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The final two matches of Gameweek 20 overlap one another, with Liverpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers kicking off at 16:30 GMT and Manchester City v Sheffield getting underway at 18:00 GMT.

Despite having threatened to utilise his peripheral squad players in his pre-match press conference, Jurgen Klopp has kept the changes to a minimum for the Reds’ final match of 2019.

Klopp’s only alteration sees Adam Lallana (£5.8m) replace Naby Keita (£5.8m) in central midfield, so there are starts for popular Fantasy assets Mohamed Salah (£12.3m), Sadio Mane (£12.3m), Roberto Firmino (£9.2m), Virgil van Dijk (£6.4m), Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.4m) and Andrew Robertson (£7.0m).

There isn’t such positive news for owners of some of Wolves’ most-owned FPL players.

Having beaten Manchester City in a five-goal thriller less than 48 hours ago, Nuno Espirito Santo has understandably freshened up his side for this trip to Anfield.

Raul Jimenez (£7.5m), Adama Traore (£5.5m), Matt Doherty (£6.1m) and Romain Saiss (£4.4m) all drop to the bench, with Pedro Neto (£5.0m), Ruben Vinagre (£4.2m), Ryan Bennett (£4.9m) and Max Kilman (£4.0m) all drafted into the starting XI.

Diogo Jota (£6.1m) keeps his place up front, however.

Adama was the fourth-most-bought FPL asset of Gameweek 20.

Salah and Mane were both among the top five most-captained players this weekend, with the Egyptian second only to Jamie Vardy (£10.1m) for armband duties among the top 10k.

Wolves are unbeaten in their last seven away league games, although Liverpool have, of course, only dropped two points all season.

The big news at the Etihad is that the most-owned ‘defender’ in FPL, John Lundstram (£5.1m), has failed a late fitness test and misses out.

Mo Besic (£4.4m) replaces Lundstram in midfield, with Lys Mousset (£4.9m) and Callum Robinson (£5.0m) getting starts up front in place of David McGoldrick (£5.4m) and Oli McBurnie (£5.7m).

The Blades are, remarkably, still unbeaten on the road this season.

All three of Pep Guardiola’s changes are made at the back.

Teenage centre-half Eric Garcia (£4.5m) replaces Nicolas Otamendi (£5.0m), while Oleksandr Zinchenko (£5.2m) is in for Benjamin Mendy (£5.5m) at left-back.

Claudio Bravo (£4.8m) starts in goal in place of the suspended Ederson (£6.0m).

It’s the same front six that started at Molineux on Friday, meanwhile, with Sergio Aguero (£11.7m) leading the line.

Gabriel Jesus (£9.5m) is back on the bench after recovering from illness.

City have scored in every match over the last 11 Gameweeks, averaging 2.27 goals per game in that time.

Kevin De Bruyne (£10.5m) is the second-most-popular captaincy option in Gameweek 20, having been handed the armband by 764,890 FPL managers.


Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, van Dijk, Robertson, Lallana, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Salah, Firmino, Mane.

Wolves XI: Patricio, Jonny, Kilman, Coady, Dendoncker, Bennett, Neves, Moutinho, Vinagre, Jota, Neto.

Manchester City XI: Bravo, Walker, Garcia, Fernandinho, Zinchenko, Rodrigo, Bernardo, De Bruyne, Sterling, Mahrez, Aguero.

Sheffield United XI: Henderson, Baldock, Stevens, O’Connell, Basham, Egan, Besic, Norwood, Fleck, Robinson, Mousset.

  1. Gobigorgohome
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    I need adama

  2. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Saiss into Goodison

  3. Chenku╰☆╮
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Moutinho.. so close to sky..

  4. FPL Daniel
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    3 - Alexander-Arnold (35)
    2 - Mané (34)
    1 - Gomez (31)

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Congratulations to Mane owners and captainers

    2. WVA
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      7 extra points for me there alone

      1. Mo Salah No Mane
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        8
        Mane will get 6

  5. arkom
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Fu.... Mou! I hate this game!

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Mo Mou?

      1. FPL Daniel
        • 16 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        *or

    2. Better luck next year
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Got to have both Mane and Mo. Lesson learned from now..

  6. Fpl Richie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    But but I have 4m quid in the bank to upgrade Alli to Mo for the dgw 🙂

    1. fantasyfog
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      he might be rested

      1. Fpl Richie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Won't do it for next week. But I planned it for soon.

  7. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Ref hahahahhaha

  8. The Rock
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    4 no shows and a further 2 who just came off the bench. What a horrible GW!

    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      That’s not even bad compared to most

  9. Shark Team
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    What a great game by Zinchenko he should be nailed on for life

  10. Duke Silver ☑
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Two decent conversions for Wolves.

  11. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    It’s ok guys,
    Lundstram will come off the bench and save us all
    😆

    1. Duke Silver ☑
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Erm, about that...

      1. HuttonDressedasLahm
        • 16 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        😆

  12. have you seen cyan
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    taa will surely loses his cs, it has to happen given this week

  13. Brosstan
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Jimenez is a beast. I'll take out Tammy Abrafraud for him, thanks for the parting gift

    1. WVA
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Kept him all season

      1. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Great pick. I remember pre season when prices were released I was sure he was underpriced compared to the likes of Wilson.. still haven't owned him yet this season. A mistake, soon to be rectified.

        1. Nomar
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          Same

  14. C'mon the Fylde
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Anyone think Mane will be rested on NYD?
    I thought he'd have been benched, today.

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      He does look pretty tired out there but hey, he's done the full 90.

    2. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Nah, Klopp is turning the screw

      They’ll be so far ahead in March they can rest between CL games

    3. fantasyfog
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      it's a lottery but would expect klopp to rest a couple

  15. Railwayman
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Vinagre selfish right there.

    1. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Owen in bland non committal statement shocker

    2. FPL.team
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Fair point.

  16. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    I had fully planned for and expected an awful GW

    This is something else though 🙄

  17. Nightcrawler
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Mane outscoring salah again great festive period for casuals

    1. WVA
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Casuals have Salah, anyone that has watched Liverpool this season has Mane

      1. Cok3y5murf
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        This calendar year*

    2. cravencottage
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Casuals own Salah. sorry

      1. TOPCAT1960
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Cool Kids have both ?

        1. WVA
          • 9 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          Nope team suffers

  18. Mo Salah No Mane
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Just need KDB to be kept quiet that's all.

  19. FFSbet.com
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    TAA terrible defending today

    1. Am sorry to say again it�…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      no one cares, he gets points

    2. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Most days to be fair, but that’s not why I own him

      1. cravencottage
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Agree

  20. Salah’s Sonnet
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    God Salah you are so damn annoying

  21. JustPark
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Trent is actually awful at defending.

    1. have you seen cyan
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      you only just realised this?

      1. JustPark
        • 10 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Need to emphasize that few times now after selling him just before back to back cs.

    2. WVA
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Hardly awful, Aurier is awful

      1. Nightcrawler
        • 6 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Aurier better in real life

        1. JustPark
          • 10 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          Hardly. Trent looks younger and prettier.

    3. have you seen cyan
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      teams specifically target TAA as a route to attack, it got so bad infact at the start of the season that it was probably more sensible for Klopp to just bench TAA altogether.

      1. Tinkermania
        • 6 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Really?

        1. have you seen cyan
          • 6 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          yes

    4. Lebowski85
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Yeah but he's one of the most creative and unique players in the league.

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 6 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        He isnt a defender, whats the point. Its like putting KDB in defence lol.
        But it suits Klopps system, which is the issue. As long as Klopp is at Anfield TAA will be a "defender", hopefully Gerrard will actually utilise him like KDB, when they do that. We have a second KDB on our hands..

        1. Tinkermania
          • 6 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          He is winning trophies with him playing there. Let's not take these too personal when we don't own the players in our fpl or if we don't like how they look. Bench him? Come on!

          1. have you seen cyan
            • 6 Years
            6 years, 4 months ago

            Im not saying bench him but he cant be bothered to defend and/or is bad at it. Its like Aurier, sure Aurier can attack but Sissoko or someone needs to fill in for him whenever he is forward.

            1. have you seen cyan
              • 6 Years
              6 years, 4 months ago

              and obviously I own TAA im not an idiot

            2. Tinkermania
              • 6 Years
              6 years, 4 months ago

              You did. Look what you said above. If he didn't play at all, what do you think the points tally would be at the top of the league? More? 😉

  22. Railwayman
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Salah barely standing. He couldn't outrun a defender even if he was on a Vespa.

  23. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Three GWs captaincy fails in a row Alli, Tammy and Salah ... massive backwards! Dear me! Back to Vardy normality next GW?

  24. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    What's the earliest a team has won the title?

  25. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    MASSIVE WIN

  26. FCSB
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Cue the Salah rage transfers out...

    *rubs hands*

  27. KGFC
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Lucky victory for Pool... but deserved PL champs (almost)

  28. Piggs Boson
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Gomez playing CB seems to equal CSs for Liverpool...

  29. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Ref tried his best for Wolves.