{"id":665806,"date":"2026-02-28T08:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=665806"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:50:44","slug":"liverpool-vs-west-ham-confirmed-lineups-team-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/02\/28\/liverpool-vs-west-ham-confirmed-lineups-team-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool vs West Ham Confirmed Lineups and Team News for February 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rollercoaster season of Liverpool<\/span><\/a> continues on February 28, when they host West Ham United at Anfield in the Premier League. Arne Slot\u2019s men will be buoyed after their dramatic 1-0 win over Nottingham Forest in their last Premier League match. Since a 3-2 defeat at Chelsea, West Ham have improved defensively, keeping clean sheets against Burnley and Bournemouth. West Ham desperately need points for survival, while Liverpool are in need of more consistency as they chase Champions League qualification for next season. Here are the confirmed lineups and team news for Liverpool vs West Ham<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Premier League: Liverpool vs West Ham Team News and Confirmed Lineups<\/span><\/h2>\n

Liverpool Team News<\/h3>\n

Arne Slot spoke in his pre-match press conference<\/span><\/a> regarding the availability of key players. The Liverpool boss addressed the availability of Kerkez:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was completely fit, he played 80 mins and then I changed it for Robertson. I changed my wingers and full-backs for that fresh energy. That is the good thing about having more than 11 players. If I can, I do so. Milos played an OK game. He is available for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read More<\/b>: Arne Slot Names Three Clear Priorities for Liverpool<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The availability of Jeremie Frimpong and Florian Wirtz was also discussed:<\/p>\n

\u201cJeremie is OK, trained with us and is available, don\u2019t expect Florian to be, which is a disappointment, every time my player isn\u2019t available is disappointment and I didn\u2019t expect. No [idea how long he is out] usually I do but don\u2019t want to share it but I honestly don\u2019t know. It\u2019s a big accomplishment for him to stay fit for such a long time because he had to stay fit to make the step up but unfortunately he is not available, which is a disappointment for him and for us, because he played really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

West Ham Team News<\/h3>\n

In the pre-match press conference<\/span><\/a>, Nuno Espirito Santo spoke about the availability of Pablo Felipe and said: \u201cHe didn’t join us yet. He’s starting his own programme, so he’s improving day by day. It all depends on him, so hopefully soon because we miss him. There are always things to assess, but we have tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hammers boss also spoke about his team\u2019s improved performance:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read More<\/b>: <\/span>Liverpool Boss Discusses Two Players Who Are Very Important\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI think we’ve performed well in the last two games, and in the FA Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been improvements. The results haven’t always been quite there, but we’re getting clean sheets and the performances have been good.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaturday is a new challenge, but we’re confident.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liverpool Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

Liverpool: <\/strong>Alisson, Gomez, Van Dijk, Konate, Kerkez, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Salah, Gakpo, Ekitike, Gravenberch.<\/p>\n

Subs: <\/strong>Mamardashvili, Woodman, Chiesa, Jones, Robertson, Frimpong, Nyoni, Ramsay, Ngumoha.<\/p>\n

West Ham Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

West Ham: <\/strong>Hermansen, Wan-Bissaka, Disasi, Mavropanos, Diouf, Soucek, Magassa, Fernandes, Summerville, Bowen, Taty.<\/p>\n

Subs: <\/strong>Areola, Walker-Peters, Kilman, Wilson, Adama, Todibo, Scarles, Kante, Mayers.<\/p>\n

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

IMAGO \/ Every Second Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rollercoaster season of Liverpool continues on February 28, when they host West Ham United at Anfield in the Premier League. Arne Slot\u2019s men will be buoyed after their dramatic 1-0 win over Nottingham Forest in their last Premier League match. Since a 3-2 defeat at Chelsea, West Ham have improved defensively, keeping clean sheets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"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":[3,16,30,1831,27],"tags":[32765,32555],"class_list":["post-665806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-liverpool","category-news","category-starting-line-up","category-west-ham","tag-liverpool-team-news","tag-west-ham-team-news"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665806","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=665806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665819,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665806\/revisions\/665819"}],"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=665806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}