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20 August 2016 3667 comments
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Saturday evening comes to a conclusion at the King Power as champions Leicester go head-to-head with Arsenal.

Both sides are already playing catch-up after losing their opening matches of the season.

Claudio Ranieri welcomes back Robert Huth from suspension after conceding twice to Hull last weekend. The Foxes boss also opts to recall Shinji Okazaki and Marc Albrighton as Ahmed Musa and Demarai Gray drop to the bench. New signing Nampalys Mendy comes in for Andy King in the centre of the park.

Arsenal, meanwhile, bring in Santi Cazorla, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Granit Xhaka and Laurent Koscielny as they attempt to bounce back from Sunday’s home loss to Liverpool. Mesut Ozil and Olivier Giroud are deemed fit enough to take their places on the bench.

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  1. Fowler23
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 7 months ago

    Leceister looks awful offensively,

  2. Bilbao Baggins
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 7 months ago

    I was sure Gray was on for 3 bonus. Now he looks like getting 1 at most? Do offensive tweets get you negative BPS?

    1. JÆKS ⭐
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      Don't understand any of this either, a goal and an assist in a 2-0 win...

    2. Oooof
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      Seems odd, but he hardly had a kick during the game.

      Not surprised to see Heaton and the defenders scoring highly.

    3. Bilbao Baggins
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      Heaton and Capoue on my bench ha shocker

  3. Gilbo88
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    9 years, 7 months ago

    Not sure how I feel about this game. I have Vardy so obviously want some points, but I've already sold him for Zlatan...

    1. Shifty
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      My guess is disposessions

      1. Shifty
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 7 months ago

        Reply Fail

    2. RÏɠBY
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      if you buy manchester you go to hell
      everyone noes that

      1. RÏɠBY
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 7 months ago

        *the manure variety

    3. The UnderAcheivers
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      How does one goal and an injury sound

  4. Messsiaah
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 7 months ago

    So Firmino to Barkley is a no brainer?

    1. Podge
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      Barkley ? Really ?

      1. Kante Be Bothered
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 7 months ago

        Who else?

        1. Podge
          • 15 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          Caz Cout Pogba Nolito Walcott Sterling, anyone

      2. Messsiaah
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 7 months ago

        Have you seen their fixtures?

        1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
          • 12 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          Form over fixtures

          1. Messsiaah
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 7 months ago

            Scored last match. Gave a assist today. What else do you want?

  5. Swan - Villa Proud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 7 months ago

    Sell FIrmino and play Capoue, or Sell Deulofeu and give FIrmino one last chance.

    Leaning to the later as I feel Deulofeu may be benched.

    1. HellasLEAF
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      Deu right out of my team

      1. Swan - Villa Proud
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 7 months ago

        What you reckon? I would have 8M to spend. Have Redmond so don't like Tadic double up. Sideways to Barkley or maybe Sterling? Arsenal mid?

        1. HellasLEAF
          • 16 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          why not Bojan and save funds for elsewhere

  6. Ayew Holding Mee Cork
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 7 months ago

    I really can't see Leicester finish in the top 10 this season.

    1. Zlatan Time
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      Everyone has worked out their tactics, and Kante is gone 🙂

    2. HellasLEAF
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      look again

    3. Rolls-Royce
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      What about Hull?

    4. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      the heart of their team has been ripped out.

      1. HellasLEAF
        • 16 Years
        9 years, 7 months ago

        see them somewhere 6th-9th myself

  7. walkman666
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 7 months ago

    So, the Andre Gray story of the day...old, awful homophobic tweets and unjust baps. Bizarre FPL karma.

  8. Worzel Gummidge
      9 years, 7 months ago

      Tempted to drop Firmino to Pogba for a -4 for this Hull demolishing I and others keep saying is coming. N to interested at all in Barkley or Everton MIDS.

    • Albrightondknight
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      After 2 games Hull only not on top due to goal difference. Fair play to the posters who said they could do a lot better than most assumed. I was not one of them.

    • How Mina You
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 7 months ago

      With regards to this Gray nonsense, those tweets were from FOUR years ago - Gray himself said that his move to Luton Town is what turned his life around and away from all of the gang-related incidents he was involved in.

      As disgusting as those tweets were, I'm pretty sure that he would be absolutely embarrassed if he were to look back on them.

      1. A Team Of James McCleans
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 7 months ago

        Well he hasn't deleted them

        1. fiveyears
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          I believe he has/is.

      2. MTPockets
          9 years, 7 months ago

          Fortunate that social media wasn't around in the 70s, and 80s, and 90s...

      3. Gerbs
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 7 months ago

        My team is doing alright so I feel like I'm being an idiot, but I feel like Capoue and Shaw should be in my squad

        Fletcher, Del, Mogan

        to

        Capoue, Bolasie, Shaw (-4)

        Am i crazy?

        1. Podge
          • 15 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          looks ok to me

        1. Worzel Gummidge
            9 years, 7 months ago

            This one isn't even bad. Are we just going to put stupid tweets from years ago up. I dont care what people say as they are free to say what they like.

          • HellasLEAF
            • 16 Years
            9 years, 7 months ago

            they are footballers.

            not exactly white collar intellectuals now are they

        2. Plagued by indecision
          • 15 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          80 all out. Firmino, Stones and Tadic look set for the chop.

          1. cruzex
            • 13 Years
            9 years, 7 months ago

            With baps? Very good

            1. Plagued by indecision
              • 15 Years
              9 years, 7 months ago

              Yes, 6 for Aguero and 1 for Gray.

          2. shirtless
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 7 months ago

            70 here pre bonus. Smug at starting Keane but got the Heaton/Foster thing wrong again! 🙂

        3. RD
          • 15 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          Loosing my Patience with Firmino

          1. HellasLEAF
            • 16 Years
            9 years, 7 months ago

            did he at least perform today and get unlucky???

            two blanks for an 8.5 mid is just poor

            1. Yank Revolution
              • 14 Years
              9 years, 7 months ago

              Nope

        4. cruzex
          • 13 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          Coutinho performance today?

        5. HellasLEAF
          • 16 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          Kun C owners must be loving this..

        6. ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          Gray owners: "His tweets are just banter"
          Non-Gray owners: "Burn the scum!"

          1. guardian.c
            • 11 Years
            9 years, 7 months ago

            gray owner: homophobic hate speech is f**king disgusting

          2. walkman666
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            9 years, 7 months ago

            I own. Those tweets are awfu. Please don't generalize.

            1. Zasa
              • 11 Years
              9 years, 7 months ago

              Indeed, don't think there's any logical defending of those tweets.

          3. Shifty
            • 12 Years
            9 years, 7 months ago

            Lol

          4. Rainer
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 7 months ago

            Kane owners: Lol

          5. FC LAVAMAN
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 7 months ago

            He's not wrong

            1. Yank Revolution
              • 14 Years
              9 years, 7 months ago

              Shut it

        7. Ziro
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          Santi nearly

        8. mattk lfc
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          FA has previous with footballers and offensive tweets. Huth was banned for two games last year and a Coventry player was banned for a game a tweet in June. Could be in trouble although the fact this happened in the past may save him

          http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36497590

          1. Essan
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 7 months ago

            Does the FA have a time machine?

            This is just a troll attack on Gray by making public again comments he made years ago.

            Did you ever say anything as a kid you disagree with as an adult?

        9. Shifty
          • 12 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          Leicester look very underwhelming

          Prob finish mid

          1. The Generalator
            • 11 Years
            9 years, 7 months ago

            Probs

        10. The Generalator
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          Hernandez proving to be a good selection but worth keeping ?

        11. Syd.
          • 16 Years
          9 years, 7 months ago

          Lukaku staying at Everton

          http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37145067

        12. MTPockets
            9 years, 7 months ago

            Is mirallas at all 'nailed'? Need to lose deulofeu.

            1. The Generalator
              • 11 Years
              9 years, 7 months ago

              Not nailed

            2. Rainer
              • 9 Years
              9 years, 7 months ago

              Only nailed Everton mid is Barkley. Others will rotate & share minutes.

              1. Rainer
                • 9 Years
                9 years, 7 months ago

                Other than the mighty Gareth Barry...

            3. MTPockets
                9 years, 7 months ago

                Ok cheers

            4. Knowledgeable meerkat
              • 9 Years
              9 years, 7 months ago

              It's quite shocking, I can't believe how little I care about this match

              1. The Wise Owl
                • 10 Years
                9 years, 7 months ago

                I do, Arsenal is my team!

              2. bgkennedy19
                • 9 Years
                9 years, 7 months ago

                Agree, it's painful to watch....Lec is a shell of last year and I have no idea wtf Ars is doing

            5. asvpxmicky
              • 10 Years
              9 years, 7 months ago

              who's wildcarding then?

              1. How Mina You
                • 11 Years
                9 years, 7 months ago

                Already done it

              2. Rolls-Royce
                • 12 Years
                9 years, 7 months ago

                Not me. Still don't know what to do with my 2FTs. lol

                1. Revival
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 13 Years
                  9 years, 7 months ago

                  Same here, don't have Ibra but not sure it wise to sell Vardy when he has Swansea up at home next

              3. thepeen555
                • 9 Years
                9 years, 7 months ago

                Maybe me, only cause I think I might get a better scoring defence for example for less money - especially seeing as it's quite obvious u can't really predict results

            6. Gaffa914
              • 11 Years
              9 years, 7 months ago

              So with this gray news we getting rid?

              1. Laporte In A Storm
                • 10 Years
                9 years, 7 months ago

                Yes. For Rondon.

              2. thepeen555
                • 9 Years
                9 years, 7 months ago

                What news?

                1. Gaffa914
                  • 11 Years
                  9 years, 7 months ago

                  Homophobic twitter rants

              3. Dr Dream
                • 13 Years
                9 years, 7 months ago

                What news?

                1. Gaffa914
                  • 11 Years
                  9 years, 7 months ago

                  Homophobic twitter posts

                  1. thepeen555
                    • 9 Years
                    9 years, 7 months ago

                    Oh really from him?

              4. fiveyears
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 10 Years
                9 years, 7 months ago

                Yep, after we all never bought Vardy I think FFS can claim the moral highground.

            7. thepeen555
              • 9 Years
              9 years, 7 months ago

              Think this game will be a 0-0

            8. FPL Maldini
              • 11 Years
              9 years, 7 months ago

              Why the hell has Gray lost BAPS? He got a goal AND an assist!!!!

              Surely outdoes a Cleansheet

              1. FISSH
                • 13 Years
                9 years, 7 months ago

                because burnley were defending 80% of the game

              2. walkman666
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 11 Years
                9 years, 7 months ago

                Yeah, plenty of gray outrage on ffs today, for both his historical tweets and his current baps. Both bad.

                1. walkman666
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 11 Years
                  9 years, 7 months ago

                  But not equally bad! I hope the guy is more evolved

            9. Revival
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 13 Years
              9 years, 7 months ago

              As a Arsenal fan hoping for some Schmeichel save points before Arsenal grab a deserved late winner

            10. Zlatan Time
              • 9 Years
              9 years, 7 months ago

              Might try and transfer in Payet for Firmino if he performs tomorrow. Got 0.5 ITB, just need to find 0.5 more which could be a struggle...

              1. walkman666
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 11 Years
                9 years, 7 months ago

                Thinking the same. I've got 1.0m itb, and will keep a close eye on Payet.

                1. Zlatan Time
                  • 9 Years
                  9 years, 7 months ago

                  West Ham looked so much better just because he came on the pitch on Monday, and he is on free kicks 🙂