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Mane-less Liverpool face West Ham in final Double Gameweek 24 fixture

Double Gameweek 24 finally comes to a conclusion this evening as West Ham United and Liverpool meet at the London Stadium.

Kick-off in the capital is at 19:45 GMT.

There were over 625,000 Triple Captain chips deployed in Gameweek 24, 43.2% of which were used on Sadio Mane (£12.3m).

The Senegal international lasted all of 32 minutes against Wolverhampton Wanderers last Thursday and he is, as expected, missing from the Liverpool squad this evening, with some doubt over his involvement against Southampton in Gameweek 25.

Mohamed Salah (£12.5m) starts for Jurgen Klopp’s side tonight, however, with the Egyptian the second-most-popular option for the Gameweek 24 captaincy among the Fantasy Premier League community.

Just over a third of those who used their Triple Captain chip in this round of fixtures entrusted Salah with the responsibility.

With Mane absent, Salah and Roberto Firmino (£9.6m) are joined in a front three by Divock Origi (£5.2m) for this evening’s encounter in east London.

The Reds are otherwise unchanged from last Thursday’s win at Molineux.

Firmino, Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.6m) and Jordan Henderson (£5.4m) were the only Liverpool players not to blank in that late victory over Wolves.

West Ham assets were much less-fancied for Double Gameweek 24 and, bar Sebastien Haller (£7.0m) and Mark Noble (£5.0m), there was little joy to be had for those backing the Hammers’ players in their 4-1 defeat to Leicester City last week.

David Moyes has made two changes to his team from that punishing loss at the King Power Stadium, with teenager Jeremy Ngakia (£4.0m) making his Premier League debut at the expense of Pablo Zabaleta (£4.2m).

Lukasz Fabianski (£4.9m), who had returned to training in the last couple of days, is fit to enough to feature, with Darren Randolph (£4.5m) dropping to the bench.

Robert Snodgrass (£5.2m) was a doubt for this match with a knee injury but has recovered in time to start.

Michail Antonio (£6.9m), who made a big impact against Leicester when thrown on at half-time, is not even among the substitutes.

Fantasy managers may also have one eye on events at the Etihad this evening, with the two Manchester clubs in action in the second leg of their EFL Cup semi-final.

City, 3-1 up from the first leg, are hot favourites to progress and an aggregate win for Pep Guardiola’s side would see their Gameweek 28 clash with Arsenal rearranged.

Sergio Aguero (£12.0m), Kevin De Bruyne (£10.6m), Raheem Sterling (£11.7m) and Anthony Martial (£7.9m) are among the well-owned FPL assets who start tonight, with the full team news below.


West Ham United XI: Fabianski, Cresswell, Diop, Ogbonna, Ngakia, Rice, Noble, Masuaku, Snodgrass, Lanzini, Haller.

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Origi, Salah, Firmino.

Manchester City XI: Bravo, Walker, Rodrigo, Otamendi, Cancelo, Gundogan, Mahrez, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Sterling, Aguero.

Manchester United XI: De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw, Williams, Fred, Matic, Lingard, Greenwood, Martial.

1,841 Comments Post a Comment
  1. OverTinker
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    how did TAA missed that?

  2. JammySprat
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    geez Salah is hurting as mane TC. Live fpl says drop from 28k to 57k from this game

  3. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Trent pissing away BPS.

    Virgil & Robbo catching.

    1. Chucky
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      great

  4. Champ
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Another Salah involvement and the servers will meltdown

  5. The 12th Man
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Come on United

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      West Ham?

      1. The 12th Man
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Lol

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

    Maguire calm as you like!

  7. The Train Driver
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Come on Klopp, get TAA out, he's tired..

    1. The Train Driver
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Good lad

  8. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Wijnaldum wastes Salah assist...

  9. Make United Great Again
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Salah TC.

    We want more.

    We want this to be devastating.

  10. Coys96
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Salah (c)...

    Happy with green arrow but disappointed that didn't triple. Oh well, hopefully I'll get a nice diff

    1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      there will be other doubles.......probably more lucrative too, goal and assist aint amazing over 2

      1. Jimmers
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Race for the Premiership will be over by then - Liverpool will wrap it up in late March and rotate players with CL from there on in

  11. Agger
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    101 points so far with 15 minutes to play 🙂

    1. Fudgy
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Same

    2. Coys96
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      That's great

    3. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Should be your room number 😉

  12. Jekori
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Pool really are over performing their CS these days.. TAA captainers celebrating that post-mishit like a goal haha?

    1. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      68 points from my 3 Liverpool players....Love DGW's

  13. osceola31909
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Is Brandon Williams nailed? Looking for a Kelly replacement.

    1. Tsssst
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Why, Palace fixtures improving

  14. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Come on salah, get one more goal to end my rivals season my son

    1. Chucky
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      lol

  15. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    If Liverpool players weren’t on the pitch, the hammers still wouldn’t score.

    They’re absolutely woeful.

  16. Coys96
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Matic sent off

  17. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Matic Red card

  18. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Brain dead Matic

  19. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Matić Red

  20. shirtless
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Matic red

  21. The Train Driver
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    YESSSS, TAA cs. Thabk you Klopp

  22. tucaoneo
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Trent off. Liverpool want to strengthen defence.

  23. Fudgy
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Trent off

  24. DAZZ
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    TAA subbed

  25. HonestBlatter
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    TAA clean sheet locked

  26. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    TAA 12 pointer

  27. Reiger
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    TAA off

  28. Niho992
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Arnold rested. Goal from WHU would be great.

  29. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    A Trent assist would just be the best birthday present

    1. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Oh....ok

  30. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Trent rested and CS banked, lucky triple cappers