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Salah on the bench as Raphinha misses Leeds’ meeting with Liverpool

A trio of key Fantasy Premier League assets have missed out on the starting line-ups of Leeds’ Double Gameweek 32 meeting with Liverpool.

Mohamed Salah (£12.5m) is on the bench as for the first time since Double Gameweek 19 after a string of 12 successive Premier League starts.

Diogo Jota (£7.0m) is on the right-hand side of Liverpool’s front-three this evening, joined there by Roberto Firmino (£9.0m) and Sadio Mané (£11.7m).

Recent newcomer to the Fantasy radar Nathaniel Phillips (£4.1m) misses out with a hamstring injury tonight, drawing Fabinho (£5.4m) back into a centre-back role alongside Ozan Kabak (£5.0m).

Consequently, James Milner (£5.3m), Georginio Wijnaldum (£5.3m) and Thiago Alcantara (£5.5m) are the midfield trio for Liverpool tonight.

Raphinha (£5.5m) is also out of the matchday squad for Leeds following the injury he picked up against Manchester City.

Jack Harrison (£5.4m) returns for the Whites after missing the trip to the Etihad Stadium due to being ineligible.

Liam Cooper (£4.3m) is absent tonight through suspension so Pascal Struijk (£4.0m) returns to the side at centre-back with Diego Llorente (£4.4m).

Double Gameweek 32 Line-ups

Leeds United XI (4-1-4-1): Meslier; Alioski, Llorente, Struijk, Ayling; K Phillips; Costa, Roberts, Dallas, Harrison; Bamford.

Liverpool XI (4-3-3): Alisson; Robertson, Kabak, Fabinho, Alexander-Arnold; Thiago, Wijnaldum, Milner; Mané, Firmino, Jota.

Double Gameweek 32 so far…

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  1. SHOWSTOPPERRR
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Give me a hell yeahh

    1. DycheDycheBaby
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      HELL NO to Super League.

  2. moment
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Need another option on the questionnaire: g) Sit tight on transfers in the possibility the "Big 6" get chucked out of competition

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Meeting tomoz apparently according to interview with CP owner on Sky.

      1. Tango74
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Yes hold on your transfers big 6 might be thrown out tomorrow of EPL

  3. Bobby Digital
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    No Mo

  4. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    I get the logic and support from the ESL.

    Why worry for a top 4 when you are way better than more than half the team around? This way you have guaranteed TV rights and an amazing game.

    We are going to play the ESL Fantasy Footbal.

    Bring it in.

    P.S. UEFA should have done it ages ago. Guarantee a spot in CL for top 6 clubs in England, or at least allow 6 team to enter from UK, not capping it at 4.

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Do you understand the word competition?

    2. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Because the competitive element is being removed

      Why should Arsenal get to play in top level European for finishing 9th, or spurs for finishing 7th? Or Utd or Chelsea for finishing outside the top 4... or Juventus for finishing outside the Serie A champions league places

      Why should Leciester or West Ham be excluded for finishing third or fourth etc

      1. Philosopher's Stones
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        It's the rich kids' circle, and other clubs and us poor fans aren't allowed in it.

        1. badgerboy
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          2 years, 11 months ago

          'It's a big club and you ain't in it' - George Carlin

    3. moment
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      I won't play ESL Fantasy Football, nor will I watch my Chelsea play in it. And if we get chucked out of the league, I'll be perfectly fine with that. Always quite liked Craven Cottage as a ground.

      1. g40steve
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        The big German teams, Porto & PSG have turned them down.
        Arsenal held to a draw by Fulham, Man United beat by relegation Sheffield, City torn apart by Leicester & Pool hammered by Villa no wonder they want to get out 😉

    4. The Suspended One
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Europa league quality for Champions League money.

      I won’t be watching Inter vs Arsenal no matter the competition thx

    5. Scholes Out For Summer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      You let them allow top 6, next year theyll ask for top 8, then top 10.

      When does it stop? The entitlement has to stop, we are not 10 year olds

    6. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Utterly clueless post.

    7. DycheDycheBaby
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Clueless.

    8. Rassi
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Embarassing post.

      1. FPL Daniel
        • 14 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Sorry for sharing my opinion loudly

  5. Philosopher's Stones
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    News that Salah is rested for the ESL season opener would be a cherry on the top of this shipwrecked cake of a day.

  6. EmreCan Hustle
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Jamie Carragher, well said!

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      More respect to the mega teams that told them to do one!

  7. wulfrunian
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    @Kaptain Kane ,i read one of your last posts and i just want to say don't give up!A lot of games still to come.It's your season!

    1. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Haha thanks, just been awful past few weeks but everything prior was great.
      Just annoying if I have a poor finish to the season, would rather be the other way round.

      My stupid -12 this along with a catastrophic BB has plummeted me

      1. The Suspended One
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Remember how you got here

        1. Big boy Bowen
          • 7 Years
          2 years, 11 months ago

          This is true

  8. The Suspended One
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Salah benching incredible. Stay out King, it’s your game(week) off

    1. Bushwhacker
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Front three rotation is in full flight for the rest of the season.

      1. The Suspended One
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        He’s the only player that could hurt me this week

        1. Bushwhacker
          • 4 Years
          2 years, 11 months ago

          Hopefully he will off the bench!

  9. Nightcrawler
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Pathetic from leeds. Not even in the top talh and have the audacity to mock the reigning champions

    1. Nightcrawler
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Top half*

    2. Bushwhacker
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Mocking the ESL aren't they . . .quite rightly

    3. Scholes Out For Summer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      The reigning champs that lost 6-1 to AVL? Yeah right.

      Earn it. Liverpool before last season has earned jack squat

      1. Nightcrawler
        • 4 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Won ucl the season before last.

        1. Scholes Out For Summer
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          2 years, 11 months ago

          What did they do for the decade before that? What has arsenal and Spurs done in the past 20 years? What has United done in the past 8 years?

          Wigan and Portsmouth has the same number of FA cup wins than Liverpool, Spurs, and United combined in the past 15 years

      2. Bushwhacker
        • 4 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        7-2 I believe? Think Liverpool have earned a lot over the past few years . . . but there you go . . the team and the manager don't support this, it's unfair on them. But its far against the six clubs.

    4. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      As Bruno Fernandes quite rightly said today, “Dreams can’t be bought”

      How does it feel to be in direct opposition to the only player separating Man Utd from being a mid-table side?

  10. moment
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    I just have a sneaking feeling Leeds are gonna smash Liverpool here.

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      nah really can't see that happening

  11. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Phillips hammy problem, Sky sports

    1. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Miraculously in time for the BB, really gutted. When it’s going bad it really goes bad and when it goes well it really goes well.
      Which is really strange considering all picks and moves are independent of each other

      1. g40steve
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        I removed Dallas for him 🙁

  12. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Salah to come of the bench to brace

    Repeat of Palace game

  13. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    A Trent 40 pointer and Forster haul back Spurs and everything is given @Fantasy gods

    1. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      *VS not back

    2. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Not happening sorry buddy.

  14. djman102
    • 14 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    The cynic in me wonders if there will be any officiating bias against the ESL clubs the rest of the season.

    1. Bushwhacker
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Officiating bias against United? LOL. . . that's the best one I've heard in a long time.

  15. OLD Rafiki
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    gonna be an interesting game, no Salah and no Raph.

  16. Railwayman
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Nobody needs a "florentino perez cup"

    Against $uper$occer US banks$ league !!!!!!!!!

  17. The Polymath
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Scientist's say a new virus has been discovered in the Premier League this week which appears to be attacking high points scoring Premier league players. KDB, Kane, Lingard and Lacazette have already become victims.

    Klopp said he was highly concerned and wouldn't be taking any risks with Salah this evening,

    😉

    1. Philosopher's Stones
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Was that the reason the "big clubs" went over to join the ESL to protect their players from the virus?

    2. GreennRed
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Nice one 🙂

  18. Karan14
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Ummm.. where is Nat Phillips?

    1. GreennRed
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Injured.

    2. Warby84
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Tight hammy

    3. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Hammy according to Sky Sports

  19. The Train Driver
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Dawson lurking first on bench if Salah doesn't come on...

  20. fusen
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    I own Jota and TAA but I really would like Liverpool to lose this.

    I guess a Jota goal TAA assist and then 2 own goals by Salah would do 😛

    1. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      I like the bit about Liverpool losing but it has to be about 7-8 with Bamford, Jota and sub Salah all scoring hat-tricks. Of course, that's very likely to happen .....

  21. AM9
    • 2 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Is Ralph ok? King term or ?

  22. JONALDINHO
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    As a Liverpool fan I hope Leeds win this. Game doesn’t matter whatsoever with no more UCL.

  23. richarlison2348
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Do people really believe this super league is going to happen? I have to feeling its all going to blow over...

    1. richarlison2348
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      *have a*

    2. JONALDINHO
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      The clubs have already left UEFA. There’s no going back

      1. Top Lad Dakes.
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Is that so? I thought just certain owners like Woodward had left the positions they themselves held in UEFA?

      2. Old Man
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        I don't believe it. When they wake up and smell the coffee there will be some kind of appeasement/compromise and it will all settle down again. I very much doubt if they expected quite such an outpouring of condemnation.

        1. JONALDINHO
          • 6 Years
          2 years, 11 months ago

          This was planned for ages. They knew the reaction it would get but it doesn’t matter to them. Why would they care? All they care about is money

          1. Old Man
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 12 Years
            2 years, 11 months ago

            We totally agree about the money - why oh why do rich people need more. Their life's priorities are all wrong.

            1. badgerboy
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 8 Years
              2 years, 11 months ago

              It's not just the money. It's the power and feeling of influence. They're creating a new league so they feel like they're pioneering something.

    3. moment
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      I suspect they'll get some concessions in the CL deal and this won't happen. But things won't ever be quite the same.

    4. fusen
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      There are a few different things that have been said and done which make this unlikely to just be a trick to gain power but continue the status quo

      The ESL saying they are sending legal proceedings to European courts to block being expelled isn't something you do as a joke.

  24. OLD Rafiki
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    6 points from 3 players, ESL effect?

  25. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Not that Mourinho doesn't cause problems (I'm a Chelsea fan, I know!) - but it sure tells a story when the players who were actually playing (well) for Spurs come out and wish him luck. The ones putting in a real shift.

    I know every Spurs fan is sick of him, and in some cases for good reason, but the fact so much of the squad is not up to par is also on the players & that issue will stick with the team.

    Saw the same happen at Chelsea (twice), and also at United too. There are of course some outliers (e.g. Shaw).

    1. Silecro
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      That may be true, but the only common denominator in 4x sacking in 3 different PL clubs is Jose himself

      1. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        For sure, he has an abrasive style, and it doesn't work for all players - but it's the ones that really work for it that play well for him & get picked...

        Every manager gets sacked after too long these days anyway. It's Jose, so more of a media circus.

    2. Nightcrawler
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Chelsea won the keague the season after he was sacked with pretty much the same squad with 95 points

      Tottenham have the same squad that reached the ucl final. The fact is he completely lost the dressing room yet again and couldnt get the best oit of the team. If kane stays and this super keague doesnt happen i have no doubt theyll be back in top 4 again next season

      1. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Spurs players downed tools before Mourinho arrived. Whole reason Poch left.

        RE: Chelsea, after the first stint when he was sacked, we didn't win the next season.

        For the second stint after he was sacked, we sis win with Conte but that starting XI was far different to Mourinho's. Alonso? Moses? Kante?

    3. fusen
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      The Athletic are running an article saying that lots of the squad were getting sick of his attitude towards them.

      Whatever your feelings on it are, it's quite clear that Mou can't manage modern PL clubs and their players with just a stick approach with no carrot.

      1. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Not disagreeing with that at all. In fact, agree.

  26. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Quiet on here tonight

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Football is finished.

      1. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Everyone is over at FantasySoccerScout.

        1. fusen
          • 12 Years
          2 years, 11 months ago

          Snap 😛

        2. Tango74
          • 3 Years
          2 years, 11 months ago

          Some1 should buy the domain name ready

      2. Tango74
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        No it isn’t they will just carry on, the money will will come sponsors

    2. fusen
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Everyone has changed to the Fantasy Super League Scout site to chat

    3. FPL price manipulators are …
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      8 day Mourning Period

      1. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Think Phillip knew what was about to happen?

  27. Duke Silver ☑
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Is Jota left or right footed?

    1. JBG
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Yes

    2. Escapist
      • 13 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      5* Weak foot

  28. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Dallas YC

    Rough with the rough

    1. Duke Silver ☑
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Halfway to his red card. Nice.

      1. TheSteel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Salah against 10 tired men

    2. djman102
      • 14 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Of course, I get him off my bench THIS week. 60 minutes still for him to do something (other than another YC of course)

    3. richarlison2348
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      punish all the snap buyers!

  29. TheSteel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    TAA wants a goal

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

    Only fitting that Dallas gets a card on his birthday.