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27 November 2016 1319 comments
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After Stoke’s narrow win at Vicarage Road, we now make our way to the Emirates as Arsenal entertain Bournemouth at 2.15pm.

Having led the line against PSG in midweek, Olivier Giroud drops back to the bench, despite netting five times in his last five appearances across all competitions.

Alexis Sanchez is stationed up front, then, with his 22% FPL owners looking for an improvement on the form that has seen him score in just one of the previous six Gameweeks.

Certainly, we need the Chilean to step up in a weekend where Liverpool pair Philipp Coutinho and Roberto Firmino, along with Chelsea’s Eden Hazard, failed to deliver the goods.

Utilised off the bench against PSG, Theo Walcott returns to the starting XI, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain also finding a place in the hosts line-up.

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  1. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    So ... Walcott or Sanchez? Is Sanchez worth the extra?

    1. Demí
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Sanchez definitely worth the extra over the hectic schedule. He's as nailed as it gets in this league

    2. MTPockets
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Looks like it.

    3. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      If it had stayed 2-1 for a few more minutes, would the answer be different?

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

        but it didnt

        1. FPL Virgin
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          Well. Dur.

      2. Toure The Route
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        This .
        I know it didn't but still.

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

    Mini wildcard time

  3. Viper
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Mata, Walcott or Eriksen in for Coutinho?

    1. DantheManinaPan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      I got Siggy. All look good though

  4. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Koeman to do one over on Southampton

  5. pineapple_express
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    How do the automatic substitutions actually work? Is it the case that a player can only be substituted for another player of the same position, or does the formation automatically change?

    This week I played a 5-3-2 formation, but both Shawcross and Stones didn't play. My first to substitutes are Son and Benteke. At the end of the game week, will my formation automatically change to a 3-4-3 to accommodate the two fit substitutes?

    1. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Yes, it'll change to 343.

      The formation will always adjust, but you always have to play 3 defenders.

    2. SöundLight 30
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 17 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Son and Benteke will come in. Auto subs will change your formation. You always have to have at least 3 defenders, which in this case, you do.

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

      Yes, it will.
      Any subs can come on for players who didn't play if you at least have 3 defenders, 2 mids and 1 striker in your final squad

    4. MTPockets
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Yes it will.

    5. Pierce34
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Yes. Substitutes are for any positions, as long as you end up with at least 3 defenders, 3 midfielders or 1 forward in each scenario.

      (and 1 keeper of course!)

      1. Pierce34
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Meant 2 midfielders.

    6. pineapple_express
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Thanks for the response guys, good to know!

  6. ekul the lokonga enthusiast
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Anyone doing hazard to sanchez if hazard blanks and sanchez scores next week??

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

      Having both 🙂

      1. DantheManinaPan
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Me too. Makes life a whole lot more comfortable and I think going without either is a big miss.

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

      Having both 🙂

  7. Stupendous
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Brilliant week! Wish I would have McAuley back mind you.

    68 with Lukaku left

    1. Debauchy
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      V,,Nice,,Stupe

    2. Lawrø
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Congrats

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

        same here...nice one..

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

    Kneejerk,,deluxe,,this,,season
    Gotta,,smile
    Damn,,spacerbar,,konked

  9. HurriKane
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Would you rather own

    A) Alexis + 90 min + valid captiency candidate

    B) Theo + 70 min + 3m + rotation risk

    1. elkunaguero
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      B) + a ice pack

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

      depends what that 3 gets you tbh, I cant decide myself

    3. Toure The Route
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Too hard to answer such questions IMO

  10. Jay_
    9 years, 8 months ago

    My vice has out scored my Captain by 35 points in the last 4 weeks

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

      I hate working stuff like that out, always feels bad!

      1. Jay_
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Yup, wish I never did it

    2. fedolefan
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      23 in the last 5 weeks for me.

  11. Bruno Bruno!!
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Went from 11 points from 6 players to 39 points from 7 all thanks to the great Sanchez, take a bow son. Got Redmond, Vandijk, Austin and Williams left

  12. rooneysfirsttouch
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Lukaku and Austin two goals each would be lovely 🙂

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

      It sure would!

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

      0-0 I reckon

    3. Debauchy
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Pleeeease

    4. Stupendous
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Yes! Four for Kaku and none for Austin better!

    5. HurriKane
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      hell yeaah that would be great 😀

    6. bejzu
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      You, me and half the league have Austin + Lukaku, so wont get you that far..

  13. Pirlø's Pen
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Who would you pick as a Cout replacement?

    A. Walcott
    B. Siggy
    C. Eriksen

    Cheers.

    1. HurriKane
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      A if you dont own alexis. else B

    2. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Siggy

    3. Karan_G14
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Siggy out of those.

    4. the axolotl
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      see hot topic.

      between siggy and firmino for me

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

    Think we got to own both Sanchez and Hazard tbh. Going to ditch Kun for Defoe. Will have Zaha Haz Sanchez Allen Firmino mids and Kane Defoe Austin up front

    1. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Hazard is expendable

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

        so is virginity 😉

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

          jkkksss

        2. FPL Virgin
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 8 months ago

          I ruddy hope so!

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

      Never ditch Kun

  15. Viper
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Which two are more important going forward?

    Sanchez, Aguero or Hazard?

    1. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Sanchez and Hazard IMO. Costa and Kane will score as heavily as Aguero

    2. royals forever
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Sanchez and Hazard imo

    3. HurriKane
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      own them all.

      if i had to chose 2 it would be sanchez and hazard

      kane and costa are good alternatives to kun.

    4. fedolefan
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      I swear, if I do Aguero to Kane this week, I will have none of them. No idea how it's come to that.

      1. JabbaWookiee
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        I'm planning Lukaku to Kane. Already have the above 3. So tempting to get rid of the high priced big hitters. But keeping them and shuffling your team around them never fails to pay off in my experience. There's enough lower priced talent to make it work.

    5. Karan_G14
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      That's tough. Impossible to choose.

    6. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Sanchez and Aguero

    7. Odikostar
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Sanchez and Haz got the fixtures

    8. gedda
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Sanchez & Aguero

    9. tm245
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      I will have Sanchez Kane Hazard, though an argument could be made for all four and then some cheaper mids.

    10. Red Scout
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      All three!!

  16. Bubz
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Really need a Super Charlie Austin masterclass now

    1. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Jagielka loves giving away a pen. You might be in luck. 😉

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

        🙂

  17. fedolefan
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    I own Williams but I want a Swansea-Palace like slugfest here. Lukaka and Austin hatties needed.

    1. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Agree

  18. Bubz
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Walcott up to 2 baps

    1. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      😀

  19. Jonny Sutt
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Heaton grant

    Brunt smith Gibson Amat Kingsley
    Hazard firmino Pedro Allen PAYET
    Aguero Costa AUSTIN

    A) stick
    B) payet -> Sanchez
    Austin -> anichebe

    1. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      A

  20. Ógie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Ffs I pay all this money to Sky and BT and i still have to watch my beloved ManU in a dirty grainy stream

    1. Mull
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      But you get to watch them in the glitz and glamour of the Europa League which I'm sure is worth the extra money per month that you pay for BT 😉

  21. Lumberjack
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    2FT, 1.9M ITB. Which of these makes most sense:

    A - Cout/ Wally -> Mane/ Siggy
    B - Cout/ Wally -> Hazard/ Siggy
    C - Cout to Siggy (and do Haz for GW15 on)
    D - something else

    Front 7 is:

    Sanchez/ Wally/ Cout/ Firm/ De Roon
    Costa/ Benteke/ Defoe

    Cheers folks

    I know the front three needs work but Tekkers/ Defoe fixtures are good enough to wait a couple of weeks to change them...

    1. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      B all day

    2. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      C

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

      Thanks both

  22. The Big Fella
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Always Aguero and I would say it is a coin toss for other. I have all 3 though so I have no worries. 😉

    1. The Big Fella
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      That was supposed to be a reply to somebody's comment.........

  23. RamaJama
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    What do I do with this team for FT?

    A) Williams out for ????
    B) Gundogan out for Milner or Philips?
    C) Lukaku out for Giroud or Kane?
    D) Save

    Foster, Pickford
    Cedrick, Williams, Evans, Amat, Friend
    Walcott, Firmino, Hazard, Gundogan, DeRoon
    Aguero, Costa, Lukaku

    1.2 in the bank

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

      lukaku to austin and gundogan to siggy?

      1. RamaJama
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        9 years, 8 months ago

        Will consider

  24. DantheManinaPan
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Some very tasty mid-priced midfield options starting to show....

    Mata, Walcott, Siggy, Pedro, Eriksen....

    Of those I only have Siggy (after dropping Coutinho) but thinking of getting one of Pedro/Mata in too...

  25. aaroncfc
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Need some help here. Really can't decide!

    a) Sanchez + Austin
    b) Kane + Sigurdsson

  26. Jonny Sutt
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Feeling a Chris Brunt captain next week?!!

  27. fedolefan
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Who wins:
    A) 15 points
    B) Lukaka + Austin + Williams

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 17 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      Hopefully you.

    2. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      A

    3. Viper
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      B

    4. jurgenklopp.8
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      gonna be close

  28. Viper
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    A. Coutinho & Lukaku -> Sanchez & Defoe -4

    B. Coutinho & Lukaku -> Walcott & Kane -4

    C. Coutinho & Aguero -> Kane & Sanchez -4

    Votes please. Probably leaning towards B but I really want to cut my losses and get Sanchez back in

    1. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      B

    2. La Roja
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 8 months ago

      A

  29. diesel001
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 8 months ago

    Austin you joker