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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. Costa in Wengerland
    • 14 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    80 points ( yeah show off) but FH played.

    1. SuperMane Returns
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      84 points with FH ;

    2. Bggz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      thats ok
      i think i'll get more than 20 points value from it by combining with bench boost and a dgw though

  2. Smurf
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Going all in on the DGW was certainly a fail for me

    Adrian
    Ogbonna
    Lanzini
    Alli
    Eriksen
    Kane (TC)

    Had always planned Eriksen (TC) and then bottled it once is saw the paper “reports” on Monday morning that Kane looked fit to start for Swansea.

    1. Smurf
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Ended the week on 69 (-4) but which isn’t so bad but I was hoping for so much more.

      1. SADIO SANÉ
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Yeah this was meant to be my big rank climbing week...not good enough 🙁

    2. RubeRx
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      chin up Smurf, you made the right plays just didn't work out

      dont let it discourage you for the next dgw

      1. Smurf
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Thanks, I’ll try my best 🙂

  3. Botman and Robben
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    60 -4 without Son baps. But I still got my TC.

  4. ooooo
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Is 58 points a green or red arrow from 16k

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

      Blue

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

        Diagonal

    2. grumpyman
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Solid green.

    3. Digital-Real
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Straight red

  5. Jsadler95
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hazard + Rich > Son and Arnie

    10 + 2 > 13 + 5 (-4), possibly the first time this season a hit hasn’t ruined me even if it is only +2 :’)

    1. Ravager
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I did Haz + RLC to the same for free. So I'm not mad at the returns either.

      Just hope Hazard doesn't start hauling now.

  6. arndff_
    • 14 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Is there a site which could show my LIVE rank?

      1. Jimmy Boy
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Why do you have to enter your password? Seems a bit dodgy

    1. Lyonnais
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      ff fix

    2. arndff_
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Thanks!

  7. LIARS POKER
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    A) Son + Christensen -> Lingard + Alonso
    B) Eriksen + Christensen -> Lingard + Alonso

    Whoever I keep out of Son/Eriksen will be gone after they play Southampton, so just wondering who will score more over the next 2

    1. FC Hakkebøf
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Flip a coin

  8. El_Shaw
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Guy who captained Tom Carroll must be laughing right now.

    1. UshFPL
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Who on earth would do that?

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

      Nice - make the most of it!

  9. JD @JDCochran2
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Well -16
    Morata to Kane +1
    Salah to RLC zero
    Richarlison to Alli +8
    Coutinho to Son +12
    Firmino to Kun +5

    Overall +10 not bad!

    1. Jsadler95
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Yeah but how much of a hit to your value did you take for that. Doing all that would cost me like 1.2 value if I wanted to get any of them back.

    2. GXNG
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Hits aren’t just for one week though . Would much rather have triple Pool instead of triple Spurs from now on. Well done though.

      1. JD @JDCochran2
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Agree. Thought that through. Morata or Firmino vs Kun I will take Kun
        Richarlison was going anyway
        Alli will go back to Salah as I have funds to do that.
        Coutinho well to many rumors he is leaving and I have Son.

        Think two players I really want now are Alonzo and Salah.

        Alli - Salah if he is ok next game week

  10. RubeRx
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    lowest scoring DGW ever?

    1. mosmof
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Has to be for quiet some time. Only one I can remember for been as bad was that Birmingham one, which may have been a triple GW but was still shite.

  11. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Kane locked in as captain next GW.

    1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Lol

    2. Les Bleus
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Yep

    3. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 16 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      This - he will definitely brace

    4. *Reformed-Character*
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      You never learn boy

  12. Aston-villain
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Are there many cup/cl or other fixtures in the break?? Would like to make transfers sooner rather than later.

    1. MTPockets
        8 years, 1 month ago

        loads

      • Smurf
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        FA cup at the weekend.

      • Ramboros
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        2 for City, Arsenal and Chelsea. 1 for the rest.

      • Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 16 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Loads of Cup fixes. Chelsea in particular their league fixtures look great but cup fixes all over the place

      • Syd.
        • 16 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        City, Arsenal & Chelsea are all involved in League Cup Semi Finals plus they have FA Cup ties

    2. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Only Carrol and Trippier from the DGW teams managed to to get in gw22 dream team.

      https://fantasy.premierleague.com/a/team/dream/22

      1. Majestic Chanka
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        And they only played one proper game each!

      2. Egg noodle
        • 16 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        And Son

      3. Ramboros
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Son will have at least 12 after bonus.

      4. Klopptomist Scott Jelly
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Son still to get BPS though

    3. MTPockets
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Did Kane beat Andy Carroll's previous season DGW score?

      • FC Hakkebøf
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        GW23

        Play Ogbonna (hud) or Quaner (WHU)?

      • OldBenKenobi
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        TC is an overrated chip anyway....

        1. Smurf
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Agreed. People really don’t understand it’s just one set of points extra like a second captain.

          1. Ravager
            • 11 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Did wonders for me with Sanchez in the double season before.

          2. willl
            • 10 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Nah I got 75 from it once, its worth 75 points.

            /s

          3. *Reformed-Character*
            • 8 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Salty, in a dgw that's a lot of potential points boy

        2. Puntillimon
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Aguero 5 goaler against Newcastle disagrees with you

        3. Digital-Real
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Disagree. Sanchez last two seasons 100 points in total.

      • Sharkytect
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        I feel sick

      • SkeletONv01
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Son(C) 🙂

        1. Jimmy Boy
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Well played

        2. Hurricane Gilbert
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Hats off to you. Brilliant!

        3. Pocky
          • 16 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Fair Paly...I just didn't have the balls.

          1. Pocky
            • 16 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            *play*

        4. Ravager
          • 11 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Wish I had the guts to do it. Was my vice, I Figured if Kane started one, he'd score.

      • Gudjohnsen
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Average after tonight 53?

        1. TorresMagic™
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 16 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Top 10K maybe.

        2. Jsadler95
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          41 average 49 for top 10k according to fpldiscovery

          1. Jsadler95
            • 9 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            40 average 50 top 10k sorry**

      • RÏɠBY
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        adrian did really well.. i'm happy to see him keep mr dandruff head out of the team

      • GGMU11
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Want to rage transfer Kane out so bad but I know he would make me pay for it. 2 easy home fixtures and a blank is just brutal!

      • Danno - Emre Canada
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Top scorer in my team, hits hahahaha

      • diesel001
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Lots of TCs wasted
        Lots of Free Hits wasted
        Lots of teams taking hits to get crap West Ham players in

        What a DGW!

        1. Hulk Smash
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          See my comment 3 posts down

      • Numb
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Think my transfers just about paid off in the end? This week anyway.

        Hazard Coutinho RLC > Alli Son Arnie

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

          Hazard was a poor transfer. Quality player who will score points.

          1. Numb
            • 11 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Expensive tho

        2. TorresMagic™
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 16 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          I should have kept Morata instead of getting Kane.

          1. Numb
            • 11 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Yeah maybe

      • Pinky Blinders
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Remember how pissed people were with Aguero TC last season. Yeah that looks awesome compared to the troll job Kane just pulled.

      • Hulk Smash
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        You know it's been a disappointing DGW when the main thing people are celebrating is that other people have wasted their chips

      • The Bandit
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Most annoying FFS words..

        I forgot
        Just realised
        Accidently

        🙄

        1. The Overthinker
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Kane not in this list ?

        2. *Reformed-Character*
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Most annoying FFS members

          Dabemba
          Chucky
          Jafooli
          Sims
          Wild rover

          1. UshFPL
            • 9 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Waxys
            Chapelle

      • FFSbet.com
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        78(-16) not bad,16 profit from new players 51 - (19+16).

        1. Kim Jong Kün
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          I did a -16 this week and it was exactly breakeven except I think between avoiding drops and gaining value I'm 0.5 higher. Still redoing half a side for a one-week essentially free is great.

          1. FFSbet.com
            • 10 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Yes best time to take hits and enjoy.

      • Davido989
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        I'm done with this stupid game. Wasted my TC as well 🙂

        1. UnitedFan
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          🙂

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

          Log off for few days - log back in on the 12th you will be raring to go 🙂

        3. Syd.
          • 16 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          I don't think you are alone on that one

        4. RubeRx
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          see you next gw

        5. Smurf
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Berb the triple captain isn’t worth as much as people think. Realistically if you get an extra 20 points (which is nothing) then you would say you have had great success with it.

        6. The 12th Man
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          You wasted Tom Carroll?