{"id":43691,"date":"2025-08-04T20:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43691\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:55:09","slug":"liverpool-lineup-vs-athletic-club-confirmed-mac-allister-starts-1st-friendly-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43691\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool lineup vs. Athletic Club confirmed: Mac Allister starts 1st friendly – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool kick off the first of two friendlies against Athletic Club with their rotated lineup, including a start for Alexis Mac Allister<\/a> at Anfield.<\/p>\n

The Reds face Spanish opponents Athletic Club in back-to-back friendlies on Monday night, with the first kicking off at 5pm (BST).<\/p>\n

Freddie Woodman<\/a> starts in goal behind a back line of Luca Stephenson<\/a>, Trey Nyoni<\/a>, Andy Robertson<\/a> and Kostas Tsimikas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a makeshift centre-back pairing, with Virgil van Dijk<\/a> ruled out \u2013 meaning Ibrahima Konate<\/a> is set to start the later kick off game (8pm) alongside youngster Amaro Nallo.<\/p>\n

Alexis Mac Allister<\/a> is deployed in the No. 6 role with Curtis Jones<\/a> and Harvey Elliott<\/a> more advanced as No. 8 and No. 10.<\/p>\n

The forward line is made up of Ben Doak<\/a>, Rio Ngumoha<\/a> and Darwin Nunez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There will be opportunities for a number of youngsters from the bench, including Jayden Danns<\/a> after he missed out on the tour of Hong Kong and Japan.<\/p>\n

Arne Slot<\/a> is set to name a different lineup for the 8pm kickoff, which should see his strongest XI take to the field.<\/p>\n

Alisson<\/a> is absent for both games following his wife\u2019s surgery in Brazil, while Joe Gomez<\/a> misses out as he undergoes treatment for an Achilles injury. Conor Bradley<\/a> is also ruled out.<\/p>\n

Liverpool: Woodman; Stephenson, Nyoni, Robertson, Tsimikas; Mac Allister, Jones, Elliott; Doak, Ngumoha, Nunez<\/p>\n

Substitutes: Pecsi, Lucky, Laffey, Pilling, Kone-Doherty, Koumas, Danns<\/p>\n

Likely XI for 8pm: Mamardashvili; Frimpong, Konate, Nallo, Kerkez; Endo, Gravenberch, Wirtz; Salah, Ekitike, Gakpo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool kick off the first of two friendlies against Athletic Club with their rotated lineup, including a start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,7886,85],"class_list":["post-43691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}