{"id":650090,"date":"2025-01-05T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=650090"},"modified":"2025-01-02T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T23:36:15","slug":"liverpool-predicted-lineup-vs-manchester-united-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/05\/liverpool-predicted-lineup-vs-manchester-united-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Predicted Lineup Vs Manchester United for January 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool play Manchester United in the North-West derby. The clash takes place from Anfield Stadium. Here is our Liverpool predicted lineup vs Manchester United.<\/p>\n

Liverpool Predicted Lineup vs Manchester United in Huge Rivalry<\/h2>\n

How Liverpool Have Lined-up Recently<\/h3>\n

Alisson Becker is Arne Slot’s starting goalkeeper. Andy Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold are the starting full-backs, with the latter the only fit right-back in the squad. Joe Gomez and Virgil van Dijk are the centre-back partnership, with Ibrahima Konate still out.<\/p>\n

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Ryan Gravenberch<\/a> and Alexis Mac Allister pair in midfield; the Dutchman picked up an assist against West Ham. Dominik Szoboszlai and Curtis Jones rotate in the attacking-midfield role, with the Englishman starting the last two, granted, the Hungarian was suspended for one of those.<\/p>\n

Cody Gakpo is in fine form at left-wing, with three goal contributions in his last two. Mohamed Salah of course plays at right-wing. Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez rotate at striker.<\/p>\n

Liverpool Injuries and Absentees to Consider<\/h3>\n

Liverpool currently have a few injuries.<\/a><\/p>\n

Conor Bradley and Konate have not yet featured in a matchday squad since injury, though Slot has hinted that they could make a return in this match. The manager continued: “they are in competition with players that are completely fit and doing really well, so I have to make the right judgement the moment they are back with the team”.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Gomez was substituted against the Hammers in the 37th minute with a suspected hamstring issue. Slot disclosed: “I don’t know how long but he will be out for quite a bit. These situations can happen in a season”.<\/p>\n

Liverpool Predicted Lineup Vs Manchester United<\/h3>\n

GK: Alisson Becker<\/p>\n

LB: Andy Robertson<\/p>\n

CB: Virgil van Dijk<\/p>\n

CB: Jarell Quansah<\/p>\n

RB: Trent Alexander-Arnold<\/p>\n

CM: Alexis Mac Allister<\/p>\n

CM: Ryan Gravenberch<\/p>\n

AM: Dominik Szoboszlai<\/p>\n

LW: Cody Gakpo<\/p>\n

ST: Darwin Nunez<\/p>\n

RW: Mohamed Salah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liverpool play Manchester United in the North-West derby. The clash takes place from Anfield Stadium. Here is our Liverpool predicted lineup vs Manchester United. Liverpool Predicted Lineup vs Manchester United in Huge Rivalry How Liverpool Have Lined-up Recently Alisson Becker is Arne Slot’s starting goalkeeper. Andy Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold are the starting full-backs, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":649010,"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-650090","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\/650090","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=650090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650109,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650090\/revisions\/650109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}