Liverpool vs. Brighton lineups confirmed as Bradley Barcola, Rio Ngumoha, Cody Gakpo decisions revealed

By Ben Knapton | 25 Oct 2026 12:49, Last updated: 25 Oct 2026 13:00

Liverpool and Brighton & Hove Albion person confirmed their starting lineups for Sunday's Premier League clash astatine Anfield.

The Reds person made 2 changes from the squad that started past weekend's 2-1 triumph implicit Brentford, which saw Dominik Szoboszlai exacerbate an existing hamstring wounded and permission the tract successful the archetypal half.

Back from a Premier League ban, Ryan Gravenberch volition articulation Alexis Mac Allister successful the Liverpool midfield, portion Victor Munoz drops retired aft picking up a sound astatine the Gtech Community Stadium.

In the Spaniard's place, Cody Gakpo has been preferred to Rio Ngumoha, who indispensable settee for a spot connected the seat contempt lighting up the Champions League successful Liverpool's 4-3 triumph implicit Villarreal successful midweek.

Bradley Barcola trained individually past week arsenic a precaution, but the summertime signing has been declared acceptable to articulation Gakpo, Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak successful the Liverpool attack.

Despite immoderate pre-game fears implicit Ronald Araujo, who was supposedly not spotted with his Liverpool teammates connected their pre-match walk, the Barcelona loanee starts astatine right-back successful spot of the injured Jeremie Frimpong.

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Meanwhile, Brighton caput manager Fabian Hurzeler has unsurprisingly stuck with the aforesaid starting XI from past weekend's 5-0 battering of Crystal Palace successful the M23 derby.

The Seagulls brag made 8 changes for Thursday's 0-0 Conference League gully with Jablonec, and the lone starters from the European contention to clasp their spots are Bart Verbruggen, Pascal Gross and Olivier Boscagli.

The second is expected to displacement implicit to left-back to accommodate the returns of Lewis Dunk and Liverpool-linked Luka Vuskovic, portion Ferdi Kadioglu volition run astatine right-back erstwhile more.

Chema Andres returns alongside the evergreen Gross successful midfield, portion Diego Gomez, Yasin Ayari and Maxim De Cuyper enactment Charalampos Kostoulas successful attack.

Backup goalkeeper Jason Steele returns to the seat pursuing illness, but Yankuba Minteh, Mats Wieffer and Pascal Struijk stay retired injured for the league's highest scorers.

Liverpool volition leapfrog Chelsea into 4th spot and determination to wrong 1 constituent of Brighton successful the Premier League array with a win, portion the Seagulls volition adjacent the spread to Arsenal and Manchester City to conscionable 2 points with a triumph astatine Anfield.

Liverpool XI: Alisson; Araujo, Van Dijk, Jacquet, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Mac Allister; Barcola, Wirtz, Gakpo; Isak

Subs: Mamardashvili, Gomez, Endo, Chiesa, Tsimikas, Nyoni, McConnell, Koumas, Ngumoha

Brighton XI: Verbruggen; Kadioglu, Vuskovic, Dunk, Boscagli; Gross, Andres; Gomez, Ayari, De Cuyper; Kostoulas

Subs: Steele, Hadjam, Hinshelwood, Rutter, Promise, Osman, Costinha, O'Riley, Yalcouye