{"id":53287,"date":"2025-09-30T18:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/53287\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T18:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:27:08","slug":"liverpool-lineup-vs-galatasaray-confirmed-salah-on-bench-as-frimpong-starts-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/53287\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool lineup vs. Galatasaray confirmed: Salah on bench as Frimpong starts – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hugo Ekitike<\/a> returns to the starting lineup for Liverpool\u2019s Champions League<\/a> fixture at Galatasaray, with Arne Slot<\/a> making four changes from the weekend\u2019s defeat.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman was forced to watch his side\u2019s first loss of the campaign from home after his \u201cnot smart<\/a>\u201d one-match suspension, but the striker returns for his sixth start.<\/p>\n

There is no place for Mohamed Salah<\/a> in the XI against the Turkish champions, however, and it leaves Slot\u2019s exact formation uncertain ahead of kickoff.<\/p>\n

Alisson<\/a> remains in place behind a changed backline of what we expect will be Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a>, Ibrahima Konate<\/a>, Virgil van Dijk<\/a> and Milos Kerkez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In midfield, Ryan Gravenberch<\/a> is joined by Curtis Jones<\/a> \u2013 who is making only his third start of the season \u2013 and Florian Wirtz<\/a>. <\/p>\n

And as there is no Salah in the XI, we expect Jeremie Frimpong<\/a> to start on the right wing, with Cody Gakpo<\/a> and Ekitike alongside.<\/p>\n

With Ekitike starting that means Alexander Isak<\/a> drops to the bench as one of eight outfield options available to Slot after Federico Chiesa<\/a> was left on Merseyside due to a \u201clittle niggle.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Liverpool: Alisson<\/a>; Szoboszlai, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Jones; Frimpong, Wirtz, Gakpo; Ekitike<\/p>\n

Substitutes: Mamardashvili, Woodman, Gomez, Robertson, Bradley, Endo, Mac Allister, Ngumoha, Salah, Isak<\/p>\n

Galatasaray: Cakir; Singo, Sanchez, Bardakci, Jakobs; Torreira, Gundogan, Lemina; Akgun, Yilmaz, Osimhen<\/p>\n

Substitutes: Guvenc, Unyay, Elmali, Ayhan, Baltaci, Sallai, Kutlu, Sara, Kutucu, Demir, Sane, Icardi<\/p>\n

IN: Frimpong, Jones, Gakpo, Ekitike<\/p>\n

OUT: Bradley, Mac Allister, Salah, Isak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike returns to the starting lineup for Liverpool\u2019s Champions League fixture at Galatasaray, with Arne Slot making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36966,42,43,11580,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-53287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-galatasaray-vs-liverpool","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-team-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}