{"id":5287,"date":"2026-05-24T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2026-05-24T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:33:09","slug":"liverpool-secure-champions-league-qualification-with-final-day-draw-with-brentford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=5287","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool secure Champions League qualification with final-day draw with Brentford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Departing duo Salah and Andy Robertson were joined in the Reds\u2019 starting XI by the returning Alisson Becker as Slot made three changes from the defeat at Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Gomez, Milos Kerkez and Giorgi Mamardashvili were the players to make way, while Wataru Endo, Jeremie Frimpong and Alexander Isak were back among the substitutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liverpool: <\/strong>Alisson, Van Dijk, Konate (Gomez, 90), Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Salah (Frimpong, 73), Jones, Gakpo, Robertson (Kerkez, 72), Gravenberch (Nyoni, 72), Ngumoha (Wirtz, 73).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unused subs:<\/strong> Mamardashvili, Endo, Isaac, Chiesa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First half<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A bright, front-footed start from Liverpool involved Ibrahima Konate glancing a header goalwards from a Robertson cross, but <strong>Kevin Kelleher<\/strong> \u2013 afforded a warm reception on his return to Anfield \u2013 saved comfortably.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty minutes in, Salah went so close to a picture-book 258th and final Reds goal as, with Kelleher rooted to the spot, his free-kick smacked against the post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Departing duo Salah and Andy Robertson were joined in the Reds\u2019 starting XI by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}