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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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  2. Rolls-Royce
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Going into final GW trailing by 21 points in my cash ML.

    I have FH whilst the rival has no chip left (Had a monster score this week to take the lead)

    Doable?

    1. Lilac Breasted Roller
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      doable

      1. Rolls-Royce
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Ta mate. Need to smash it on FH.

        1. Lilac Breasted Roller
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          make sure to guess his transfers (1 or 2 FT?) and differentiate, good luck!

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

      Very - that City game could win it for you, could be cricket score

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

    Arnold need 5 more points to break last year Robbo record as defender for most points in FPL

  4. SHOWSTOPPERRR
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Guys how to know live rank?

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

      LiveFPL.net

    2. Lilac Breasted Roller
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      there are several websites like livefpl.net/rank

  5. Digital-Real
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Had Wolves not conceded in the last minute vs Burnley. It would have been the best final day ever to see who qualifies for CL. Fine margins.

    Chelsea vs Wolves
    Leic vs Man Utd

  6. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Very nearly a perfect week of it weren’t for the Bruno blank, Saiss benching and El Mohamady injury!

    1. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      *if

  7. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    No Saiss or Dilva but I thankfully had Conolly and Alonso on the bench

    1. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Better than Justin coming in

  8. Mini Mahouse
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Me and my ML rival have exactly the same amount of points for the final GW - Fighting for 1st - Both with FH left

    This will be interesting

  9. Lilac Breasted Roller
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    How's this for FH. Taking risks as I must catch up 15 pts.

    Pope
    Pieters Bardsley TAA
    Salah KDB Sterling DSilva Son
    Deeney Ings Greenwood
    Greenwood or Deeney first on bench

    1. 7shadesofsmoke
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      nice, pretty much mine but i have Kane instead of ings

      1. Lilac Breasted Roller
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Insane TV, congrats

  10. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Playing BB in final week and posted this as an idea earlier in the week and people were against it.
    Thoughts now?

    Bruno & Connolly
    To
    Antonio & Ings
    For -4?

    Also own Martial and Greenwood

    Thanks

  11. Danstoke82
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Is Sterling rising in price tonight do we know?

    1. 7shadesofsmoke
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      on 83% so not likely

      1. Danstoke82
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Cheers! Will sleep on the Salah > Sterling move for now then!

  12. Powell
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Top 300 with TC to play. Getting Kane at Hull vibes.

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

      k

  13. Rt505
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    12 points ahead of ML rival. They have FH. What do I do with this lot? 0.0 in the bank and 1FT.

    McCarthy (Ramsdale)
    Pieters, Long, AWB (Egan, Saiss)
    Dilva, KDB, Salah, Bruno (Foden)
    Rashford, Kane, Jimi

    Currently thinking AWB to Aurier. Any better options?

  14. Silecro
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Aurier or Digne for last gw?

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

    If you're interested on what points you woulda got with cap rotations involving Salah:

    Right so I based this on Salah at home being the priority captain choice, except for double gameweeks. Despite Salah being home or away the arm band is given to the City or Pool player with the double that week, except for the Mane+Salah one (as the Pool double were both away so Mane got that armband over Salah).
    Any week where the priority captain didnt feature then the vice comes in, except in the Mane+Salah where both didnt feature in 18 so I shoved the arm band on KDB in that instance.
    I have not included GW 38 obviously...

    Mane+Salah armband rotation = 518 points, Mane got the TC in GW24 for an additional 1 point. Grand total = 519 points

    Sterling+Salah armband rotation = 522 points, Salah got the TC in GW24 for an additional 16 points. Grand total = 538 points

    KDB+Salah armband rotation = 604 points, Salah got the TC in GW24 for an additional 16 points. Grand total = 620 points

    As I said this excludes 38, so I will repost it again after that to get the true totals. I dont believe I have made any mistakes

  16. shirtless
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Great night Greenwood, Bruno, Rashford, Salah(c), Trent, Robbo and Pulisic. 69 points I think. Was on 21! Top 1k still might be possible.

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

      i;d be disappointed with that, and salah captain, woah, i'd be going mad.

  17. Wardinator
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    I need Sterling, which route would you take?

    A) De Gea & KDB ——-> Pope Sterling
    B) Doherty & Bruno ——> Pieters & Sterling

  18. Rinseboy
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Final Decision for me I think this week. Leading ML by 20. Thanks for all the help!!!
    He has - Ings KDB Foden Jimi vs
    Me who has - Vardy Sterling Dilva Jesus.

    Would you do any of these for a hit
    A - Vardy to Ings -4 (cover move)
    B - Vardy to Kane -4 (more explosive gamble)
    C - Stick and hope 20 points is enough depending on what moves he does

    Pope
    TAA Doherty Aurier
    Martial Bruno Sterling Dilva Pullisic
    Vardy Jesus
    Martinez Greenwood Diop Fernandez