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The penultimate Premier League match of the day takes place at Villa Park, where Liverpool are the visitors.

Kick-off is at 17:30 GMT.

Liverpool go into this match 15 points adrift of league leaders Arsenal, having played the same number of games.

They’ve also won only once on the road all season, although that did come in their previous away fixture in Gameweek 15.

Jurgen Klopp has made six changes to his side from the Carabao Cup fourth-round loss to Manchester City on Thursday, and it’s more like a first-choice XI from the players he has at his disposal.

Trent Alexander-Arnold is fit enough to start after illness, taking his place in a pretty much full-strength defence.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain joins Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez in the front three.

As for the hosts, Robin Olsen starts in goal in the absence of World Cup-winning Argentina international Emiliano Martinez.

£4.5m midfielder Leon Bailey is again deployed up top by Unai Emery, who has won his first two league matches in charge of Villa.

GAMEWEEK 17 LINE-UPS

Aston Villa XI: Olsen, Young, Konsa, Mings, Digne, Luiz, Kamara, McGinn, Buendia, Watkins, Bailey.

Subs: Marschall, Cash, Ings, Chambers, Bednarek, Coutinho, Dendoncker, Archer, K Young.

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson, Thiago, Henderson, Fabinho, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Salah, Nunez.

Subs: Kelleher, Gomez, Keita, Elliott, Tsimikas, Carvalho, Bajcetic, Phillips, Doak.



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  1. Zenith UK
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Erm... Prime?!

    1. JBG
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Optimus?

      1. OptimusBlack
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 18 days ago

        What

    2. _Ninja_
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Back now

      1. Zenith UK
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 18 days ago

        What was that, eh?

  2. Cilly Bonnolly
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Get your sh*t together Amazon.

  3. Zimo
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    The fek happened to the stream

  4. HellasLEAF
    • 16 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Ignored the scout picks advice on Darwin vs Salah and shoe-horned Salah into the team.

    Glad I did.

    1. RICICLE
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      It’s one game

  5. Make FPL Casual Again
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    So notwitstanding all the injuries and Salah not playing in a two up front as expected, looks like he's not back in his wider role ?

    That's great

  6. EWH2020
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Assuming that Salah assist will be wiped out. Asking as a Kulusevski owner

    1. RICICLE
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Don’t worry it’ll stand, they can’t even do their jobs correctly

    2. putana
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      unless epl class it as an own goal, i think the assist will stay

  7. Sandy Ravage
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    The score would be 2-2 if Villa were more competent attacking

  8. RICICLE
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Villa goal!!!! Get in!

  9. _Ninja_
    • 15 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Good header Watkins.

  10. Salarrivederci
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Salah still in battle for bonus.

    Nice wipe!

    1. RICICLE
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Hopefully falls out of them

  11. Woy_is_back
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    West Ham to beat Arsenal

    1. Zimo
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Unlikely

  12. putana
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    liverpool are shambolic defensively

  13. Shark Team
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Watkins looks really good in this Emery formation, been close whole game

    1. MGD
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Agree

    2. Zimo
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Liverpool are also just very bad at defence this season

    3. GreennRed
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Needs to be more ruthless at goal time. Apparently Emery has been on his case throughout the break. Still a converted winger, needs more killer instinct.

  14. GreennRed
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Great header. Schoolgirl defending.

    1. GreennRed
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Scrap that. What's Matip doing?

  15. JBG
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Yeah Darwin won't last long in my team if this continues.

  16. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    You don’t get TAA for his CS. You don’t get him for his attacking returns either. You don’t get TAA.

  17. sirmorbach
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Watkins essential

  18. RamaJama
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Darwin got his Anti scoring vaccine?

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      No, the football gods are trolling us with him.

    2. Make FPL Casual Again
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Has he started scoring, assisting and then get taken off early

  19. Ivan Toney Soprano
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Transfered out Watkins and *checks who got the assist* umm Douglas Luiz out of my team last minute :/

    On a serious note though, swapped Mitro and Salah to Nunez and Kulu last night, as a Christmas present to you all. You are welcome.

  20. WVA
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Nunez going off here I think

    1. WVA
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Keita and Elliot coming on

      1. putana
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 18 days ago

        doubt it

    2. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Nope

  21. WVA
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Nunez is genuinely an awful footballer, he just runs offside

    1. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Not quite Liverpool’s Haaland, worth the price?

  22. WVA
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Thiago and Chamberlain off

  23. La Roja
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Is Saliba starting?

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Thanks for reminding me there was a game this evening

    2. Zimo
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Yes. No Trippier for u. Sorry

  24. TomSaints
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    When that Salah assist goes and Salah ends on 7-8 points. Then not having him looks an awful lot better.

    So not too panicked

    1. Chalobah's Witness
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      why should it go if it hasn't gone by now?
      They don't care about FPL rules

      1. TomSaints
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 18 days ago

        These things take time and will get cleaned up in official stats etc

  25. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Anyone set up a Nunez owners support group yet?

    1. Old Bull
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      I’m not sure anyone could make me feel better

  26. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    ⚽ Team News 📰
    Arsenal : Ramsdale, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Tierney, Partey, Xhaka, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Nketiah.
    Subs: Turner, Holding, Cedric, Vieira, Lokonga, Elneny, Marquinhos, Zinchenko, Crozier-Duberry.

    West Ham : Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Kehrer, Cresswell, Soucek, Rice, Paqueta, Bowen, Benrahma, Antonio.
    Subs: Areola, Johnson, Fornals, Lanzini, Downes Ogbonna, Coventry, Emerson, Mubama.

    1. THFC4LIFE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Cheers

      1. Revival
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 18 days ago

        No Zouma is great for Arsenal attack owners

    2. Sandy Ravage
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Whitegaard FTW

  27. Granville
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 16 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Darwin is just not going to cover Salah in any respect. It's just a matter of whether he's worth 9m.

    1. RICICLE
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      It’s ONE game

      1. Old Bull
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 18 days ago

        Rubbish, he’s got red hot form when it comes to messing up

        1. RICICLE
          • 3 Years
          3 years, 18 days ago

          How soon these things turn around though in football

    2. Thanos
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Was looking very good before the deadline. Now feel stupid with only Nunez and no Salah

    3. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      Think Salah will continue or back to the place he was in the first half of the season?

  28. FPL Brains
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    Should have followed my own advice:

    https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/25535510

    1. Paqueta Rice
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      To be fair, they’ve scored twice and are winning. Darwin has just been wasteful.

  29. Thanos
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    How many chances does Nunez need to score!? His finishing is atrocious!!!

  30. boc610
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 18 days ago

    darwin owners NOW saying he's no good...yet you transferred him in.

    1. JBG
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      My logic was, he gets so many chances, surely one of them ends up in goal.

      1. Old Bull
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 18 days ago

        This, but the evidence keeps stacking up to suggest otherwise

    2. Chalobah's Witness
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      what can you do if Mitro's injured and you need a replacement?

    3. Sandy Ravage
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      He needs Salah to set up more and easier chances for him

    4. maditass
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 18 days ago

      He is still worth it. Soon you'll be captaining him every week