FPL managers must watch out for unusual Arne Slot habit he could bring with him to Liverpool

Fantasy Premier League players have been told to watch out for Arne Slot's unusual tactic that he could bring to Liverpool when picking their teams this year.

FPL got underway last weekend, with a host of price changes and new players being added for the 2024/25 season.

While some managers got off to the best of starts, there can be perhaps be no worse feeling than seeing two or three of your XI not getting picked by their respective teams - meaning you have to waste precious transfers already.

Liverpool largely went with the XI many would have expected in Slot's first game in charge, a 2-0 win over Ipswich at Portman Road.

He did take off Jarell Quansah and replace him with Ibrahima Konate, with neither player getting a clean sheet bonus as a result.

But Liverpool.com have found a similar tactic which could affect FPL managers this season.

Last term, Slot would regularly take his wingers off before the hour mark, with one winger - Luka Ivanusec - playing 58, 59, 54 and 57 minutes in four of six consecutive league matches this season.

While forward players don't get the same clean sheet bonuses as defenders - though they do get an extra point - they do also miss out the additional point for playing 60 minutes in a match.

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And of course, being taken off early means there is no chance to impact the game late on and score additional points.

Explaining his decision to take Quansah off at half-time on Saturday, Slot indicated that he wouldn't be afraid to make the same call again in future: "First thing I said was, we don't have to speak about tactics if we lose so many duels, and that's what we did.

"That's not that Jarell lost every duel - many of us lost too many duels - but I think we needed Ibou Konate to win these long balls in the air from the No. 9.

"So that helps, that gave us control but they put so, so, so much energy in the first half."