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Fantasy managers spared pains of Liverpool rotation at Leicester

Fantasy Premier League managers have been spared the pains of Jurgen Klopp’s rotation for the first fixture of Gameweek 4.

After promising that unchanged line-ups would soon be a thing of the past at Liverpool, Klopp has made just one alteration to the side that beat Brighton in Gameweek 3.

New signing Naby Keita (£7.5m) drops to the bench to allow club captain Jordan Henderson (£5.4m) to come back into the starting line-up.

The headline Fantasy options Mohamed Salah (£13.0m), Sadio Mané (£9.9m) and Andrew Robertson (£6.1m) have all kept their places.

The Reds remain heavily backed in this fixture with Salah still in 55 percent of teams, Mané in 37 percent and Robertson in 21 percent.

As a whole, the Liverpool defence is still popular for this trip to the King Power Stadium with Virgil van Dijk (£6.0m) in 18 percent of squads and 17 percent invested in Trent Alexander-Arnold (£5.0m).

It appears that Demarai Gray (£5.5m) is leading the Leicester line in the absence of Jamie Vardy (£8.9m). Kelechi Iheanacho (£6.0m) drops to the bench.

Ricardo Pereira (£5.0m) has earned plenty of attention for playing in attacking midfield twice so far this season but he is deployed at right-back for this one.

LEICESTER CITY XI (4-4-1-1): Schmeichel; Chilwell, Morgan, Maguire, Pereira, Ghezzal, Ndidi, Mendy, Albrighton; Maddison; Gray.

LIVERPOOL XI (4-3-3): Alisson; Robertson, Van Dijk, Gomez, Alexander-Arnold: Henderson, Wijnaldum, Milner; Salah, Firmino, Mane

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2,543 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Bielsa's Bucket
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Saw a few people taking Mane out for Hazard for -4, what were you thinking!

    1. Chenku╰☆╮
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      We don't care about sarri..

    2. Fantastisk
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Ben Crellin

      1. Bielsa's Bucket
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        He took an 8 point hit.
        Madness!

        1. Fantastisk
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 9 months ago

          Yeah I think he's better at spreadsheets than the actual game itself.

    3. XabiAlonso
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Fear Of Missing Out

  2. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    FFScout Neale transferred out Mane

    https://mobile.twitter.com/SkontoRigga/status/1035836869702021120

    1. Chenku╰☆╮
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Dude no one cares..watch the match instead..

      1. Gazpilicueta
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        *cares enough to comment.

      2. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        I don't have Sky.

        1. Fitzy.
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 9 months ago

          You could do something other than stalk the scouts surely?

    2. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Who?

  3. Fantastisk
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Salah (c) fail

  4. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Salah to Hazard might be popular probably

    1. The Polymath
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Thinking this too.

  5. Costa Nostra
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    “Is Robertson worth the extra 1.1 over TAA?”

    Yes. Yes he is.

    1. Kellz86
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Yes definitely, I went the budget route but have stuck to TAA until I WC, wish I just went Robertson first

  6. Sandy Ravage
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    a Liverpool clean sheet will be handy

  7. GianniBanani
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you Richarlison for this headbutt! Otherwise it would be Robbo and Mane to TAA and Hazard

  8. TomSaints
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Not having Mane is so annoying.

    1. Ode
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      This 🙁 Swapped him to Eriksen day before the gw1 deadline

    2. Distinctly Average
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      This

  9. Totti
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    i think this assist wasn't assist
    leicester defender touched the ball before mane !!!
    should be removed

    1. Fantastisk
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      No

    2. Ode
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      If a defender touches the ball when someone shoots it on target and scores it should it be removed too?

      1. Totti
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        no i think if it changed the direction only

    3. Konig Luther
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Robertson's cross was for Mane

      1. Totti
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        yes i know but the defender touched it before mane
        we're working here with the intention?

        1. Samwise the Brave
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          5 years, 9 months ago

          Pretty sure the rule is "intended target". Mane was the target, it's an assist. Rules are actually clear on this, hence not even a review required by FPL

          1. Totti
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 9 months ago

            yea ok thanks mate
            so i need an assist from arnold now 🙂
            would be juicy 🙂

  10. AnfieldLad
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Oh mane mane

  11. The Polymath
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Did you really think TAA could fill Robertson boots?

    1. Desperately Seeking Dusan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      I think it’s a case that TAA is cheaper and frees up budget and then people on here look for validation and try and convince themselves. But you get what you pay for IMHO.

      1. The Polymath
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Yep

    2. Ser Davos
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      He can't. Check out my rambling post from a week or so back

      1. The Polymath
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Too right.

  12. sotayaye
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Transfered Mane out for Hazard fells Good...... :/

  13. Desperately Seeking Dusan
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Mane “essential” again. Wild ride.

    Most transferred in for Haz this week when Haz blanks and people flip flop.

    1. Siggy in the Middle
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Yup. One blank and the knees jerked.

  14. OldBenKenobi
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    I’m confused how that’s an assist for Robertson? I’m not bitter or anything but I’m struggling to see where the consistency is?

    1. Chenku╰☆╮
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Keep struggling man..

      1. luke
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        sound a tad bitter or maybe tepidly annoyed

    2. Bruce Lee
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Robertson's cross was intended to go to Mane

    3. VS10_
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Consistency compared to? And don't say Mendy, completely different situations.

    4. Desperately Seeking Dusan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      You old fossil! You’re more sour than Mrs Mourinho’s nether regions.

    5. Gazpilicueta
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Ok, look at it this way, Robertson put in all the work, got past a player and passed the ball in, In the real world, this is an assist.

      1. OldBenKenobi
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        I agree he deserves the assist but many other player have been denied it in the past

  15. BobB
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    If Robbo's work for that goal did not count as an assist the game would be rubbish

    1. OldBenKenobi
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      What about all the other denied assists for the exact same scenario?

    2. GianniBanani
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      So true having in mind rubbish assists that count

    3. Ady87
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      These are my thoughts on it.

  16. FPL Touches
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Y’all acting like Kanté won’t get a hat-trick later...

  17. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Going for Van Dijk over Robertson has cost me big time this season 🙁

    1. Strchld
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Same here.

    2. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Same, and Erik over Mane

  18. Fantastisk
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    So many salty non-Robertson owners claiming it wasn't an assist.

    1. The Polymath
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Yep. 😀

  19. SM001
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    The lord giveth and the lord taketh away

  20. Ser Davos
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Damn, activating WC as a Firmino TAA owner

  21. Captain Vantastic™
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    May Marks team RIP

  22. Prison Mike
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    As if I took out Mane and Robertson on WC... great start to the GW!

  23. Siggy in the Middle
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Mark wildcarded partly just to get Aguero and then doesn't captain him at home to Newcastle. Why?

    1. XabiAlonso
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      He’s probably trying to catch up a bit now taking few gambles

    2. CloudSky
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Because he thinks Salah will score more. What kind of stupid question is this?

  24. ★Kuntheman★
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Lots of people taking out Mane for Hazard

    Big boy play is having both

  25. Berbalove
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Assist given. I'll take it, but not sure it's the right call.

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Mane was his intended target...

    2. Greenbackbøøg…
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Why not? He aimed it at mane and Maguires deflection wasnt significant

      1. Berbalove
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        I'm my book, which, I admit, is not the book that matters, that was a clearance from Maguire, which Mane intercepted. And when you have a clearance, it's a new situation, hence no Robertson assist. IMO.

    3. Four Hit Wonder
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      What else is it? Is everyone as blind as PL refs this season?

  26. jtreble
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    I have Robbo. I think, however, his assist will be taken away. No matter - he’s playing well.

    1. Les Bleus
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      You part of FPL towers?

  27. Rover
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Honestly, if you're selling a Liverpool mid for Hazard, sell Salah and invest the 2.5m elsewhere.

  28. Salahlulijah
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Mane to Hazard for a -4?

    1. Salahlulijah
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Start AWB or Robertson next week?

  29. Totalfootball
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Thats not an assist..

    1. Fantastisk
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Non Robertson owner?

      1. OldBenKenobi
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Regardless imo. If I owned him obviously I’d want it too be an assist but there’s no consistency in awarding them in that scenario

        1. Fantastisk
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 9 months ago

          Non Robertson owner?

    2. OldBenKenobi
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Apparently it is? Must make up the rules every week 😆

    3. Salarrivederci
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      What is not an assist?

    4. Critical Observer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      It's a fantasy assist, at any rate.

    5. Greenbackbøøg…
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      It is..

    6. Slartibartfast
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Agreed, Mane not intended target...

      1. Lukakuna
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Who was the intended target if not Mane?

      2. Salarrivederci
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        What are you on about. Such a pass will always count as an assist.
        Robertson to Mané, and it is not blocked or touched by opponent. The assist is clear as daylight.
        How can you even question this assist after Sanchéz (GW1) and Mendy (GW2) ?

    7. trikster102
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      I'd say it was an assist, just how Mendy's should have been the other week. Just becuase the opperssion got a touch on it doesn't mean they didn't still set up the goal.

    8. Speaking Words of Wisdom, R…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Yes it is, it only took one touch off a Leicester player before falling to Mane, who was both the intended target and in the box. According to the FPL rules that's an assist

  30. Salarrivederci
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    TAA owners must feel somewhat sad.

    TAA 5mil = 16 points
    Robo 6mil = 31 points

    1. Make United Great Again
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Pay up!

    2. Ser Davos
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Massive Robertson fan. Despair

    3. LosBlancos
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      No, Im pretty happy. Have both ofc 😉

    4. Siggy in the Middle
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Pay to win

    5. Chenku╰☆╮
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      1m equal double points.

    6. Majestic Chanka
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Def coverage now also a myth

    7. OldBenKenobi
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Plenty of time in the season yet

    8. Gooders
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Yep, a sad TAA owner here... expected Robertson to outscore him but not by this much