| | League position: | - | | Home league form: | WWWW | | Overall league form: | WWWWWWWW | | Formation: | 4-3-3 |
| | | Line-ups | | Jordan PICKFORD | 6½ | 1 | 7 | Freddie WOODMAN | | Ezri KONSA | 7 | 2 | 7 | Gabriel OSHO | | Theo HERNÁNDEZ | 8½ | 3 | 6½ | Harrison BURROWS | | BRUNO Miguel FERNANDES | 7½ | 4 | 6½ | ARNAU PUIGMAL Martínez | | Ben WHITE | 7½ | 5 | 6 | Josh KNIGHT | | Joe GOMEZ | 6 | 6 | 5½ | Ruairí McCONVILLE | | (c)Lionel MESSI | 8½ | 7 | 5½ | David AJIBOYE | | Kaoru MITOMA | 7 | 8 | 6 | Justin DEVENNY | | (p)Jarrod BOWEN | 8 | 9 | 7 | Ivan TONEY(c,p) | | (f)Matt O'RILEY | 7½ | 10 | 5½ | YANG Min-hyeok(f) | | Christopher NKUNKU | 6½ | 11 | 5½ | Jonson CLARKE-HARRIS | | Manager | | | Archie GRAY | | 12 | | Andrew HUGHES | | James TRAFFORD | | 13 | | Carl RUSHWORTH | | Dwight McNEIL | | 14 | | Kristian PEDERSEN | | SEMIH Kiliçsoy | | 15 | | Ephron MASON-CLARK | | Tyrick MITCHELL | 6½ | 16 | | Hector KYPRIANOU |
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| | | | League position: | - | | Away league form: | WLOX | | Overall league form: | LWWLOXXL | | Formation: | 4-3-3 |
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