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Mane fit to start with Liverpool unchanged from Gameweek 30

Fulham face Liverpool in the first of two Premier League matches to take place on Sunday afternoon.

Kick-off at Craven Cottage is at 14:15 GMT.

Having been the source of much discussion after his absence from Liverpool’s training ground photographs on Friday, Sadio Mane is fit to start for the Reds.

Jurgen Klopp has made two changes from the side that defeated Bayern Munich in midweek, with Fabinho and Adam Lallana replacing James Milner and the injured Jordan Henderson.

That means Liverpool are unchanged from Gameweek 30, when they defeated Burnley 4-2.

Of the most-captained Fantasy Premier League players who are “active” in Blank Gameweek 31, three of the top four are Liverpool assets: Mane, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino.

The Egyptian has been handed the armband by over 1.7 million FPL managers, while Mane has been captained by just under 725,000 Fantasy bosses.

Firmino has been trusted with the captaincy by almost 200,000 Fantasy Premier League managers.

Mane was the most-bought midfielder of Gameweek 31, having been transferred in by just under 250,000 FPL bosses.

Salah, perhaps surprisingly given the reduced number of top-flight fixtures this weekend, suffered a net loss of 37,072 transfers.

Firmino, Salah and Mane’s away record in the Premier League is identical in 2019: all three have scored just one goal in five appearances on the road and haven’t registered a single assist between them.

Fulham’s unwelcome record of conceding two or more goals in every Premier League match this calendar year continued last weekend, however, and they have recorded just two clean sheets all season.

Scott Parker has made four changes to his starting XI from the team that lost to Leicester City, with Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa, Jean Michael Seri, Timothy Fosu-Mensah and Floyd Ayite replacing Kevin McDonald, Ryan Sessegnon, Denis Odoi and Havard Nordtveit.

Calum Chambers looks to have moved back to centre-half, with Parker sticking with a 4-2-3-1 set-up.

Brighton and Hove Albion are also in action this afternoon, meanwhile.

The Seagulls face Millwall in the FA Cup quarter-finals, with a win for Chris Hughton’s side meaning that their Gameweek 33 clash with Tottenham Hotspur will have to be rearranged.

Albion already have matches against Chelsea and Cardiff City yet to be rescheduled and would have potentially have three Double Gameweeks if they progress in the 14:00 GMT kick-off at the Den.

Fulham XI (4-2-3-1): Rico, Fosu-Mensah, Chambers, Ream, Bryan, Seri, Anguissa, Babel, Cairney, Ayite, Mitrovic.

Liverpool XI (4-3-3): Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk, Matip, Robertson, Wijnaldum, Fabinho, Lallana, Salah, Mane, Firmino.

Brighton and Hove Albion XI (4-3-3): Ryan, Montoya, Duffy, Dunk, Bernardo, Kayal, Stephens, Propper, Jahanbakhsh, Murray, Knockaert.

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  1. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Salah must be on negative bps now.

    1. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      He is. Every single player in the game has higher bps than him, even Fabinho who has two fouls and a YC.
      https://www.anewpla.net/fpl/live/bps.php?fixture=305&gw=31&showall=yes

      1. J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 13 days ago

        That will all change after is 2nd half brace.

        1. Peter Ouch
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 13 days ago

          You wish.
          I wish

          1. J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 13 days ago

            I wish this wasn’t true.

            But it is 😆

    2. LǝgleSs e|even
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      I hope he ends on -ve points

  2. The Tinkerman
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Liverpool not fluid at all.

    Really poor from Firmino this time....

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Too many long balls & no pushing to the corners for crosses.

  3. Cojones of Destiny
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    can i ask why ars didn’t play this gw ?

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Wolves QF.

    2. Cojones of Destiny
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      cheers and thx mate

  4. mdm
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Which option better for DGW32:

    A. Kepa, Schlupp and Deulofeu
    B. Guita, Luiz and JWP

    1. FPL Mentor
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      FH Draft 3:

      De Gea
      Luiz Azpi AWB
      Sterling Hazard Pogba B.Silva Ward-Prowse
      Aguero Rashford

      Hamer / Valery / Crouch / Simpson

      0.0 ITB

      Hows it look?

    2. FPL Mentor
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      B

  5. FPL AXE
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Is liveFPL.net not working anymore? Another website that does the same?

    1. moment
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      FPLdiscovery gives you the live average but not your rank

    2. Les Bleus
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      As is says on the main page of the website

  6. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Salah might be off at HT.

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Mate.

    2. The Tinkerman
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Based on what?

      Firmino, TAA, Fabinho, Lallana have all been worse.

    3. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      *Fabinho

    4. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Hopefully he’ll stay on when the rest go off....might get a goal then....

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 13 days ago

        😆 the Mascot would deny him.

    5. Garlana
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      That will kill his confidence klopp won't do it.

      1. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 13 days ago

        Agreed

    6. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Firmino looks like carrying a knock?

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 13 days ago

        Tyler mentioned it just before the whistle, yes.

  7. Eat my goal!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    I did wonder whether taa bring out was damaging Salahs returns, unfortunately not. Maybe it’s Fabinho!

    1. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Being*

  8. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Why do I watch football matches. They just disappoint.

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      This 😉

  9. Modest Bob
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Fulham playing in their white kit with black trim.
    Pitch type.. grass
    Undersoil heating..yes

    1. threeputt
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      wtf ?

  10. Nas
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    In this current form I’m actually hoping salah doesn’t get a pen. No way he scores it. Probably won’t even get it on targwt

    1. The Tinkerman
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Would sum up my season if my TC got a pen vs. the worst defence in the league, and missed it.

  11. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Worst GW ever

    1. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      So true......

      1. Chucky
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 13 days ago

        😀

    2. The Tinkerman
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Since the last week, and the one before that, and the one before that... and the one before that...

    3. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      No JWP goal to save me this gameweek for once 🙁

    4. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Every single week the ‘worst-gw-ever’ record has bee broken

  12. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    TAA has hardly managed a decent cross since Watford

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      His 1st was good, just no one on the end of it.

    2. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Looks lazy today no urgency to get down the flanks, just back & cross field shots.

  13. TheSteel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Thank goodness for King and Rondon

  14. #FPLBhuna
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    ergh 🙁
    do one you fraud egyptian scrotum

    1. Chucky
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      😮

      1. Jafooli
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 13 days ago

        😆

    2. LǝgleSs e|even
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      arent they all

  15. SH1M1
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    What a fraud Salah is on FPL, forget the fact that he is blanking yet again, 13m is obscene!

    1. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      You pays your money...

    2. SADIO SANÉ
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      yeah, he's been horrendous all season

    3. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      His points tally is actually pretty good considering his performances.
      Failing eye test since Ramos did him last year
      But 13m towards an alternative and some extra funds to spread across team has always been an option since the start of the season.
      Suppose Salah cost is slightly justified if you got Doh and Jimi at 9.9 total!

  16. Niho992
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    I dont remember when Salah scored last time....

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      When was the last time Liv got penalty? 🙂

      1. Alnair
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 13 days ago

        Bournemouth?

  17. tafrère
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Salah (C) + just one Liverpool defender looking like a mistake for now.

    1. Mo Mané Mo Problems
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Why didn’t you get Mane???

      1. tafrère
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 13 days ago

        I have Mane.

  18. Scotty B
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Has Higuain travelled?

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      In quarantine.

  19. WVA
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    I've got more chance of TAA notching than Salah!

  20. Dr Van Nostrand
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Blimey Fulham's best defender has been Lallana

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Even the ball tripped him.

      1. Dr Van Nostrand
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 13 days ago

        Need to get Keita or Shaq on for him to get back to 11 v 11

  21. Do I Not Like Orange
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    It would solve a lot of my FPL problems if Madrid or someone would buy Salah in the summer.

  22. adibo
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    When and who to triple captain in the coming gameweeks ?...

  23. Zladan
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Salah (c)
    Wilson (vc)

    I need Klopp to bring Salah on this second half.

    1. Mo Mané Mo Problems
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      2 is better than 1.

      1. Zladan
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 13 days ago

        45 minutes to do something. Surely he can’t blank AGAIN?!

  24. LǝgleSs e|even
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Hows the game going , especially them tripple cappers.. Hows Salah doing? Happy with your pick? Close chances?

  25. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Well... this could be going better

  26. MINUS FOUR
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Can't even remember the last time I was happy with my captain returns. Over the season my VC is crushing my C. So frustrating.

    1. Rostah
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Heartbreaking aspect of the game. It's crazy how that one aspect of the game can make or break your week so much.

  27. Differential C (Mark)
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Mo Salah! Mo Salah! Mo Salah!
    Another offside call!
    Salah! Ahahahah. . .
    Egyptian fraud . . . .

  28. andrewe63
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Ya gorra laff.

    Salah dragging two defenders with him to make space for Bobbi and sadio and he gets labelled a 'Fraud'

    give me two or three frauds like him any day .

    1. Differential C (Mark)
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Falling over several times and straying offside once or twice too. Not really good so far.

    2. Dr Van Nostrand
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Clueless they are the same Muppets who probably think Lallana is putting in another 'MOTM' shift

  29. Maddamotha
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    Is it possible to delete your team?

    1. Mo Mané Mo Problems
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Yep. I did it GW2. Then my mates pressured me to reactivate it. I hate them.

    2. andrewe63
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 13 days ago

      Watching the millwall v brighton game might help!

  30. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 13 days ago

    TC Fail 😎