{"id":646214,"date":"2024-09-17T04:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T08:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=646214"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:45:07","slug":"liverpool-predicted-lineup-vs-ac-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/17\/liverpool-predicted-lineup-vs-ac-milan\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Predicted Lineup Vs AC Milan in Champions League Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool play AC Milan on September 17. The match takes place from the San Siro with Arne Slot hoping to win his first Champions League game for the club. Here is our Liverpool predicted lineup.<\/p>\n<h2>Liverpool Predicted Lineup vs AC Milan in Champions League Opener<\/h2>\n<h3>How Liverpool Have Lined-up Recently<\/h3>\n<p>Liverpool have lined up with a 4-2-3-1 under Arne Slot. Alisson Becker starts in goal, as ever. Andy Robertson is the left-back and Trent Alexander-Arnold at right-back. Ibrahima Konate and Virgil van Dijk are the centre-backs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/09\/liverpool-caoimhin-kelleher-transfer-request\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool\u2019s 2024 \u2018Hero\u2019 Makes Public Transfer Request After New Summer Signing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/04\/ryan-gravenberch-transformation-liverpools-midfield\/\" target=\"_self\">Ryan Gravenberch<\/a> and Alexis Mac Allister play as the holding midfielders, whilst Dominik Szoboszlai plays as an attacking midfielder. Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah are wingers, with Diogo Jota the star centre-forward this season.<\/p>\n<h3>Liverpool\u2019s Recent Form and Tactics<\/h3>\n<p>Following an excellent opening three matches, Liverpool suffered a painful 1-0 defeat at home to Nottingham Forest. The Reds usual attacking prowess was simply not there, generating an expected goals of just 0.94. They only created one big chance, whilst their opposition created two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/06\/liverpools-champions-league-league-phase\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool\u2019s UCL League Phase: What to Expect Next After Draw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salah was a shadow of his usual self and really struggled to get into the game. It seemed that Slot&#8217;s side were badly missing that killer pass or run to open up the defence, and so it was not surprising to end the match without a goal. A Callum Hudson-Odoi wonderstrike won the game for Forest.<\/p>\n<h3>Liverpool Injuries and Absentees to Consider Vs AC Milan<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/11\/harvey-elliott-injury-liverpool\/\" target=\"_self\">Harvey Elliott<\/a> fractured his foot whilst training with England&#8217;s U21s, and will be out for at least a month. Meanwhile, Curtis Jones returned to the squad in the last match after being out for the previous two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/08\/28\/barcelona-stefan-bajcetic-liverpool-loan\/\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona \u2018Submit Proposal\u2019 In \u2018Battle Hardened\u2019 Liverpool Prodigy<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/08\/28\/liverpool-secure-federico-chiesa-transfer-agreement\/\" target=\"_self\">Federico Chiesa<\/a> has not yet featured in a matchday squad due to a lack of match fitness; Juventus did not play him at all in pre-season as they wanted to push him towards a transfer. Slot has <a href=\"https:\/\/www-thisisanfield-com.webpkgcache.com\/doc\/-\/s\/www.thisisanfield.com\/2024\/09\/arne-slot-speaks-on-federico-chiesas-chances-of-making-debut-vs-ac-milan\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed<\/a> that he could play against Milan.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-26\">\n<div id=\"lwos_incontent_3\" align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x250\" data-google-query-id=\"CNvRrM3fyocDFaZUHQkdMoURpw\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h3>Liverpool Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">GK: Alisson Becker<\/span><\/p>\n<p>LB: Andy Robertson<\/p>\n<p>CB: Virgil van Dijk<\/p>\n<p>CB: Ibrahima Konate<\/p>\n<p>RB: Trent Alexander-Arnold<\/p>\n<p>DM: Alexis Mac Allister<\/p>\n<p>DM: Ryan Gravenberch<\/p>\n<p>AM: Dominik Szoboszlai<\/p>\n<p>LW: Luis Diaz<\/p>\n<p>CF: Diogo Jota<\/p>\n<p>RW: Mohamed Salah<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool play AC Milan on September 17. The match takes place from the San Siro with Arne Slot hoping to win his first Champions League game for the club. Here is our Liverpool predicted lineup. Liverpool Predicted Lineup vs AC Milan in Champions League Opener How Liverpool Have Lined-up Recently Liverpool have lined up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":637358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1363,378,5,1831],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-646214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool","category-ac-milan","category-champions-league","category-serie-a","category-starting-line-up","tag-liverpool"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664757,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646214\/revisions\/664757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}