{"id":659503,"date":"2025-09-16T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=659503"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:54:11","slug":"real-madrid-vs-marseille-confirmed-lineups-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/09\/16\/real-madrid-vs-marseille-confirmed-lineups-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid vs Marseille Confirmed Lineups for September 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the confirmed lineups for Real Madrid vs Marseille in the UEFA Champions League. The winningest team in the competition&#8217;s history take on the Ligue 1 side after a strong start to the campaign that sees them sit top of La Liga as Xabi Alonso appears to have found a working system. A fairly poor Club World Cup saw him jump between formations but he has found one that works in the league, now lets see how it does on the European stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/09\/14\/manchester-united-vs-manchester-city-confirmed-lineups-september\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United vs Manchester City Confirmed Lineups for September 14<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Real Madrid vs Marseille Confirmed Lineups for UCL Tie<\/h2>\n<h3>Real Madrid Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Thibaut Courtois starts in goal with Trent Alexander-Arnold, Eder Militao, Dean Huijsen, and Alvaro Carreras\u00a0 in midfield. Aurelien Tchouameni and Federico Valverde are in midfield with Franco Mastutuono, Arda Gulder, Rodrygo, and Kylian Mbappe.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>No Vini, no Brahim Diaz, and Dani Ceballos missing out from this weekend. Dani Carvajal also loses his spot for summer addition Trent Alexander-Arnold. Either a 4-2-3-1 or a 4-1-4-1 setup based on personnel, unless Alonso is working in the back three again.<\/p>\n<h3>Marseille Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Geronimo Rulli is in goal with a back line of Benjamin Pavard, Facundo Medina, Emerson, and Leonardo Balerdi come in as the back four. Geoffrey Kongdogbia and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg. Matt O&#8217;Riley, Mason Greenwood, and Timothy Weah support Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang up front.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>A few changes as there&#8217;s a change through the central spine of the team as Aubameyang, O&#8217;Riley, Pavard, and Rulli come in. The shape is expected to be the same.<\/p>\n<h3>Real Madrid Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Thibaut Courtois<\/li>\n<li>Andriy Lunin<\/li>\n<li>Fran Gonzalez<\/li>\n<li>Javier Navarro<\/li>\n<li>Dani Carvajal<\/li>\n<li>Eder Militao<\/li>\n<li>David Alaba<\/li>\n<li>Trent Alexander-Arnold<\/li>\n<li>Raul Asencio<\/li>\n<li>Alvaro Carreras<\/li>\n<li>Fran Garcia<\/li>\n<li>Antonio Rudiger<\/li>\n<li>Ferland Mendy<\/li>\n<li>Dean Huijsen<\/li>\n<li>Diego Aguado<\/li>\n<li>Jesus Fortea<\/li>\n<li>David Jimenez<\/li>\n<li>Joan Martinez<\/li>\n<li>Victor Valdepenas<\/li>\n<li>Jude Bellingham<\/li>\n<li>Eduardo Camavinga<\/li>\n<li>Federico Valverde<\/li>\n<li>Aurelien Tchouameni<\/li>\n<li>Arda Guler<\/li>\n<li>Dani Ceballos<\/li>\n<li>Jorge Cestero<\/li>\n<li>Pol Fortuny<\/li>\n<li>Manuel Angel<\/li>\n<li>Cesar Palacios<\/li>\n<li>Cristian Perea<\/li>\n<li>Hugo De Llanos<\/li>\n<li>Thiago Pitarch<\/li>\n<li>Vinicius Junior<\/li>\n<li>Endrick<\/li>\n<li>Kylian Mbappe<\/li>\n<li>Rodrygo<\/li>\n<li>Gonazlo<\/li>\n<li>Brahim Diaz<\/li>\n<li>Franco Mastutonto<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Yanez\n<ul>\n<li>Includes B List Players<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Marseille Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Geronimo Rulli<\/li>\n<li>Jeffrey de Lange<\/li>\n<li>CJ Egan-Riley<\/li>\n<li>Leonardo Balerdi<\/li>\n<li>Nayef Aguerd<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Pavard<\/li>\n<li>Facundo Medina<\/li>\n<li>Emerson<\/li>\n<li>Michael Murillo<\/li>\n<li>Angel Gomes<\/li>\n<li>Matt O&#8217;Riley<\/li>\n<li>Arthur Vermeeren<\/li>\n<li>Geoffrey Kongdogbia<\/li>\n<li>Hamad Traore<\/li>\n<li>Timothy Weah<\/li>\n<li>Pierre-Emile Jojbjerg<\/li>\n<li>Bilal Nadir<\/li>\n<li>Amine Gouiri<\/li>\n<li>Mason Greenwood<\/li>\n<li>Igor Paixao<\/li>\n<li>Robino Vaz<\/li>\n<li>Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(both squad lists via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uefa.com\/uefachampionsleague\/clubs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UEFA<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned f0r the confirmed lineups for Real Madrid vs Marseille in Champions League action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the confirmed lineups for Real Madrid vs Marseille in the UEFA Champions League. The winningest team in the competition&#8217;s history take on the Ligue 1 side after a strong start to the campaign that sees them sit top of La Liga as Xabi Alonso appears to have found a working system. A fairly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":655794,"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":[1831,7,1366],"tags":[1471],"class_list":["post-659503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-starting-line-up","category-ligue-1","category-real-madrid","tag-marseille"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659503","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659671,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659503\/revisions\/659671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}