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We make our way to Anfield as Liverpool and Manchester United go head-to-head in Saturday’s early kick-off.

Having scored seven times in as many matches, Romelu Lukaku arguably faces his toughest challenge of the season against a defence that’s shipped just one goal in front of their own fans.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan could be on his last chance for many Fantasy owners. After a strong start to the season, the Armenian’s influence has waned of late – he’s managed just a goal and assist in five and has Spurs and Chelsea in the subsequent three.

For Liverpool, interest in Philipp Coutinho is on the rise after he served up two goals and an assist in the last two Gameweeks.

Meanwhile, Mo Salah – the most owned midfielder in FPL – looks to replicate the form that has produced double-digits in both his home starts for the Merseysiders.

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  1. FPL Pillars
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 6 months ago

    What happened to Bavies?

    I've got literally no one on my bench 🙁

    1. Jam0sh
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Illness apparently

      1. FPL Pillars
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Click bait fail

    2. Rash
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Illness

    3. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Conveniently ill

    4. FPL Pillars
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Poch is a bloody troll

  2. Rash
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 6 months ago

    Think I need to ditch my crap budget keeper for DDG like I planned to do gw1 getting 2s and 3s instead of 6/7/8/9 each week is hurting

    1. Feloh
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Forster is matching him at 0.5M less

      1. Rash
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        The pen save helped.. I think I'd rather VVD at 4.9

        1. Holmes
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          5.4

          1. Rash
            • 8 Years
            8 years, 6 months ago

            Ofc my bad!

    2. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Getting 7 clean sheets from 8 games is just beyond all expectations. Would've been happy with 3 or 4 cleanies by now

  3. Godot - Fashanu Zealand
    • 13 Years
    8 years, 6 months ago

    I'm playing 4-4-2 with Carroll first on the bench and Wimmer second. Who can I expect to come in for Bavies? I always get mixed up with this..

    1. Feloh
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      caroll

    2. ★Kuntheman★
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Carroll. Wimmer comes in for 3 atb

    3. andymck
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Carroll will come on, any formation goes as long as you have 3 at the back.

    4. MASTER ROSHI
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Carroll

    5. Godot - Fashanu Zealand
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Phew... Thanks everyone, I was worried

  4. Jam0sh
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    8 years, 6 months ago

    C'mon Hazard!

  5. Red Dagger ✪
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 6 months ago

    Selling Salah and Miki turned out to be genius. I'm so full of myself right now.

    1. Feloh
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      wait on it.

      1. Red Dagger ✪
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        For Hazard and Sterling so I will 😉

    2. andymck
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      For one game.

    3. Point-one short
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Red dagger in yourself? Sounds like a euphemism.

      1. Red Dagger ✪
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Haha 😉

    4. Freddo
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Well played Red Dagger, nice moves.

      1. Red Dagger ✪
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Thank you kind sir.

        1. Freddo
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Sold Salah for Sterling myself so I'll join you in a round of smugness later if it goes as planned.

          1. Red Dagger ✪
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            8 years, 6 months ago

            Excellent! Partner in smugness later then when we cash in.

            1. Freddo
              • 8 Years
              8 years, 6 months ago

              Red Dagger, high five!

    5. Rash
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Micky to sané here

      1. Red Dagger ✪
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Nice move also.

  6. Pirlø's Pen
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 6 months ago

    Davies benched...in comes Choupo Moting!

    1. weaver93
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      same here...

      1. Quality Quality Qualit
        • 16 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Same here

        1. Orange Roughy
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          And me.

          Looking forward to a solid 2 points from him.

  7. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 6 months ago

    Next week
    Select two from
    Richalison che(A)
    Ward mancity(A)
    Rlc newcas(A)
    Naughty Leicester (H)

    1. Freddo
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Jesus hatrick needed for the meltdown to be real in here later.

      1. Point-one short
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Would be brilliant.

      2. Monkey Hanger
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Or off on 59 with one point.

    2. Bobby Digital
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      The last two easily

  8. Monkey Hanger
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 6 months ago

    Jones got his BAP back.

  9. TheBusDriver
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 6 months ago

    Lukaku misses more chances than Ibra. He's really awful. I made a big mistake keep him on WC.

    1. Feloh
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      lol

  10. fedolefan
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 6 months ago

    Davies is flagged and so is Jones.

  11. Art Vandelay
    • 15 Years
    8 years, 6 months ago

    Had a bit of a punt with an 8 pointer. All the sold players have played, scoring 12 points.

    1. Art Vandelay
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      ...

      I therefore need 20 from Sterling, Alonso and Jesus to break even..

      Decent chance?

      1. Red Dagger ✪
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Yes I would say so.

        1. Art Vandelay
          • 15 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Cheers.

          Its nice to have all the old players having played already.

      2. Ode
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Alonso will get you those 20

        1. Art Vandelay
          • 15 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          It would be nice. A CS minimum.

  12. Jay_
      8 years, 6 months ago

      BT Score is gonna be fun with 9 players playing

    • liiusions
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      I know United played for the point today but that performance from them shows they're not the team everyone thinks they are.

      1. TheBusDriver
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Even their 4-0 wins haven't been convincing. City will win the league easily.

        1. Freddo
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          City and Chelsea will be the two teams, watch Chelsea kick into gear with these fixtures.

      2. Feloh
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        mou is making sure his opponents drop 2 pts

        1. liiusions
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Liverpool won't be close to united in the league

      3. Rash
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        People seem to forget how Mourinho operates..

    • KingNidge
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Klopp saying we could never play that way at liverpool

      Damn right you haven't a clue how to organise a defence and therefore have one tactic

      Benitez was pragmatic and organised and adaptable for years and the silverware speaks for itself

      See you at old trafford you scruff

      1. ★Kuntheman★
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        How was nap time Nidge?

        1. KingNidge
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Very relaxing mate 🙂

          1. ★Kuntheman★
            • 10 Years
            8 years, 6 months ago

            If you wanna watch some real football I hear a Manchester team is playing in a bit 😉

      2. My Name Is Prince
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        To be fair, they didn't have to organise a defence today 😉

        1. KingNidge
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          The time will come and if you dont have it in the locker ultimately you achieve nothing.

          1. My Name Is Prince
            • 13 Years
            8 years, 6 months ago

            Indeed! As I said below, Liverpool can't defend. That's why it's very odd United didn't score against them...

      3. fedolefan
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Mate, may be barbs like that are needed to get Jose to play better. How do you defend a performance like that though? He gave up 2 points from minute one. Sure, he wins trophies, but at some point, for a club like United, you want to be like Real Madrid and not Liverpool. Win and win well.

        1. KingNidge
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          We been winning and winning well all season long. One look at the goal difference will tell you that. We take our point today and open up on liverpool at home. Job done.

        2. HNI
          • 13 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Agreed. As a Manutd fan for decades I am disappointed with that performance. We have squad too to win in style and not hide behind cover and defend for a point. Manutd are a better team than Liv this season and Mou dint let it count

          1. KingNidge
            • 10 Years
            8 years, 6 months ago

            We were poor no doubt but got the point. We been knocking in goals for fun all season and sit top of the league im not gunna be too unhappy personally

      4. amcgilp
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Spot on mate

      5. LarryDuff
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        maybe thats exaxtly what he meant

      6. panda07
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        I've got a bone to pick with you Nidgey, only one team came to play football today, Utd won't win a league with those tactics

        1. KingNidge
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Thats precisely what potential champions do. Go to liverpool seriously underperform and take away as many points as they did. Gung ho we will score more than you rock and roll football wint win anything in this league on the contrary.

          1. panda07
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            8 years, 6 months ago

            We'll see come May I guess. Puke football by Utd. Fergie would be rolling in his grave

            1. KingNidge
              • 10 Years
              8 years, 6 months ago

              We been knocking in 3 and 4 goals for fun in pretty much every game so far. We had numerous brutal performanes at anfield under fergie he will be as content as i.

              1. panda07
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 13 Years
                8 years, 6 months ago

                Playing like that is self indulgent by Jose, he's feeding his own ego trying put on a "tactical masterclass" Utd had the better players out there today bar Coutinho and maybe Salah. Fact is Jose decided to indulge himself and pick a funky defensive formation. That stuff worked when he was at Chelsea cos they were comfortably the best team in the league. You won't see city put on such a defensive display and ultimately they will win the title

    • My Name Is Prince
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 6 months ago

      Mou's cowardly tactics at display yet again. The fact is that Liverpool can't defend, but United didn't attack. United could have easily won this 2-1, 3-2, or so, but no Mou was happy with a draw... United are even lucky that Liverpool didn't score, they had so many good chances... Mou is a lucky coward...

      1. Sánchez
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Same every time he has a test

      2. Jay_
          8 years, 6 months ago

          This post and Nidgeys post above compliment each other well 🙂

        • George Sillett
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          So in summary you prefer a serial underachiever like Klopp to a winner like Mourinho?

          1. HNI
            • 13 Years
            8 years, 6 months ago

            We prefer the Manutd style of old. Fergie showed that you can win with entertaining football. Mourinho is just removing the United spirit and making them mechanical like Chelsea

            1. KingNidge
              • 10 Years
              8 years, 6 months ago

              We were brutal at anfield on many occasions under fergie. Tough place to go.

          2. My Name Is Prince
            • 13 Years
            8 years, 6 months ago

            In summary, I said United could have easily won this game, giving them 2 more points in the table. 2 more points that might very well come in handy in the title race against, say, City this season! Where have I implied that I prefer Klopp lol? I said Liverpool can't defend 🙂

        • Syd.
          • 16 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          My only issue with Mourhino in that game if he feels that Liverpool are title rivals thus playing for a draw then he is seriously deluded.

          He employed the same tactics against Southampton this year and managed to scrape a lucky 1-0 in that match

          1. HNI
            • 13 Years
            8 years, 6 months ago

            Liv to challenge for title. He must be mental if he dint laugh at that

          2. KingNidge
            • 10 Years
            8 years, 6 months ago

            Your only issue is you wanted us to lose and we didnt sydney lets face it

        • Kun Tozser
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          In the context of the season not a single game , it’s what teams that win titles do

          Liverpool took off their attacking 3, made it easy to get what he wanted

      3. Shultan
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Can crystal palace score 1st goal.of the season

        1. Point-one short
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Hope not

        2. Revival
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          If they don't Hodgson will become the 2nd manager in premierleague history to have lost all his first 4 games without scoring a goal....the first was De Boer

        3. The 12th Man
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          In March

        4. HNI
          • 13 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          They deserve to be relegated just like Sunderland did last season. They have not added anything to epl in recent seasons and need to be kicked out just like Sunderland was

      4. Feloh
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        time for the goal rush

      5. Hi I'm Jose
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        i was looking at my 14 points on the bench and preparing my high alcohol shot and just seen Bavies is out. Now i want my other 7 pointer.

        1. Monkey Hanger
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Don't let football stop you. Its the weekend ffs.

      6. Bring the Cavalry
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        When will jones' flag be removed?

        1. SADIO SANÉ
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          later

        2. Adams6
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Who cares?

      7. The 12th Man
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        No Davies means I get Jones off the bench. :0)

        1. SADIO SANÉ
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          same, such scummy luck - Liverpool should have scored

          1. The 12th Man
            • 12 Years
            8 years, 6 months ago

            About time I got some. Lol

      8. A Team Of James McCleans
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Remember that guy who said bavies wont play, and you all laughed at him

      9. FPLzebub
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Took a -8 to bring in Batshuayi, Jesus and Sterling for Lukaku, Morata and A.King. Enjoying the last few minutes of hope and optimism before reality piddles on my chips.

      10. andymck
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Who the hell is Bavies and why does everyone keep saying it.

        1. Point-one short
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          The late great Ben Davies

        2. HNI
          • 13 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Sir Longbottom Bavies Mcdick.
          Take his name with respect mate

      11. Champione
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Not the best time to ask maybe but do you reckon King will start for Leicester on Monday? Iborra in the mix too now

      12. Desperately Seeking Dusan
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Call me a cynic but twice now when facing easy opposition Bavies doesn’t play, one for an injury not mentioned until the day and now because “he wasn’t feeling well today”. That sounds like what I used to say to my mum when not wanting to go to school “I don’t feel well today”. It’s up to Poch not to disclose his team and why should he but it does put doubt in my mind with Bavies now he’s 5.8.

        1. G-Whizz
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          *5.9

        2. HNI
          • 13 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          He is an older Shaw. Pansy coward englishman

        3. Sánchez
          • 13 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Clearly rested ahead of Real Liverpool and Man Utd games

      13. HashAttack
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Jones still flagged ... has had 2 clean sheets since he was flagged and I sold him

        1. Pep bites Kun
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Be sceptical of the FPL flags in future and do your own research 😉

      14. Drum8888
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Zaha in as a striker, imagine a goal against Chelsea, that would be absurd.

        1. G-Whizz
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Nearly happened. Courtois to the rescue...

        2. Monkey Hanger
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Nearly scored.

        3. Desperately Seeking Dusan
          • 14 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Is the whole country going to go wild with celebrations when Palace actually do score? (Except Brighton fans and whoever Palace are playing of course).

        4. Drum8888
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          Well then...

      15. Desperately Seeking Dusan
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        All I know is that even though Bavies isn’t playing, I’m so glad I no longer have Tom Carroll coming off my bench with his 2 points. I hate his face.

      16. Differentiator
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        Gold rout

      17. CFC96
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 6 months ago

        zaha causing problems here, worried palace might actually get their first goal

        1. Desperately Seeking Dusan
          • 14 Years
          8 years, 6 months ago

          The (lack of) Kante effect?