{"id":663071,"date":"2026-01-08T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=663071"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:48:28","slug":"arsenal-vs-liverpool-confirmed-lineups-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/01\/08\/arsenal-vs-liverpool-confirmed-lineups-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal vs Liverpool Confirmed Lineups for January 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the confirmed lineups for Arsenal <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/01\/08\/arsenal-team-news-predicted-lineup-vs-liverpool\/\" target=\"_self\">vs Liverpool<\/a> at the Emirates. The Gunners ended 2025 on a positive note and began 2026 with a battling 3-2 win away at Bournemouth. <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Arsenal\/status\/2009324223664214057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikel Arteta\u2019s<\/a> team fell behind due to a rare defensive lapse. However, they showed their toughness and collected a massive three points. Liverpool won the first fixture between these two earlier in the season.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool\u2019s form has improved, but an injury to Alexander Isak and their form still not matching last season has left Liverpool fans frustrated. Can Arne Slot\u2019s men get a huge three points, or will Arteta\u2019s team continue their march towards the Premier League title?<\/p>\n<h2>Arsenal vs Liverpool Confirmed Lineups<\/h2>\n<h3>Arsenal Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Starting XI: <\/strong>Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie, Zubimendi, Rice, Odegaard, Saka, Trossard, Gyokeres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subs:<\/strong> Arrizabalaga, Lewis-Skelly, White, Norgaard, Merino, Eze, Martinelli, Madueke, Jesus.<\/p>\n<h3>Liverpool Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><strong>Starting XI<\/strong>: Alisson, Van Dijk, Konate, Kerkez, Wirtz, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Bradley, Gakpo, Frimpong, Gravenberch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><strong>Subs<\/strong>:\u00a0Mamardashvili, Woodman, Gomez, Chiesa, Jones, Robertson, Nyoni, Ramsay, Ngumoha.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal Premier League Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>David Raya<\/li>\n<li>Kepa Arrizabalaga<\/li>\n<li>Tommy Setford<\/li>\n<li>William Saliba<\/li>\n<li>Cristhian Mosquera<\/li>\n<li>Ben White<\/li>\n<li>Piero Hincapi\u00e9<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es<\/li>\n<li>Jurri\u00ebn Timber<\/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>Ethan Nwaneri<\/li>\n<li>Mikel Merino<\/li>\n<li>Mart\u00edn Zubimendi<\/li>\n<li>Declan Rice<\/li>\n<li>Max Dowman<\/li>\n<li>Bukayo Saka<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Jesus<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Martinelli<\/li>\n<li>Viktor Gy\u00f6keres<\/li>\n<li>Leandro Trossard<\/li>\n<li>Noni Madueke<\/li>\n<li>Kai Havertz<\/li>\n<li>Andre Harriman-Annous<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>Arman Pecsi<\/li>\n<li>Kornel Misciur<\/li>\n<li>Joe Gomez<\/li>\n<li>Virgil van Dijk<\/li>\n<li>Ibrahima Konate<\/li>\n<li>Milos Kerkez<\/li>\n<li>Conor Bradley<\/li>\n<li>Giovanni Leoni<\/li>\n<li>Andy Robertson<\/li>\n<li>Jeremie Frimpong<\/li>\n<li>Rhys Williams<\/li>\n<li>Calvin Ramsay<\/li>\n<li>Carter Pinnington<\/li>\n<li>Amara Nallo<\/li>\n<li>Wellity Lucky<\/li>\n<li>Wataru Endo<\/li>\n<li>Florian Wirtz<\/li>\n<li>Dominik Szoboszlai<\/li>\n<li>Alexis Mac Allister<\/li>\n<li>Curtis Jones<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Gravenberch<\/li>\n<li>Trey Nyoni<\/li>\n<li>Stefan Bajcetic<\/li>\n<li>Kieran Morrison<\/li>\n<li>Tommy Pilling<\/li>\n<li>Michael Laffy<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Isak<\/li>\n<li>Mohamed Salah<\/li>\n<li>Federico Chiesa<\/li>\n<li>Cody Gakpo<\/li>\n<li>Hugo Ekitike<\/li>\n<li>Kaide Gordon<\/li>\n<li>Trent Kone-Doherty<\/li>\n<li>Kayrol Figueroa<\/li>\n<li>Rio Ngumoha<\/li>\n<li>Jayden Danns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Squad details via Premier League <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/match\/2562096\/arsenal-vs-liverpool?tab=squads\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>IMAGO \/ Paul Marriott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the confirmed lineups for Arsenal vs Liverpool at the Emirates. The Gunners ended 2025 on a positive note and began 2026 with a battling 3-2 win away at Bournemouth. Mikel Arteta\u2019s team fell behind due to a rare defensive lapse. However, they showed their toughness and collected a massive three points. Liverpool won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":658602,"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],"tags":[32547,1759],"class_list":["post-663071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arsenal","category-liverpool","category-premier-league","tag-arsenal-team-news","tag-liverpool-news"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663071","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=663071"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663076,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663071\/revisions\/663076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}