{"id":81556,"date":"2025-09-23T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/81556\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:13:07","slug":"liverpool-lineup-vs-southampton-confirmed-11-changes-with-2-debuts-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/81556\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool lineup vs. Southampton confirmed: 11 changes with 2 debuts – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot<\/a> declared it would be a \u201ccompletely changed lineup\u201d against Southampton<\/a> in the Carabao Cup<\/a>, and he has delivered with 11 changes.<\/b><\/p>\n

After three games in seven days, which saw Slot make an average of only 2.3 changes, it is time to inject fresh legs for the Carabao Cup<\/a> match against Championship opposition.<\/p>\n

Six first-team regulars have been given the night off, including Virgil van Dijk<\/a>, Ryan Gravenberch<\/a> and Mohamed Salah<\/a>, with this a night for Liverpool\u2019s squad depth to take centre stage.<\/p>\n

Giorgi Mamardashvili<\/a><\/b> and Giovanni Leoni<\/a><\/b> make their competitive debut, with Jeremie Frimpong<\/a><\/b>, Joe Gomez<\/a><\/b> and Andy Robertson<\/a><\/b> completing the backline. <\/p>\n

Wataru Endo<\/a><\/b> is named for his first start of the season, with Curtis Jones<\/a><\/b> and Trey Nyoni<\/a><\/b> joining the Japanese in midfield.<\/p>\n

As for the forward line, Alexander Isak<\/a><\/b> will be hopeful of scoring his first goal for the club with Federico Chiesa<\/a><\/b> and Rio Ngumoha<\/a><\/b> lining up alongside the Swede.<\/p>\n

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Slot has given the majority of his regular players the night off, but Milos Kerkez<\/a>, Conor Bradley<\/a> and Hugo Ekitike<\/a> are among the senior options on the bench, as are youngsters Kieran Morrison, Kaide Gordon<\/a> and Jayden Danns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Liverpool:<\/strong> Mamardashvili; Frimpong, Gomez, Leoni, Robertson; Endo, Jones; Chiesa, Nyoni, Ngumoha; Isak <\/p>\n

Substitutes:<\/strong> Woodman, Kerkez, Bradley, Williams, Pilling, Morrison, Gordon, Danns, Ekitike<\/p>\n

Southampton<\/a>:<\/strong> McCarthy; Jelert, Edwards, Wood, Quarshie, Manning, Downes, Jander, Armstrong, Scienza, Archer<\/p>\n

Substitutes:<\/strong> Long, Harwood-Bellis, Charles, Matsuki, Fraser, Fellows, Robinson, Stewart, Downs<\/p>\n

5th different manager in 5 visits<\/p>\n

Southampton<\/a> are Liverpool\u2019s third round opponents in the Carabao Cup<\/a>, and the Saints arrive at Anfield with a different manager at the helm for a fifth consecutive match.<\/p>\n

Since November 2021, the Saint have played at Anfield four times, each time with a different coach \u2013 Ivan Juric, Russell Martin, Nathan Jones, Ralph Hasenhuttl. <\/p>\n

Will Still is in the dugout this time around, and ex-Red Adam Lallana<\/a> is part of his coaching staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot declared it would be a \u201ccompletely changed lineup\u201d against Southampton in the Carabao Cup, and he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,22173,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,54663,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-81556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-carabao-cup","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-liverpool-vs-southampton","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}