{"id":650206,"date":"2025-01-05T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=650206"},"modified":"2025-01-04T18:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T23:56:56","slug":"manchester-united-predicted-lineup-vs-liverpool-for-january-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/05\/manchester-united-predicted-lineup-vs-liverpool-for-january-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United Predicted Lineup Vs Liverpool for January 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United face a daunting trip to Anfield to face rampant rivals Liverpool this Sunday, January 5 (KO 4.30PM GMT) in what many United fans fear could be a repeat of the 7-0<\/a> mauling handed out in 2023. Here is the Manchester United predicted lineup for the clash between rivals in the most extremely contrasting form imaginable.<\/p>\n

Manchester United Predicted Lineup Vs Liverpool for Daunting Derby Trip to Anfield<\/h2>\n

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

Lining up in a 3-4-2-1 formation, Andr\u00e9 Onana has been the mainstay in goal for the Red Devils. In defence, three of Noussair Mazraoui<\/a>, Harry Maguire, Matthijs de Ligt, L\u00e9ny Yoro<\/a> and Lisandro Martinez have played at centre-back, with Mazraoui increasingly being used at right wing-back as defenders return from injury. Diogo Dalot, despite a difficult period of form mirroring the team’s struggles as a whole, has been the regular left wing-back.<\/p>\n

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In midfield, Casemiro, Christian Eriksen, Kobbie Mainoo and Manuel Ugarte<\/a> have been competing for two spots, with coach Ruben Amorim yet to find a solution that combines both the energy and technical ability needed to control that area of the pitch.<\/p>\n

Amad Diallo, Joshua Zirkzee<\/a> and Bruno Fernandes have rotated in the attacking midfield roles, with Alejandro Garnacho and wantaway Marcus Rashford<\/a> seemingly out of favour with the coach of late. Rasmus Hojlund continues as the main man at number 9.<\/p>\n

Manchester United Recent Form and Tactics<\/h3>\n

The Red Devils’ recent form has quite simply been catastrophic, with four consecutive defeats in all competitions seeing them occupy 14th position, just seven points off the relegation zone. A foreboding trip to their rivals who are currently flying high at the summit of the Premier League is not ideal, especially with United’s weaknesses such as a lack of dynamism in attack and inability to control midfield as well as deal with opposition set-pieces ready to be ruthlessly exposed by Arne Slot’s on-fire side.<\/p>\n

With no goals in three games, it’s almost impossible to see Amorim’s toothless outfit change their fortunes on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Manchester United Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n

Marcus Rashford is set to miss yet another game, this time through illness. Mason Mount, Victor Lindelof and Luke Shaw are all out for indefinite periods.<\/p>\n

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

GK: Andr\u00e9 Onana<\/p>\n

RCB: L\u00e9ny Yoro<\/p>\n

CB: Matthijs De Ligt<\/p>\n

LCB: Harry Maguire<\/p>\n

RWB: Noussair Mazraoui<\/p>\n

LWB: Diogo Dalot<\/p>\n

CM: Kobbie Mainoo<\/p>\n

CM: Manuel Ugarte<\/p>\n

RAM: Amad Diallo<\/p>\n

LAM: Bruno Fernandes<\/p>\n

ST: Rasmus Hojlund<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester United face a daunting trip to Anfield to face rampant rivals Liverpool this Sunday, January 5 (KO 4.30PM GMT) in what many United fans fear could be a repeat of the 7-0 mauling handed out in 2023. Here is the Manchester United predicted lineup for the clash between rivals in the most extremely contrasting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5004,"featured_media":649470,"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":[18,3],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-650206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","tag-manchester-united"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650206","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\/5004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650237,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650206\/revisions\/650237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}