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Firmino benched but Klopp otherwise names strong side for the visit of Aston Villa

Jurgen Klopp has named a strong starting XI for Liverpool’s first home fixture as Premier League champions.

Aston Villa are the visitors to Merseyside, with kick-off at Anfield at 16:30 BST.

The Reds’ head coach has made three changes to his team following the 4-0 thrashing at Manchester City but there is no wholesale rotation and most of their highly owned Fantasy Premier League assets retain their starts.

Mohamed Salah (£12.6m) and Sadio Mane (£12.4m) both make the cut in attack, while the back four is at full strength as Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.8m), Andrew Robertson (£7.0m), Virgil van Dijk (£6.5m) and Joe Gomez (£5.3m) line up in front of Alisson (£6.2m).

Roberto Firmino (£9.4m), Georginio Wijnaldum (£5.4m) and Jordan Henderson (£5.3m) drop to the bench, with Divock Origi (£5.1m), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (£6.1m) and Naby Keita (£5.8m) taking their places.

James Milner (£5.3m) misses out with a “tight muscle”.

There are five changes for Aston Villa following their 1-0 defeat to Wolves.

Pepe Reina (£4.2m) replaces the benched Orjan Nyland (£4.3m) between the posts, while Neil Taylor (£4.2m) is in for the injured Matt Targett (£4.3m) at left-back.

John McGinn (£5.3m), Anwar El Ghazi (£5.3m) and Trezeguet (£5.2m) also return, with Conor Hourihane (£5.7m), Marvelous Nakamba (£4.4m) and Mbwana Samatta (£5.4m) only among the substitutes.

The ‘out of position’ FPL midfielder Keinan Davis (£4.3m) leads the line as Dean Smith moves away from a two-man strike force to what looks like his regular 4-3-3.

Jack Grealish (£6.1m) was the most-sold midfielder of Gameweek 33+, with Salah also among the top ten FPL players for transfers out.

The Egyptian is nevertheless the most-captained Fantasy asset of this weekend, both overall and within the top 10k.

Villa pushed Liverpool hard in the reverse fixture back in Gameweek 11, with the Reds running out 2-1 winners.

Nevertheless, the Villans haven’t kept a single clean sheet away from home this season and have conceded more goals on the road than any other Premier League team.

Liverpool have scored 44 goals in their 16 home fixtures in 2019/20 and no club has conceded on fewer occasions on their own soil.


Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson, Fabinho, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Keita, Salah, Origi, Mane.

Aston Villa XI: Reina, Konsa, Hause, Mings, Taylor, Luiz, McGinn, Trezeguet, Grealish, El Ghazi, Davis.

FPL Lessons Learned from Gameweek 33+

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  1. MGMT
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Many people transferring Salah out for Sterling at HT lol... Can see Sterling getting benched this week and Salah getting something 2nd half + ripping Brighton... (Non-Salah owner)

    1. TAT
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Willing to take that chance personally. I've not made the transfer yet, but am likely to either tonight or tomorrow. Nothing to lose at this point.

    2. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Sterling with KDB or Mahrez Maybe. People going 3 city are playing with fire. Huge rotation in a week or so before cup and then CL surely

  2. Glad He Ate Her
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    And they let Werner get away

    1. goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Your grav isn't G rated material ffs

      1. Glad He Ate Her
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Low effort

  3. @persecuted_by_mods
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Lots of I told you so's when it's only half time, granted Liverpool haven't looked great but football is unpredictable

      1. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Dean Smith should be looking at subs soon. Too keep the energy up. Especially in midfield and full backs. But Smith isn't the smartest guy so can see him not making subs and Liverpool getting a number of late goals.

    • pablo discobar
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Over next few gw's

      Salah to sterling
      Lascalles to James
      DCL to ings

    • Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Bruno cappers only capped him because they cant afford Salah...

      1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Wish I couldn’t afford him too

      2. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I have him. Just didn't cap him.

      3. Gobigorgohome
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        wish I have a low TV 🙁

      4. Unliklinho
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I sold Salah, brought in Kevin, captained Bruno...

    • Zladan
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      I need Salah to come on here or else my rival gets jammy Bruno (vc) points.

      1. Gudjohnsen
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        ?

        1. Les Bleus
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Whoosh

      2. mrodgers91
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Apparently salah was on the pitch but I understand the confusion as he did nothing

      3. DandyDon
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        It looked like he had a lot more efforts than mane or others to be fair even if they weren’t great

      4. SomewhatPleasing
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I don't think Salah comes on here, an ITK said he prefers the hub.

    • thomashl
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Best cheap defender for rest of the season?

      Taylor? Lamptey?

      1. Les Bleus
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Holdgate as well

      2. Willmissudimitrypayet
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I think Lamptey and Brigthon looked good. Was playing an uninspired Norwich-team though

      3. mrodgers91
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Lamptey not a bad idea brighton looks alright defensively and he has chance of playing OOP left mid

        1. thomashl
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Cheers. Yeah, from what I’ve seen of him he’s looked really good!

    • Differentiator
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      What happened with Mark and FFScout? Been living under a rock, he used to be the face of the website and business

      1. goriuanx
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Cashed in, owns 34 yachts now

      2. IN SANE IN DE BRUYNE
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        He didn't enjoy playing FPL when he was a scout

      3. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        He's in Hollywood producing the FPL movie

        1. Magic Zico
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Bollywood rather 😀

      4. Forza
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        He officially resigned in January 2019. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07096709/officers

      5. Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Money happened, even though he pretends he wanted to retire anyway. Hes clearly been told to keep his face away from the spotlight too because new owners dont want Mark to be synonymous with FFS. I wouldnt be surprised if he has a clause preventing him from doing other FPL-related stuff in social media too

      6. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Mark resigned as a Director and sold his controlling stake to Fantasy Media Ltd. Ultimate owner is now Chris James:

        https://twitter.com/elfozzie?lang=en
        https://uk.linkedin.com/in/chrisjamespg

      7. Fudgy
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Sold this website for £13 million. Difficult to turn that money down.

        1. Glad He Ate Her
          • 3 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Brb, making a fantasy website

        2. HuttonDressedasLahm
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Holy crap! Really??

          1. Lucy2019
            • 4 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            Obviously not.

          2. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
            • 14 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            You belive this guy ?

        3. Lucy2019
          • 4 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          LOL

        4. thomashl
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          What, that’s sick! Don’t get me wrong, it’s well deserved. Just didn’t think FFS was, in practice, a small media outlet.

          Should’ve quit music years ago and ventured into fantasy football

        5. diesel001
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Doubt it. If these accounts are correct it was sold for £334k

          https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/document-api-images-live.ch.gov.uk/docs/WUMQ-iqy1OcpzR0J-fH6F2dfVjbcHxFre5qstnQKB4c/application-pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAWRGBDBV3AMBVHFVR%2F20200705%2Feu-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20200705T164324Z&X-Amz-Expires=60&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEBAaCWV1LXdlc3QtMiJHMEUCIQCBTiKkIOuF7FdbYvZ4lhcQMaifDhUiTh0fggTo%2BE1q4AIgHBSznQef9%2FQvrVKiMIpcjgk8NphToK1ENViDUuSNyCYqvQMIqf%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FARACGgw0NDkyMjkwMzI4MjIiDLcz4MShsjvQATKrgSqRA6SFD0rxC%2Ff3E8wco6pIjwIv0toN75u5h%2FYRmLImfpiCl2l8tkRsLqJrWJPyToFCc4o5XjKwkjPYOueqBamN8rRc%2F3PRm2oHlKftPmen22AQ1qSncsJtwrhyYjFIm04jBTZXAfMZhkwA0rEjoJbXG8QqV1ZcKcDYJc%2Fw3HNhQsAKxf%2FULDu1TUuqQhWPC7OL6OCP07QAE4l8OqLl1PG4r7akvVNpHz3fB%2FNuAx0gAr1fNknc4skI1nkY33oWPcY9ewNKWd7xUuWbZ6D6Ao2BcyG0nZg41%2FxHy7hxoiSh3LTPGV5raaoitQMKwsLFhy8qlRCYu4p2wGRJLAx8JzVFgzOOGjPe1PsALVRYKMLsbpNl%2BOMmacZh%2F1ekvvKSFFPBQffHJdK6jAe%2FbQDnai84q5387SQpGvgr9j8kMoJmC9dREJAiQ3DPd6HVSN%2FRkknH3uOazPPxOrNslU6OV4X0GONSLE%2BummYl3mF7mFLUGA9oMsxG4AwuN28KSW97MYSUKEe0HvZZmt%2F5XF2pYBQLoz%2BTMNbkh%2FgFOusBYZlFJoc16aFitiQ05id6TAkTnXpSaCrLVuI6%2B5VA3V8sn6F0vAERAZjRs%2BzKa%2BDJBNABHFh%2FL8P8%2F48rS5PM1QlrTctk%2F5YUynRRzFKdh%2Fx33ppyxMvHxnA6hsvZVe9%2F%2BR7r9N%2BLqtdxvrWxkULAf2cMgouezgpVkI39rJQVYAbAtpolhdWKlVIlTIP5wA0Gbm0bAqCASJKyLlw2Zy5WFPcq9dpxWsLXKt2WSGSl6SN6FgK65Lh%2FwISSFH3Gh%2Fz%2F8%2BWXXWKWalU8W%2BiCGtJ1xZ0WZo%2FIHj02cSRZ0jUDXF3GrvYfNodwADg45A%3D%3D&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=ded76cdf503f1b2a6b4d6d60cfc42daa759105af52c1f890488138ebbabcd7c3

    • Willmissudimitrypayet
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Kasper Junker you absolute legend!

      1. TAT
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Better than Salah!

        1. Willmissudimitrypayet
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Much much better!

          1. TAT
            • 6 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            I didn't captain him, but Zinckernagel captain worked out fine!

    • Slim25
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Is this worth a -4 hit?
      Doherty > Holgate,
      DCL > Kane.

      Current team, (2.5m in bank)
      Pope (3.9m)
      TAA Doherty Aurier Ritchie (4.0m)
      Bruno Martial Mane Pulisic Mahrez
      DCL Jimi (Nketiah)

      Cheers!

      1. DandyDon
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I’d probably wait a week and then do for free

      2. IN SANE IN DE BRUYNE
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Maybe

      3. JohnBlack
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        No

        1. Slim25
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          No one fancies Kane to bag a few against a struggling Bournemouth?

    • Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Flopp blaming the pitch dryness lol

      1. GreennRed
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Humour attempt alert .........

        1. Brosstan
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Half time interview...

          1. GreennRed
            • 12 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            Amadán.

      2. Threat Level Midnight
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Is this for real? Link?

    • It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Hoping there was a German hairdryer in HT

    • Niho992
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Mane can score even when he s not playing good, cant say same for Salah

      1. Herman Toothrot
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Enlightening

      2. GreennRed
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        We'll find out but they've all been poor. Origi on again isn't inspiring.

    • g40steve
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Sort the team out Klopp

    • The Red Devil
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      If things stay the same, what're we doing with our pool assets?
      Was gonna sell son to get kdb, tempted to sell mane

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Selling Mo.

      2. It’s gonna Ben Mee
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Keeping TAA, ditching Salah

      3. Mr. O'Connell
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Selling mo regardless. Need to get Bruno just to stop the rot.

    • Better luck next year
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Best cap for GW34+? KDB? Bruno? Other?

      1. Flynny
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Kdb if he doesn't start tonight

      2. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Greenwood

      3. the snazzy viking
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Kane

    • mrodgers91
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Would take 0-0 even as a liverpool fan
      Double defence and no salah or mane

      1. DandyDon
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Clearly you would take 0-0. I only have VVD and Salah and have no idea what I want from this game! Probably 1-0 villa and cut my loses with Trent ahead on bps. That or a VVD goal involvement of course

        1. mrodgers91
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Still prefer Keita to assist ox or something irrelevant like that for a cheeky win

    • ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Great cross by Trent

      Nobody there

    • Glad He Ate Her
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      What kind of alcohol did they drink? I want to get this drunk

      1. GreennRed
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Wait until you're 18.

        1. Glad He Ate Her
          • 3 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          I'm 19, thanks though

          1. GreennRed
            • 12 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            9

          2. Lucy2019
            • 4 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            Stone?

      2. the snazzy viking
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        pure ethanol by the looks of it

    • Totti
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      time to sell salah??

      1. GOTHAM City F.C.
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        three weeks ago

      2. Ha.
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Two game weeks ago

      3. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Yes

      4. It’s gonna Ben Mee
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Probably

    • Pukki Party
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      I had forgot Djibril Cisse still plays striker for Liverpool

    • Manani
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      pretty clear liverpool got no motivation for the remaining games. anyone thinking out switching out Salah?

      1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Yes

    • goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Ox getting injured from passing a football

      Ffs

      1. Glad He Ate Her
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Still Arsenal deep down

    • Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Hopefully for Pool and Salah cappers Ox wont be able to continue

    • Stupendous
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Can I have my TC back?????

    • Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Which option:

      A) Jimenez (shu)
      B) Kane (bou) -4

      1. Sid1891
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        B

    • Don Kloppeone
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      With a roaring Kop end behind them, I’m pretty sure this would look different, however off the boil the players are. Shame really.

    • Zladan
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Was close to a Vardy & Hayden to Origi & Pulisic (-4).

      Thankfully I didn’t as I didn’t know which of my 8 forwards I would bench.

      Vardy gone regardless ahead of next gameweek.

    • el polako
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Keita is shocking

      1. GreennRed
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        The rest aren't much better.

    • g40steve
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Hold