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Salah and Firmino benched as Taylor returns for Burnley at Liverpool

The Double Gameweek 19 benching spree continues at Anfield as Mohamed Salah (£12.5m) misses out on Liverpool’s starting XI.

The Egyptian is currently on a run of four blanks since his 16-point haul against Crystal Palace.

However, it must be said that his massive score at Selhurst Park came in the last Premier League match that he was benched for.

Roberto Firmino (£9.3m) finds himself among the substitutes for Liverpool too as Jurgen Klopp opts for a front-three of Sadio Mané (£11.9m), Divock Origi (£5.2m) and Xherdan Shaqiri (£6.4m).

Jordan Henderson (£5.4m) is missing but the Reds are boosted by the return of Joel Matip (£5.4m) at centre-back.

He starts alongside Fabinho (£5.4m) with Andrew Robertson (£7.4m) and Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.3m) fixed in their usual stations among the back-four.

The big news for Burnley is the comeback from injury for Charlie Taylor (£4.5m) who has been absent since sustaining a muscle problem against Sheffield United in Gameweek 16.

Dwight McNeil (£5.7m) and Robbie Brady (£5.0m) provide the width either side of Chris Wood (£6.2m) and Ashley Barnes (£6.0m) tonight.

Liverpool v Burnley Line-ups

Liverpool XI (4-3-3): Alisson; Robertson, Matip, Fabinho, Alexander-Arnold; Oxlade-Chamberlain, Wijnaldum, Thiago; Mané, Origi, Shaqiri.

Burnley XI (4-4-2): Pope; C Taylor, Mee, Tarkowski, Lowton; Brady, Westwood, Brownhill, McNeil; Wood, A Barnes.

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  1. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    A tale of two goalkeepers

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

      And managers...

      No 13 point lead

  2. Egg noodle
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Firmino is the poor man's Heskey

    1. Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Liverpool have a proud history of crap non scoring strikers that their deluded fans somehow still rate highly. Dirk Kuyt another example.

  3. DA Minnion (Former great)
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Was effective ownership always as prevalent as it is now. Don't remember in the early days not wanting my players to score.

    1. GS456
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Yeah hate this

    2. Mr. O'Connell
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Ruins the game. Ignorance is bliss.

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

      You always want your players to score.

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

        No one is actually 100% owned

        1. CloudSky
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Captaincy makes it possible for players to have over 100% "ownership".

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

            But not really

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

          Find out what effective ownership is first 😉

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

            Depending if you want to obsess about top 0.001% out of 7 million players

            GOAL

            1. Deulofail
              • 8 Years
              3 years, 2 months ago

              Uh, no. if everyone in your ML captains a player you own, but haven't captained, you will lose ground to them for every point the player scores. That's effective ownership. It's the same principle on a larger scale.

        3. DA Minnion (Former great)
          • 11 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Salah 120 percent in top 10 K

      2. CloudSky
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Not true if rank matters to you at all.

      3. Igz08
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Not at all, i.e. this week Bruno scoring lost me places even tho I have him

    4. Evil Greg
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Game used to have 3 million players and 1/3 of them had given up by gameweek 4.

      1. JONALDINHO
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Top 10k meant nothing back then

    5. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Always the case just numbers weren’t as well publicised.

    6. thegaffer82
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      No, it definitely wasn’t.

      I get that people follow it, but I try my best to avoid it unless it’s a direct ML rival who has someone captained

    7. Ragabolly
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      It's just a generalized version of the good old "I don't want that player to score because my main ML rival captained him" which was always part of the game..

      1. DA Minnion (Former great)
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        I guess but for me rank is everything.

  4. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    So funny to me (not even a Liverpool fan) that people complain Liverpool get too many pens.

    If where I just checked is right, they were awarded 5 in the league last year, nowhere near the most.....

    Which was United. With FOURTEEN

    1. Make United Great Again
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      We own VAR.

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

      🙂

    3. Evil Greg
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      All of man United's penalties were penalties. What about all of Liverpool's offside goals two years ago?

      1. Top Lad Dakes.
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Weeere they though?

      2. JONALDINHO
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Bruno standing on the opponents leg and falling down was a clear pen. Yes.

        1. Evil Greg
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          OK that one against Southampton was lucky I agree

    4. thegaffer82
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      United are the club of the Illuminati. Some sick occult stuff going on in that club - have you seen their mascot!!

      1. Evil Greg
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Hahaha witch doctor new mascot

  5. FantasyHero
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    So based on zwd, now that the curse will be 9ver after this game we should all be getting salah in the team?

    1. FantasyHero
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Lol

    2. BenDavies
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      in all seriousness the guy is finished. moving him on the first opportunity i can

      1. JONALDINHO
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        The doctor or Salah?

        1. BenDavies
          • 11 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          salah

        2. FantasyHero
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Lmao

  6. Party time
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Sean Dyche is not joking around

    • Charlie&TheLads
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Wait...did Salah start from the bench?

      1. Mr. O'Connell
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        A blank's a blank

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

        Came off it

      3. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Klopp focusing on cups with City walking the league.

        1. Charlie&TheLads
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Lol

    • TRIPOS TOPPER
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      this has got last minute pen for Liv written all over it

      1. tisza
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Pope will save it

    • Fer Fuch's Ake
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I'd love to be in the VAR booth when clear and obvious fouls are just dismissed. Do they know we see the same footage?

    • Sean
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      RIP to the Salah KDB Bruno trinity

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

        This week!

      2. Gross Blank Point
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Just checking back there and I haven't had all three in my team at the same time at all this season
        Think the prices put me off

      3. Dash444
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Maddison, stones , Antonio the new Trinity.
        ,

    • Bury94
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      A cheeky Burnley goal would come in handy

      1. aleksaa2
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        By Wood, so Ben Davies can stop complaining

      2. Top Lad Dakes.
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Erik Pieters. I’m praying for it. Everything crossed.

    • FER FUSCH AKE
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I just wired another tenner to the ZWD. Salah curse continues for another 5 weeks. Price has doubled.

    • Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Any reason not to do KDB to Gundo with my FT?

      Certainly frees a helluva lot of funds that can then be used to get Kane (for Bamford perhaps, or Watkins - though I just got him)

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

        Madisson?

        1. Top Lad Dakes.
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Maybe... patchy player though, more expensive, plus leaves me with only 2 city defenders.

      2. Igz08
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Would do it if I didn't have Kane already

    • STEP rOVERS
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Cmon Burnley

    • J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Poor is a machine lol

    • BenDavies
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Burnley penalty would go down beautifully anytime soon

      1. Hybrid.power
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Who would take it? Barnes?

        1. BenDavies
          • 11 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Wood is the penalty taker

    • WVA
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Me: Salah captain
      Rival: Pope

      Lol

    • Camino Aleatorio
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Pool is not poor since Salah joined the fight. Burnley is just defending like their life depends on it.

      It's a whirlwind of action.

    • Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      No chance of a Wood or Pieters goal right?

      1. Dash444
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        My cup rival has Lowton so a 90 minute winner is obvious.

    • ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Liverpool constantly trying to cross and now lumping long balls from defence up to mane and salah

      1. Pukki Party
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Won them the league last season

    • Pukki Party
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Too soon to get rid of Salah as we don't know if zwd will be paid another 5£?

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

        He said no

    • Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Pope is so much better than Pickford and only one person can’t see it

      1. Lanley Staurel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Totally agree. Just a level above Pickford.

        1. Rainer
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          A level?

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

        I can

      3. Pukki Party
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Problem is we have no idea if he can play with his feet under pressure

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

        God. Because we are all equals in his eyes.

        1. Deulofail
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          OR HER

    • Lanley Staurel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Remind me which Championship club did Liverpool sign Thiago from?

      1. BenDavies
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        this. the guy is painfully average.

      2. JONALDINHO
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        What did he do wrong? People so quick to criticise pool players if they don’t set the league on fire

        1. Lanley Staurel
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Slows the game down, misplaced passes, not a good fit. Nothing to do with him being a Pool player why even say that??

    • Nightcrawler
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Everton fan here but hope pool score here

      Deserve the title more than varchester utd and city

      1. COLLIN QUANER
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Varchester won't win the league for another decade

      2. Supersonic Marv'
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        There is no way you're an Everton fan. You're not fooling anybody.

        1. Lanley Staurel
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          This

      3. FER FUSCH AKE
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Oh shut up. Pool have been crap all season, why do they deserve it?

    • Bushwhacker
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      What a horrid game.

    • Lovren an elevator
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      You've gotta hand it to Burnley, their defending is almost flawless

    • ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      penalty

    • _Ninja_
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      burnley pen

    • Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Burnley Pen

    • GreennRed
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Burnley defence very solid. Salah looks like a man who'll try and buy a penalty cos there's no other way through.