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30 October 2016 1898 comments
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After Everton defeated West Ham 2-0 at Goodison earlier, we now turn our attentions to St Mary’s as Southampton entertain Chelsea at 4pm.

Diego Costa and Eden Hazard boast the greatest threat as the Blues look to grab a fourth successive league win.

The Spain international – who remains one yellow away from a single-match ban – has netted four goals in as many road trips, whilst Hazard has notched in each of his last four starts for club and country.

Chelsea’s recent move to 3-4-3 has harvested three straight clean sheets in the top-flight, though their hosts have been similarly resilient in front of their own fans.

The Saints have conceded just one goal in their last five home matches in all competitions and have been breached on only eight occasions over the first nine Gameweeks.

With a trip to Hull next up on their agenda, Nathan Redmond and Charlie Austin have the chance to stake a claim for our consideration, as the latter looks to net for the third successive league outing.

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  1. andy85wsm
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    • 15 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Thought that was a definite goal for Costa there

    1. Royal5
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      9 years, 5 months ago

      Terrible finish

    2. Big Red Dog
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      9 years, 5 months ago

      No scoutcast this week for you Andy?

      1. andy85wsm
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        9 years, 5 months ago

        Think I'll be on yeah. How come?

  2. fedolefan
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    Phew, Forster.

  3. LewanGOALski
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Why Deeney assist taken away..?

    1. Jimmers
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      9 years, 5 months ago

      Because he never touched it - cleared up on the TV replay

    2. Colonel Shoe 肝池
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      Unforseen brexit issue

  4. Lecky Legs FC
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    FFS Costa score!

  5. Jay_
      9 years, 5 months ago

      ------------------Pickford-----------------
      ----------Clyne Stones Holebas------
      Sanchez Firmino Coutinho Walcott
      --------Aguero Lukaku Deeney-------
      --------------------------------------------------
      Foster Capoue Pieters Amat. 1ft, 0.1itb

      A) Deeney > Austin
      B) Foster > Heaton
      C) Save ft
      D) Capoue, Walcott, Deeney > Gundogan, Hazard, Keane -8
      E) Clyne, Capoue, Walcott, Deeney > Morgan, Redmond, Hazard, Keane -12

      1. Big Red Dog
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Wow our teams are the exact same. I have Arny not Walcott and PVA not Stones. Ill be doing A most likely, or to Callum Wilson.

        1. nobwak
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          So not the exact same then?

    • Toby Lerone
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Sell sterling for coutinho or wait til after MID? Have firmino

      1. Team Cruel
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        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Hold

      2. BrockLanders
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Wait

      3. Toby Lerone
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Cheers

    • MOZIL
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      sanchez to kdb for next week? already have walcott

    • Delhidynamo
      • 11 Years
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      Forster you slappey shut ye legs

    • TooDifficuIt
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      costa always shoot between the gk legs !

    • TheTinman
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Koscielny and Sterling to Hazard and Brunt?

      Sounds great to me

      1. Delhidynamo
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Nopes find the money somewhere else

        1. TheTinman
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Why who is so precious out of those 2?

          1. Delhidynamo
            • 11 Years
            9 years, 5 months ago

            Kosc

            1. the cromulent one
              • 13 Years
              9 years, 5 months ago

              Disagree. Many other good defensive options, and with better upcoming fixtures.

      2. Eskimooo
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        Sounds dreadful

      3. TheTinman
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Completely wrong on Kosc, he is not worth the money at all. Arsenal look leaky and he won't score with his hand every week

        1. Evans
          • 13 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Lol

        2. Kroosin'
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Arsenal will get the most clean sheets in PL again this year.

          1. Flying Nugget
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            • 16 Years
            9 years, 5 months ago

            no way, Chelsea will

    • Henryyy
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      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Firmino->Hazard? Have counthino

      1. Team Cruel
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        • 10 Years
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        No

      2. Dead Cat Bounce
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Not yet

      3. BrockLanders
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        No way

    • BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Did I ever tell you's that I hate Roman Lukaku?

      1. Henryyy
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        • 10 Years
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        I love him

      2. Kuqi Monster
        • 15 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        More than Greek lukaku?

    • TooDifficuIt
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      hazard firmino to ozil hazard ?

      1. Jimmers
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        9 years, 5 months ago

        Eh?

      2. TooDifficuIt
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        sanchez firmino *

        1. Jimmers
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          • 15 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Would not lose Sanchez or Firmino - the latter because of Liverpool's fixtures

          1. TooDifficuIt
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 5 months ago

            i have cout and if giroud starts i think ozil will get more points ?

        2. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          No way

      3. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        I wouldn't take a -4 just to change Hazard to Hazard

      4. Dead Cat Bounce
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        No

    • BrockLanders
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      9 years, 5 months ago

      Think I might get Hazard for Sterling. Loops primed for a points parade..

      1. BrockLanders
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Loops?? *looks*

    • Kante Be Bothered
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Foster
      Pieters Stones Walker
      Hazard Redmond Mane Sanchez
      Lukaku Aguero Wilson

      That how you do it. Could downgrade Mane to Firmino to upgrade elsewhere

    • Ravager
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Lol, I'll never understand the mid game "X > Y" questions. At least wait for the game to end for your knees to twitch.

      1. the cromulent one
        • 13 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        That is why the only proper answer to those questions is: "Do it now, before the 2nd half begins".

        1. Ravager
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Clearly. Like the guy earlier saying he sold Lukaku by half-time. People need to chill.

    • Big Red Dog
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      9 years, 5 months ago

      Anyone else hate it when refs get animated? Like Clattenberg who thinks he's a f_king superstar bending his knees and prancing around everywhere. Just relax, showing emotion like that against the players makes you look silly af

      1. Rasping Drive
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        • 16 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Gotta love this guy though

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-3cuCEt9k8

    • Kaneyonero
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      PvA to Bruntinho for free?

      1. BrockLanders
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        I would

    • hannesdela
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Immense struggle to get Hazard in. I have 2 FTs. Would the following be a good plan?

      1) Austin to Fraiser Campbell (4.4)
      2) Fletcher to Gündogan
      3) Walcott to Hazard

      This would mean a shift from 3-4-3 to 3-5-2 and a hit of -4.

    • Pompel
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Worth losing Wally for Hazard for a few GW's, by also downgrading Coleman? Got Sanchez ofc

      1. the cromulent one
        • 13 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Do it now, before the 2nd half begins.

        1. Pompel
          • 12 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          No price changes before tonight, though 😉

          1. Big Red Dog
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 5 months ago

            Do it now, before the 2nd half begins.

          2. the cromulent one
            • 13 Years
            9 years, 5 months ago

            🙂
            Seriously though, if you can afford it, I think that is a solid move. Neither Arsenal's nor Everton's fixtures are great in the short-term. But Chelsea's aren't too enticing either.

    • Swan - Villa Proud
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      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      To get Hazard in my team, I'd have to do one of the following

      A) Sell Sanchez
      B) Play 3-5-2 with Allen and a cheap sub 5 forward
      C) Split up the double pool mids and downgrade Lukaku

      Not willing to do any of those right now.

      1. liiusions
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        9 years, 5 months ago

        Hazard just looks too hard to get in my team right now but he's going to be hard to ignore if he keeps on scoring

      2. hannesdela
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        More or less the same struggle here. I'm thinking about B.

        It would give me:

        Alexis-Hazard-Coutinho-Gündogan-Allen
        Aguëro-Lukaku (Fraiser Campbell).

        Bad plan or?

        1. liiusions
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Gundogan and Allen won't keep scoring and it'll be so hard to ditch both of them for someone more expensive

          1. hannesdela
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 5 months ago

            Hmm yeah you're probably right, but that's the difficulty. I mean, Hazard could easily outscore two decent but not great mids like for example Chadli and Redmond.

            Right now I have:
            Alexis-Coutinho-Walcott-Allen (Fletcher)
            Aguëro-Lukaku-Austin

            Really don't know what to do, but I hate not having Hazard...

      3. Dead Cat Bounce
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        9 years, 5 months ago

        Good answer to an unasked question.

        1. liiusions
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Reply fail 🙂

    • tm245
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      Watching one of your attackers try to score against this Chelsea side is rough. First extended look at them since they switched to the 343 and they are really well organized.

      1. Spectrum-FFS Doubles Champ
        • 14 Years
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        Always got a chance with Matic and Kante protecting them as well

    • liiusions
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      What's the prices of everyone's defence? Mine is:
      4.7/4.1
      6.4/4.7/4.5/4.5/4.1

      Thinking of ditching Kos but if I go below 6m it makes it harder to get a premium defender back in

    • Hurricane Gilbert
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Who would you get for Walcott?

      A) KdB
      B) Hazard

      1. liiusions
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        A if you have Costa, B if you don't. Assuming you already have Aguero

      2. big_cliff
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Shouldn't he be fit for next week provided he comes through unscathed? Or you worried about rotation?

        1. big_cliff
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          unscathed *after Tuesday*

    • Kante Be Bothered
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Get alonso then at 6.0 for kosc

    • Krafty Werks
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Anyone considering Vardy as 2nd striker with next four of Wba, Wat Midd, Sund? Thinking Sterling and Deeney > Gundogan/ Redmond and Vardy? Yay or nay? Thanks.

    • Scotty B
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      ------------------Heaton-----------------
      -----Clyne Vertonghen Pieters----
      Antonio Firmino Coutinho Snoddy
      --------Aguero Lukaku Ibra-------
      --------------------------------------------------
      Pickford Capoue Evans Amat. 1ft, 0 itb

      Which option is better?

      A Snoddy > Gundogan
      B Snoddy + Ibra > Hazard + Austin
      C Snoddy or Ibra > someone else

      1. TooDifficuIt
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        A

      2. bigmacs
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
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        B

    • Jam0sh
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      • 13 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Hello guys. What would you do with this lot:

      Heaton
      Walker, Mustafi, Pieters
      Coutinho, Mane, Redmond, Sanchez
      Aguero, Lukaku, Austin

      Subs: Foster --- Capoue, Evans, Amat --- 1 FT, 0.2 ITB

      A) Save FT
      B) Mustafi -> Chelsea/ Leicester defender

      1. liiusions
        • 10 Years
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        I'm thinking of doing Kos->Fuchs but I kind of want to keep an Arsenal defender all season

        1. the cromulent one
          • 13 Years
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          I dunno. If a defender is good value, then maybe he's worth keeping over a rough patch of fixtures. But in general, I think that jumping on the decent teams' defenders with a decent run of fixtures is the way to go.
          Looking at Leicester as of gw11, Southampton as of gw14, and Chelsea as of gw15. Any of those are worth losing an Arsenal defender for, imo.

        2. hannesdela
          • 14 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Yeah ditching an Arsenal defender could be another option to free up some cash. I have Bellerin and I'm pondering about it too, but it would be difficult to get him back in after the next 2 GWs..

      2. Dead Cat Bounce
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        A

      3. Rasping Drive
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        • 16 Years
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        I would be tempted by Alonso actually.

    • Saïss Doesn't Mat…
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      just noticed i'll need a 16 point hit to get hazard back in.... i'll pass lol

    • WE ARE RANGERS
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      Is Martina an option for a few weeks or are his days numbered?

      1. TorresMagic™
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        Cedric