{"id":243557,"date":"2026-05-15T12:28:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/wirtz-replaces-ngumoha-predicted-liverpool-xi-vs-aston-villa\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:28:49","slug":"wirtz-replaces-ngumoha-predicted-liverpool-xi-vs-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/wirtz-replaces-ngumoha-predicted-liverpool-xi-vs-aston-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Wirtz replaces Ngumoha: Predicted Liverpool XI vs Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/topics\/liverpool\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"Liverpool news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> face <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/aston-villa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"24\" title=\"Aston Villa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aston Villa<\/a> at 20:00 local time tonight on matchday 37 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/premier-league\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"21\" title=\"Premier League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> at Villa Park in what will be their final away outing of the season, as the Reds look to cement fourth spot in the table.<\/p>\n<p>Arne Slot\u2019s men have been winless in their last two matches against <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/topics\/chelsea\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"Chelsea news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/topics\/manchester-united\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Man Utd news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a>, but will look to end the season strongly. Here is how the team could line-up versus the Clarets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zdsht6a0739d6285dd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rememore.com\/hair-transplant-in-turkey#utm_source=footbal-talk&amp;utm_id=footbal-talk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-225247\" src=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FootballTalk_New_Chapter-rememore.png\" alt=\"Rememore new hair\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Goalkeeper<\/strong> \u2013 Giorgi Mamardashvili is expected to retain his place in goal for the away team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders<\/strong> \u2013 Curtis Jones has played right back on a number of occasions this season and could do the same this time around, while Milos Kerkez might also be preferred on the left side of the back four ahead of Andy Robertson. Ibrahima Konate and Virgil van Dijk are expected to round off the backline for Liverpool.<\/p>\n<h2>Wirtz to play on the left wing<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Midfielders<\/strong> \u2013 Alexis Mac Allister and Ryan Gravenberch will be the favourites to play alongside one another in the double pivot yet again, whereas Dominik Szoboszlai, arguably Liverpool\u2019s best player this season, could be the number 10.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremie Frimpong might be entrusted with a role higher up the pitch on the right wing, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13377022\/florian-wirtz-transfer-news-liverpool-sign-bayer-leverkusen-playmaker-for-fee-of-lb116m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a3100 million summer signing<\/a>, Florian Wirtz, could play on the left flank.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forward<\/strong> \u2013 Cody Gakpo could lead the line for the visitors with Alexander Isak unlikely to be risked from the first whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how the Liverpool side might look on paper.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fotmob.com\/api\/data\/lineup-builder\/team?players=948800:Giorgi%20Mamardashvili,933768:Curtis%20Jones,820140:Ibrahima%20Konat%C3%A9,209405:Virgil%20van%20Dijk,1195281:Milos%20Kerkez,956683:Ryan%20Gravenberch,831489:Alexis%20Mac%20Allister,966018:Jeremie%20Frimpong,846005:Dominik%20Szoboszlai,1152455:Florian%20Wirtz,806552:Cody%20Gakpo&amp;formation=4-2-3-1&amp;teamId=8650&amp;showTeamBadges=false&amp;showCountryBadges=false&amp;lang=en&amp;currency=EUR&amp;measurementSystem=metric\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--mvp-post-tags--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--posts-nav-link--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mvp-org-wrap\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">\n<div class=\"mvp-org-logo\" itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-logo--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Football Talk | Premier League News\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-wrap-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/232665\/wirtz-replaces-ngumoha-predicted-liverpool-xi-vs-aston-villa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool face Aston Villa at 20:00 local time tonight on matchday 37 of the Premier League at Villa Park in what will be their final away outing of the season, as the Reds look to cement fourth spot in the table. Arne Slot\u2019s men have been winless in their last two matches against Chelsea and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}