{"id":648229,"date":"2024-11-05T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=648229"},"modified":"2024-11-05T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:51:25","slug":"liverpool-confirmed-lineup-vs-bayer-leverkusen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/11\/05\/liverpool-confirmed-lineup-vs-bayer-leverkusen\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Confirmed Lineup Vs Bayer Leverkusen for November 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool play Bayer Leverkusen in the Premier League on November 5. The huge clash takes place from Anfield. The Reds look to continue their strong form under Arne Slot; they currently sit top of the Premier League and are one of two teams to have won their opening three Champions League matches. This is Liverpool\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LFC\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed lineup<\/a> vs Bayer Leverkusen.<\/p>\n<h2>Liverpool Confirmed Lineup Vs Bayer Leverkusen in Champions League Clash<\/h2>\n<h3>Liverpool Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Caoimhin Kelleher is still starting in goal with Alisson Becker injured. Kostas Tsimikas and Trent Alexander-Arnold start as left-back and right-back. Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate continue to start as Jarell Quansah struggles to get gametime under new coach Slot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/11\/03\/liverpool-bryan-mbeumo-mohamed-salah-replacement\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool Earmark \u2018Fantastic\u2019 In-Form Premier League Star to Replace Mohamed Salah<\/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> will play as the holding midfielders, whilst Curtis Jones plays in the advanced role.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Diaz starts on the left-wing, whilst Mohamed Salah is on the right; the Egyptian has three goals in his last four starts. Cody Gakpo starts up front with Diogo Jota out injured and Darwin Nunez on the bench.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting Lineup:\u00a0<\/strong>Kelleher, Tsimikas, Van Dijk, Konate, Alexander-Arnold, Mac Allister, Gravenberch, Diaz, Jones, Salah, Gakpo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bench: <\/strong>Nunez, Endo, Bradley, Gomez, Morton, Jaros, Quansah, Robertson, Davies, Szoboszlai.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>Gakpo started in both games against Brighton ahead of Diaz, scoring a brace in the midweek cup fixture and another in the league. However, Diaz returns to the starting lineup for this fixture at left-wing and the Dutchman starts up front. Nunez drops to the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tsimikas continues to displace Robertson after the Greek international put in a stellar performance at the weekend. Dominik Szoboszlai is rested for Jones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/10\/21\/liverpool-virgil-van-dijk-contract-update\/\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Insane\u2019 Liverpool Sensation Gives Huge Update On Contract Extension Talks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Federico <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/08\/28\/liverpool-secure-federico-chiesa-transfer-agreement\/\" target=\"_self\">Chiesa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/11\/harvey-elliott-injury-liverpool\/\" target=\"_self\">Harvey Elliott, <\/a>Alisson, and Jota are all still out.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for a full update and discussion on the Liverpool confirmed lineup for their match with Bayer Leverkusen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool play Bayer Leverkusen in the Premier League on November 5. The huge clash takes place from Anfield. The Reds look to continue their strong form under Arne Slot; they currently sit top of the Premier League and are one of two teams to have won their opening three Champions League matches. This is Liverpool\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":647598,"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-648229","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\/648229","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=648229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}