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26 February 2017 3668 comments
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There’s just a single Gameweek 26 fixture on Sunday’s menu as Tottenham Hotspur entertain Stoke City in the 1.30pm kick off.

Harry Kane, Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli boast the main goal threat for the hosts as Maurico Pochettino names the same XI that started against Genk in midweek – an indication that Spurs will line up in a 3-4-2-1 set-up.

Snapped up by over 96,000 FPL managers last week, Kane was the sixth most captained player in the Gameweek – he’s bagged four goals in his last two at the Lane and fired a hat-trick against Fulham in the FA Cup last weekend.

Eriksen, meanwhile, has delivered double-figures in four of his last six home appearances in the league and served up a goal and assist on Thursday evening.

Alli has managed attacking returns in four of his previous six at the Lane but was still subject to more sales (66,000+) than any player without a Gameweek 26 fixture.

Meanwhile, Fantasy managers have the chance to do some early scouting on Stoke’s main men ahead of a potential double Gameweek 27.

Should Man City progress past Huddersfield on Wednesday night and confirm the double, the likes of Peter Crouch and Marko Arnautovic could find their way into our short-term plans.

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  1. Epic Fail
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Man Utd fans don't seem to be taking any bait today. This site is going downhill. 🙁

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 17 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      New bait needed.

      1. Epic Fail
        • 16 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Back to the drawing board.

        1. Mílanista
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 15 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Need Daniel back to wind them up.

    2. AA33
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Man Utd fans are busy watching the ceremony

    3. Syd.
      • 17 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      we can only try our best a few plastic ones usually bite 🙂

    4. Pep bites Kun
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      I think they have your number - you're too predictable 🙂 Always you.

      1. Epic Fail
        • 16 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        I think I need a new account 😉

        1. Pep bites Kun
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Of your life or persona?

    5. Shultan
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      We were watching the trophy ceremony 🙂

    6. RED PILL
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Utd fans are embarrassed, know they dont play decent football any more with Maureen in charge. The ref Andre"Jose"Marriner thought he loved Chelski, now i know its Maureen he loves.
      He bottled giving Lingard a second yellow, the trip on Redmond.
      Minutes later had the cheek to card Redmond for nothing.

      1. Pep bites Kun
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        I'm not a UTD fan, but if you don't like losing you shouldn't watch sport. Take it on the chin, suck it up and be a good sport at least 😉

    7. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
      • 17 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      They probably too embarrassed

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

    OMG Alli GET IN! Saving my GW 🙂 BTW Brunt > Mcauley (-4)? im so fed up with this guy, main ML rival has him.

    1. Pep says
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      OMG yes!

    2. 1966 was a great year for E…
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Blue Peter time capsule?

    3. Bubz
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Alli didn't score very many points compared to some other players playing today...

    4. F4L
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Alli let me down today

    5. AA33
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Keep Brunt.

  3. Forjaz
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    So, no dgw for City?

    1. Epic Fail
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      What?
      If they beat Hudds.

    2. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Correct. Needed a Soton win for City's DGW to happen

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

        What?

      2. Bubz
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        😆

    3. TorresMagic™
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 17 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Find out on Wednesday if DGW27

  4. Stats Don\'t Lie
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Still waiting for the day man u actually get some local fans...

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

      Assume your often down at old Trafford then?
      Part and parcel of being the biggest club in England that you have a wide fan base.

  5. Pariße
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Welcoming God back into my team. 🙂

    1. La Roja
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Fellaini isn't nailed on

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

        The Tree God will have to wait then 🙁

  6. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    RP

    Who to lose for Aguero?

    1) Lukaku (PP £9.6m)
    2) Kane (PP £10.7m)

    Or ...

    3) Ignore Aguero and get Sterling or Sane?

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 17 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Ask on Wednesday night 😉

      1. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        I'm all about the planning. 🙂

    2. Epic Fail
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Kane

      1. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        After today?

        1. Epic Fail
          • 16 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Yes. We all know he can get hat tricks. So can Lukaku. And Lukaku has more games.

          1. FPL Virgin
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 5 months ago

            I plan to Hokey Cokey whoever I sell back in. Does that change your advice?

            1. Epic Fail
              • 16 Years
              9 years, 5 months ago

              Aye, if that's definitely your plan I'd get rid of Lukaku. Much better chance of getting something in this coming GW in isolation

              1. FPL Virgin
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 10 Years
                9 years, 5 months ago

                Cheers Epic lad.

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

      Wait for midweek obviously, but 2 if he has a DGW.

    4. Ridcully
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Lukaku. Will you be buying whoever who have sold back?

      1. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Yep. Hokey Cokey-ing.

    5. AA33
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Kane

    6. Winks Club
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      3. Sterling (suits best for my team at least)

  7. Syd.
    • 17 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Sad to see the League Cup leave Manchester its home for the last year 😆

  8. F4L
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Haz or Alli out for Sterling?

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

      Hazard. His price doesn't justify his output at the moment. Alli has kind fixtures all the way to the end.

      1. F4L
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        cheers, was leaning that way

        1. Pep bites Kun
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Have to agree with JUSTPARK on this one (as A Haz owner)

      2. Business Cat
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Agree with this.

        I might forego Costa and Hazard entirely from now on...Pedro looks too good an option @ 7m, also a way to get rid of the Phillips smell in my team.

  9. RED PILL
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Im amazed how Maureen and the swedish man bun, manage to walk through doors with the size of their Egos.

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

      Throw Pogba in there also.

      1. Camp No No
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Pogba doesn't walk, he dances.

    2. Syd.
      • 17 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      They do have the medals to kind of justify it

  10. Pep says
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Ibra isn't jumping because he's barely able to stand

    1. Pep bites Kun
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Exactly what you want to see from a player after 90 mins - all in!

  11. BENOIT
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Saints fans must be livid. Didn't deserve that result, clearly the better side.

    Big respect for the performance they put in today.

    1. Camp No No
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      And that despite the number of first team players they're missing.

      I still can't believe a top of the table PL club ends up playing half a season with CB pair Yoshida-Stephens.

  12. FirminoIsBetterThanYou
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Simple decision to play Crouch over Phillips, should he have a DGW?

    1. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Score check?

  13. F4L
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    I'm not knocking the Saints, but Liverpool would have destroyed that United team today

    1. InSaneMan-e
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Yea probably
      But take into account Saints were so rested and had ample opportunity to prepare, whilst Utd have had so many games

    2. Je suis le chat
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Saints won comfortably in the semi. Liv would have found a way to lose.

      1. Fred54
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Burn!

      2. RED PILL
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Liverpool would of had no chance against Utd's 14 players.

  14. We Will Klopp you
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Move: Costa to Gabbiadini for a hit, already taken one to get Aguero in.

    Trying to work towards:
    Grant Heaton
    Alonso Baines Coleman Mee Brunt
    Sanchez* Mane Morrison Siggy Pedro*
    Gabbiadini* Lukaku Ibra*

    for gameweek 29.

    Thoughts? Obviously subject to injuries, form etc, plus may get Walker in instead of Pedro

    1. I Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Definitely not. Costa could easily outscore Gabbiadini this week and they both blank in 28. I'm waiting for GW30 for Manolo.

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

        This

      2. We Will Klopp you
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Thanks for the advice, will stick to the original plan of king and Aguero to Sanchez and Gabbi gw29 and keep costa then.

  15. Forza Papac
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Fair play to Zlatan. Didn't think he could do it in England at his age. Proved me wrong.

  16. JustPark
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Paul Pogba: "That's why we bought him (Zlatan)."

    Zlatan: "Bought me? I came for free. They bought you."

    1. ★Kuntheman★
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Not at all free with that fat salary of his hahaha

      1. La Roja
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        They paid fat salary to Falcao.

        Still paying it off when he plays City

      2. JK - Cønt ⭐
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        26 goals this season, that's all

      3. fiveyears
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        To be fair with the ludicrous fees and wages flying about pre-Ibrahimovic, it's an excellent deal for them.

  17. I Have No Idea What I'…
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    If City beat Huddersfield do they definately have a DGW? Seen some people saying it's not happening now?

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 17 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      yes

  18. AA33
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Trophy number 32 for Zlatan! (he says it)

    1. Forza Papac
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      And not one Champions League

  19. We Will Klopp you
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Not sure how United going to fit the Capital One Cup + Zlatan's, Mourinho's and Pogba's egos' on the bus back to Manchester

    1. Pep says
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Tbf, Mourinho and Ibra have been quite gracious. Pogba is a clown

  20. Pep says
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    So do United blank now in 27?

    1. InSaneMan-e
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      No
      Bou H

    2. TorresMagic™
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 17 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      no

    3. AA33
      9 years, 5 months ago

      No.

  21. jason_ni
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Waiting for Wednesday, but thinking ahead for dbl gw, who to sell for Aguero.
    1) kane pp 10.8
    2) lukakku pp 9.8
    3) costa pp 10.3
    4) leave it as it is

    Kinda want to keep lukakku for the gw28, not sure tho!

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

      Costa easy

    2. Pep says
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Why would anyone care about PP. And Costa btw

    3. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Costa

    4. Epic Fail
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Costa.

      Didn't look at pp, means nothing.

  22. mojoindojo
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    If City double confirmed then
    Sanchez -> Sterling, Defoe -> Kun and Luiz -> Stones for -8.

    Too much ?

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

      Not the stones move

    2. Pep says
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Definetly not Stones. Pieters if your stuck for funds

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

        Ah did Pieters to Mawson.last week to prepare for gw28

  23. Debauchy
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Most Mickey of Mickeys , but was a good game to watch. Thanks guys

  24. Shultan
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Lot of bitter ABUs on here right now!

    Yes it is just the mickey mouse club & yes saints had a goal wrongly disallowed but thats football it happens decisions go agaisnt you & for you!

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

      *mickey mouse trophy!

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

      Decisions go against some (small) teams and FOR some (big) teams.....

      Agreed.

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

        Never ending bias tbf , where smaller clubs are always on the losing end. Not just this game , it is never ending

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

          Are there any facts to back up this assumption though? Or is it what people just percieve to be true?

          I remember last season leicester getting a lot of decisions going their way

          1. Yank Revolution
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 5 months ago

            It's called "Confirmation Bias"....

    3. CobraKai
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Not just the ABUs here, they were also in the Sky studio.

      Very butt hurt commentary I thought.

  25. bjms1109
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Gabbiadini bandwagon is insane.....currently at a 30 minute NTI turnover 9K

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

      Increasing prices for GW 30 buyers

    2. Camp No No
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      and all that for wat - blank in next 2GWs

    3. NATSTER
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      WAT (A) looks like a good game.

  26. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Open top bus parade?

    1. Epic Fail
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Around London?

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

        Hkg , Jhb , NY , Singapore .............

    2. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Will make it easier to get under low bridges 😉

  27. WVA
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Desperately need some help, constant red arrows and ive now lost the lead in my ml, any help much appreciated.

    Jak Pick
    Alonso Baines Brunt Friend Amat
    Mane Erikson Alli Siggy Snodgrass
    Costa Lukaku Rondon
    1ft 3.5itb

    Considering Alli and Costa > Stirling and Aguero if dgw.

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

      Right moves

    2. F4L
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      dem moves look tasty. Snoddy needs to go soon

  28. Egyptian Giza
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    guys here gonna watch which game tonight? roma inter or real madrid

    1. F4L
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      roma inter

    2. Syd.
      • 17 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      The Women's over 60's topless darts

  29. Make United Great Again
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    First of many trophies under Mourinho. Get in. 🙂

  30. Did you see that throw-in?
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    It's all a bit emperor's new clothes, for me Clive, that we've still got this cup in the schedule that nobody tries to win until the final game.

    It only came into existence as a revenue generator and it doesn't serve that purpose anymore. Bin it.

    1. Epic Fail
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Why bin it? If teams don't care about it they can just play their youth players for a run out. If fans don't care about it they can just not watch.

      1. Did you see that throw-in?
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        I've no idea why fans still attend. I don't think fans should be sold tickets purporting to represent first team games though when most aren't.

    2. F4L
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      I like it. Look how much it meant to Southampton. Just because big ego teams like United disrespect it, doesn't mean other teams do the same

      1. Did you see that throw-in?
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Soton still 'disrespected' the earlier rounds.

        1. F4L
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          disrespect was the wrong wording, meant value it. Teams like Southampton will play the kids against lower league opposition, but when the big boys show up they want it. United probably don't care that much about winning it

      2. Pep bites Kun
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Who says Manu disrespect it? That's an old opinion from the Fergie era when he said he should prioritise the PL over the FA Cup one year - 1 statement - 49 trophies.