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Pulisic benched as Chelsea switch to three-man defence at Liverpool

Owners of Christian Pulisic (£7.4m) will be frustrated to see their man on the Chelsea bench for the final match of Gameweek 37+.

It is the first time the American has not started since the Gameweek 30+ win at Aston Villa.

Frank Lampard has opted to change his formation for the trip to Anfield, lining up in a 3-4-3 shape with Marcos Alonso (£6.1m) and Reece James (£4.9m) as the wing-backs.

Mason Mount (£6.0m) has moved forward to take Pulisic’s place in the front-three but Olivier Giroud (£6.7m) and Willian (£7.3m) retain their starting berths from the 1-0 win over Norwich.

Liverpool, who will lift the Premier League trophy tonight, have predictably gone with the big guns for this one.

That means Mohamed Salah (£12.5m) and Sadio Mané (£12.2m) are both stationed either side of Roberto Firmino (£9.3m) as per usual.

And in defence, Andrew Robertson (£7.0m) and Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.7m) start in their preferred positions, as does Virgil van Dijk (£6.5m).

Liverpool XI (4-3-3): Alisson; Robertson, van Dijk, Gomez, Alexander-Arnold; Fabinho, Wijnaldum, Keïta; Mané, Firmino, Salah.

Chelsea XI (3-4-3): Kepa; Azpilicueta, Zouma, Rüdiger; Alonso, Kovacic, Jorginho, R James; Mount, Giroud, Willian.

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  1. Niho992
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Routleeeeeeeedgeeeeeeee

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

    Come on Brentford, score!!!

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

      Oh dear.

  3. Bury94
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Screw this game the Championship is well better

  4. EL tridente
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    That was it... Will probably be around 20 points behind the leader in my ML.

  5. Pdrpro
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    I'm swapping out either Vardy or Rashford in GW 38, which one should make way for Auba?

    1. FreddyP3
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Should make way for Kane you mean

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

    Barnsley scored! Wow

  7. Tasty Jerk
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Barnsley goal wow

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

    Barnsley scored!

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

      Bye bye Brentford.

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

        still in Play Offs though..?

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

      What a shame it won’t save them. Didn’t see them getting that result

  9. FOO FIGHTER
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Salah hattie confirmed second half. All assited by Trent.

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

    Forrest some how thrown away their playoff place! 5 goal swing to Swansea! Another year in the championship for them it looks like

  11. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Bilic looks like hes going to explode

    1. Scholes Out For Summer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      the man is a quality coach

  12. Says
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    So Man U and LEI could just play out an intentional draw and both get champs league spot?

  13. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    What a Salah @ home and Sterling all other games captain rotation would have got you this season:
    494 points, this includes Salah coming in for Sterling some weeks when Sterling didnt feature, apart from those instances, Sterling covers every game where Salah isnt at home. Obviously this doesnt include 38, and I have just given Salah "5 points" for this week.

    1. have you seen cyan
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      I didnt take into account doubles either tbh, maybe the cap luckily landed on the player with a double but I didnt check. And TC isnt factored into this either, so really this is a fair bit lower then the reality

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        actually it did land on Sterling for a double and you'd probably triple that so an extra 10 points - 504 total, not including 38

        1. have you seen cyan
          • 4 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          +29 for Salahs double in 24 = 533 at least, maybe you tc Salah then its going to be around 545 something

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

    Cmon Frank, its Puli time

  15. Warby84
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Swansea/Forest on exact points + GD what happens?

  16. _Ninja_
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Salah wastes big chance.

  17. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    LOL Salah absolute sitter.

  18. Salah’s Sonnet
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Wtf did Salah just do

  19. Woy_is_back
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Wolves will definitely get 1 point minimum from Chelsea. Man U would have been qualified already if they did not fak up

    1. Robson-Canoe
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      If Pool and Wolves beat Chelsea, United have qualified already.

    2. The Suspended One
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      That last match vs Wolves was insane, was really looking for a point tonight

  20. Scholes Out For Summer
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    I love English football

  21. The Suspended One
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Salah thinks he’s back at Chelsea

  22. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Wtf salah

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

      What an effort! Oh dear

    2. gooberman
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Don't moan. You already have an assist that wasn't.

  23. Eat my goal!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Wow

  24. RAFA THE GAFFA
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    😆 😆 😆 😆

  25. GROBARI
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Fulham will go to the PL from PO. Brentford with a massive choke in the last 2 games

  26. JJO
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    And then they say its not all about luck in fpl

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

      Actually I say it is 99% luck inside the top 100k

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

    Salah is hopeless, pass to Mane would be so much better.

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

      Salah powderpuff sot ,

  28. WVA
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    What the hell Salah that is disgraceful, bloody pass it

  29. pingissimus
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Fantastic end of season in the Champo - it almost always is. Such a fun league

  30. James2201
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Would you make any changes to this team. I am 10 points clear in my league.
    We have 7 players the same, so I think it could come down to captains. Here is my team with 1.7 in the bank. I will put (hh) next to the players he has the same

    Pope (hh)
    Trent (hh) Egan Boly
    Salah (hh) KDB (hh) Martial (hh) Bruno (hh)
    Greenwood (hh) Jiminez (hh) Kane

    Subs - Mccarthy Foden Aarons Tanganga

    Do I play it safe, or I was thinking of trying to secure it by maybe swapping either KDB or Salah for Sterling. Or any other ideas?