| | League position: | 11 | | Home league form: | XLWL | | Overall league form: | XXLWWLLL | | Formation: | 4-3-3 |
| | | Line-ups | | Geoffrey JOURDREN | 7½ | 1 | 6½ | Stuart TAYLOR | | Allan-Roméo NYOM | 7½ | 2 | 7 | Mapou YANGA-MBIWA | | Kieran GIBBS | 7½ | 3 | 7½ | Ryan BERTRAND | | Grzegorz KRYCHOWIAK | 7½ | 4 | 7½ | ORIOL ROMEU Vidal | | Jonny EVANS | 5 | 5 | 6 | Virgil VAN DIJK | | Ahmed HEGAZY | 6½ | 6 | 6½ | Simon KJÆR | | Mohamed DIAMÉ | 7½ | 7 | 7½ | Steve DAVIS | | James McCLEAN | 7 | 8 | 6 | Dusan TADIC | | (p)Salomón RONDÓN | 7 | 9 | 7 | Graziano PELLÉ(c,p) | | (c,f)Gareth BARRY | 7 | 10 | 6½ | Charlie AUSTIN(f) | | Jay RODRIGUEZ | 7 | 11 | 6 | Nathan REDMOND | | Manager | | | Hal ROBSON-KANU | | 12 | | Iker MUNIAIN | | Chris BRUNT | | 13 | | Christian GENTNER | | Jake LIVERMORE | | 14 | | Georgi SHCHENNIKOV | | Matt PHILLIPS | 6 | 15 | 6 | Dennis AOGO | | James MORRISON | | 16 | | James WARD-PROWSE |
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| | | | League position: | 16 | | Away league form: | LLLL | | Overall league form: | LLLLLWLW | | Formation: | 4-3-3 |
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