{"id":652270,"date":"2025-02-26T12:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=652270"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:28:20","slug":"liverpool-predicted-lineup-vs-newcastle-united-for-february-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/02\/26\/liverpool-predicted-lineup-vs-newcastle-united-for-february-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Predicted Lineup Vs Newcastle United for February 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool play Newcastle United in a tough midweek battle in their bid to retain their lead at the top of the Premier League table. The Reds currently hold an eleven-point lead over Arsenal. Here is our Liverpool predicted lineup vs Newcastle United.<\/p>\n

Liverpool Predicted Lineup Vs Newcastle United<\/h2>\n

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

Alisson Becker is Liverpool’s number one. Andy Robertson starts at left-back whilst Trent Alexander-Arnold is at right-back. Ibrahima Konate and Virgil van Dijk are centre-backs.<\/p>\n

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Ryan Gravenberch<\/a> and Alexis Mac Allister play in holding midfield.<\/p>\n

Against Manchester City, Arne Slot switched it up with no striker starting. Luis Diaz was at left-wing with Mohamed Salah on the right. Meanwhile, Curtis Jones and Dominik Szoboszlai both played in a floating false nine role.<\/p>\n

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

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

Joe Gomez has undergone surgery on a hamstring injury and will be out for the long-term, potentially returning just before the end of the season as Slot reveals.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Conor Bradley sustained a muscle injury in the 2-2 Premier League draw at Aston Villa. Liverpool’s manager revealed that the right-back “is out for a few weeks. I cannot tell exactly how many but it is clear that he went off with a muscle injury and that it is going to take a while before he is back”. With Alexander-Arnold firmly the number one right-back, it shouldn’t be a huge loss.<\/p>\n

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

GK: Alisson Becker<\/p>\n

LB: Andy Robertson<\/p>\n

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

CB: Ibrahima Konate<\/p>\n

RB: Conor Bradley<\/p>\n

CM: Ryan Gravenberch<\/p>\n

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

AM: Dominik Szoboszlai<\/p>\n

LW: Cody Gakpo<\/p>\n

ST: Luis Diaz<\/p>\n

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

Liverpool play Newcastle United in a tough midweek battle in their bid to retain their lead at the top of the Premier League table. The Reds currently hold an eleven-point lead over Arsenal. Here is our Liverpool predicted lineup vs Newcastle United. Liverpool Predicted Lineup Vs Newcastle United How Liverpool Have Lined-up Recently Alisson Becker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":651356,"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],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-652270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool","tag-liverpool"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652270","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=652270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652273,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652270\/revisions\/652273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}