{"id":235245,"date":"2025-09-18T01:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235245\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T01:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:54:10","slug":"alexander-isak-starts-as-liverpool-lineup-vs-atletico-madrid-confirmed-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235245\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak starts as Liverpool lineup vs. Atletico Madrid confirmed – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Isak<\/a> starts as Liverpool kick off their Champions League<\/a> campaign at home to Atletico Madrid, with Arne Slot<\/a> making three changes from the win at Burnley<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

Isak\u2019s full debut comes just over a fortnight after his \u00a3125 million move from Newcastle<\/a> \u2013 and it comes in a high-profile clash.<\/p>\n

Slot has already stressed that the striker will not play the full 90 minutes but there is a confidence he can play at least a half of football on his first outing.<\/p>\n

Alisson<\/a><\/b> is retained behind a reshuffled back four of Jeremie Frimpong<\/a><\/b>, Ibrahima Konate<\/a><\/b>, Virgil van Dijk<\/a><\/b> and Andy Robertson<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

There is also change in midfield with Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a><\/b> joining Ryan Gravenberch<\/a><\/b> and Florian Wirtz<\/a><\/b> after his stint at right-back.<\/p>\n

Mohamed Salah<\/a><\/b> and Cody Gakpo<\/a><\/b> are the chosen attackers flanking Isak<\/b> in the centre-forward role.<\/p>\n

With Isak starting that means Hugo Ekitike<\/a> drops to the bench, which also includes the likes of Alexis Mac Allister<\/a>, Rio Ngumoha<\/a> and Jayden Danns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Liverpool:<\/b> Alisson<\/a>; Frimpong, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson; Gravenberch, Szoboszlai; Salah, Wirtz, Gakpo; Isak<\/p>\n

Substitutes:<\/b> Mamardashvili, Woodman, Leoni, Gomez, Kerkez, Bradley, Endo, Mac Allister, Ngumoha, Ekitike, Danns<\/p>\n

Atletico Madrid:<\/b> Oblak; Llorente, Le Normand, Lenglet, Galan; Simeone, Barrios, Gallagher, Gonzalez; Raspadori, Griezmann<\/p>\n

Substitutes:<\/b> Musso, Esquival, Ruggeri, Koke, Sorloth, Martin, Molina, Hancko, Pubill, Zanzi, Belid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Isak starts as Liverpool kick off their Champions League campaign at home to Atletico Madrid, with Arne…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1836,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-235245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-liverpool-fc","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115222810901184684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}