Brentford vs Liverpool live stream and match preview, Monday 2 January, 5.30pm GMT
Brentford vs Liverpool live stream and match preview
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Liverpool will be looking for their fifth Premier League win on the bounce when they travel to west London on Monday.
The Reds have the chance to close the gap separating them from the top four to just one point, at least temporarily.
Brentford head into this fixture as a top-half team after taking seven points from the last nine available.
Kick-off is at 5.30pm GMT. Make sure you know how to watch the Premier League wherever you are.
Team news
Brentford have to make do without Shandon Baptiste, Kristoffer Ajer and Aaron Hickey, while Ivan Toney also misses out after he was stretchered off against West Ham on Friday.
Yoane Wissa takes Toney's place in the front two and Vitaly Janelt comes in for Josh Dasilva. Mads Bech, recalled from a loan spell at Nice, is on the bench.
Liverpool are without Luis Diaz, Arthur Melo and Diogo Jota, but Curtis Jones is on the bench.
Manager Jurgen Klopp makes three changes from the win over Leicester, with Ibrahima Konate and Kostas Tsimikas coming in at the back and Fabinho returning in midfield. Joel Matip and Andy Robertson drop to the bench, while Jordan Henderson misses out altogether.
New signing Cody Gakpo is not involved either.
Brentford XI: David Raya; Roerslev, Zanka, Mee, Pinnock, Henry; Norgaard, Janelt, Jensen; Mbeumo, Wissa.
Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Van Dijk, Tsimikas; Fabinho, Thiago, Elliott; Oxlade-Chamberlain, Salah, Nunez.
Form
A 2-1 victory over Leicester on Friday was Liverpool's fifth in a row, a streak which has lifted them back into Champions League contention.
Brentford are on an excellent run themselves, having gone five games without defeat in the Premier League.
Referee
Stuart Attwell will be the referee for Brentford vs Liverpool.
Stadium
Brentford vs Liverpool will be played at the 17,250-capacity Gtech Community Stadium in London.
Kick-off and channel
Brentford vs Liverpool kick-off is at 5.30pm GMT on Monday 2 January in the UK. The game is being shown on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football.
In the US, kick-off time is 12.30pm ET / 9.30am PT. The match will be shown on NBC in the US. See below for international broadcast options.
VPN guide
Use a VPN to watch Premier League football from outside your country
If you’re out of the country for a Premier League fixture, then you won't be able to watch on your domestic streaming service as usual. The broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!) and blocks you from watching it. You can use a VPN to get around that, though, without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.
A Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, creates a private connection between your device and t'internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and will let you watch. And all the info going between is entirely encrypted, anonymous and safe – and that's a result.
There are plenty of good-value options out there. For the Premier League, FourFourTwo currently recommends:
International Premier League TV rights
• UK: Sky Sports and BT Sport are the two main players once again, but Amazon also have a slice of the pie in 2022/23.
• USA: NBC Sports Group are the Premier League rights holders, with the Peacock Premium streaming platform showing even more than the 175 games it aired last season. If you pick up a fuboTV subscription for the games not on Peacock Premium, you'll be able to watch every game.
• Canada: The way to watch Premier League football in 2022/23 is fuboTV, which has exclusive rights to all the action.
• Australia: Optus Sport will screen every game of the Premier League season. Non-subscribers can access the action via a Fetch TV box and other friendly streaming devices.
• New Zealand: Sky Sport are serving up all 380 games – plus various highlights and magazine shows throughout the week, as well as the Champions League.
