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Shaqiri starts in attacking Liverpool line-up to face Manchester United

17 January 2021 1646 comments
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Xherdan Shaqiri (£6.4m) has made a surprise return to the Liverpool line-up in their top of the table clash with Manchester United in Double Gameweek 19.

Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers using their Triple Captain chip on Mohamed Salah (£12.5m) will hope the Egyptian can return to his best form, after blanking in the last three games.

Jurgen Klopp has stuck with a 4-3-3 formation, playing Roberto Firmino (£9.3m) in his customary false nine role, flanked by Salah and Sadio Mane (£11.9m).

Their midfield has an attacking look, with Gini Wijnaldum (£5.3m) alongside Thiago (£5.7m) and Shaqiri.

Andy Robertson (£7.4m) and Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.3m) line up at full-back, with the makeshift centre-half pairing of Jordan Henderson (£5.4m) and Fabinho (£5.4m).

Alisson (£5.9m) will be hoping to keep only his fifth clean sheet of the season.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has again named a side containing Paul Pogba (£7.7m) and Bruno Fernandes (£11.3m), as he attempts to oust Liverpool from the top of the Premier League.

Anthony Martial (£8.8m) has returned from injury to lead the line for the Red Devils.

Marcus Rashford (£9.6m) lines up opposite Pogba on the right-hand side of the attack, with Fernandes in his customary number ten role.

Scott McTominay (£4.9m) and Fred (£5.3m) make up a battling midfield for Man United.

Aaron Wan-Bissaka (£5.4m) and Luke Shaw (£4.8m) start at full-back, with Victor Lindelof (£4.8m) returning to the side alongside Harry Maguire (£5.4m) in the centre of defence.

David De Gea (£5.3m) continues to be selected ahead of Dean Henderson (£5.2m) in goal.

Liverpool XI: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Henderson, Fabinho, Robertson; Wijnaldum, Thiago, Shaqiri; Salah, Mane, Firmino

De Gea; Wan-Bissaka, Maguire, Lindelof, Shaw; Fred, McTominay; Rashford, Fernandes, Pogba; Martial

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

    Trashy loads of space in behind.. looking dangerous

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    1. Flair
      • 5 Years
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      Hope he nets one

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    2. WVA
      • 9 Years
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      Looks anything but dangerous

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    3. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Offside by eight miles

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  2. WVA
    • 9 Years
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    Good god this is poor

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    1. FPL.team
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      I don't disagree but do you ever say anything positive?

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      1. Jersey Boy
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Glad someone else has noticed

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

        Can't think of anything positive to say about this game!?

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    2. Mr. O'Connell
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Dunno what people were expecting. These games are almost always dire.

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  3. ivantys
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    TAA will magically end up with 9 points even though i hardly see him do anything.

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    1. WVA
      • 9 Years
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      He's been horrific so far

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      1. ivantys
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Still on highest BPS out of all defenders currently.

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    2. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      He’s been asking to be dropped for weeks

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  4. Karhumies
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    First attempt on target in the game at 35 minutes.

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    1. Fred54
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      AND ITS LIVE!!!

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  5. Bushwhacker
    • 6 Years
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    Final ball for weeks now ...

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  6. BenDavies
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    I can't put into words how bad this United team is; the fact they are top of the table shows how weak the Premier League is. In years gone by this United team would be mid-table and rightly so.

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    1. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Officiating has a LOT to do with their position.

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    2. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      PL isn't weak. If that is the case every league in Europe is weak. What has happened (and will likely continue to happen) is that the best players are being concentrated at fewer clubs.

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      1. diesel001
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Ligue Un = monopoly (PSG)
        Serie A = monopoly (Juventus)
        Bundesliga = duopoly (Bayern and Dortmund)
        La Liga = Triopoly (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid)

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    3. Threat Level Midnight
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      So that means Spurs would be relegated? Just for context

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      1. BenDavies
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Spurs are also bad. My point is how bad the standard has become for PL big teams.

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    4. ivantys
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Premier league is by far the strongest league. Every team gives 120% every game, unlike other crap leagues where you could rest half the first team and still win games comfortably. Other leagues are more well prepared for European games as their league games are physically draining.

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      1. ivantys
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        *aren't physically draining

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  7. Berkshire Hafaway-Line
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Salah a bit more central now

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

      He's on the left

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      1. Berkshire Hafaway-Line
        • 5 Years
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        ...a bit

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  8. Salalalalah
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    ManU goal threat is on a counter-attack only in this game, Liv will score eventually

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    1. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      The only way United play.

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

      Unfortunately Rashford doesn't know the offside rule

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  9. Traction Engine Foot
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    What happened to all those exciting games

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    1. Euro Raiders
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      So different now isn't it. Goals at a premium.

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    2. Fred54
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Where did all the good games go? - Jack Johhson song, sort of.

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  10. Royal5
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Kdb cappers hoping for a Salah blank?

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    1. Lev Yashin
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      No because I also have Salah and I love points

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      1. Royal5
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Guess you love red arrows as well?

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        1. Egg noodle
          • 16 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          OR is an overrated irrelevant stat if all you care about is winning your mini leagues

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        2. Lev Yashin
          • 13 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Depends on the rest of your team.

          Not my fault if you picked all duds.

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    2. Londongeezaa
      • 7 Years
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      Of course

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    3. Flair
      • 5 Years
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      Definitely

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    4. DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Hoping for a KDB start for a start.

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      1. CheesyZoot
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Highly doubt he's benched

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    5. Bojam
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Obv depends if they own Salah or not

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      1. Royal5
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        True. Always a few in the ML that doesn't own him though.

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        1. Bojam
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          I don't and captained KDB. So yes. But if I had Salah then I'd be wanting points for sure.

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  11. The Senate
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    United wrongly flagged offside for the third time today

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  12. Londongeezaa
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    The amount of unforced errors is unreal.

    Really poor passing.

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  13. Sid1891
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Not watching

    No goals on this one the looking at comments?

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    1. Marvin.
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Dear Lord never read anything into the comments on here for Christ's sake.

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      1. Sid1891
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
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        Ok thanks

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  14. Threat Level Midnight
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Salah LOL

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  15. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Rahsford needs to learn how to stay onside

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  16. CheesyZoot
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    They need to sort this late flag crap out ASAP

    Waste of time

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  17. ivantys
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Is Rashford aiming for a record number of offsides this game?

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  18. Bushwhacker
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Do United need nursey to look after them? Go down quicker than a ..

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  19. DA Minnion (Former great)
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Someone should teach Rashford the offside rule.

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    1. CheesyZoot
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      He's too busy haggling for cheese slices and an extra tin of beans

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      1. Threat Level Midnight
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Yikes

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  20. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Has there been one decent game this week except wolves v wba

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    1. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      That had goals. To call it decent would be generous

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  21. Bushwhacker
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    This playing for minutes after offside is getting really annoying

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  22. Bobby Digital
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Rashford can't stay onside

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  23. It's Fergie Time
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    I'm never going to (c) Salah again. What has happened to him?

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    1. Bobby Digital
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Regression to mean

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    2. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Bus. No space. TAA playing dreadful and not supporting

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    3. FPLtfs
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Theee season Wonder.

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    4. Flair
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      His open play threat has actually dipped this season, the pens were covering it up. Couldn't captain him after seeing the three blanks beforehand.

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      1. Threat Level Midnight
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        It’s always been that way. He’s always been wasteful.

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        1. Flair
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          How's it going mate?

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  24. Sandy Ravage
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    KDB to allow Gundog to take pens today?

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    1. SpaceCadet
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      No, stones

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    2. TKC07
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      KDB is still tired?

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    3. FPLtfs
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Hope so!

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    4. CheesyZoot
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Ederson

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  25. Steve McCroskey
    • 12 Years
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    Both teams absolutely petrified of losing

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    1. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      One team is trying to win

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  26. TRIPOS TOPPER
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    I am wondering whether Firmino as a footballer should learn to strike the ball with his foot? Brainwave?

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  27. WVA
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Thiago must be the slowest player in the league?

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    1. TKC07
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Maguire plays a different league?

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    2. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Don’t need pace when you have brains

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  28. Calculated Risks
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    That Zambian witch doctors curse on Salah seems to be coming true

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    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      For how many games?

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    2. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Said 5 games. This is the 4th PL game. 5th is next at Burnley.

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      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Nice work
        ...

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

        Surely he doesn't blank vs Burnley... though I said that vs West Brom and Newcastle

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    3. Party time
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Zambian witch doctor about ti cash out yet again 😆

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        1. Bojam
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Who is said Zambian witch doctor? What's the story?

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          1. Calculated Risks
            • 10 Years
            5 years, 4 months ago

            Said Salah will blank upto and including Burnley...has so far been true

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          2. Party time
              5 years, 4 months ago

              A lad here who is also a Zambian told the Witch Doctor to make Salah blank for 5 games. This is the 4th

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              1. Bojam
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 4 months ago

                Juju. No one told Klopp about this?

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            • diesel001
              • 9 Years
              5 years, 4 months ago

              https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2020/12/27/new-dad-coufal-starts-alongside-soucek-and-cresswell-as-lamptey-misses-out-for-brighton/?hc_page=14&hc_sort_by=comment_date#hc_comment_23058865

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              1. Party time
                  5 years, 4 months ago

                  😆

                  “21 days ago”

                  The spell is real!!!

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        2. The Senate
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          AWB can't cross. Apparently Pogba can't either

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          1. Bushwhacker
            • 6 Years
            5 years, 4 months ago

            Unused to doing it

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        3. Scots Gooner
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Does this game look a lower frame rate on Sky for anyone else? Like watching a stream

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          1. Steve The Spud
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 6 Years
            5 years, 4 months ago

            Nope McGuire is actually that slow

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          2. g40steve
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 4 months ago

            UHD Q crisp

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