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4 January 2018 5309 comments
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The final round of festive fixtures comes to its conclusion at Wembley Stadium as Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham play the second match of their double Gameweek 22.

Much to our collective relief, Harry Kane returns to the hosts’ starting line-up after producing just a single point from his 22 minutes off the bench at Swansea on Tuesday night.

It’s fair to say that the Fantasy Premier League hopes of many managers rely on the Spurs striker this evening.

Not only is he the top captain pick for the Gameweek (24.2%), a hefty 121,000+ Triple Captain chips have been wielded on Kane in light of back-to-back hat-tricks in his previous two starts.

The allure of a double Gameweek has also boosted in interest in Spurs midfield trio Son Heung-min, Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli. All three join Kane on the teamsheet and are also among the top 13 armband picks for Gameweek 22.

The top transfer target for Gameweek 22, with 498,000+ new owners, Son has scored in five of Tottenham’s last six at Wembley, totalling 57 points over those matches.

Eriksen and Alli, meanwhile, bagged an assist and goal respectively in Tuesday’s win at Swansea to continue their improved form.

The Dane has supplied points in six of his last seven outings, while Alli has two goals and four assists in his previous three.

At the back, Ben Davies earns successive starts for the first time since Gameweek 16 as Danny Rose misses out with a knee complaint again.

The big news for the Hammers is that Marko Arnautovic is sidelined with a minor hamstring problem.

Drafted in by over 368,000 for his pair of fixtures, he ends double Gameweek 22 on five points, having earned the assist for Andy Carroll’s late winner against West Brom.

Carroll’s two goals in the Baggies’ clash isn’t enough to keep his role in the XI, though – he drops to the bench as Chicharito leads the line instead.

The Mexican and Manuel Lanzini – who has supplied four assists in his previous five – carry the main threat to a defence that’s looking for their tenth clean sheet of the season.

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  1. Boxwoods
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    Current baps order?

    1. Podge
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Son obiang 3 Aurier 1

      1. Boxwoods
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Cheers

  2. Differentiator
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    🙁

  3. Shultan
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    Last week i got 56 points from 10 players
    this week currently on 48 with 11 players including 4 who DGWs...

  4. barracuda
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    What is wrong with Arnie pls? Illness ?

    1. Dannyb
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Hammy

      1. barracuda
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Sacks, how long?

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

      Terminated

      1. barracuda
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        I will be soon. 😉

  5. bennyp
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    Masaku looked good this game.

  6. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    3 - Son, Obiang (35)
    1 - Aurier (26)

    2 likely for Son after deductions.

    1. Boxwoods
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Cheers

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

    LOL @ Hazard sellers.

    1. FPL Scoop
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Fk you

    2. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      glad to of got rid

    3. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Me

    4. Ravager
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Meh. Son matched him this week

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

    When we needed him most.... he let us down

  9. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    71 in a d/g/w absolute disaster.

    1. CloudSky
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      ...

    2. denial
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Twat

      1. George Sillett
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Always been one , always will be.

    3. The Tinkerman
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      I’ll swap you for my 59

    4. grumpyman
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Try 42 points for size.

  10. The Tinkerman
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    How much has the average gone up tonight?

  11. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    It was inevitable. Kane coming off scoring two hat tricks, a double gameweek against two of the league's weaker teams. Then....nothing

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

    Masuaku just told Lamela to 'get the fu** up' 😀

    1. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Damn right

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

      That made me laugh

  13. The Overthinker
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    My gut was saying me to captain son, but I was too afraid to against the masses especially for Kane

  14. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 16 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    Shakespeare said it best with his quote:

    "We are but grains of sand, in the DGW egg timer"

    1. Fpldonny
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      One of my favourite quotes of his

    2. BrutalLogiC
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Craig maybe, in his new FPL role

  15. Rik Waller
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    I like this Masuaku guy. Something about him

    1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 16 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Yeah I think he has a 15'pointer up his sleeve, think I'll get him on a WC

  16. Rash
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    Need Obiang to be carded to be assured of son max baps

  17. tm245
    • 14 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    Spurs can't shoot through all their attackers.

  18. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 15 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    Kane triple c fail

    1. OldBenKenobi
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Same

    2. Futile Tinkering
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      😆 me too

    3. Annie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      no way, really.

    4. Danstoke82
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Same. Wasted it again.

    5. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 16 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Bench boost is the big chip anyway. You maybe lost 15 or 20 points there vs the people who play it and hit a 15-20 point return. Not the end of the world by any stretch

  19. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 16 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    1-1

  20. HD7
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    With 5 players this is the worst outcome in a fixture I have had...

  21. shearer9
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    Well Lingard to Arnie was a waste of time.

  22. the snazzy viking
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    How to delete an FPL team?

  23. SuperMane Returns
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    End of days.

  24. OldBenKenobi
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    Awful! Just awful

  25. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    Kane. 3 points.

  26. FrankieTheGent
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    He was yellow flagged by the way.

  27. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    41 points after hits and subs! Looooooooool

    1. BrutalLogiC
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      same here, excluding any bonus from tonight

  28. Danstoke82
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    Completely wasted my TC chip on someone who scored 2 hat tricks. Can’t believe I wasted it for the 3rd season running! Can the chip get binned next season??

  29. J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 2 months ago

    60 -4, triple captain played, 6 x DGW players.

    Tumble weed.

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

    Beautiful DGW. So many lost TC chips and Free Hit chips. Lots of hits not really working out too.

    1. Kellz86
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      TC sure, that's crazy for a player that was flagged, but from where I'm sitting my FH was good value, jumped 25+ pts over a bunch of ML rivals.

    2. G-Whizz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      No hits taken and no chips used so reckon I've done ok...

    3. Rash
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Mine worked out quite nicely roughly about 40 point swing