{"id":666301,"date":"2026-01-01T06:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T06:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/666301\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T06:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T06:42:16","slug":"team-news-liverpool-vs-leeds-injury-suspension-list-predicted-xis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/666301\/","title":{"rendered":"Team News: Liverpool vs. Leeds injury, suspension list, predicted XIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anfield plays host to a tasty New Year&#8217;s Day Premier League encounter at 5.30pm, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/liverpool\/\" title=\"Liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> welcome fellow in-form side <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/leeds-united\/\" title=\"Leeds United\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a> to their headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>The two clubs reunite just a few weeks on from their unforgettable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/leeds-united\/top-four-race\/result\/no-bridge-too-farke-tanaka-rescues-leeds-against-reds-as-slot-clings-on_587275.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>3-3 draw<\/strong><\/a> at Elland Road, and here <strong>Sports Mole<\/strong> rounds up the team news for both sides.<\/p>\n<p>LIVERPOOL<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/mohamed-salah\/\" title=\"Mohamed Salah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohamed Salah<\/a> (AFCON),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/joe-gomez\/\" title=\"Joe Gomez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Gomez<\/a> (muscle), Wataru Endo (ankle),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/alexander-isak\/\" title=\"Alexander Isak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Isak<\/a> (ankle), Giovanni Leoni (ACL)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doubtful:<\/strong>\u00a0None<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sports Mole&#8217;s predicted XI:\u00a0<\/strong>Alisson; Frimpong, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Jones; Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Wirtz; Ekitike<\/p>\n<p>LEEDS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/joe-rodon\/\" title=\"Joe Rodon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Rodon<\/a> (ankle),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/sean-longstaff\/\" title=\"Sean Longstaff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Longstaff<\/a> (calf), Daniel James (thigh)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doubtful:<\/strong>\u00a0None<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sports Mole&#8217;s predicted XI:\u00a0<\/strong>Perri; Bogle, Struijk, Bijol, Gudmundsson; Stach, Ampadu, Tanaka; Aaronson, Calvert-Lewin, Okafor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anfield plays host to a tasty New Year&#8217;s Day Premier League encounter at 5.30pm, as Liverpool welcome fellow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,4230,393,68644,94,707,2826,4884,1860,22138,7126,101,4151,93,68303,10938,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-666301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-epl","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-golf","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-leeds","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-olympics","19":"tag-premier-league","20":"tag-rugby","21":"tag-sport","22":"tag-sports-mole","23":"tag-teams","24":"tag-tennis","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115818487141053753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}