{"id":649788,"date":"2024-12-22T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=649788"},"modified":"2024-12-22T10:16:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T15:16:43","slug":"liverpool-confirmed-lineup-vs-tottenham-hotspur-for-december-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/12\/22\/liverpool-confirmed-lineup-vs-tottenham-hotspur-for-december-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Confirmed Lineup Vs Tottenham Hotspur for December 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool play Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League on December 22. The clash takes place from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Reds look to continue their title chase, as they sat two points clear of Chelsea this morning with a game in hand. This is Liverpool\u2019s <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LFC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed lineup<\/a> vs Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n<h2>Liverpool Confirmed Lineup Vs Tottenham Hotspur<\/h2>\n<h3>Liverpool Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Alisson Becker starts in goal as he has done in the league since returning from injury. Andy Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold are the full-back duo, with the latter enjoying his season more than the former. Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez are the interim centre-back partnership, until Ibrahima Konate returns from injury to replace the England international.<\/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, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/09\/04\/ryan-gravenberch-transformation-liverpools-midfield\/\" target=\"_self\">Ryan Gravenberch, <\/a>and Dominik Szoboszlai all play in midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Cody Gakpo starts on the left-wing, whilst Mohamed Salah is on the right; the Egyptian has seven goal contributions in his last four games. Luis Diaz starts up front, with Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez on the bench.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting Lineup:<\/strong> Alisson, Robertson, Van Dijk, Gomez, Alexander-Arnold, Mac Allister, Gravenberch, Gakpo, Szoboszlai, Salah, Diaz.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>Liverpool make seven changes from midweek, though this is to be expected as the Reds heavily rotated in their cup win against Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to their last Premier League lineup, Mac Allister returns to the fray ahead of Curtis Jones, after missing out vs Fulham through suspension (five yellow cards).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/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>Kostas Tsimikas, Conor Bradley, and Konate are all out with injuries. Bradley and Konate are still not training with the team, though Tsimikas is.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for a full update and discussion on the Liverpool confirmed lineup for their match with Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool play Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League on December 22. The clash takes place from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Reds look to continue their title chase, as they sat two points clear of Chelsea this morning with a game in hand. This is Liverpool\u2019s confirmed lineup vs Tottenham Hotspur. Liverpool Confirmed Lineup Vs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":647258,"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":[16,3,1831],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-649788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool","category-premier-league","category-starting-line-up","tag-liverpool"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649788","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=649788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649790,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649788\/revisions\/649790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}