: Brentford v Liverpool

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Today’s match officialsMichael Oliver leads today’s team of match officials at the Gtech Stadium. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty ImagesEarly team news

Brentford welcome Yoane Wissa and Frank Oneyka back from Afcon, but have lost Josh Dasilva to a knee injury that has almost certainly ended his season prematurely. Rico Henry, Bryan Mbeumo, Aaron Hickey and Kevin Schade remain out.

The main tormentor of Brentford at Anfield in November, Mo Salah has been declared fit after recovering from the hamstring injury that ended his involvement in Afcon, while Joe Gomez is also available after recovering from illness.

Conor Bradley is also back after missing Liverpool’s past two games following the death of his father, Joe. The youngster from Northern Ireland could start in place of Trent Alexander-Arnold, who suffered a recurrence of a knee injury during Liverpool’s win over

Caoimhin Kelleher is likely to continue in goal for Liverpool, what with Alisson, who missed their last game through illness, now sidelined with a hamstring problem. He joins Thiago Alcantara, Joel Matip, Dominik Szoboszlai and Stefan Bajetic in the treatment room.

Josh Dasilva (left) has made just five appearances for Brentford this season and is now sidelined after undergoing surgery on a serious knee injury. Photograph: David Klein/ReutersPremier League: Brentford v Liverpool

Having played one game more than a Manchester City side that is looming ominously in their rear-view mirror, Liverpool travel to Brentford’s Gtech Community Stadium with a two-point lead over the reigning champions at the Premier League summit. They face a Brentford side whose season has been up and down, with some of their performances adversely affected by injuries to key players and the absence through suspension of Ivan Toney for the first five months of the season.

Liverpool ran out comfortable winners of the corresponding fixture at Anfield in November, a game in which the hosts didn’t have it all their own way and were “were stretched and not only by Brentford’s potency on the counterattack” according to Andy Hunter, the Guardian’s man on the Merseyside beat.

Thomas Frank’s side come into this game with their tails up on the back of a 2-0 win against Wolves at Molineux last weekend, while their visitors from Merseyside have won nine of their last 10 games in all competitions. Kick-off in west London is at 12.30pm but we’ll have plenty of team news and build-up in the meantime.