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Kostas Tsimikas (£4.0m) is handed a first-ever Premier League start as Norwich City v Liverpool brings a busy Saturday of top-flight football to a close.

Kick-off at Carrow Road is at 17:30 BST.

An ankle injury picked up by Andrew Robertson (£7.0m) in pre-season has opened up a spot at left-back for Tsimikas, with the budget Fantasy Premier League (FPL) defender’s ownership soaring to over 23% as a result.

There are no real shocks in the Liverpool line-up, with Diogo Jota (£7.5m) getting the nod over Roberto Firmino (£9.0m) to lead the visitors’ attack.

Mohamed Salah (£12.5m), FPL’s most-owned midfielder, and Sadio Mane (£12.0m) flank Jota up top.

Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.5m) is part of a back four that includes Virgil van Dijk (£6.5m), who makes his first Liverpool appearance since suffering a knee ligament injury last October.

Jordan Henderson (£5.0m) and Thiago Alcantara (£5.5m) are both absent after late returns to pre-season training.

Budget FPL defender Andrew Omobamidele (£4.0m), who played every single minute of Norwich’s pre-season friendlies, misses out with tonsillitis tonight.

Daniel Farke has opted for a back four after a late dalliance with a wing-back system in pre-season.

Chelsea loanee and bargain-bin FPL midfielder Billy Gilmour (£4.5m) is handed his competitive Norwich debut.

LINE-UPS

Norwich City XI: Krul, Aarons, Gibson, Hanley, Giannoulis, Rupp, Gilmour, Cantwell, Lees-Melou, Rashica, Pukki,

Subs: Gunn, Zimmermann, Dowell, Tzolis, Sorensen, McLean, Sargent, Mumba, Idah

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, van Dijk, Tsimikas, Keita, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Salah, Jota, Mane

Subs: Kelleher, Fabinho, Konate, Firmino, Gomez, Minamino, Origi, Woodburn, Elliot

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  1. ☈☾
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Tsimikas > Jota so far is CS stays

    1. ☈☾
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      if*

    2. Arvin-ation
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      How so? Doesn't Jota have more points?

      I own both anyway but still curious 😆

  2. lilmessipran
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Does that Jota sub count as 59 mins or 60?

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

      59

      1. lilmessipran
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Fpl has him at 60

    2. fatherted
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      He was slow so I'd imagine 60

    3. Zladan
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Not sure. Although he walked off past 60, the substitution occurred at about 59:30. I don’t believe the minute is rounded up.

  3. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Jota owners scratching around for every point

  4. 3 A
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    So Jota luckily play for 60.10 min. Get 2 app points plus CS 1 point .

    Goal 1. 5..

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

    Jota physically left the pitch at 60:07xbut play stopped & sub board raised before.

    1. Andy_Social
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Well we'll find out how FPL interprets it any minute now.

  6. Simon69
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks for the goal, Jota but you're about to become Grealish / Gundo

  7. Salah’s Sonnet
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Lucky Jota owners there with 60

  8. Bielsa's Bucket
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    The board went up and game stopped at 59 sadly lol

    1. Yozzer
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      It's when they cross the line

    2. Bobby Digital
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      That's what I thought

    3. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      It says 60 minutes on FPL

    4. Bielsa's Bucket
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Yea, looks like FPL awarded it. But officially play is stopped moment ref calls halt for sub to take place. Anything else is added time.

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

    Will jota will take cs and second half point?

    1. Zimo
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Doesn't look like it

      1. Ajax Hamsterdam
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Yes he will 🙂

    2. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      yes

  10. Bobby Digital
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Do they count the slow walk or when the whistle is blown?

  11. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Tsimikas SOT

  12. Arvin-ation
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Tsimikas SoT

  13. Baines on Toast...
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Love Jota as a player but that's him done for me for the season. Waste of a spot.

    1. DIMITRIS
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Are you kidding or are you real? BC if you're real that that's as premature thinking as premature thinking gets. One game, I say ONE game, bloke scores, comes of in the 60'th minute and all of a sudden he's a bad pick? You've gotta be kidding.

  14. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Imagine...

  15. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 16 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    3 - Matip, van Dijk (24)
    1 - Alexander-Arnold, Alisson (22)

    1. Arvin-ation
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      rats Jota on 21

    2. BeDreamin
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      With Jota captain I actually need liverpool to concede despite the the fact I have a defender. Although I lose my clean sheet point. But then everyone has TAA except me. Come on Norwich

  16. @persecuted_by_mods
      4 years, 8 months ago

      He's already got the 60 min points on fpl

    • Baines on Toast...
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Jota has 8 points currently.

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

        Oh must have updated, I clicked player and it said 6.

    • JBG
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Oh pis* off Krul.

    • Zalk
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Jota has 58 minutes played in fpl so I think that settles that discussion.

      1. Zalk
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        My bad, now it's 60 minutes and clean included. Lucky...

      2. Old Man
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Oh no he hasn't

      3. BeaversWithAttitude
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Updated to 60

    • ☈☾
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Tsimikas SOT!!!

    • Duke Silver ☑
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Jammy Jota owners there.

      1. Salah’s Sonnet
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Indeed, can’t write it

      2. Baines on Toast...
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        I'd consider us very unlucky that he's been taken off after scoring their only goal for a player who can't hit a barn door in a competitive match.

      3. Andy_Social
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Or was it timed to perfection? Does Klopp have him in his FPL team?

    • OPTA FPL
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Jota 0bonus wtf

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        hows Jota got no baps :l

    • Salah’s Sonnet
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      FPL towers doing their thing again

    • dabber7
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Jota has been given 8 pts

      1. Salah’s Sonnet
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        FPL towers

    • Steve The Spud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Taa been disappointing on the whole really

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

        Just the 9npoints today then

    • ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 15 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      It’s not when you walk off the pitch

      It’s when the sub is made

      1. lilmessipran
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Fpl has given it as 60 though

        1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
          • 15 Years
          4 years, 8 months ago

          That’s incorrect based on previous subs then

          Inconsistency

      2. Baines on Toast...
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Says who?

      3. Salah’s Sonnet
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Try telling FPL that, they seem to think the opposite

      4. Zimo
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        That's what I thought but he has the points

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

        When is it made though? When the game is stopped or when the new player is on the pitch?

        1. have you seen cyan
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 8 months ago

          when he leaves the pitch, passes the white line

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

        Is it? I thought it was when you leave the pitch. Non-Jota owner btw.

        1. @persecuted_by_mods
            4 years, 8 months ago

            Always has been, that's why we always want people to walk off slow when it's close

        2. KING KOUNDER
          • 15 Years
          4 years, 8 months ago

          Jota was on the pitch till 60 mins..

      7. Zimo
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Lol lucky Jota owners

        1. Ajax Hamsterdam
          • 11 Years
          4 years, 8 months ago

          Picking the Liverpool centre forward for 7.5 is anything but luck imo

      8. Piggs Boson
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        So Veltman came into "close contact" and had to self-isolate for 10 days.
        https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/19514339.graham-potter-explains-reasons-behind-joel-veltman-aaron-connollys-absence/

        This means he misses the next game too, right?

      9. OverTinker
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        WTF Klopp can’t you wait for a minute !!!!

      10. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
        • 15 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Firmino essential