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Brentford v Liverpool team news: Salah starts, no Isak

25 October 2025 608 comments
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A later-than-late Premier League match is still to come: it’s Brentford v Liverpool, which kicks off at 20:00 BST.

TEAM NEWS

Liverpool boss Arne Slot makes three changes from Wednesday’s win over Eintracht Frankfurt.

Slot is forced into two of them, as Alexander Isak and Jeremie Frimpong are injured.

Andrew Robertson also drops to the bench.

Conor Bradley, Milos Kerkez and Mohamed Salah are brought into the side after their midweek absences.

Ryan Gravenberch hasn’t recovered in time, so he misses out again.

The Brentford team news is more straightforward: they’re unchanged from Monday’s win over West Ham United.

LINE-UPS

Brentford XI: Kelleher, Ajer, Van den Berg, Collins, Kayode, Henderson, Yarmoliuk, Damsgaard, Schade, Thiago, Ouattara.

Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Pinnock, Jensen, Nelson, Carvalho, Onyeka, Lewis-Potter, Janelt.

Liverpool XI: Mamardashvili, Bradley, Van Dijk, Konate, Kerkez, Wirtz, Szoboszlai, Jones, Gakpo, Salah, Ekitike.

Subs: Woodman, Gomez, Endo, Mac Allister, Chiesa, Robertson, Nyoni, Morrison, Ngumoha.

LIVE GAMEWEEK PAGE!

New to Fantasy Football Scout is the Live Gameweek page, which you can see on the side menu.

Here you can follow the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DC) points roll in, see who the leading players are for xG and more as the games play out, as seen below:

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  1. Brosstan
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Lollerpool

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    1. brianutd-why always we? 20
      12 months, 3 days ago

      LiVARpool lol

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  2. Bobby Digital
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Mamar needs to come off his line there. Made it way to easy for Schade

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    1. Bobby Digital
      12 months, 3 days ago

      *too

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  3. The Night Trunker.
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Virgin bets settled with their 2 goal up rule.
    Marvellous!

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  4. Count of Monte Hristo
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Take that Slot!

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  5. F4L
    12 months, 3 days ago

    erm that shouldve been a pen for foul on gakpo?

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  6. Vazza
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Pool are real real bad

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  7. Nomar
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Liverpool turning into Man United and Man United turning into Liverpool before our very eyes.

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  8. F4L
    12 months, 3 days ago

    as it stands brentford only 2 points behind liverpool now

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    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      12 months, 3 days ago

      As it stands Utd stay top 4

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  9. Brosstan
    12 months, 3 days ago

    The best one can hope for from VVD is 3 points... Pool hopeless

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  10. F4L
    12 months, 3 days ago

    what does Slot do at HT then? robbo on for kerkez. chiesa somewhere? things have to change asap

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    1. Vazza
      12 months, 3 days ago

      This aged well

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      1. F4L
        12 months, 3 days ago

        yup 😀

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  11. F4L
    12 months, 3 days ago

    bradley a
    kerkez g

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    1. Pornchef
      12 months, 3 days ago

      Looked like Ekiteke assist

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      1. F4L
        12 months, 3 days ago

        ah thought it came off collins

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        1. F4L
          12 months, 3 days ago

          *vdb my bad

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  12. Count of Monte Hristo
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Slot has had the equivalent of a FIFA transfer window and then blamed the developers for breaking the game with the latest patch.

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  13. F4L
    12 months, 3 days ago

    shame that ball didnt just drop to gakpo lol

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  14. The Night Trunker.
    12 months, 3 days ago

    OMG

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  15. Kaneyonero
    12 months, 3 days ago

    FFS no Gakpo

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  16. Brosstan
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Trashkez redemption?

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  17. fedolefan
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Kerkez redemption

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    1. Albrightondknight
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      12 months, 3 days ago

      Yeah deserves a rest for the second half after that

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  18. F4L
    12 months, 3 days ago

    kayode takes like 30 secs plus for every throw. brentford fans need to chill

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    1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      12 months, 3 days ago

      Yeah and he’s done at least 4 😆

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  19. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Surprised Salah wasn’t in the box to tap that in!

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    1. el polako
      12 months, 3 days ago

      Is he playing?

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  20. The Mandalorian
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Liverpool last season were amazing against Real Madrid.

    They controlled the midfield and pocketed the counter attacks.

    What a huge drop off in performance.

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  21. Jafooli
    12 months, 3 days ago

    There are many factors at play here, but is anyone mentioning the signing of Isak for £100m+, when they had a striker (Ekitka) performing, kinda unsettling the team? Cohesion is a big deal and with all the baggage, gotta be a factor?

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    1. SINGH
      12 months, 3 days ago

      wasted money that, should have stuck with Ekitike as he is a quality player.

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    2. tbos83
      12 months, 3 days ago

      Absolutely this

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    3. el polako
      12 months, 3 days ago

      And what they really needed was some CB backup.

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    4. x.jim.x
      12 months, 3 days ago

      Isak isn’t even playing

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    5. Brosstan
      12 months, 3 days ago

      Absolutely. It also sounds like the Sporting Director or others in the board are telling Slot to play Isak even though hes not match fit or in form yet.

      This really isnt the same transfer strategy that made Liverpool succesful. More like something Man United would do.

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    6. All Hail K
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      12 months, 3 days ago

      Isak, Cuhna, Mbeumo drained from mid table clubs just to chill at the bigger ones. Guess Semenyo's going to be swallowed up next year.

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      1. el polako
        12 months, 3 days ago

        And Bowen.

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        1. All Hail K
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          12 months, 3 days ago

          Oh yes.

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  22. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Nothing tastes quite like a Liverpool crisis

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  23. el polako
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Bruno F - defcon beast.
    Not sure good value at 9m.

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    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      12 months, 3 days ago

      I still think he will be top 5 scoring mids come season end.

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      1. Camzy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        12 months, 3 days ago

        This. He scores that pen he should have had, he'd be on an 11 pointer.

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        1. el polako
          12 months, 3 days ago

          Or he misses it.
          Not exactly prolific penalty taker he is.

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          1. Admiral Benson
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            12 months, 3 days ago

            That you Yoda?

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            1. el polako
              12 months, 3 days ago

              🙂

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      2. SH1M1
        12 months, 3 days ago

        No chance, especially with AFCON.

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        1. SH1M1
          12 months, 3 days ago

          Wrong reply ^ xD

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    2. thegaffer82
      12 months, 3 days ago

      Mbuemo banging in 2 goals for 1mil less. But at least Bruno got banged in 2 points worth of defcon points 🙂

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    3. F4L
      12 months, 3 days ago

      set mbeumo up for a big chance and had 2 good chances himself today as well (1 of which was very good). the attacking returns are coming. and look at how high his bps was today, saw people surprised he got 3 bonus last week with 1 assist. thats just his bps baseline

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      1. F4L
        12 months, 3 days ago

        *and can do a quick list from this season

        set dorgu up for woodwork
        set casemiro up for woodwork
        hit woodwork himself from roefs mega save

        2 missed pens etc.

        keep faith

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      2. F4L
        12 months, 3 days ago

        *just checked and hes averaging over 5 shots+chances created per 90 this season . cant imagine many others in the league are doing that or even close

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    4. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
      12 months, 3 days ago

      A double up with Mbeumo should be perfect?

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  24. Camzy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    12 months, 3 days ago

    I sold Salah and have 0 fear after that first half. Liverpool still look pretty clueless.

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    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      12 months, 3 days ago

      Wouldn’t care if he scored, nobody is knee jerking him back in regardless.

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    2. Dank Squid
      12 months, 3 days ago

      You did the right thing. Pretty clueless? Completely clueless.

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    3. x.jim.x
      12 months, 3 days ago

      Very brave to take out a player who’s got less open play goals than Casemiro

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  25. x.jim.x
    12 months, 3 days ago

    3 mins added
    Kerkez goal 45+5th minute

    Maths isn’t mathing

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    1. Nightcrawler
      12 months, 3 days ago

      Some of the stoppage time involved Brentford goal celebration plus they add more time for the long throw delays. Has happened for the other Brentford game I watched

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      1. Brosstan
        12 months, 3 days ago

        This. Brentford spend 45 seconds on every throw in, ridiculous and they deserved the extra minutes injury time.

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        1. Nightcrawler
          12 months, 3 days ago

          Think the throw in they took during the added time just before the goal cost them a goal

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  26. Sting
    12 months, 3 days ago

    how’s gakpo playing?

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    1. SH1M1
      12 months, 3 days ago

      Non existent, like the rest of the team

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  27. Nightcrawler
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Wirtz looks like the bundesliga James Madison

    Even on his best days how does a player of his style go for over 100m?

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    1. x.jim.x
      12 months, 3 days ago

      People get blinded by weak league statpadders - him, Havertz, Werner, Nkunku, Gyokeres

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  28. Dank Squid
    12 months, 3 days ago

    "The new Liverpool" - got some lucky overtime wins/pens, but it wasn't/isn't sustainable. Kerkez scoring is just another layer, TAA was never the best defender but the attacking contributions were enough because the other parts worked. Slot, find a solution

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  29. Letsgo!
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Do we think saka will start tonight?
    Not pictured in training…

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    1. SH1M1
      12 months, 3 days ago

      No, because they play tomorrow

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      1. Sheffield Wednesday
        12 months, 3 days ago

        ...afternoon

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  30. JT11fc
    12 months, 3 days ago

    Green arrow got a tad bigger with that second Brentford goal thanks to Vvd conceding 2, 2 more please

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    1. Brosstan
      12 months, 3 days ago

      VVDs def con points will soon crush your green arrow!

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