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Gameweek 1 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) gets underway shortly, with champions Liverpool at home to Bournemouth.

Kick-off at Anfield is at 20:00 BST.

Most FPL interest will be in Liverpool.

Their starting XI is the same one that lined up against Crystal Palace in the Community Shield, with one exception – Alexis Mac Allister is deemed fit enough to start in central midfield, so Curtis Jones makes way.

Mohamed Salah, Florian Wirtz, Cody Gakpo and Hugo Ekitike make up the front four.

Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez are part of the backline, with no sign of Conor Bradley, who missed the end of pre-season with a muscle injury.

Ryan Gravenberch is suspended as a result of his red card on the final day of 2024/25.

Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola includes new signings Djordje Petrovic, Bafode Diakite and Adrien Truffert in his starting line-up.

£4.0m FPL defender James Hill is benched.

Justin Kluivert remains out, so David Brooks joins Antoine Semenyo on the flanks behind Evanilson.

LINE-UPS

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Frimpong, Konate, van Dijk, Kerkez, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Salah, Wirtz, Gakpo, Ekitike

Subs: Mamardashvili, Gomez, Endo, Chiesa, Jones, Elliott, Robertson, Nyoni, Ngumoha

Bournemouth XI: Petrovic, Smith, Diakite, Senesi, Truffert, Adams, Scott, Brooks, Tavernier, Semenyo, Evanilson

Subs: Dennis, Araujo, Soler, Kroupi, Hill, Traore, Billing, Winterburn, Rees-Dottin

  1. have you seen cyan
    • 6 Years
    10 months, 5 days ago

    FPL towers need to work their magic and bump Salah up to two baps, Gakpo can make way.

    1. DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 13 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      And give Kerkez 20 more seconds on the pitch.

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 6 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Oh wow, 59 mins lol. Slot sticking it to FPL owners.

      2. threeputt
        • 16 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        yeah that hurt, I Googled Andy Robertson earlier took one glance that he'd been transferred and decided that Kerkez was nailed on, gutted when I saw him running along the line

        1. threeputt
          • 16 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          great when Liverpool conceded though, it helped

  2. Moon Dog
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    10 months, 5 days ago

    I have no one playing tomorrow 🙁

    1. Bennerman
      • 7 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Early runner for post of the season

  3. Mighty Duck
    • 1 Year
    10 months, 5 days ago

    Salah gets 10 DP? Huh, now I understand. He's a defensive midfielder now.

    1. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Needs 12 to get 2pts

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

    What does the defensive contributions mean in points terms?

    1. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      2pts when DEF gets 10 or MID gets 12

  5. Ribus
    • 12 Years
    10 months, 5 days ago

    New fpl design is awful, isnt it?

    1. Thicksolidtight
      • 4 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Terrible

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

      yup. change for the sake of change. dislike that mindset tbh

    3. RICICLE
      • 3 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Atrocious, abysmal, horrendous.

    4. Skout
      • 6 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Really bad. Nobody cares about a team badge. Bring back the fixtures/scores to the top!

  6. sk24
    • 8 Years
    10 months, 5 days ago

    Pretty print

  7. Atimis
    • 9 Years
    10 months, 5 days ago

    On the scale 1-10, how bad decision was starting with Frimpong over Porro or Cucu?

    1. jacob1989
      • 4 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Had 10 more secs passed, u would have thought getting frimpong was genius move

      1. Atimis
        • 9 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Something in it

    2. T.Henry14
      • 12 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      we will see in the end of the gw.

    3. Dank Squid
      • 7 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Not a bad decision. Bad luck. Long season, though - good decisions will come good

    4. Ball Ake
      • 1 Year
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Rough one that, someone in my ML has both Frimpong and Kerkez

  8. ViperStripes
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    10 months, 5 days ago

    Ekitike and Gakpo 1st bandwagons of the season?

    1. Esh
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Semenyo and Etikike will be

    2. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Not sure. Ekitike got only 71 pts and next fixtures aren't that good. Semenyo braced.

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

      hope gakpo stays under radar. clearly a slot favourite being left out there now when others are subbed

      1. Kiwivillan
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        I went with him instead of Wirtz because price but his way returns last season were woeful. 1G 1A in more minutes than he played at home

    4. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Wirtz to Gakpo may be popular though.

  9. ididnt
    • 14 Years
    10 months, 5 days ago

    How costly is accidentally leaving no my BB on this Gw going to be in the long run? Dubravka, Rodon, Guiu, Toisin on my bench. Not a great start!

    1. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Maybe you outscore my BB with should be 4 playing on bench

    2. jacob1989
      • 4 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Why did u turn it on if u didn't want it?

      1. ididnt
        • 14 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Good question.

    3. Ser Davos
      • 10 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      this game is about nailing key picks. This year's Salah and Mbeumo etc. Do that and the chips are an afterthought

  10. TwinkleToes
    • 7 Years
    10 months, 5 days ago

    Bonus points a farce. Salah gave the ball away all game, should deduct points for that ..

    1. #1 Arne Engels Fan
      • 1 Year
      10 months, 5 days ago

      You must be new here...

      Gets gifted BPS regardless of how atrociously he plays. Exact same for 38 games last season.

      1. TwinkleToes
        • 7 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

    2. Davros
      • 16 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      They do

  11. Mr. O'Connell
    • 14 Years
    10 months, 5 days ago

    Think I might actually be bottom of FPL. Only way is up eh

    1. Dank Squid
      • 7 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      One game. 1/380. Chin up

  12. Ajax Hamsterdam
    • 11 Years
    10 months, 5 days ago

    Both my score apps have frimpong subbed after 60 mins...I assume they're wrong ?? Bit gutted ...:(

    1. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      59th minute substitutions

      1. Ajax Hamsterdam
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Nooooo.....

      2. Oi! Shadders!
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        60th minute, actually, ie before 60:00

    2. _Ninja_
      • 15 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Subbed in the 60th min..... which is 59 something...

    3. KunDogan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      60th minute sub is less than 60 minutes, thats why

  13. _Freddo
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    10 months, 5 days ago

    Bad night for the template, loads with Wirtz & VVD, very few had Ekitike,

    1. have you seen cyan
      • 6 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Shame liveFPL is having a mare so can’t even check.

      1. Baps Hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Official site not working properly either.

        1. have you seen cyan
          • 6 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          liveFPL is slowly fixing at least, I now see my team instead of some random guys. But the points are wrong. Ragabolly is a good guy, I'm sure he is working hard to fix it.

    2. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Vvd DCs PTS though ?

      1. Dthinger
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        brings his total to...3

        1. _Freddo
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          Yeah, I’m not sure I want to spend 6m to have 3 as the fall back, think these new rules suit the cheaper defenders more than anyone.

          Could be the year of the cheap defence and stacked attack.

    3. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      I hope decision to keep RAN and Wood instead of Neco and Ekitike pays off

  14. Letsgo!
    • 9 Years
    10 months, 5 days ago

    Those who capt salah are so damn lucky

    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Yeah right...been lucky for years then 😉

      1. #1 Arne Engels Fan
        • 1 Year
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Yes.

    2. DandyDon
      • 7 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Same as always!

    3. Bluetiger1
      • 3 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Agree

      & grateful

      GW1 is always a nightmare week
      & a non scoring captain is not the
      way to start

      Who did you go for Letsgo! as your GW1 captain?

      1. Letsgo!
        • 9 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Haaland

    4. NoOneCares
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Cry little baby. Salah is FPL King.

        1. Letsgo!
          • 9 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          He sux the whole game

      • Studs Up
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Ok

      • Prisoner FC
        • 14 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Yes sir!! Many more points to come. Haaland will produce for me as well. Who did you Captain?

        1. Letsgo!
          • 9 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          Haaland

    5. Bluetiger1
      • 3 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Anyone got Semenyo in their team?

      1. nonaynever
        • 10 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        i have kneejerked Wirtz to Semenyo....hangs head

      2. Ser Davos
        • 10 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        great option. Had Rogers been unavailable it would have been Gakpo or someone cheaper for cash in my instance

        Definitely one for the watchlist. Think he'll be Bmouth's talisman

        1. nonaynever
          • 10 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          ...and my 30.5 back 7 may need that 1.5 in coming weeks, lol

          1. nonaynever
            • 10 Years
            10 months, 5 days ago

            sorry 31.0...can't count

      3. KunDogan
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Yes. My rival.

      4. Mother Farke
        • 2 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Yup. Must be honest, this GW anything was a bonus!

    6. allhailzlatan
      • 7 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      are you kidding me with the timing of that frimpong substitution

      1. #1 Arne Engels Fan
        • 1 Year
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Should've been off at half-time. He was terrible.

      2. Ajax Hamsterdam
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        heartbreaking stuff..

    7. CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Cannot log to FPL.

      Too many login requests. Quota reached.

      1. CoracAld2831
        • 5 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        *limit

    8. Ser Davos
      • 10 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Folks fixated on DCs

      Elephant in the room is that modern day EPL has a distinct lack of clean sheets. Not sure the DCs compensate tbh

      1. Dank Squid
        • 7 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        VVD getting 20 DCs - could have been +4, but the cap prevents it. Room for improvement

    9. One for All
      • 7 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Planning to make a transfer and BB gw2, will it be a -4?

      1. Bluetiger1
        • 3 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        I always thought allowed 1FT a week
        playing a chip I did not think affected
        this one

    10. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      frimpong to munoz on the card...

    11. Atimis
      • 9 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      How come 250k players figured out to (c) Ekitike, that’s quite high number!

      1. Bluetiger1
        • 3 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Better than me & of course a lot going Salah due to last season
        & percentage owner fearing the miss if he scored lots - still got
        out of jail

      2. threeputt
        • 16 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Probably a lot them loaded up on Pool & Bournemouth players to try and get no.1 in the world tonight

      3. Dank Squid
        • 7 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        "There's always that one in my minileague", multiplied across the globe

    12. Forza Papac
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      How many seconds was Frimpong away from his cleansheet?

      1. Atimis
        • 9 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        20-30? It was painful to watch

        1. threeputt
          • 16 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          as a Kerkez owner it certainly was, if only Bournemouth had held the ball a little longer, a couple more passes would have done it

      2. The FPL Units
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        ~30 secs

    13. sminkypinky
      • 14 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      Price changes website? Fplstatistics not working anymore apparently.

      1. Mother Farke
        • 2 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Does LiveFPL offer this?

        1. sminkypinky
          • 14 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          I guess you have to be logged in. Which I’m not.

      2. Bluetiger1
        • 3 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        permanent or just with glitches this evening?

        1. sminkypinky
          • 14 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          Don’t know. Tried it for the first time in ages.

        2. Dthinger
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          They tweeted that it was shutting down

      3. Studs Up
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Owner closed the site down. Live Fpl is the go to site...if it's up

      4. Patio Kev
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        I was just looking at that too - most of the alternative options require subscription.

        Seems a missed opportunity that FFS can’t offer something to help in their tools.

    14. Tanglebrain
      • 16 Years
      10 months, 5 days ago

      What’s happened to fplstatistics.co.uk? Is it now defunct? If so, what is the best price change predictor now?

        1. Dthinger
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          the livefpl one seems to be sleeping

    15. NikiGross
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Who were the top players of the match by points? I can’t check anywhere right now.

        1. Mother Farke
          • 2 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          15pts for Semenyo.

      • Tonyawesome69
        • 7 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        So Liverpool defenders and Wirtz owners keeping an eye on price changes tonight then...

      • tricpic
        • 16 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Anyone rage transferring Wirtz to Semenyo? Go on…admit you’re tempted.

        1. Salarrivederci
          • 10 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          Kind of.

          FH will be active soon:D

      • cassanata
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        10 months, 5 days ago

        Missed the game, how did Gakpo do overall?

        1. Bennerman
          • 7 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          Oh, sorry sir, were you busy? Allow me to summarise his performance for me, on my time.

          Look it up.

          1. AAAFootball
              10 months, 5 days ago

              Jeez

            • chocolove
              • 15 Years
              10 months, 5 days ago

              Lol

          2. Ball Ake
            • 1 Year
            10 months, 5 days ago

            He played ok, took his goal well. Liverpool's attack stuttered a lot but not particularly because of him. Wirtz looked a little lightweight.

        2. tutankamun
          • 16 Years
          10 months, 5 days ago

          Let’s go (H)aaland tomorrow. Massive differential in my ML

          1. Prisoner FC
            • 14 Years
            10 months, 5 days ago

            I’m with you!!

          2. Salarrivederci
            • 10 Years
            10 months, 5 days ago

            We need the following players to return big tomorrow: Watkins, Rutter, De Cuyper, Porro & Kudus

          3. Dank Squid
            • 7 Years
            10 months, 5 days ago

            Even as a non-owner I hope you do well. So much variety this season, I have GW1 starters with 2% and 5% ownership... Haaland is on another level, ofc

        3. martynteresa
            10 months, 5 days ago

            when do they add the bonus points to players points total
            seeing ekitie 0 pts at the moment