Chelsea vs Liverpool Confirmed Lineups for Premier League Tie<\/h2>\nChelsea Team News<\/h3>\n
Rob Sanchez starts in goal with a back line of Malo Gusto, Josh Acheampong, Benoit Badiashile, and Marc Cucurella. Reece James pushes into midfield alongside Moises Caicedo allowing Enzo Fernandez to start at the number ten spot. Alejandro Garnacho and Pedro Neto are the wingers with Joaoa Pedro up front.<\/p>\n
Notable Changes<\/h3>\n
Interesting choices made by the manager as both James and Gusto starts instead of using Romeo Lavia in the pivot. Estevao misses out as Garnacho makes a first league start for his new side. Badiashile and Acheampong is a CB pairing made out of necessity as the only fit duo available.<\/p>\n
Liverpool Team News<\/h3>\n
Giorgi Mamardashvili gets the nod in goal with a back line of Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, Milos Kerkez, and Conor Bradley. Alexis Mac Allister is in midfield with Dominik Szoboszlai and Ryan Gravenberch. Alexander Isak is up front with Mo Salah and Cody Gakpo in support.<\/p>\n
Notable Changes<\/h3>\n
Big decision to drop Frimpong from the lineup as Bradley likely goes in to the right-back spot. Curtis Jones, Hugo Ekitike, and Florian Wirtz also miss out after the midweek loss in Turkey as the manager goes for some more Premier League proven options.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned for the Chelsea vs Liverpool confirmed lineups. There will be news as well as analysis of who starts, who got left out, and what alterations the managers could make for this one.<\/p>\n
Featured Image Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n These are the Chelsea vs Liverpool confirmed lineups for their Premier League clash. They meet in the late Saturday kick-off with the vibes around either side being suboptimal. Two consecutive defeats for the Reds and doubts about their key summer signings leave them with some questions while the Blues are the walking wounded. A mid-week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":655134,"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":[30,11,16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-chelsea","category-liverpool","category-premier-league"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660178","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=660178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660261,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660178\/revisions\/660261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Chelsea](\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/imago1052731722-300x200.jpg\")
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