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14 May 2017 925 comments
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Liverpool’s top four ambitions come under scrutiny in Sunday’s next encounter, as Jurgen Klopp’s charges make their way to the London Stadium to face a buoyant West Ham United.

Boosted by last Friday’s 1-0 victory over London rivals Spurs, Slaven Bilic’s side will provide a stern test of Liverpool’s credentials; the Hammers have kept three successive clean sheets heading into this match.

The Reds will surely look to Philippe Coutinho for inspiration.

The Brazilian is comfortably the top owned asset on show in this afternoon kick-off, with the midfielder still part of 18.8% of squads.

He has suffered from significant recent sales, however: more than 221,000 managers have moved Coutinho out of their squads over the previous two Gameweeks. A modest 14-point return over his last four Gameweeks, featuring just a single goal, proved damaging.

Coutinho’s profit from this match is likely to have the main impact on our Gameweeks, then, with only minor interest elsewhere.

Roberto Firmino – part of 10.5% of squads – misses out, while Daniel Sturridge earns a rare start, his first since Gameweek 20.

Mark Mark created the beast. He's now looking to tame it.

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  1. Lav
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Well based on the averages that last game meant nothing.

  2. Pep says
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Mon Hammers

  3. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    DS15 😎

    1. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Limps off after 14mins, after another mediocre performance

  4. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    COYI

  5. Chucky
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    no players in this game...

    1. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Same....1-1 both OGs please....

  6. Brap.
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Really hope this won't be a stinker

  7. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Is this the day Liverpool mark their return to the pinnacle of football? Outsiders to lifting the CL trophy next season?

    1. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      They should hope for tough draws in UCL as they best big teams

  8. Sims
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    This is like last year's Europa final for Liverpool

    Definitely rolling over

    1. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      You're still here?

  9. We Will Klopp you
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Liverpool! Liverpool!

  10. acidicleo
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    come on pools...

  11. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    As a Coutinho owner is it good news that Firmino is not playing?
    They are going with 2 strikers 🙁

  12. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Early thoughts on how to finish the season?

    Would love two punts.

    2ft, 0itb.

    Cech
    Alonso / Monreal / Yoshida
    Sanchez / Hazard / Alli / Sane / King
    Kane / Jesus

    Pickford / Stephens / Holgate / Anichebe

    1. acidicleo
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      downgrade haz (depending on sanchez injury update) and upgrade yoshida...

      1. Ibracadabra
        • 17 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Only if Haz stars vs Watford. If rested, he should play vs SUN. Otherwise agree with this.

    2. JustPark
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Hazard and probably Anichebe/Alli out. Not sure for who yet though.

  13. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Are there two more differing player attitudes in the same team than Milner & Sturidge?

    1. Sims
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Wilshere and sanchez

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Good call or Giroud & Sanchez

        1. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          I was thinking of Giroud,Sanchez but Sanchez gets frustated a lot

    2. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Giroud,Cazorla

  14. The Architect of Anarchy
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    There should be a chip which allows us to have two Captains or which multiplies Vac's points by 1.5 .

    Aoa.is useless .

    1. Billy Gilmore
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      You're calling yourself useless?

      1. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Choice.

      2. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        😆
        This deserves a lot of upvotes

      3. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Berbilly sighting 😮

      4. The Architect of Anarchy
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Damn!!

      5. Gnu
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        😆

      6. Somalion
        • 16 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Top notch

      7. The Overthinker
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Brutal

    2. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Or just scrap the stupid chips.

    3. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Or a chip that cancels knee jerking for a month. Could potentially be worth one hundred points.

    4. acidicleo
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      good point...
      or maybe sell the unwanted chip for some budget...

  15. Sánchez
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Do people think the big DGW us the right week to bench boost?

    2 seasons running I've used it on that week and twice now I've had disappointment.

    3 no shows yesterday and that was after a -8 to get Walcott Stones and Valencia out (each had a dgw but was imo too risky of not playing)

    Then regardless, I get no shows from another 3 (Gabbiadini Gibbs Ward Prowse) and the weeks not over yet.

    Almost every other week all 15 play, but at season end DGW time, everyone rotates. So is it even worth using BB on a big DGW?

    And its not that hard to plan for 11 DGW players in such a week.

    Thinking next season I might BB earlier on as it seems to go to waste on a week like this

    1. Sims
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      I think the early dgws are the best time to use it. Too many pointless games result in rotation

      1. Sánchez
        • 13 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        This is my thinking on why its a waste. Likes of my triple Southampton who have nothing to play for. Tripled up in advance of dgw x2 but really let down. Same with man utd europa rotation. Too many either with other priorities or on the beach attitudes or being rested etc

    2. Ibracadabra
      • 17 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Agree, used mine in GW35 and picked up 20 pts from Pickford, Zaha, Stephens and Calum Chambers. Was ridiculed prior to that but spoke to about rotation and the nailed on status at the time of all four of those players who ALL had home games. Happy in retrospect, but of course an element of luck that Puel rotated so many SOU assets and the highly owned budget keepers like Jakupovic and Pickford failed in the same week.

    3. acidicleo
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      i think its just hard luck..
      i wc eed in gw36 in preparation for bb in gw37..
      and had 25 points in bench on gw36... and around 10 this gw,,,!!

    4. Pierce34
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      It depends on a lot of things, especially on whether the DGW teams have something to play for. There would still have been some rotation for rest but nowhere near as much.

      For me personally, I seriously considered BB last week, and it would've worked - 25 points on my bench compared to almost nothing this week. If the teams in the big DGW next year have nothing to play for, I'll change my strategy.

    5. Sánchez
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Answers here seem to confirm SIMS view that a regular dgw like 36 are a better option

  16. frenchfries
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Benchboost update:
    Jakupovic (0)
    Stephens (0)
    JWP (0)
    Holgate (1)

  17. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
    • 17 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Surely studge is better central. Origi useless.

    1. nkhoughton
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Sturridge played on wing once upon a time

  18. Forza Papac
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Bit of a nothing game this in FPL terms

    1. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Coutinhooooo

  19. gemmalmr92
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Schlupp 12 points on my bench 🙁
    Odds of both Gibbs and Valencia playing neither game? Haha desperate times...

    1. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
      • 17 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Very high . Gibbs won't play I feel it

    2. Pierce34
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Not bad odds actually.

    3. Holmes
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Gibbs not playing is possible, its hamstring injury I guess, so should be out

    4. JustPark
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      They both won't. I think.

    5. acidicleo
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      gibbs 99% valencia 90%

  20. liiusions
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Biggest game for us this season. Please don't do a Liverpool, Liverpool

  21. nkhoughton
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    It's nice to watch a game with 0 impact on ml can actually relax

    1. Holmes
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Thats what Andy Carroll is also saying 😉

  22. Colonel Shoe 肝池
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    cmon you red men

  23. thunder_mike
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    NBC Sports just showed a shot inside the Spurs dressing as part of there coverage, didn't look like any surprises in lineup.

    1. thunder_mike
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      It showed the shirts hanging up.

  24. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Come on lanzini, deal the hammer blow to Liverpool my son

  25. fedolefan
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Please Hammers!!!

  26. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Sturridge injury bingo

    I'm going with 37 mins

    1. Sánchez
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      I'll go half time dressing room niggle

    2. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      43mins

    3. Legomane
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      47, will forget to properly warm up prior to coming back on for 2nd half

  27. Legomane
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Autopilot chip:
    Automatically selects the optimum XI and Captain choice from your XV.

    1. Holmes
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      =luck chip

      1. Legomane
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        The Capoue realisation chip

    2. Sánchez
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      That's not a bad shout if trying to come up with a replacement chip to AOA that's actually got value and isn't daft.

  28. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
    • 17 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Come on pool. Knock that smug smile of Wengers skeletor like withered face

  29. Sims
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Lovren reminds me of the guy from 50 shades of grey

    1. Somalion
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Stevie Wonder thinks so too

  30. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Byram close....