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Today’s lockdown-esque Premier League schedule sees four matches take place, each of them in different timeslots.

The first is Brighton and Hove Albion v Liverpool, which kicks off at a slightly delayed 12.45pm GMT due to a traffic accident.

TEAM NEWS

Despite the 63-hour turnaround between games, Liverpool boss Arne Slot has made just two changes from the 4-0 win over Galatasaray on Wednesday.

He’s had his hands forced with both of them, as Alisson and Mohamed Salah are out injured.

Giorgi Mamardashvili and Cody Gakpo come in for those two.

Joe Gomez is fit enough for bench duty.

Brighton’s team news is even more straightforward as Fabian Hurzeler goes unchanged from last weekend.

Kaoru Mitoma is back from injury and among the substitutes.

LINE-UPS

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Verbruggen; Wieffer, Van Hecke, Dunk, Kadioglu; Milner, Gross; Gomez, Hinshelwood, Minteh; Welbeck.

Subs: Steele, Georginio, Baleba, Kostoulas, Boscagli, Mitoma, Ayari, De Cuyper, Veltman.

Liverpool XI: Mamardashvili; Frimpong, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Mac Allister; Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Gakpo, Ekitike.

Subs: Woodman, Gomez, Chiesa, Jones, Robertson, Nyoni, Ramsay, Morrison, Ngumoha.

LIVE GAMEWEEK PAGE!

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

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

Brighton Liverpool

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  1. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    Autopick was offering up Gomes as a set of limited transfers yesterday

    His form continues

  2. JBG
    • 8 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    Well done Brighton, go on and smash them now

  3. Snoop Udogie Dogg
    • 5 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    Has Eki gone off?

    1. Brazooka
      • 13 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Yes, subbed of at 8 mins

    2. Goro Majima
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Yes

      1. Snoop Udogie Dogg
        • 5 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        just excellent

    3. CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Injured and subbed out at the 8th minute.

  4. SM001
    • 10 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    Why is VVD in my team again?

    1. Qaiss
      • 10 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Fear!!

    2. Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Welcome back Timber
      VVD a failed experiment

  5. CoracAld2831
    • 5 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    And there goes the clean sheet.

  6. Brosstan
    • 11 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    LiverPure trash

  7. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    4 points in three GWs for Ekitike, yuck
    At least his price has gone up 0.4m in that time!

    1. Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Literally the only thing he's been good for.

      Never known a player to promise so much, deliver so little and be so hyped every week.

      Can't wait to be rid

      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        He's an easy sell on wildcard

        Just need the cheap third striker for BB

        There's options at Leeds, Bournemouth and don't laugh, Burnley too.

  8. Nightcrawler
    • 7 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    who else had VVD for whole of first half, sold him before he started scoring, then got him back for the blanks again?

    1. Gizzachance
      • 11 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Me !

  9. Snoop Udogie Dogg
    • 5 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    my season is pretty much over, cursed season this has been!

  10. The Philosopher
    • 5 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    Not sure why I started Dubravka over Verbruggen this GW. Must've been the whiskey.

  11. Bobby Digital
    • 8 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    Went Hall over Virgil, looking good so far.

    1. JBG
      • 8 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Never wanted VVD, they've been trash atb

      1. Bobby Digital
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Yeah had a bit of FOMO

    2. Qaiss
      • 10 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Thx for letting us know

      1. Bobby Digital
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        NP

    3. PartyTime
      • 4 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      I benched van dijk on my FH Lmaoooo

  12. el polako
    • 8 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    2 games and 2 points from Ekitike.
    Consistent.

    1. Ze_Austin
      • 7 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      He's matched Haaland since I brought him in

      Time to switch back

      1. el polako
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Yeah.
        But beating him in points per million.

        Thats a success story.

  13. PartyTime
    • 4 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    v dijk owners mudded. Love to see it!

    1. Atimis
      • 9 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      You just have low expectations from life mate.

      1. PartyTime
        • 4 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Like your mom

        1. Atimis
          • 9 Years
          2 months, 11 days ago

          What a kid XD

          1. PartyTime
            • 4 Years
            2 months, 11 days ago

            Salty poor fella because you own van dijk lmaooo. What a puppet

            1. Atimis
              • 9 Years
              2 months, 11 days ago

              Go do your homework.

              1. Atimis
                • 9 Years
                2 months, 11 days ago

                You are 2.5mil OR roftl.

  14. F4L
    • 11 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    slot gets no luck. plays this set up vs marseille, does well, goes to bournemouth and frimpong injured straight away. same vs gala and then salah + eki injured straight away.

    1. #1 Arne Engels Fan
      • 1 Year
      2 months, 11 days ago

      "No luck" gimmick for a manager that spent £446m this summer

      1. F4L
        • 11 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        when you twice move to a new set up and necessary cogs in that machine get injured immediately (and their backs ups are out bradley/isak), seems pretty unlucky

        regardless of anything else surrounding that

    2. Qaiss
      • 10 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      They barely had any injuries last season compared with the teams that could challenge them and pretty much had a free run at the league

      Slot’s in fact lucky that he got to use Klopp’s team

  15. Atimis
    • 9 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    Didn’t (c) Bruno, VVD CS gone, Ekitike gone, perfect…

    1. Steavn8k
      • 3 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Same..Wilson has to get me at least 20 points today

      1. Steavn8k
        • 3 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Oh and rival has Kerkez

    2. Goro Majima
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Me too. Wilson needs to do some heavy lifting later.

  16. PartyTime
    • 4 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    van dijk on my bench because I knew! 😆

  17. Sgt. Schultz
    • 9 Years
    2 months, 11 days ago

    Szobo Range

  18. Moon Dog
      2 months, 11 days ago

      I hope Liverpool lose to City in the FA Cup so I can be done with their players for the season

      1. Atimis
        • 9 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Aye

    • MIGHTY JOE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      VVD, Ekitike & Szobo owner here, just checking in! What did I miss?

      1. Baps Hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        To check out.

        1. MIGHTY JOE
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          2 months, 11 days ago

          🙁

    • threeputt
      • 16 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Frimpong injured by his own flying headband

    • F4L
      • 11 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      kerkez g

    • Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      I challenge anyone to have a worse troll record with any player than my record with Ekitike.

      When Ive not owned him (or benched him which I did against Newcastle) he has about 9ppg.

      When Ive owned him he has less than 2ppg. This is over the entire season, not just some cherry picked sample.

      1. FantasyTony
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Digne

      2. Baps Hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        DCL

      3. The Philosopher
        • 5 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        No-one can beat mine with Zaha. Never caught even a single assist from him despite owning him frequently for 2-3 seasons.

        1. Goro Majima
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          2 months, 11 days ago

          Zaha was the absolute worst.

      4. Biggsy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Ouch. Got him for Wolves in 18 and he's had "one more game" perpetually since. At least I didn't bench him for Newcastle, but owning him as hurt me as downgrading to João Pedro not only would have scored more points but would have enabled the money to get Semenyo...

      5. #1 Arne Engels Fan
        • 1 Year
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Why would you bench him vs Newcastle @ Anfield?

        1. Brosstan
          • 11 Years
          2 months, 11 days ago

          Why would I cap against Burnley or Tottenham? Why wouldnt I bench him at home against Brighton, against Wolves, against Leeds at home etc etc. All better fixtures.

          All my other players had better fixtures and form but of course thats when he chooses to randomly haul becuase FPL is a shite luck based game.

      6. Mr. O'Connell
        • 13 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Digne, DCL & João Pedro (who I currently own so enjoy his blank later owners)

      7. riot
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        fair you win

    • BeaversWithAttitude
      • 7 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Dunk punked.

    • Captain Mal
      • 1 Year
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Credit to Kerkez for not celebrating and going for the ball instead.

      1. el polako
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        He always goes for the ball first.

    • WVA
      • 9 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Can’t wait to sell VVD on my WC

      1. el polako
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        I’m already waiting for the next season.

        1. Baps Hunter
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          2 months, 11 days ago

          Not the one after that? Well, that would be too pessimistic, I suppose.

          1. el polako
            • 8 Years
            2 months, 11 days ago

            Don’t expect to live that long.

    • riot
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      any chance of some frimponginho points

      1. Bobby Digital
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        No, you should've gone for Kerkez

    • Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      I would like to hate transfer Rogers, Mbeumo and Ekitike out, but probably I just end up rolling or transferring just Saka in.

      1. Bobby Digital
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Stuck with Rogers, he has decent fixtures. It's like Stockholm syndrome...

        1. Sgt. Schultz
          • 9 Years
          2 months, 11 days ago

          with a sprinkle of Masochism

    • jacob1989
      • 4 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Happy with ekitike injury. Forgot friday deadline and have only 8 players.

      1. Baps Hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        May your team be cursed!

        1. jacob1989
          • 4 Years
          2 months, 11 days ago

          Lol. Chill man

    • JBG
      • 8 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Has there been any good/consistent pick that's over 8.5 these last 5-10 GWs?? That's not Bruno

      1. Bobby Digital
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Rogers is consistently bad

      2. threeputt
        • 16 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        doesn't exactly leave much

      3. Nightcrawler
        • 7 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Saka has been good last 5 GWs. Over 6 ppg

        1. JBG
          • 8 Years
          2 months, 11 days ago

          That 12 pointer against Wolves carrying that PPG heavily

    • el polako
      • 8 Years
      2 months, 11 days ago

      Van Dijk without a single defcon so far?!

      1. Freshy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Wirtz has 4

      2. Conners
        • 7 Years
        2 months, 11 days ago

        Looking forward to selling him for Lacroix or O'Reilly.