There are six Premier League matches kicking off at 15:00 BST this afternoon and there is huge relief for the owners of – and those who captained – Mohamed Salah (£13.0m), Sergio Aguero (£11.4m), Roberto Firmino (£9.4m) and Sadio Mane (£10.0m): all four start for their respective clubs.
Aguero was handed the armband by just over 1.5 million Fantasy Premier League bosses for Manchester City’s Gameweek 6 encounter with Cardiff City, while Salah was himself trusted with the captaincy by over a million FPL managers.
Despite being the most popular captaincy choices for the weekend’s matches, both players were among the five most-sold players of this Gameweek: 374,021 FPL bosses lost faith in Salah, while 177,646 of us ditched Aguero.
There was also good news for those who own Luke Shaw (£5.1m), with the United left-back starting ahead of Ashley Young (£5.8m).
However, those who own David Silva (£8.6m) will be disappointed to see the Spanish midfielder relegated to the bench for City’s trip to South Wales.
Fabian Delph (£5.3m) plays at left-back in Benjamin Mendy‘s (£6.4m) absence, while there are also starts for Leroy Sane (£9.2m), Bernardo Silva (£7.5m) and Raheem Sterling (£11.0m).
Xherdan Shaqiri (£7.1m) gets his first Liverpool start alongside Mane, Salah and Firmino, with James Milner (£5.7m) dropping out. Joel Matip (£4.9m) takes Joe Gomez‘s (£5.1m) place at centre-back, meanwhile.
Neil Warnock has changed his full-backs for the visit of Manchester City, while Mark Hughes’ Saints side looks defensive in nature for the trip to Anfield.
Elsewhere, Ricardo Pereira (£5.1m) misses out for Leicester City and Kenedy (£5.0m) returns to the Newcastle United side.
Burnley XI: Hart; Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor; Lennon, Westwood, Cork, Gudmundsson; Vydra, Vokes
Bournemouth XI: Begovic; Smith, Cook, Ake, Rico; Brooks, Surman, Lerma, Fraser; King, Wilson.
Cardiff City XI: Etheridge; Peltier, Morrison, Ecuele Manga, Cunningham; Camarasa, Arter, Ralls, Hoilett; Reid, Ward
Manchester City XI: Ederson; Walker, Laporte, Otamendi, Delph; Gundogan, Fernandinho; Bernardo, Sane, Sterling, Aguero
Crystal Palace XI: Hennessey; Wan-Bissaka, Tomkins, Sakho, Van Aanholt; Kouyate, Milivojevic, McArthur; Townsend, Ayew, Zaha
Newcastle United XI: Dubravka; Yedlin, Lascelles, Fernandez, Dummett; Shelvey, Diame, Ritchie, Kenedy; Perez, Rondon
Leicester City XI: Schmeichel; Chilwell, Evans, Maguire, Amartey; Ghezzal, Mendy, Ndidi, Maddison; Iheanacho, Vardy
Huddersfield Town XI: Lossl; Kongolo, Zanka, Schindler; Durm, Billing, Mooy, Lowe; van La Parra, Kachunga; Depoitre
Liverpool XI: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson; Wijnaldum, Henderson, Shaqiri; Salah, Mane, Firmino
Southampton XI: McCarthy; Vestergaard, Hoedt, Bertrand; Soares, Hojbjerg, Romeu, Lemina, Targett; Redmond, Long
Manchester United XI: De Gea; Valencia, Smalling, Lindelof, Shaw; Fellaini, Fred, Pogba; Lingard, Sanchez, Lukaku
Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Rui Patricio; Coady, Bennett, Boly; Jonny, Moutinho, Neves, Doherty; Jota, Costa, Jimenez
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