{"id":658868,"date":"2025-08-31T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=658868"},"modified":"2025-08-31T10:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:20:11","slug":"liverpool-vs-arsenal-confirmed-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/31\/liverpool-vs-arsenal-confirmed-lineups\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool vs Arsenal Confirmed Lineups for August 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>These are the two confirmed lineups for Liverpool vs Arsenal at Anfield on August 31, as both teams look to gain an early-season advantage and remain unbeaten leading into the first international break of the season. These two finished first and second last season. Who will get the early-season bragging rights in the 16:30 kick-off slot?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/04\/07\/top-five-greatest-arsenal-goalkeepers\/\" target=\"_self\">Top Five Greatest Arsenal Goalkeepers of All Time<\/a><\/div>\n<h2>Arsenal vs Liverpool Confirmed Lineups<\/h2>\n<div>\n<h3>Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Starting XI: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori, Zubimendi, Merino, Rice, Martinelli, Madueke, Gyokeres.<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Arrizabalaga, Lewis-Skelly, Mosquera, Odegaard, Nwaneri, Dowman, Eze, Trossard, Harriman-Annous.<\/p>\n<h3>Liverpool Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Starting XI: Alisson, Van Dijk, Konate, Kerkez, Wirtz, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Salah, Gakpo, Ekitike, Gravenberch.<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Mamardashvili, Gomez, Endo, Bradley, Chiesa, Jones, Elliott, Robertson, Ngumoha.<\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal Premier League Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>David Raya<\/li>\n<li>Kepa Arrizabalaga<\/li>\n<li>Karl Hein<\/li>\n<li>William Saliba<\/li>\n<li>Cristhian Mosquera<\/li>\n<li>Ben White<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es<\/li>\n<li>Jurri\u00ebn Timber<\/li>\n<li>Jakub Kiwior<\/li>\n<li>Oleksandr Zinchenko<\/li>\n<li>Riccardo Calafiori<\/li>\n<li>Myles Lewis-Skelly<\/li>\n<li>Martin \u00d8degaard<\/li>\n<li>Eberechi Eze<\/li>\n<li>Christian N\u00f8rgaard<\/li>\n<li>F\u00e1bio Vieira<\/li>\n<li>Ethan Nwaneri<\/li>\n<li>Mikel Merino<\/li>\n<li>Albert Sambi Lokonga<\/li>\n<li>Mart\u00edn Zubimendi<\/li>\n<li>Declan Rice<\/li>\n<li>Bukayo Saka<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Jesus<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Martinell<\/li>\n<li>Viktor Gy\u00f6keres<\/li>\n<li>Leandro Trossard<\/li>\n<li>Noni Madueke<\/li>\n<li>Reiss Nelson<\/li>\n<li>Kai Havertz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Squad details <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/match\/2561919\/liverpool-vs-arsenal?tab=squads\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3>Liverpool Premier League Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Alisson Becker<\/li>\n<li>Giorgi Mamardashvili<\/li>\n<li>Freddie Woodman<\/li>\n<li>\u00c1rmin P\u00e9csi<\/li>\n<li>Joe Gomez<\/li>\n<li>Virgil van Dijk<\/li>\n<li>Ibrahima Konat\u00e9<\/li>\n<li>Milos Kerkez<\/li>\n<li>Conor Bradley<\/li>\n<li>Giovanni Leoni<\/li>\n<li>Kostas Tsimikas<\/li>\n<li>Andy Robertson<\/li>\n<li>Jeremie Frimpong<\/li>\n<li>Rhys Williams<\/li>\n<li>Calvin Ramsay<\/li>\n<li>Wataru Endo<\/li>\n<li>Florian Wirtz<\/li>\n<li>Dominik Szoboszlai<\/li>\n<li>Alexis MacAllister<\/li>\n<li>Curtis Jones<\/li>\n<li>Harvey Elliott<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Gravenberch<\/li>\n<li>Trey Nyoni<\/li>\n<li>Stefan Bajcetic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Squad details <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/match\/2561919\/liverpool-vs-arsenal?tab=squads\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div>Stay tuned for the Liverpool vs Arsenal confirmed lineups. Who will get the nod in this early-season clash between the two teams that finished first and second last campaign? Could we see a start for Eberechi Eze? Yes, it\u2019s far too early to be talking about title race advantages, but a win for each leading into the international break will be a huge boost.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the two confirmed lineups for Liverpool vs Arsenal at Anfield on August 31, as both teams look to gain an early-season advantage and remain unbeaten leading into the first international break of the season. These two finished first and second last season. Who will get the early-season bragging rights in the 16:30 kick-off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":629332,"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":[30,8,16,3,1831],"tags":[32547,5037,9158,1759],"class_list":["post-658868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arsenal","category-liverpool","category-premier-league","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-team-news","tag-eberechi-eze","tag-hugo-ekitike","tag-liverpool-news"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658868","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\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658892,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658868\/revisions\/658892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}