Liverpool 4-3 Leeds LIVE! Premier League result, latest news and reaction from Anfield

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Mo Salah's hat-trick helped Liverpool get their Premier League title defence off to a winning start in a thriller against newly-promoted Leeds United at Anfield.

Marcelo Bielsa's outfit were hugely impressive on their long-awaited top flight return and pegged the Reds back on three occasions, only for Salah's 88th minute penalty, conceded by Leeds' new record signing Rodrigo, to send them home with nothing.

Virgil Van Dijk was also on the scoresheet, but was well below his best, making a horrendous error to gift Patrick Bamford his first goal of the season, with Mateusz Klich and Jack Harrison also finding the net.

David Lynch is at Anfield, with Malik Ouzia running you through the action...

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How to watch on TV today and live stream details

TV channel: The match will be televised live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier Laegue, with coverage starting from 5pm.

Live stream: Sky Sports subscribers will be able to stream the match online via the website and SkyGo app.

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The skipper's back...

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Marcelo Bielsa does hand Robin Koch a Premier League debut but Rodrigo is only on the bench as he keeps faith with Patrick Bamford. 

The other interesting decision is that Illan Meslier gets the nod in goal ahead of Kiko Casilla. 

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So Jordan Henderson is fit to start the first game of the season, while Naby Keita is preferred to Fabinho in midfield alongside him.

Beyond that, Liverpool are as you'd expect. 

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Leeds team news 

Leeds XI: Meslier, Ayling, Koch, Struijk, Dallas, Phillips, Hélder Costa, Pablo Hernández, Klich, Harrison, Bamford

Subs: Moreno, Roberts, Casey, Shackleton, Alioski, Kiko Casilla, Poveda-Ocampo

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Liverpool team news 

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk, Gomez, Robertson, Wijnaldum, Keita, Henderson, Mane, Salah, Firmino 

Subs: Adrian, Fabinho, Milner, Jones, Minamino, Origi, Matip.

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Marcelo Bielsa, meanwhile, has to decide whether to throw a couple of his new signings straight into the mix in Rodrigo and Robin Koch.

Both are fit having played for their countries in midweek, but will the Leeds boss be tempted to stay loyal to the players who earned promotion for now? 

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Liverpool predicted line-up

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Liverpool team news

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has revealed that Jordan Henderson and Xherdan Shaqiri are both in contention to face Leeds United today.

Henderson missed Liverpool’s friendly against Blackpool last weekend as he completed the final stages of rehabilitation on the knee injury that forced him to sit out the end of last season.

Shaqiri, meanwhile, missed large swathes of preparations for the new campaign due to an unspecified complaint.

However, when asked about the pair’s potential involvement - and that of Kostas Tsimikas - Klopp replied: “Not finally decided yet.

“They are all in training pretty much, all of them. So we will make late decisions about that, but it looks rather promising than not.

“But we have in the moment a lot of players available, here in training. They all came back now, so not all of them will be involved even if they could be involved, that’s the situation.”

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There won't have been two happier sets of fans in the country at the end of last season than those following Liverpool and Leeds United.

One ended their 30-year wait for a title in the top flight of English football, while the other finally ended a Premier League exodus that had lasted 16 years. 

Today, the pair of them get their new campaigns underway.

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Welcome to the Evening Standard's LIVE coverage of the Premier League match between Liverpool and Leeds United.

We have David Lynch at Anfield, with Malik Ouzia running you through the game.

Stick with us for all the build-up, action and reaction.

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