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Pressure on Salah captainers as Lovren returns on Liverpool bench

All eyes turn to Anfield today as Liverpool host Burnley in the noon kick-off.

There will significant attention on Gameweek 30’s most-captained player Mohamed Salah (£13.4m), who has blanked five times in his last six Premier League outings.

With armband rival Sergio Aguero (£11.9m) registering just an assist for Manchester City on Saturday, there is an opportunity for the Egyptian to help his backers make up some ground.

They will be hoping for something like Raheem Sterling‘s (£11.4m) hat-trick against Watford, which has already set the bar for success in Gameweek 30 very high.

Salah will today operate alongside usual attacking colleagues Sadio Mané (£9.8m) and Roberto Firmino (£9.2m).

Adam Lallana (£6.9m) comes into central midfield for a first start since Gameweek 25 to sit between Fabinho (£5.5m) and Georginio Wijnaldum (£5.5m).

Virgil van Dijk (£6.6m) and Joel Matip (£4.9m) are once again the central defensive pairing but there is a welcome return on the bench for Dejan Lovren (£4.9m).

Meanwhile, as expected, it’s Andrew Robertson (£6.9m) and Trent Alexander-Arnold (£5.5m) at full-back.

Burnley have rolled out the usual 4-4-2 formation with the in-form Ashley Barnes (£5.7m) and Chris Wood (£6.2m) hoping to stop Liverpool earning an 18th clean sheet of the season.

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson, Fabinho, Wijnaldum, Lallana, Mane, Salah, Firmino.

Burnley XI: Heaton; Taylor, Mee, Tarkowski, Bardsley; McNeil, Westwood, Cork, Hendrick; Wood, Barnes.

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  1. MTPockets
      5 years, 2 months ago

      oh dear

    • Licky
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      I knew that was going to happen.

    • Meinhoff
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Yesssss come on Burnley

    • IRBOX ⚽
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Liverpool clean sheet gone

    • Maddi Son
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      That feels a bit schitty

    • Annie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Lol at double Pool defence.

    • Licky
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Foul on Alisson as well.

    • drughi
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Double up Liverpool defense they said

    • SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    • G-Whizz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Bottlers?

    • tafrère
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      The wind on 3 baps again !

    • andrewe63
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Disgusting...clearly a foul the swine.

    • Champions united
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Double liv def gone

    • SHOOTER MCGINN
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Typical

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        The week I get double Liv defence.

        You can't make this stuff up, folks.

    • TheDragon
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      TAA captainers look away now

    • Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      aaaand its gone.....

      at least its early rather than nervous last 5

    • Paul Psychic Octopus
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Oh dearie me.

      Clear foul on the keeper, but LIV CS gone already.

    • L'Aeroplanino
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      rip liverpool cs

    • DMP
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Now that i doubled Poll in the back. LOL Unreal.

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Same here. 1st time this season too.

    • Deulofail
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Phew, I was 50/50 between captaining Sterling and TAA 😀

    • Maddi Son
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Alisson yc

    • Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      CAN WE STOP MAKING LIVERPOOL PLAY IN THE WIND

      ITS A CONSPIRACY!!!

    • Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Ohboi

    • diesel001
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      People say there isn't luck in the PL and in FPL.

      Sterling gets an offside goal that sets him off on a hat-trick.
      Alisson gets a foul not called which leads to Liverpool conceding.

      1. DMP
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        This.

      2. SHOOTER MCGINN
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        V. A. R.

      3. IRBOX ⚽
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Next season will be very different

    • Differentiator
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Smells like roasted double liv defenders

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Luckily they are all attackers as well as defenders

    • ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Double Liverpool Defence :/

    • BENOIT
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      5 mins in to Super Sunday and the officials have taken centre stage already.

      I'm really going off football at the minute.

    • Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Comical. TAA + Robbo owners unite 😀

      1. DMP
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        unreal.

    • SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Forget Salah (C), come on Burnley!

    • El-Kloppico
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Thats why no PL referee would ever qualify for WC. They're so biais.. trying to favour City and burn Liv.

      1. Mambino
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        What utter rubbish with absolutely no empirical evidence whatsoever

        1. El-Kloppico
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Go see the optician man.
          Tarko was all over Alisson and you dnt have the right holdong a keeper.

          1. HollywoodXI
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            This

            1. Mambino
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 10 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              it's called a mistake they happen

              1. Mambino
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 10 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                to clarify - terrible decision but what nonsense saying refs are biased against Liverpool - get over yourselves