2.05pm team news: Salah + Watkins benched, Gibbs-White starts

Price Change Predictions

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Cunha	MUN	8.0m	101.0%	Very Likely
James	CHE	5.6m	98.8%	Maybe
L.Miley	NEW	4.4m	99.0%	Maybe
Mukiele	SUN	4.2m	98.4%	Maybe
Lewis-Potter	BRE	4.8m	97.2%	Maybe
O'Reilly	MCI	5.3m	93.2%	Unlikely
Chalobah	CHE	5.5m	91.8%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	91.4%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	91.3%	Unlikely
Alderete	SUN	4.0m	89.0%	Unlikely
Dalot	MUN	4.4m	84.3%	Unlikely
Rogers	AVL	7.3m	76.4%	Unlikely
Ekitiké	LIV	9.0m	75.1%	Unlikely
Virgil	LIV	5.9m	76.3%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.6m	74.3%	Unlikely
Mount	MUN	5.9m	71.0%	Unlikely
Tete	FUL	4.5m	69.6%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.8m	66.2%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.3m	62.7%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	63.5%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	60.4%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.5m	59.1%	Unlikely
Saliba	ARS	5.9m	58.3%	Unlikely
Trossard	ARS	6.9m	55.3%	Unlikely
E.Le Fée	SUN	4.9m	55.4%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	55.2%	Unlikely
Konaté	LIV	5.4m	53.1%	Unlikely
Pickford	EVE	5.5m	52.0%	Unlikely
Semenyo	BOU	7.7m	51.1%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	51.8%	Unlikely
Rice	ARS	7.2m	47.1%	Unlikely
Raya	ARS	6.0m	49.8%	Unlikely
Smith Rowe	FUL	5.6m	48.6%	Unlikely
Heaven	MUN	3.8m	47.6%	Unlikely
Rúben	MCI	5.7m	46.9%	Unlikely
Wirtz	LIV	8.1m	45.6%	Unlikely
Watkins	AVL	8.5m	46.1%	Unlikely
Calvert-Lewin	LEE	5.8m	44.0%	Unlikely
Kamara	AVL	4.9m	44.8%	Unlikely
A.Becker	LIV	5.4m	44.5%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
De Ligt	MUN	5.0m	100.2%	Very Likely
Pedro Porro	TOT	5.3m	100.1%	Very Likely
Udogie	TOT	4.4m	100.1%	Very Likely
Nørgaard	ARS	5.2m	100.1%	Very Likely
James	LEE	5.3m	99.3%	Maybe
Cucurella	CHE	6.2m	98.5%	Maybe
McAtee	NFO	5.1m	98.1%	Maybe
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	97.3%	Maybe
Bevan	BOU	3.9m	94.5%	Maybe
Jair Cunha	NFO	4.3m	95.2%	Maybe
Yoro	MUN	4.3m	93.2%	Unlikely
Trafford	MCI	4.6m	94.5%	Unlikely
P.M.Sarr	TOT	4.6m	94.2%	Unlikely
Nwaneri	ARS	5.1m	94.4%	Unlikely
L.Guilherme	WHU	4.9m	94.3%	Unlikely
Gibbs-White	NFO	7.3m	94.0%	Unlikely
Mosquera	ARS	5.4m	93.7%	Unlikely
Hannibal	BUR	4.8m	93.1%	Unlikely
Fer López	WOL	5.2m	92.5%	Unlikely
Tasker	BHA	3.9m	92.3%	Unlikely
Barnes	BUR	4.3m	91.6%	Unlikely
Fitzgerald	MUN	4.4m	90.8%	Unlikely
Hermansen	WHU	4.3m	87.5%	Unlikely
Robertson	LIV	5.8m	87.0%	Unlikely
Bayindir	MUN	4.8m	87.1%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	87.3%	Unlikely
Aké	MCI	5.3m	86.1%	Unlikely
Adams	BOU	5.0m	85.0%	Unlikely
Johnson	SUN	3.9m	85.5%	Unlikely
Enzo	CHE	6.5m	84.8%	Unlikely
Bellegarde	WOL	5.2m	85.3%	Unlikely
Broggio	AVL	4.5m	85.5%	Unlikely
R.Gomes	WOL	4.4m	81.1%	Unlikely
Odobert	TOT	5.3m	84.8%	Unlikely
Seung soo	NEW	4.4m	79.9%	Unlikely
Van Hecke	BHA	4.6m	78.4%	Unlikely
March	BHA	5.8m	79.3%	Unlikely
Welbeck	BHA	6.4m	76.4%	Unlikely
Roberts	BUR	4.4m	78.4%	Unlikely
Agbadou	WOL	4.3m	77.0%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	B
Up	Pickford	EVE	B, Vs
Down	Alisson	LIV	C, Vs
Down	Donnarumma	MCI	B, Vs, Sus
No Change	Kelleher	BRE	B, Vs
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:46pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	C, Vs
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C
Up	Keane	EVE	Vs
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Marc Guehi	CRY	A
No Change	van den Berg	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	C
Down	Andersen	FUL	C
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	C, Sus
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	A
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:50pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	A
No Change	Foden	MCI	A, Vs
Up	Matheus Cunha	MUN	A
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	A
Up	Wirtz	LIV	B, Vs
Up	Grealish	EVE	B, Vs
No Change	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	B, Sus
No Change	Schade	BRE	C, Vs
Down	Minteh	BHA	C
No Change	Anderson	NFO	C, £

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:54pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	A, Vs
Up	Ekitiké	LIV	A, Vs
Up	Bowen	WHU	B, Vs
Down	Thiago	BRE	C, Vs, Inj
No Change	Mateta	CRY	C
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B, Rest

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:56pm

Three Premier League matches kick off at 14:05 GMT this afternoon, with Liverpool and Aston Villa among the teams in action.

TEAM NEWS

Unai Emery makes just one change to the team that beat Leeds United last week; however, it is a significant one as Donyell Malen ousts Ollie Watkins from the starting XI.

There are three changes to the Wolverhampton Wanderers line-up: Yerson Mosquera, Jean-Ricner Bellegarde and Jhon Arias in for Ladislav Krejci, Marshall Munetsi and Tolu Arokodare.

At the City Ground, Morgan Gibbs-White is fit to start, having been sidelined during Thursday’s Europa League victory against Malmo due to a back injury.

However, Murillo is not available, with Morato taking his place at the back.

As for Brighton and Hove Albion, Olivier Boscagli and Carlos Baleba drop to the bench. Lewis Dunk and Maxim De Cuyper replace them.

Down in London, Arne Slot has made two changes to the side beaten 3-0 by Nottingham Forest.

Florian Wirtz comes in for Mohamed Salah, while Joe Gomez replaces Curtis Jones at right-back.

Up top, Hugo Ekitike is only fit enough for a place on the bench, with Alexander Isak leading the line.

West Ham United have made three alterations. Konstantinos Mavropanos replaces the benched Max Kilman in defence. Additionally, Soungoutou Mangassa and Lucas Paqueta start in place of Igor Julio and Crysensio Summerville.

LINE-UPS

Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Pau, Digne, Kamara, Tielemans, McGinn, Buendia, Rogers, Malen

Subs: Bizot, Lindelof, Maatsen, Bogarde, Barkley, Onana, Guessand, Watkins, Sancho

Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Johnstone, Tchatchoua, Agbadou, Mosquera, Toti, Wolfe, J Gomes, Andre, Bellegarde, Arias, Strand Larsen

Subs: Sa, H Bueno, S Bueno, Munetsi, Hwang, Arokodare, Chirewa, Hoever, Mane

Nottingham Forest XI: Sels, Savona, Milenkovic, Morato, Williams, Sangare, Anderson, Ndoye, Gibbs-White, Dominguez, Jesus

Subs: John, Hudson-Odoi, Kalimuendo, Hutchinson, Yates, Cunha, McAtee, Boly, Abbott

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Verbruggen, De Cuyper, van Hecke, Dunk, Kadioglu, Wieffer, Ayari, Minteh, Rutter, Gomez, Welbeck

Subs: Steele, Gruda, Tzimas, Hinshelwood, Baleba, Kostoulas, Boscagli, Veltman, Coppola

West Ham United XI: Areola, Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Todibo, Diouf, Magassa, Potts, Fernandes, Bowen, Paqueta, Wilson

Subs: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Kilman, Igor, Fullkrug, Guilherme, Rodriguez, Soucek, Irving

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Gomez, Konate, van Dijk, Kerkez, Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Gakpo, Isak

Subs: Mamardashvili, Endo, Salah, Chiesa, Jones, Ekitike, Robertson, Nyoni, Nguhoma

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Here you can follow the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DC) points roll in, see who the leading players are for xG and more as the games play out, as seen below:

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Nightf0x

26 days, 13 hours ago

Glad i didint FH my last gw WC survived this

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Jebiga

Is it stupid to trade doku to foden for a hit ? 🙂

The best budget

Jebiga
26 days, 13 hours ago
mid ? like dewsbery hall or west ham chippo for 4.4. ?
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1. Jebiga
  26 days, 13 hours ago
  or miley from newcastle ?
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Over Midwicket

Welbeck or Raul as a third forward?

Brighton are a better team, with fewer pictures. But Welbz has these early benchings. And pens.

Raul has good long term fixtures, cheaper, more nailed for 90. Worse team.

C0YS
26 days, 13 hours ago
Assuming your first 2 forwards are Haaland & Thiago, I’d go with Mateta or Welbeck as #3. Avoid Raul
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Alison
Trufert cala richards oreily (renidlo)
Saka gakpo mbeumo neto (buendia)
Haland mateta (thiago)

Which ? 2 ft

A) roll ft, g2g, gw15 trufert neto buendia out
B) trufert buendia to hincapie 4.4mid. (or) guehi 4.7mid.