{"id":646977,"date":"2024-10-02T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=646977"},"modified":"2024-10-02T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T17:48:37","slug":"liverpool-confirmed-lineup-vs-bologna-for-october-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/10\/02\/liverpool-confirmed-lineup-vs-bologna-for-october-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Confirmed Lineup Vs Bologna for October 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool play Bologna in the Champions League on October 2. The match takes place from Anfield, at 8:00 PM local time. The Reds look to continue their strong form under Arne Slot; they currently sit top of the Premier League and have won their first UCL match against AC Milan, 3-1 away. This is Liverpool\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LFC\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed lineup<\/a> vs Bologna.<\/p>\n<h2>Liverpool Confirmed Lineup Vs Bologna in Champions League Clash<\/h2>\n<h3>Liverpool Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Alisson Becker starts in goal for the second match running after he returned from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/20\/liverpool-alisson-becker-injury-bournemouth\/\" target=\"_self\">injury<\/a> against Wolves. Andy Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold start as full-backs. Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate form a strong centre-back duo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/23\/liverpool-trent-alexander-arnold-contract-update\/\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Superb\u2019 Liverpool Star Makes Bold Statement on Future Amidst Contract Expiry Fears<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alexis Mac Allister and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/04\/ryan-gravenberch-transformation-liverpools-midfield\/\" target=\"_self\">Ryan Gravenberch<\/a> start as holding midfielders, as they have in all but one match this season. Dominik Szoboszlai is the attacking midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Diaz starts on the left-wing whilst Mohamed Salah is on the right; the Egyptian has scored or assisted in the last three. Darwin Nunez starts at striker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting Lineup:\u00a0<\/strong>Alisson, Robertson, Van Dijk, Konate, Alexander-Arnold, Mac Allister, Gravenberch, Szoboszlai, Diaz, Nunez, Salah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bench:\u00a0<\/strong>Gakpo, Jota, Morton, Bradley, Jones, Endo, Quansah, Gomez, Tsimikas, Kelleher, Jaros, Nyoni.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>Nunez replaces<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/10\/01\/liverpool-diogo-jota-injury-blow\/\" target=\"_self\">\u00a0Jota<\/a> at centre-forward after the Portuguese suffered an issue to his foot in the last match against his former club. The Uruguayan has just two starts this season and will be eager to impress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/13\/liverpool-virgil-van-dijk-contract-points-discussed\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool Could Move On From \u2018Unbelievable\u2019 Star Unless \u2018Crucial Points\u2019 Can Be Agreed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/11\/harvey-elliott-injury-liverpool\/\" target=\"_self\">Harvey Elliott<\/a> is still out as he fractured his foot whilst training for England\u2019s U21s, whilst Alisson is now fully fit. Federico Chiesa is not in the squad at all.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for a full update and discussion on the Liverpool confirmed lineup for their match with Bologna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool play Bologna in the Champions League on October 2. The match takes place from Anfield, at 8:00 PM local time. The Reds look to continue their strong form under Arne Slot; they currently sit top of the Premier League and have won their first UCL match against AC Milan, 3-1 away. This is Liverpool\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":646955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[16,378,1831],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-646977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool","category-champions-league","category-starting-line-up","tag-liverpool"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646977","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=646977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}