Hello and welcome to LIVE updates of the Champions League Group B clash between Liverpool and FC Porto at Anfield. The Merseysiders have already qualified for the last 16 as pool winners but second-placed Porto are just a point clear of Atletico Madrid and will be eager to remain in the second qualifying berth. Kick off 20.00 GMT.

CLOSE! Tsimikas loses possession deep in Liverpool territory. It's crossed from the right but Taremi's flick header hits Matip and flashes wide of the near post.

STAT: Liverpool have only lost two of their 23 home games in the Champions League under Jurgen Klopp (W16 D5).

No dramas for Liverpool but they've yet to set much of a foot in the Porto half. Salah looks to change that but Zaidu got across to make an important sliding challenge.

Porto win an early corner and apply some decent pressure that results in boos from the home crowd. Konate is called into action on a number of occasions to clear the hosts' area.

Liverpool’s record in European Cup/Champions League: Pld 231 Won 133 Drawn 47 Lost 51

KICK OFF! Liverpool get us underway.

PERMUTATIONS: Liverpool are through but there’s still another qualification spot up for grabs in Group B.

LFC v Portuguese opponents: Pld 25, W13, D6, L6. In these 25 games they have scored 47 goals - almost half against Porto - while at Anfield they have conceded only nine times and none in any of the last three outings.

TON UP! Porto defender Pepe makes his 100th career start in the Champions League tonight. He becomes just the second Portuguese player in the history of the competition to start a century of games, after a certain Cristiano Ronaldo.

OPTA STAT: Liverpool are unbeaten in their nine meetings with FC Porto in European competition (W6 D3), with five of those games coming during Jürgen Klopp’s reign (W4 D1).

Former Liverpool midfielder Marko Grujic, who is on the bench for Porto tonight: “We weren’t at our best (in the home game v Liverpool), but we will try to give a good response. Against the best teams in Europe, we have to compete with the highest intensity. We've worked hard since that defeat. It will be a special game, because I'm going back to a club and a city where I spent five years. I'll do my best."

Thiago Alcantara: “It's very tough to win the Champions League. We are playing the best teams in the world. If we are in our best shape, we can achieve everything. The most important thing is the hunger that we have - we want to win in our way. It's not just about who plays, but it's about the group.”

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Porto boss, Sergio Conceicao on Liverpool: “(They) are one of the best teams in the world. You look how they play, their principles, and regardless of who plays, they will not change. It’s down to us. We can't control the opponent's strategy, which will likely be the same as how they play every week. But we have our strengths, our ability, our tactics, our ambition.”

Klopp: "We always respect the competition but we have to think about ourselves and our schedule and the situation of our players first. In this time of the season, the medical department has a big hand in line-ups. But we have to line up a team who has a chance to win a football game."

It’s a blend of experience and fringe players for Liverpool as Jurgen Klopp makes four changes to the side that thumped Arsenal at the weekend. It’s a Champions League bow for 19-year-old midfielder Tyler Morton while Neco Williams, Ibrahima Konate and Takumi Minamino also start. Interestingly, Sadio Mane and Mo Salah are also in the XI.

CONFIRMED STARTING XIs – LIVERPOOL: Alisson, Williams, Matip, Konate, Tsimikas, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Morton, Thiago, Salah, Minamino, Mane. /// FC PORTO: Costa, Mario, Mbemba, Pepe, Zaidu, Uribe, Oliveira, Otavio, Diaz, Taremi, Evanilson.