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14 December 2016 7080 comments
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Fantasy managers are treated to the remaining eight matches of Gameweek 16 this Wednesday evening, with a trio of
encounters getting underway at 7.45pm.

Sadio Mane and Divock Origi are the form men as Liverpool look for a first win in three at the Riverside. Roberto Firmino arrives on the back of four straight blanks and was second only to Charlie Austin for transfers out in the Gameweek.

With Eden Hazard absent, the stage is set for Diego Costa as Chelsea visit Sunderland. The Blues frontman was the most captained player in Fantasy Premier League for Gameweek 16, with 23% handing him the armband.

West Ham embark on the first of three very favourable fixtures, with Dimitri Payet and Michail Antonio on our radars for the visit of Burnley.

In the 8pm matches, all eyes will be on Captain Poll winner Harry Kane as Spurs welcome Hull to White Hart Lane. We’ll also be monitoring Scout Picks duo Toby Alderweireld and Christian Eriksen against the struggling Tigers.

In-form pair Christian Benteke and Zlatan Ibrahimovic go head-to-head as Palace welcome United to Selhurst Park. With returns in six of the last seven, Wilfried Zaha was the most transferred in player for Gameweek 16.

With Sergio Aguero suspended, faith in Man City has dwindled ahead of what should be a plum home clash against Watford. Kevin De Bruyne is the man most likely as the Etihad side look to recover from back-to-back defeats.

We’re also keeping a keen eye on Differential Sofiane Boufal as Southampton head to Stoke. Having bagged the winner at home to ‘Boro, the Moroccan could be set to step up in the absence of Charlie Austin, promoting his prospects as a mid-price midfield candidate ahead of some fine fixtures.

West Brom have their work cut out to stop Gylfi Sigurdsson as Swansea make their way to the Hawthorns.

The Swans’ playmaker has racked up four goals and as many assists in eight appearances under Bob Bradley and faces a defence with one clean sheet in the last 12 Gameweeks.

Matt Phillips and Salomon Rondon also have the chance to maintain momentum tonight – Swansea have conceded 12 goals in four road trips since their new manager was installed.

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  1. Lone Wolf FPL
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Hits spree coming up again

    1. drughi
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      First I thought I could save ft but will land on -8 probably

      1. Lone Wolf FPL
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        you won't be the only one

        1. Tansey
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 3 months ago

          I'll be joining him, third successive week that I take a hit

    2. Chris_H
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      If Hazard is ok and by a miracle Friend is finally fit for the weekend I might actually save! 😎

      1. Lone Wolf FPL
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        naaaah

  2. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Spurs 4-0 Hull

    3x Kane
    Eriksen

    1. TheSteel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Big if true

    2. drughi
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      alli with 4 assists, deal

    3. Fred54
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Game hasn't kicked off yet.

    4. Over Midwicket
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Would love this. Could of cheeky assists for Big Kyle

      1. Over Midwicket
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        Couple*

    5. ILOVEBAPS
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      I forsee a Kane hatrick or better too. Shame I don't own him 🙁

      1. Team Cruel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        Squeaky bum time mate

      2. fiveyears
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        Or better?!

    6. Morgs
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Suits me! Esp if Rose assists some of those

    1. A.T
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Lol

  3. AverageJoe
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Toby haul incoming

    1. ILOVEBAPS
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Spelt it wrong... W a l k e r

  4. DameCorp
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Evans, Cedric, Nacho, Hazard :/

    1. KeepCalm
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      damn son

    2. AverageJoe
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      R.i.p.

    3. ChelseaGuy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Nacho Hazard Fer

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

    Cedric/Nacho > Jones/Carroll (-4) nailed on

    Vertonghen > Alonso FT next week

    1. AverageJoe
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Carroll red card incoming

      1. davies
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        Well then I'd go to my room and cry in a corner

  6. Arteta
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Kane (c), make us proud!

    1. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Shame on you. 😉

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

    Who's counting on Amat here? Cometh the hour, cometh the man

    1. Tansey
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Many, uncluding me

    2. justmatt
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      I am now... 3 no shows later.

    3. Fred54
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Certain geezer had to make him captain...

      1. TokyoRisingSun
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        He may well have the last laugh at this rate

  8. Shirokov(c)
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Cedric fighting it out with Fuchs for worst transfer of all time

    1. VS10_
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Cedric, Gündogan, Nacho, Austin, Fuchs. Just a some of my failed transfers, some stupid decisions, some unlucky.

    2. ILOVEBAPS
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      I did VVD > Cedric -4 two GWs ago to squeeze Sanchez into my side. 😎

    3. Morgs
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Fuchs won. I got him in, he scored 3 points in 5 games and I took a -4 to get him out. That's negative input over 5 weeks... he scored me so many points last year though so still love him

    4. walkman666
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      I traded Fuchs to Cedric, too. Next up, Alexi Lalas.

  9. fiveyears
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Heavily reliant on Spurs and Hammers to perform tonight if this gameweek is to be successful, 1-0 wins for Hull and Burnley incoming

  10. FALCAO & MOU
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Any Payet(C) out here?

    1. Pub Crawl to the Townsend
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Bold. Bravo

    2. AverageJoe
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Not a bad shout

  11. Bruno Bruno!!
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    a middlesborough clean sheet would be perfect as I have both valdes and Chambers

    1. Pub Crawl to the Townsend
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      I reckon 1-1. Although second to that id guess 0-0

  12. Tansey
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Sunderland going with the 7-2-1

    1. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Or might be adventurous and go 8-1-1

    2. AverageJoe
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Bus stop

  13. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Need a Kone hatty 😕

    1. Tansey
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Lovren's playing so don't worry too much about that not happening

      1. Pub Crawl to the Townsend
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        Haha

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        That'll do 😆

  14. Kermit Special
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Come on Kane. DO IT FOR FPL 🙂 🙂

  15. Jernau M Gurgeh
    • 15 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Zola at Brum now

    1. Fred54
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Zola Budd?

    2. fiveyears
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Mental, should have kept Rowett

  16. MikeDuff
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Anyone else wanna chip in for a Guardiola Out banner?

    1. fiveyears
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      We should buy one of those flyover planes they do

  17. King Klopp
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Costa (C), might regret giving it to him over Kane...

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

      The other way around maybe.

    2. AverageJoe
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Big time, Sunderland with 7 defenders

  18. Ógie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    If Kane does not score at least 2 i think we will be all a bit disappointed

    1. ILOVEBAPS
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Not me!

  19. KeepCalm
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Evan Haz out for me...

    De Roon Lowton coming in

  20. FPL Maldini
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    On a positive note, the bloke who is top of my ML just blew his bench boost with Valdez, Evans, Fletcher and Zaha on his bench in a single GW.

    Oh, and he has Hazard in his team

    Feeling optimistic now.

    1. FALCAO & MOU
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Where do you get these fools from?

      1. FPL Maldini
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        Haha well fair play to him for having such a good rank but I'm gaining on him!

    2. Tansey
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      That is the least he deserves, playing BB in a midweek Gameweek in the middle of December

  21. FootballManiac
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Who goes first? Cedric or Evans?

    1. ILOVEBAPS
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Cedric

    2. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Keep them they will play next game while others are rested

  22. ILOVEBAPS
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Come on Hull!! Park that bus!!

    1. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      You are not on the Kane train Baps?

      1. ILOVEBAPS
        • 13 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        Nope. It is me, the only one!
        Mwahahaha....

  23. TokyoRisingSun
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    This is shaping up to be the sort of week where Spurs get a 1-0 win with a Wanyama goal

    1. Moves like Dejagah
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Indeed. I hope you're wrong but it wouldn't surprise me.

    2. fiveyears
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      1-1 if you have Spurs defence

    3. MikeDuff
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Please dont

    4. Mílanista
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Will Kane at least get the assist?

  24. Winks Club
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Cedric?

  25. Paul
    • 15 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    C'mon Andyyy

  26. Bubz
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Once again have to hope Costa doesn't score even though I own him now. Kinda sucks.

    1. Tansey
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Is his captaincy that high again this week?

      1. Bubz
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        30% top 10k

        1. Tansey
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 3 months ago

          I'm at around 40k. So I should expect a goal to hurt my rank since he's not my (C)?

      2. Les Bleus
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        Over 100% EO in top 10k I believe.

        1. FALCAO & MOU
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 3 months ago

          116.6%

    2. Fred54
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      I hate the anti-FPL attittude. You can't load up your team with diffs and then complain when the template type players keep brining home the points...there's a reason why everyone has them, they score the points!

      1. Bubz
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 3 months ago

        Well its simple statistics. If you didnt captain him and he does well you will go down in rank, even if you own him

  27. ejaknian
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    hahahahaa HAZARD

    1. Annie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      go away?

    2. Bubz
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      kys

    3. Mílanista
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 3 months ago

      Don't know what you're laughing about, I meant to play Amat over Hazard anyway.

  28. The Left Duke #3
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    No Hazard or Evans.....Diomande and Holebas incoming with Capoue already starting

  29. Ógie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 3 months ago

    Costa is going to score a hatrick and not get booked
    I will try some reverse physiology