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4 February 2019 1244 comments
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West Ham United take on Liverpool at the London Stadium this evening in the penultimate match of Gameweek 25. Kick-off is at 20:00 GMT.

The injury-hit Hammers will be without Marko Arnautovic (£6.9m) tonight, with Javier Hernandez (£6.1m) being given the nod to lead the line for the home side.

Lukasz Fabianski (£4.8m) has recovered from the arm injury he sustained in the defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers, though, and maintains his ever-present record in the league this season.

Manuel Pellegrini has also made changes in the full-back positions, with Aaron Cresswell (£5.0m) and Ryan Fredericks (£4.5m) – in for his first Premier League start since Gameweek 4 – earning a recall.

Mohamed Salah (£13.6m), Roberto Firmino (£9.3m) and Sadio Mane (£9.5m) all start up front for Liverpool for the ninth league match in a row.

Jurgen Klopp has made three changes to his starting XI from the side that drew with Leicester City, as Fabinho (£5.5m), James Milner (£5.6m) and Adam Lallana (£6.9m) replace Jordan Henderson (£5.3m), Georginio Wijnaldum (£5.5m) and Xherdan Shaqiri (£7.1m).

Henderson, Wijnaldum and Dejan Lovren (£4.9m) miss out through injury while Shaqiri drops to the bench.

Lallana is making his first league start since the victory over Cardiff City in October.

The reverse fixture of tonight’s match was contested in Gameweek 1, with Liverpool running out 4-0 winners in a game that saw Salah, Mane, Firmino and Andrew Robertson (£6.8m) all deliver attacking returns.

No FPL asset scored more points than Mane on the opening weekend of the campaign.

West Ham United XI (4-2-3-1): Fabianski, Cresswell, Ogbonna, Diop, Fredericks, Rice, Noble, Snodgrass, Anderson, Antonio, Hernández.

Liverpool XI (4-2-3-1): Alisson, Milner, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson, Fabinho, Keita, Lallana, Salah, Mane, Firmino.

  1. Syd.
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Deserved

  2. el polako
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Come on you Hammers !!!

  3. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Pool busted.

  4. 420king
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Rich to Anderson GW27?

  5. BOATIES FC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Justice!

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      For......?

  6. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Antonio GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLL

  7. Dr Dream
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Rubbish,,,just rubbish...

  8. RamaJama
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Robertson cs GONE!!!!

  9. Alli 3',17',64�…
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    yes! come on Hamsters!

  10. Meinhoff
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Yess wipe those expensive clean sheets

  11. My Name Is Pepu
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Take that Pool. Cheats.

    Come on you Hammers!!

    1. JohnnyMagrinho
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Cheats? What the duck is wrong with you.

        It was a poor call by the crappy linesman. Ridiculous comment. Are you 12?

        1. My Name Is Pepu
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          What about all those 'legitimate' penalty decisions awarded to Salah in the recent past?

    2. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Alisson wasn't even bothered

    3. Epic Fail
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Clean sheet gone for Salah.

    4. JohnnyMagrinho
        7 years, 2 months ago

        The paranoia in this forum is utterly bewildering.

        Conspiracy theories floating around all over the place.

        Zero objectivity, zero rational thought just an isolated incident apparently enough to make all anti-Liverpool fans crawl out the woodwork.

        Pathetic.

        1. Richd
          • 13 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          I think a lot of it is tongue in cheek.

          Really I rarely use this for any football chat that goes outside of FPL. I don’t support a prem team and honestly don’t care about what the refs do

        2. Rainer
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Bloomers is one of a kind 😆

        3. Sim Simma
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 15 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Pep has his acolytes

        4. Third Eye Vision
          • 13 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Hardly isolated though, is it?

        5. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Conspiracy theory was a term invoked out of the CIA Mockingbird Operation to stop people looking at the facts surrounding the JFK assassination.

          Foodstuff for the sheeple..

        6. Bird Raymond
          • 14 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Brexit Britain.

      • dunas_dog
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Fabinho and Keita are not very good

      • FPL Scoop
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Liverpool CS potential gone to ferking pot

      • Zladan
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Antoniooooo

      • TheTinman
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Mané 😎

        Even better it was offside so the non owners are :sick:

      • diesel001
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Liverpool showing Anderson a lot of disrespect. Just giving him whatever time he wants on the ball.

      • Je suis le chat
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Justice! Knew the pools defence was overrated.

        1. Weasel Boy
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          13 CS
          I dont think so

      • The Tinkerman
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Antonio is very likeable.

        1. jimmyabs1987
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          This!!

      • It’s gonna Ben Mee
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Liverpool CS gone is simply wonderful!

        1. FPL Blow-In
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          This time 1000

      • FPL Blow-In
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Yes no pool CS

      • Sim Simma
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        The pyjama tops lulled Liverpool into sleep mode

      • Weasel Boy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Wtf Alison?

        1. FPL Blow-In
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Haha hardly his fault

          1. FPL Forward Thinker
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 2 months ago

            It was mignolet’s fault

        2. FPL Forward Thinker
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          He was leaving it for Mignolet

      • Dacra
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Robbo needs to score now.

      • FPL Scoop
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Bunch of children

      • Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 16 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        1 CS in 6 now for Liverpool... their defence seems to have developed a particularly bad case of being shite since all these injuries started happening

        1. diesel001
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          They have stopped being defensive. Why is Anderson being allowed to drift all over the place and noone is picking him up?

        2. twoplustwo
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Robbo has a couple of assists in those games

      • Differentiator
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        LFC bottling it here

      • Niho992
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Keita is an awful player. He will cost us a title

        1. micsway
          • 12 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Not fitting in hey

        2. FPL Blow-In
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Wasn’t his fault at all. Pool set up to defend the set piece man marking not zonal marking. Keira was on Noble. Antonio’s marker never followed him didn’t see who it was.

          1. Niho992
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 2 months ago

            Who made foul?

            1. FPL Blow-In
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 13 Years
              7 years, 2 months ago

              The goal wasn’t scored from a direct free kick though was it.

              1. Niho992
                • 7 Years
                7 years, 2 months ago

                He made stupid foul just like Robbo did vs Leicester.

        3. FPL Blow-In
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          But I don’t think he is a pool player yet...