{"id":3639,"date":"2025-02-17T22:58:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T22:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo76e71539\/2025\/02\/17\/marcus-rashford-is-starting-this-game-4-2-3-1-aston-villa-predicted-lineup-vs-liverpool\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T22:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T22:58:03","slug":"marcus-rashford-is-starting-this-game-4-2-3-1-aston-villa-predicted-lineup-vs-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo76e71539\/2025\/02\/17\/marcus-rashford-is-starting-this-game-4-2-3-1-aston-villa-predicted-lineup-vs-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford Is Starting This Game | 4-2-3-1 Aston Villa Predicted Lineup vs Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Aston Villa are preparing to host Liverpool at home in the Premier League this midweek. The former side had to settle for a 1-1 draw against Ipswich Town in their recent most game despite the opponents being reduced to 10 men at one stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Villans will be desperate to do better as they look to seal a spot in the top four. This game will also be important for them as the outcome of this fixture will somewhere set the template for their next clash against Chelsea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Defence<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/2023\/01\/emiliano-martinez-wife\/\">Emi Martinez<\/a> will be playing at the goal line for the Villans and needs to play a fantastic game to yield a positive result for his side. Andres Garcia has been impressive and could get another start as the right-back in the lineup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">While Axel Disasi continues at the heart of the defence, Boubacar Kamara is unavailable after picking up an injury. To fill his role, Tyrone Mings is the front-runner, who has recovered completely from a knee concern. Left-back Lucas Digne gets retained for the starting position.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_303332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303332\"><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fbl-eng-pr-aston-villa-brentford-1-compressed-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Emiliano Martinez\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fbl-eng-pr-aston-villa-brentford-1-compressed-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fbl-eng-pr-aston-villa-brentford-1-compressed-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fbl-eng-pr-aston-villa-brentford-1-compressed-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fbl-eng-pr-aston-villa-brentford-1-compressed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fbl-eng-pr-aston-villa-brentford-1-compressed-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fbl-eng-pr-aston-villa-brentford-1-compressed-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fbl-eng-pr-aston-villa-brentford-1-compressed-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-303332\">Aston Villa\u2019s Argentinian goalkeeper #01 Emiliano Martinez applauds at the end of the English Premier League football match between Aston Villa and Brentford at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England on April 6, 2024. Aston Villa equalised 3 \u2013 3 against Brentford. (Photo by Oli SCARFF \/ AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Midfield<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Youri Tielemans and <a href=\"https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/tag\/john-mcginn\/\">John McGinn<\/a> <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">are likely to<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> be deployed in the middle of the part yet again. They will have to work hard to control the <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">tempo of the game<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and disrupt the opponent\u2019s flow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Attack<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">While Jacob Ramsey continues to operate on the right flank, Morgan Rogers is playing as the attacking midfielder once again. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/tag\/marcus-rashford\/\">Marcus Rashford<\/a> could get the nod ahead of Donyell Malen for the other flank role.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ollie Watkins remains the first-choice striker and leads the attacking pack<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> ye<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">t again.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_320106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-320106\"><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ab3UadeamK-1.png\" alt width=\"336\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ab3UadeamK-1.png 336w, https:\/\/the4thofficial.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ab3UadeamK-1-196x300.png 196w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-320106\">4-2-3-1 Aston Villa Predicted Lineup vs Liverpool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa are preparing to host Liverpool at home in the Premier League this midweek. The former side had to settle for a 1-1 draw against Ipswich Town in their recent most game despite the opponents being reduced to 10 men at one stage. The Villans will be desperate to do better as they look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12816,"featured_media":3640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo76e71539\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo76e71539\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo76e71539\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo76e71539\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo76e71539\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo76e71539\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo76e71539\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo76e71539\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo76e71539\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo76e71539\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}