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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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    • 16 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Thought that was a definite goal for Costa there

    1. Royal5
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      Terrible finish

    2. Big Red Dog
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      No scoutcast this week for you Andy?

      1. andy85wsm
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        9 years, 8 months ago

        Think I'll be on yeah. How come?

  2. fedolefan
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    Phew, Forster.

  3. LewanGOALski
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    9 years, 8 months ago

    Why Deeney assist taken away..?

    1. Jimmers
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      • 16 Years
      9 years, 8 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
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    9 years, 8 months ago

    FFS Costa score!

  5. Jay_
    9 years, 8 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
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      9 years, 8 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, 8 months ago

        So not the exact same then?

  6. Toby Lerone
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

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

    1. Team Cruel
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      • 10 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Hold

    2. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Wait

    3. Toby Lerone
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Cheers

  7. MOZIL
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    9 years, 8 months ago

    sanchez to kdb for next week? already have walcott

  8. Delhidynamo
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    9 years, 8 months ago

    Forster you slappey shut ye legs

  9. TooDifficuIt
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    9 years, 8 months ago

    costa always shoot between the gk legs !

  10. TheTinman
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    9 years, 8 months ago

    Koscielny and Sterling to Hazard and Brunt?

    Sounds great to me

    1. Delhidynamo
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      9 years, 8 months ago

      Nopes find the money somewhere else

      1. TheTinman
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Why who is so precious out of those 2?

        1. Delhidynamo
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Kosc

          1. the cromulent one
            • 13 Years
            9 years, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago

        Lol

      2. Kroosin'
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 8 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, 8 months ago

          no way, Chelsea will

  11. Henryyy
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    • 10 Years
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    Firmino->Hazard? Have counthino

    1. Team Cruel
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      No

    2. Dead Cat Bounce
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      Not yet

    3. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      No way

  12. BrockLanders
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    9 years, 8 months ago

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

    1. Henryyy
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      I love him

    2. Kuqi Monster
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      More than Greek lukaku?

  13. TooDifficuIt
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    hazard firmino to ozil hazard ?

    1. Jimmers
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      Eh?

    2. TooDifficuIt
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      sanchez firmino *

      1. Jimmers
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        • 16 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

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

        1. TooDifficuIt
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

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

      2. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        No way

    3. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

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

    4. Dead Cat Bounce
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      9 years, 8 months ago

      No

  14. BrockLanders
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    9 years, 8 months ago

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

    1. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Loops?? *looks*

  15. Kante Be Bothered
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 8 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

  16. Ravager
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago

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

  17. Big Red Dog
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    9 years, 8 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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      9 years, 8 months ago

      Gotta love this guy though

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

  18. Kaneyonero
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    PvA to Bruntinho for free?

    1. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
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      I would

  19. hannesdela
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    9 years, 8 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.

  20. Pompel
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    9 years, 8 months ago

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

    1. the cromulent one
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      9 years, 8 months ago

      Do it now, before the 2nd half begins.

      1. Pompel
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        No price changes before tonight, though 😉

        1. Big Red Dog
          • 14 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Do it now, before the 2nd half begins.

        2. the cromulent one
          • 13 Years
          9 years, 8 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.

  21. Swan - Villa Proud
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    • 11 Years
    9 years, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago

      Good answer to an unasked question.

      1. liiusions
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        Reply fail 🙂

  22. 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
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      Always got a chance with Matic and Kante protecting them as well

  23. liiusions
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    9 years, 8 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

  24. Hurricane Gilbert
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    9 years, 8 months ago

    Who would you get for Walcott?

    A) KdB
    B) Hazard

    1. liiusions
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

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

    2. big_cliff
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 8 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, 8 months ago

        unscathed *after Tuesday*

  25. Kante Be Bothered
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    9 years, 8 months ago

    Get alonso then at 6.0 for kosc

  26. Krafty Werks
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 8 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.

  27. Scotty B
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    9 years, 8 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, 8 months ago

      A

    2. bigmacs
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      B

  28. Jam0sh
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    9 years, 8 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
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      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
        9 years, 8 months ago

        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, 8 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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      9 years, 8 months ago

      A

    3. Rasping Drive
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      I would be tempted by Alonso actually.

  29. Saïss Doesn't Mat…
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    just noticed i'll need a 16 point hit to get hazard back in.... i'll pass lol

  30. 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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      • 17 Years
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      Cedric