{"id":660862,"date":"2025-10-25T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=660862"},"modified":"2025-10-25T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:00:58","slug":"liverpool-predicted-lineup-vs-brentford-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/10\/25\/liverpool-predicted-lineup-vs-brentford-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Predicted Lineup vs Brentford for October 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool head to Brentford for game week nine hoping the midweek mauling of Eintracht Frankfurt wasn\u2019t a one-off. The 5\u20131 Champions League win<\/a> felt like a release, fast, fearless, clinical, everything they hadn\u2019t been in recent weeks. Now it\u2019s about backing it up in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Liverpool Predicted Lineup vs Brentford for Game Week 9 of the Premier League<\/h2>\n

How Liverpool Have Lined Up<\/h3>\n

Arne Slot\u2019s adjustments in midweek worked. Giorgi Mamardashvili looked composed in goal and used the ball well from the back. Conor Bradley\u2019s inclusion at right-back brought energy, while Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 and Virgil van Dijk steadied a defence that\u2019s leaked too many goals. Andy Robertson, offered width and leadership down the left.<\/p>\n

Read More:<\/strong> The Best and Worst Players to Wear Liverpool\u2019s Number 9<\/a><\/p>\n

Dominik Szoboszlai and Curtis Jones controlled midfield with purpose, while Florian Wirtz, still settling into English football, produced his most fluid performance yet in that advanced role. Up front, Hugo Ekitike’s directness stretched Frankfurt throughout, Cody Gakpo linked play intelligently.<\/p>\n

Liverpool Recent Form<\/h3>\n

For a side that lifted the title just months ago, four straight defeats had left Liverpool rattled. The intensity was gone, the pressing looked half-hearted, and the goals had dried up. But Wednesday changed the mood. Slot\u2019s team finally played with bite and belief again, led by a front line that rediscovered its edge.<\/p>\n

Read More:<\/strong> Chelsea \u2018In Talks\u2019 to Sign Former Liverpool Director of Scouting<\/a><\/p>\n

Brentford are never straightforward. Liverpool will need the same tempo and control they found in Germany to avoid another slip.<\/p>\n

Team News and Injuries<\/h3>\n

Slot confirmed Alexander Isak and Gravenberch would be assessed prior to kick-off in his pre-match press conference.<\/a> Jeremie Frimpong picked up a hamstring injury midweek and has been ruled out for a few weeks. Giovanni Leoni remains out long-term, and Alisson Becker is still unavailable. The rest of the squad came through the midweek game unscathed.<\/p>\n

Liverpool Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n

GK Giorgi Mamardashvili<\/p>\n

RB Conor Bradley<\/p>\n

CB Ibrahima Konate<\/p>\n

CB Virgil van Dijk (c)<\/p>\n

LB Andy Robertson<\/p>\n

CM Dominik Szoboszlai<\/p>\n

CM Alexis Mac Allister<\/p>\n

AM Florian Wirtz<\/p>\n

RW Federico Chiesa<\/p>\n

CF Hugo Ekitike<\/p>\n

LW Cody Gakpo<\/p>\n

Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Liverpool head to Brentford for game week nine hoping the midweek mauling of Eintracht Frankfurt wasn\u2019t a one-off. The 5\u20131 Champions League win felt like a release, fast, fearless, clinical, everything they hadn\u2019t been in recent weeks. Now it\u2019s about backing it up in the Premier League. Liverpool Predicted Lineup vs Brentford for Game Week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5631,"featured_media":647598,"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":[16,3,1831],"tags":[9626],"class_list":["post-660862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool","category-premier-league","category-starting-line-up","tag-liverpool-predicted-lineup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660862","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\/5631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660873,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660862\/revisions\/660873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}