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Mane, Matip and Pogba benched as Man Utd host Liverpool in Gameweek 9

In the final match of Gameweek 9, Manchester United host Liverpool in a mouth-watering clash at Old Trafford.

Kick-off is at 16:30 BST.

Manchester United make three changes from Gameweek 8, with Marcus Rashford (£9.4m), Fred (£4.9m) and Scott McTominay (£5.4m) replacing Nemanja Matic (£4.5m), Paul Pogba (£7.6m) and Jadon Sancho (£9.0m).

Bruno Fernandes (£11.8m) also starts despite heading into the game as a doubt.

For Liverpool, Sadio Mane (£11.9m) drops to the bench with Joel Matip (£5.0m).

As a result, Diogo Jota (£7.5m) starts in attack alongside Mohamed Salah (£12.8m) and Roberto Firmino (£8.9m), while Ibrahima Konate (£5.1m) partners Virgil van Dijk (£6.6m) in defence.

Curtis Jones (£5.0m) is a substitute having missed the last two games with a groin injury, but Fabinho (£5.4m) and Thiago (£5.3m) miss out completely.


GAMEWEEK 9 LINE-UPS

Man Utd XI: de Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw, Fred, McTominay, Greenwood, Fernandes, Rashford, Ronaldo

Subs: Henderson, Bailly, Dalot, Lingard, Matic, Pogba, van de Beek, Cavani, Sancho

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Konate, van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Milner, Keita, Salah, Jota, Firmino

Subs: Adrian, Mane, Gomez, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jones, Minamino, Tsimikas, Origi, Matip

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  1. Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Lol old man Ronaldo sycophants from 5 weeks ago, including Az, come out to play.

  2. Hy liverpool
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    I love old Trafford

  3. We Go Again
    • 9 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Has anyone had a bigger mare than this.

    I took a -4 to take Jota out for Havertz and captained him

    1. Botman and Robben
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Yes, people that captained Vardy over Mo.

  4. gellinmagellan
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    As a Liverpool fan, absolutely delighted with the game right now, as someone who removed Jota for Havertz...

  5. Powers106
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Salah c but I kept Ronaldo and now have 2 FT this next GW, lucky the popular transfers didn’t pan out and room to do a -4 mini WC = 3 transfers

  6. Baps hunter
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    At least Lukaku injury saved me from C disaster. Jota to Son for -4 didn't go as planned though.

  7. MIGHTY JOE
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Havertz cap over Salah.
    Salah killing both my fpl-season and Solskjærs career.

  8. yousunkmybattleship
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Ronaldo red card incoming second half

  9. LIARS POKER
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Anyone worse than doing Jota -> Havertz for a hit and captaining him which means I didn't captain Salah

    Got to laugh really

  10. Joey Tribbiani
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    And I thought I made the right call by capping James...

  11. Naby K8a
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Sky built this as Salah vs Ronaldo LMAO

    1. Hy liverpool
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Lol

  12. DaniCT
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    imagine i actually gave a thought on having Hravetz captain. Salah auto C

  13. Costa Nostra
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Surely OGS gets sacked at halftime??

  14. F4L
    • 9 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    There's not even any manager available, unless they all out for Zidane?

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Conte but does he want this mess?

    2. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Conte?

    3. Piggs Boson
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      I'd take Conte.

    4. WVA
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      A new manager wouldn't help much, have you seen how bad the players are

    5. F4L
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      fair enough maybe Conte, I'm not sure he could even sort out this defensive mess tbh

  15. Art Vandelay
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    United fans will leaving in their droves to get the early train back to Euston.

  16. Randaxus
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Wanna hear a joke? People who captained Havertz

  17. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    You Salah points are useless even if captained.

    Jota owners are the real winners here.

    1. Scholes Out For Summer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      160% EO for Salah. Nowhere near 200% EO so Salah captain is obviously not useless

    2. pundit of punts
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Eh?

      168% EO

      Huge rank gains with Salah captain

  18. The Final Boss
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Nightmare as a Utd fan..

  19. Forza Papac
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Havertz(c) is heading towards Kanexit levels of points swing

  20. Firmino
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    No sympathy for Salah non-cappers. Bad decision.

  21. Kaneyonero
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Told ye Salah (C)

  22. F_Ivanovic
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Salah C here... but I would still have strongly considered Havertz or Mount (which would have worked out) had I brought one of them in... but didn't feel like it would be worth a hit. Then again, I also feel like I deserve it the amount of times I stuck with Mo last season as captain when others were often going elsewhere (or selling!)

    1. Manani
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      i brought in Havertz, and captained Salah just for the fear of most will captain him.

  23. Scholes Out For Summer
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    As an United fan, Im glad I hedged my bets for this game anf captained Salah and got rid of Ronnie....

  24. fusen
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Imagine if Lukaku wasn't injured.

    What could have been!

  25. Amsterhammer
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Non FPL related. But as someone who grew up in the South East in the late 90s surrounded by glory hunters. This is lovely.

    1. circusmonkey
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Yes but have they just moved on to another team?

      1. Amsterhammer
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        Well those i kept track of on Facebook suggests they stayed with them.

  26. TKC07
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Live FPL trolling with message "Something went wrong :-(" when I tried to check my rank drop..!!

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

      Thanks for the reminder - says I'm up to OR 5K at the moment. Another half like that please, Trent/Mo!

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

    Screwed myself benching Jota.
    So annoyed.

  28. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Obviously the answer was to triple captain Salah this week.

  29. Ze_Austin
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Man U came into this match with worse defensive stats than Norwich

  30. Naby K8a
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Utd fans won’t want to hear this but this result takes you closer to winning your next trophy