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Fantasy managers spared pains of Liverpool rotation at Leicester

Fantasy Premier League managers have been spared the pains of Jurgen Klopp’s rotation for the first fixture of Gameweek 4.

After promising that unchanged line-ups would soon be a thing of the past at Liverpool, Klopp has made just one alteration to the side that beat Brighton in Gameweek 3.

New signing Naby Keita (£7.5m) drops to the bench to allow club captain Jordan Henderson (£5.4m) to come back into the starting line-up.

The headline Fantasy options Mohamed Salah (£13.0m), Sadio Mané (£9.9m) and Andrew Robertson (£6.1m) have all kept their places.

The Reds remain heavily backed in this fixture with Salah still in 55 percent of teams, Mané in 37 percent and Robertson in 21 percent.

As a whole, the Liverpool defence is still popular for this trip to the King Power Stadium with Virgil van Dijk (£6.0m) in 18 percent of squads and 17 percent invested in Trent Alexander-Arnold (£5.0m).

It appears that Demarai Gray (£5.5m) is leading the Leicester line in the absence of Jamie Vardy (£8.9m). Kelechi Iheanacho (£6.0m) drops to the bench.

Ricardo Pereira (£5.0m) has earned plenty of attention for playing in attacking midfield twice so far this season but he is deployed at right-back for this one.

LEICESTER CITY XI (4-4-1-1): Schmeichel; Chilwell, Morgan, Maguire, Pereira, Ghezzal, Ndidi, Mendy, Albrighton; Maddison; Gray.

LIVERPOOL XI (4-3-3): Alisson; Robertson, Van Dijk, Gomez, Alexander-Arnold: Henderson, Wijnaldum, Milner; Salah, Firmino, Mane

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2,543 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Sandy Ravage
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    Salah + Arnautovic > Hazard + Kane (-4) ?

  2. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    Rumours that Zaha is out and Pedro has been dropped for Willian

    1. Konig Luther
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      lineups are out

    2. In FPHell
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Man that would make my day

    3. Tasty Jerk
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Its true

    4. Fantastisk
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Here's hoping

    5. Four Hit Wonder
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      LOL

  3. Desperately Seeking Dusan
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    This site is so entertaining for meltdowns and kneejerks... this time last week Mane had to go, he was useless, he’d blanked.... roll on this GW and a lot of the same people are now looking for Mane to come in and melting down over Salah blanking for one GW.

    I can only assume complete stupidity because even if you’ve never played the game before, how can you possibly expect any player to deliver EVERY week?

    1. BrutalLogiC
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      same old tbh

    2. Ryan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Welcome to match day. The trick is to talk about it, not actually follow through with it.

      1. Pork Pie Sausage Roll
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 7 months ago

        This.

        1. Laugh at hysteria
        2. Watch as it goes into overload and people drop good players
        3. ?????
        4. Profit

    3. noahzark22
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      I advised people to wait on Firmino too

    4. Cok3y5murf
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Welcome to FFS

  4. Salarrivederci
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    Pedro benched

  5. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    I can only imagine how threatening Jurgen Klopp could make himself to Allison after this game. It would be like something out of the Sopranos

  6. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    WILLIAN starts, as expected 🙂

  7. Tasty Jerk
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    Confirmed Zaha out injured 🙁

    1. Fantastisk
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

    2. Tommy Tynans Left Shin Pad
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Massive bullet dodged. Nearly drafted him in

    3. Deulofail
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      TAA off the bench 🙁

    4. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Kante off bench

  8. Fire Chief Moe
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    Ings starts

  9. Ross From Friends
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    Well Salah was absolutely useless today..thank god i didn't (c) him

  10. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    WILDCARDS flying!

  11. GuillermoDickero
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    No zaha

  12. My Name Is Pepu
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    Okazaki masterclass off the bench incoming 😎

  13. Salarrivederci
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    Zaha not in squad

  14. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 7 months ago

    Pedro is nailed they said....

    1. Fantastisk
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Nailed to the bench

    2. michudagawd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      No, noone ever said that.

    3. Mo Mané Mo Problems
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      No one said that. Literally. No. One.

      1. @persecuted_by_mods
          5 years, 7 months ago

          There was one guy earlier talking about "If you think Pedro isn't nailed then you don't know Sarri or his system"

    4. FlockofSeagulls
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      I blame Ramos.

    5. Team Bobcat
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Salah EXIT

      Who to replace him outside of Hazard Mane.

      Is a cheapie an option like Maddison / Fraser / Moura / Mkhi

      I own neither of the above but all on my like to own list

    6. Hotdogs for Tea
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Scenes

    7. AnfieldLad
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      No Zaha :O

    8. BananaMan
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Putting my Saturday £5 bet together.
      I'm usually hopeless so I'm trying a different approach... Wisdom of the crowd.

      3 x Both Teams to score and result?
      Which games would you pick?

      1. Tommy Tynans Left Shin Pad
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 7 months ago

        I look at the tables and look at the most GF and GA columns. Usually bag a few quid but lose as well.

        1. BananaMan
          • 13 Years
          5 years, 7 months ago

          That's my usual first stop but it hasn't been working very well for me!

      2. Burger
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 7 months ago

        Everton, wolves, 1 other.

      3. MyBall MyRules
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 7 months ago

        Norwich

    9. tiger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Scenes when Pep drops Aguero and vice captain Salah comes into play...

    10. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Pedro you feck!

      He'll get subbed on late too 🙁

      1. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 7 months ago

        Yup have king in subs lool.He will score now lol

    11. kinghenry14
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      no zaha

    12. LD
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Salah has one blank and people are already looking to sell? Madness

      1. kinghenry14
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 7 months ago

        this

      2. dunas_dog
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 7 months ago

        Not just that but fixtures so tough after International break and even Salah will be rotated

      3. Pacer.
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 7 months ago

        You can basicaly just forget Salah exists in your team. Enjoy that. Let people scrabble

      4. Dr. Ante Pavlovic
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 7 months ago

        This

    13. J T
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      No Pedro :O

    14. Cpt Crunch Scott talent
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      No Zaha, Hello points from Milner.

    15. Sif
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      Zaha?! Thats a real blow given the fixture

    16. Ady87
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      AWB first sub for Zaha. AWB playing?

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 7 months ago

        You'd know if he wasn't 😉

    17. R.C
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      No Zaha? lololol

    18. Sharkytect
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      So, zaha out means that whole awb vs ings debate was a complete waste of my consideration!

    19. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 7 months ago

      WTF NO ZAHA