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19 May 2025 242 comments
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Gameweek 37 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) continues at the American Express Stadium, where the team news has just arrived for both Brighton and Hove Albion and Liverpool.

The headline is that the newly-crowned champions – back from a few days of celebrating in Dubai – have moved captain Virgil van Dijk (£6.7m) and Luis Diaz (£7.5m) to the bench as part of four lineup changes.

Andrew Robertson (£5.8m) also makes way, while Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.2m) remains on their bench. Fellow defender Joe Gomez (£4.7m) is hoping for some minutes after a long-term hamstring injury.

Meanwhile, Mohamed Salah (£13.6m) remains in the starting XI, as does Cody Gakpo (£7.2m). Both scored in November’s reverse meeting at Anfield.

As for their hosts, Brighton remove Tariq Lamptey (£4.4m) and Matt O’Riley (£5.5m) for Simon Adingra (£5.1m) and Brajan Gruda (£5.4m). The latter scored his first goal for the club in last week’s 2-0 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers, having also impressed when assisting twice in Gameweek 34’s brief appearance versus West Ham United.

Lewis Dunk (£4.2m) and Joel Veltman (£4.3m) missed out on a clean sheet because of small knocks but make tonight’s bench. Alongside them is Kaoru Mitoma (£6.3m), scorer in two of his three cameos since last starting in Gameweek 31.

Danny Welbeck (£5.5m) and Bart Verbruggen (£4.6m) are playing, but Joao Pedro (£5.5m) isn’t here for personal reasons, despite his three-match ban being over.


GAMEWEEK 37 LINE-UPS

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Verbruggen; Wieffer, van Hecke, Webster, Estupinan; Baleba, Ayari; Minteh, Gruda, Adingra; Welbeck

Subs: Rushworth, Igor Julio, Dunk, Veltman, Gomez, Mitoma, Hinshelwood, O’Riley, Howell

Liverpool XI: Alisson; Bradley, Quansah, Konate, Tsimikas; Elliott, Gravenberch, Szoboszlai; Salah, Chiesa, Gakpo

Subs: Kelleher, van Dijk, Gomez, Endo, Alexander-Arnold, Robertson, Jones, Diaz, Darwin

FPL team previews – Liverpool: Best players, predicted XI + more

FPL Marc Broadcaster, writer and overthinker. Hoping that ‘differential potential’ will catch on.

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  1. brianutd-why always we? 20
    • 14 Years
    10 months, 6 days ago

    Brighton anyone?

    1. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      10 months, 6 days ago

      Hope they win

  2. Stranger Mings
    • 5 Years
    10 months, 6 days ago

    Hope I don't regret playing burn over bradley

    1. Utopsis
      • 6 Years
      10 months, 6 days ago

      Hmm

      1. Stranger Mings
        • 5 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Ffs I hate this game

        1. Utopsis
          • 6 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          Not that it'll make you feel any better, but I benched him too

  3. The Night Trunker.
    • 2 Years
    10 months, 6 days ago

    So the players that got the most pissed up celebrating are benched.

    1. brianutd-why always we? 20
      • 14 Years
      10 months, 6 days ago

      I was thinking that too lol

  4. Punned It
      10 months, 6 days ago

      If Diaz and VVD come on for a one pointer each, and Konaté does something mildly good, I'm actually not doing too shabby in my ML this week.

      1. Mr. O'Connell
        • 13 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Hoping VVD stays put to get a semi decent Neco haul off the bench, but can see Quansah getting hooked at half time after his hattrick of own goals.

        1. Punned It
            10 months, 6 days ago

            Ha! Sorry to jinx your jam.

      2. g40steve
        • 8 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Bench 2 ?

        Currently think play Cucu, Burn ???

        Cucu/Burn/Gvardiol/Milenkovic/RAN

      3. Revival
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Most Bradley or Konate owners have benched them

        1. Stranger Mings
          • 5 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          Played timber with burn ahead of Bradley on bench - jammy point incoming

      4. g40steve
        • 8 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Elliott G

        1. g40steve
          • 8 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          Bradley A

      5. F4L
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        elliot g
        bradley a

      6. F4L
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        if gruda was a little cuter could be 1-0 the other way lol

      7. Warby84
        • 10 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Brilliant goal…

      8. Revival
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Salah assisting the assister

      9. DeSelby
        • 3 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Gruda had to be booked for diving there. Of course he wasn't. Garbage.

      10. Effe
        • 15 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        G Elliot

      11. FPL Scoop
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Salah’s really going to miss the all-time G+A record after being one away for weeks, isn’t he

        1. JBG
          • 7 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          Let's hope so, just wish I went for a different player than him GWs ago, cause haven't captained him in a long while. But had other "fires" to put out every GW.

          1. FourLokoLeipzig
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            10 months, 6 days ago

            Thing is, even it you could have felt confident he’d continue blanking, who’d you’d have gone for instead other than the mids everyone has? Premiums have been crap and nobody was swapping Salah for Schade!

        2. The-Red-1
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          Yep. Considering benching next week

      12. F4L
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        minteh getting acres of space

      13. have you seen cyan
        • 6 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        I can see Estupinan scoring in this game and / or 38, he might be a nice differential.

      14. have you seen cyan
        • 6 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Chiesa looks like the guy from inbetweeners

        1. RICICLE
          • 3 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          Which one? Haha!!

          1. Revival
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            10 months, 6 days ago

            Is it the one played by Joe Thomas....Simon

            1. have you seen cyan
              • 6 Years
              10 months, 6 days ago

              Yea, forgot his name.

            2. Cilly Bonnolly
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 14 Years
              10 months, 6 days ago

              So…he looks like Joe Thomas then.

              1. Revival
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 13 Years
                10 months, 6 days ago

                plays like him too 😀

              2. have you seen cyan
                • 6 Years
                10 months, 6 days ago

                Thanks for the pointless comment silly bonnolly. You sound like the kind of person who finds it fun to scroll through comments looking for typo's to correct.

                I said I didn't know his name, and its very obvious who I meant.

      15. Freshy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Thats what I want to see
        The likes of Elliott and Bradley hogging up all the points

      16. AzzaroMax99
        • 9 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Chances that KDB skips game tomorrow? Wissa 1st on the bench xD

        1. No Kane No Gain
          • 7 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          It’s a question of how many minutes for kdb tomorrow, no chance of him skipping it

        2. ryacoo
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          It's his big send off at the Etihad

        3. RICICLE
          • 3 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          He’s definitely playing

        4. Snoopydog
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 1 Year
          10 months, 6 days ago

          Think he'll start

        5. Utopsis
          • 6 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          Wissa on bench?!

      17. Atimis
        • 9 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Rival has Bradley lol

      18. No Kane No Gain
        • 7 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Anyone else just keeps captaining salah like me and getting no joy?! Why do I do this to myself. Killed my rank

        1. Revival
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          Congrats to anyone who removed him on GW30 wildcard

          1. It's Fergie Time
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 10 Years
            10 months, 6 days ago

            I took him out for haaland in gw 36

            1. Revival
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 13 Years
              10 months, 6 days ago

              Decent fixture tomorrow but I would imagine it will be KDB taking any penalties in his final home game

      19. F4L
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        ayari g
        gruda a

      20. F4L
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        jeez how open are liverpool today

        1. Mr. O'Connell
          • 13 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          Van Dijk on at half time

        2. Nightcrawler
          • 6 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          Van dijk is a generational defender. The one season he was injured pool didn't even finish too 4

          1. Nightcrawler
            • 6 Years
            10 months, 6 days ago

            Actually they did but huge drop off from league winning season

      21. brianutd-why always we? 20
        • 14 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Love a blue goal

        1. Effe
          • 15 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          🙂

      22. Nightcrawler
        • 6 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Cunha is a great player let's see if he can settle in. Amad on the other wing is a top top player, probably the most exciting united player to watch since Rooney imo

        United will struggle to fit a top striker between them though. Hardly any realistic options

        1. Revival
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          If Amad is priced cheaper than Cunha in FPL he will be the one to get. Cunha is a disciplinary nightmare waiting to happen.

          1. Nightcrawler
            • 6 Years
            10 months, 6 days ago

            Yeah amad is great. Had him for his hat trick this season with better players around him he could be FPL gold

        2. F4L
          • 11 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          fpl wise i hope cunha is reclassified as a mid next year (8.5-9mil) if hes being brought in to play in the 10s.

          agree with the striker, delap could do a job but hasnt the got the experience. wonder if they could go abroad and sign someone like guirassy or that level of quality

        3. mixology
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          He’ll take some creativity off of Bruno imo. Bruno won’t be the only one creating chances. If they click, great, otherwise Bruno won’t have a monopoly on the baps. But they’re also both yellow cards waiting to happen

      23. F4L
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        wow

        szobo g
        elliot a

        1. Effe
          • 15 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          Wow Salah still not involved

          1. Utopsis
            • 6 Years
            10 months, 6 days ago

            Post contract form - gets us every time

            1. Effe
              • 15 Years
              10 months, 6 days ago

              100%

      24. F4L
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        points for everyone today....

      25. Wolfman180
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Wow, nice goal 😮

      26. brianutd-why always we? 20
        • 14 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Salah been on the vodka

        1. Old Man
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          dealcoholised of course.

      27. WVA
        • 9 Years
        10 months, 6 days ago

        Salahs drop off in form these past few months might be one of the worst ever considering where he was at?

        1. FourLokoLeipzig
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          10 months, 6 days ago

          Still contributing plenty, just not been taking his chances lately