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Liverpool are without the services of Sadio Mane (£11.9m) for their match against West Ham United this afternoon, which kicks off at 16:30 GMT.

The Senegalese winger, who was transferred in by over 130,000 Fantasy Premier League managers following his 15-point haul in Gameweek 20, misses out with what Liverpool say is a “minor muscle injury”.

The Reds add that the problem is “expected to be only a short-term issue”.

His manager added ahead of kick-off:

In fact, only one of the Reds’ regular front three makes Jurgen Klopp’s starting XI today.

Mohamed Salah (£12.5m) is joined in the reigning champions’ attacking trident by Divock Origi (£5.2m) and Xherdan Shaqiri (£6.4m), with Roberto Firmino (£9.4m) only among the substitutes.

Along with the two changes to his front three, Klopp has replaced the injured Joel Matip (£5.4m) with Nat Phillips (£4.0m) at centre-half.

The Hammers are unchanged from the side that won 3-2 at Crystal Palace and David Moyes has even named the same nine substitutes from that victory.


West Ham United XI: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Rice, Soucek, Fornals, Bowen, Benrahma, Antonio.

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Phillips, Henderson, Robertson, Wijnaldum, Milner, Thiago, Shaqiri, Salah, Origi.

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  1. Tsparkes10
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    78 points this week with Son C left :)... ahhh wait I used my bb when Leeds played Brighton oops.

  2. Bury94
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    75 all out, pretty happy with that considering I've only got 10 men. How's everyone getting on?

    1. Pat Bonner
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Well played. On 56 with son left but transfers cost me around 30pts!

    2. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      You got massive jam well done. You don’t actually care so why ask?

      1. El Presidente
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        It's infuriating tbh

    3. TheDragon
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      70 all out - waiting for Son to ruin the week

    4. GENERATION X
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      68 but my hit was Bamford to DCL which hurts

    5. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      71 Son to go

    6. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      68 with Son to play & took our Wilson for DCL (-4), can’t complain

    7. Party time
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Well done.

        71 after baps & autosub + Son left

        1. Party time
            5 years, 1 month ago

            74*

        2. Lazaretti
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          65 with c fail(Gundo)and no Salah

        3. toerag
          • 15 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          About 80 once subs and vc come in. Plwased

        4. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
          • 16 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          77 - 4

          Dier to go.

        5. HuthTheMagicDragon
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          81 with Son left

      • UnitednationsXI
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Any reason not to do Burke >> Grealish tonight?

        Hate early transfers but only way I can afford rashford > son in 23

        Martinez
        Cancelo Stones Digne -- Dallas Coufal
        Bruno Salah Gundog Rashford -- Burke
        Dcl Antonio Bamford

      • DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Salah captain next week or a punt on Cancelo? He will play for sure.

        1. Pat Bonner
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Salah

        2. toerag
          • 15 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          I got best of both this week. Cancelo cap and salah vc

          1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Smooth. Hahaha.

      • C_G
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        my DEF this week:

        Forster Mendy KWP Mitchell Stones Holding Cancelo.

        my (c) was Gundo

        on 56 points with Son to go. cant complain.

      • El Presidente
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Aurier getting the Mourinho/Lloris treatment I see...

      • FPL Daniel
        • 16 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        So everyone will captain Salah next GW for his blank

        1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          I am considering transferring in Cancelo and captaining

        2. Magic Zico
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Yeah me

          1. FPL Daniel
            • 16 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Sterling should haul too. Grealish is decent bet too

        3. JELLYFISH
          • 13 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Yep, which makes VC choice v important

      • Vlekz
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Defence.
          Stones cancelo dier Ferguson all out.
          (Only Cresswell playing)

          1. Hey_Arnold
            • 13 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Has Ferguson played all season? The others unlucky.

        • Pep Roulette
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          First on bench

          A. Burke vs WBA
          B. Targett vs WHU

          1. Tsparkes10
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Burkeyyyy

            1. Pep Roulette
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Should I start him over Gundogan?

              1. John Nerdelbaum
                • 13 Years
                5 years, 1 month ago

                Is that a joke?

        • HollywoodXI
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Was 8 points ahead of ML rival going into Pool game. He had Salah captain. Now 22 points behind. I have Son left (him nobody left). Need a Son hat trick!

        • Firminooooo
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Only a Son OG and red card and leaving the field crying can make me smile again.

          1. OverTinker
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            😀

          2. Pep Roulette
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            This

            1. Pep Roulette
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Btw thanks for the assist off the bench. Need a hat-trick next week.

          3. GENERATION X
            • 12 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            He got a red when i capped him once so he has previous

          4. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
            • 16 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Son RC overdue.

          5. LSK
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            No penalty miss?

          6. Mo Mané No Problems
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Cheers Son's crying now

        • Nightcrawler
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          How many MORAL points are we all on?

          MORAL Score = no Jammy autosub and VC shenanigans

          65 here

          1. Nightcrawler
            • 6 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Thats a moral victory then

          2. Cilly Bonnolly
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            No such thing. Score is your score.

          3. OverTinker
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Same absolutely zero Jam but 74 points so no issue

          4. Magic Zico
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            No need to ask, either you have Salah Bamford Martinez on your starting XI and captaining one of those

            1. Nightcrawler
              • 6 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              No martinez stuck with mccarthy

          5. Vlekz
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Non moral points? Most had the best players not playing against the worst in the league. (City vs Sheffield).

            • Bushwhacker
              • 6 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              This week is majority jam ; points from completely unexpected places

          6. Cilly Bonnolly
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Mad to be considering benching Son against Chelsea next gameweek? Had a nightmare benching fifteen pointers two weeks in a row now. If not Son, who’d you bench out of Gundogan (bur), Soucek (avl), Bamford (EVE), Calvert-Lewin (lee) or Antonio (avl)?

            1. FPL Daniel
              • 16 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Gundo or Soucek

            2. Gerd Mueller’s thighs
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 12 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              I thought I had the same problem and decided to bench boost this week.....didn’t work out to say the least....

            3. rupopo
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 11 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Son should def play ahead of Soucek. I might just be saying that as I sold Soucek for Son this week 🙂

              1. Cilly Bonnolly
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 14 Years
                5 years, 1 month ago

                And I might only be asking because I benched Soucek last week. 😆

            4. John Nerdelbaum
              • 13 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Soucek

          7. OverTinker
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Best Chilwell replacement
            I have Cancelo, Stones, AWB and Coufal.

            1. Cilly Bonnolly
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 14 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Any rush to replace him? Tuchel hinted at Alonso playing today because of Burnley’s aerial threat so no reason to think Chilwell is permanently dropped, plus you could feasibly bench him next gameweek anyway?

            2. TheBiffas
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Probably just Mitchell or strujik

          8. nerd_is_the_werd
            • 6 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Which one is better:

            1) Sterling + TAA --> Salah + Dias + 1.8 ITB
            2) Pogba + Firmino ---> Salah + 6.1 FWD

            Both would cost -4 hit, 6.1 FWD is probably Adams as I'm priced out of Watkins (6.2)

          9. Tsparkes10
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Son C vs 6 points in my cup... what happens if we draw?

            1. Nightcrawler
              • 6 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Whoever has more goals wins

          10. JELLYFISH
            • 13 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Dawson or Dallas?

            1. HuthTheMagicDragon
              • 10 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Not even a question, diamond dallas

          11. Rains of Castamere
            • 11 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            41pts with Son left, nasty red from 1.6k to 5k, Bamford killed me today! And playing Areola (1) over Martinez (10) was a sore one.

            1. Bushwhacker
              • 6 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Sigh

            2. Warby84
              • 10 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              With no hits my original team with the same Captain would have scored 74 instead 52 (-12) ouch.. Bamford/ Wilson out for Richarlison/C-L..

          12. FPL Daniel
            • 16 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Anyone with Son captain? He was my bus team captain

            1. OverTinker
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              bus team?

              1. fedolefan
                • 11 Years
                5 years, 1 month ago

                He plays with multiple teams despite it being against the rules.

                1. FPL Daniel
                  • 16 Years
                  5 years, 1 month ago

                  I do not and never had. Bus team is the team you set up right after the game updates.

                  So if you got hit by a bus or something your team is set up

                  1. fedolefan
                    • 11 Years
                    5 years, 1 month ago

                    You expect to get hit by a bus every week? What sort of morose living is that?

                    1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
                      • 12 Years
                      5 years, 1 month ago

                      He didn’t come up with the term. What’s with all the negativity?

                      1. fedolefan
                        • 11 Years
                        5 years, 1 month ago

                        I even know the pod that silly term comes from. Am I not allowed to troll?

                  2. GENERATION X
                    • 12 Years
                    5 years, 1 month ago

                    Or if you throw yourself under a bus

                    1. 7shadesofsmoke
                      • 13 Years
                      5 years, 1 month ago

                      😀 dark

                    2. fedolefan
                      • 11 Years
                      5 years, 1 month ago

                      Haha

                  3. Hazz
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 8 Years
                    5 years, 1 month ago

                    I mean, he's not actually your captain so a silly thing to call out.

                  4. 7shadesofsmoke
                    • 13 Years
                    5 years, 1 month ago

                    good job you have your remaining chips in your username. Is that in case you get hit by bat?

                  5. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
                    • 16 Years
                    5 years, 1 month ago

                    Ok, so dead teams are managers hit by buses and then the team is left on the bus setup from that week?

                    1. fedolefan
                      • 11 Years
                      5 years, 1 month ago

                      Yep, bus drivers been running over FPL managers immersed in their phones fixing benching dilemmas for years now.

              2. michaelington
                • 16 Years
                5 years, 1 month ago

                Setting your team a week in advance in case you get hit by a bus, hence bus team.

          13. JJO
            • 13 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Where t f is Dier?
            Oh cmon Stones,Mitchell and now Dier too

            1. Uncle Gamst
              • 14 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Stones, Mitchell, Cancelo & Dier

              Coufal coming on for 1 point

          14. Angin out the Begović
            • 13 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Alonso time ?

            1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
              • 12 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Hopefully. I will monitor for one more week and then potentially do Robbo to him.

              1. Angin out the Begović
                • 13 Years
                5 years, 1 month ago

                Agreed was gunna put TAA in for Brighton and then do him to Alonso.

                1. Flynny
                  • 10 Years
                  5 years, 1 month ago

                  I'm keeping chilwell midweek
                  I think

                  If alonso starts then, I'll bring him in for the weekend probably

          15. Jindaljain
            • 11 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Cummon Son get those Salah points

          16. Oggle22
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Chances of a son master class? ML manager of the month was tied but my rival captained salah

          17. KAALI_DAAL
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Bam Bam is flagged.

            Is it bad news?

            1. Rains of Castamere
              • 11 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Just a dead leg, he said he was fine in post-match interview.

            2. Old Man
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 14 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              No - dead leg.

            3. GENERATION X
              • 12 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Knew i got rid of him for a reason

            4. Magic Zico
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Dead leg only, likely to be ok for next

          18. PhoggyRatherGroggy
            • 11 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Can anybody beat this? (C) Sterling, Kane, Cancelo, Stones, Dier, Mitchell?!

            1. Angin out the Begović
              • 13 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Cresswell or Chelsea

            2. Reedy
              • 15 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              I can match it: Mane, Kane, (C)ancelo, Stones, Dier, Mitchell.

              1. PhoggyRatherGroggy
                • 11 Years
                5 years, 1 month ago

                Mane edges it over Sterling for me...you Sir have won the pain game! How did you end up for the week? I lucked out with VC Salah, Bam Bam, Wilson and Martinez saving the wee, no bench jam though...

                1. Reedy
                  • 15 Years
                  5 years, 1 month ago

                  Grealish vc - still lucky but not quite as nice. I brought in Mane instead of Salah, so hello red arrow!

          19. It’s gonna Ben Mee
            • 12 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Why is Dier benched??? I want to get rid of him so badly it hurts.

            1. PhoggyRatherGroggy
              • 11 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Looks like a rest but we may get some post game news. I was looking to transfer him out, would of loved a random header or FK departing gift...not meant to be I suppose

          20. Flynny
            • 10 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Hi....what to do here with chilwell please? Don't see an obvious replacement.....thanks

            A.....lose for robbo  / trent

            B....save ft....play dallas... have a think

            C...something else

            Martinez
            Cancelo dias dallas (chilwell coufal)
            Salah Bruno gundog grealish (soucek)
            Antonio dcl watkins

            1. The Knights Template
              • 12 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              B

              1. Flynny
                • 10 Years
                5 years, 1 month ago

                Think that's the sensible move probably...thanks

          21. Eleven Hag
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Crazy to play Brewster vs WBA?

            1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
              • 12 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              No

            2. Duke Silver ☑
              • 11 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Doubt he starts tbh.

            3. Capocannonieri
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Brewdog brace would be all yours, all yours

          22. Chalobah's Witness
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            my rival has VC Son but I am not afraid. The Witch Doctor has destroyed Son and today it's 3 out of 5 bad games.

          23. FPL Daniel
            • 16 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Thoughts on Stones to TAA for a FT?

            WC in GW 25 most likely

            1. 7shadesofsmoke
              • 13 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              nah, Stones deserves another week in your team