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Gameweek 29 gets off to a potentially inauspicious start at Turf Moor – the venue that has seen the fewest goals in the Premier League this season.

Fantasy managers will have low expectations ahead of Burnley’s meeting with Everton, with clean sheets likely to be the target for most.

But the Clarets are without a shut-out in seven Gameweeks, while for Everton it’s even worse; they’ve failed to earn a clean sheet in eight attempts.

The Toffees arrive looking to end their dismal form on the road and while Sam Allardyce has been talking up the need to prioritise defence, he appears to have opted for a very attacking line-up.

Having praised Oumar Niasse in recent weeks, he drops the Senegalese to the bench and instead deploys what looks to be a front two of Cenk Tosun and Dominic Calvert-Lewin. Wayne Rooney also misses out and is on the timber.

Seamus Coleman returns for the visitors, though fellow full-back Leighton Baines makes his comeback from the bench following a calf injury.

James Tarkowski’s return looks to have restored a first choice back four for Sean Dyche’s side. When they’ve kept their ten clean sheets this season, nine have been achieved with Tarkowski in the starting line-up.

Mark Mark created the beast. He's now looking to tame it.

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

    Im stating the obvious but i hate how blank GWs cloud our judgement & influence to keep hold of players we normaly we would have got rid of weeks ago

    1. Epic Fail
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Don't know what you're talking about. Even without the blank I would have been breaking my back to bring in Everton, WBA, Stoke and Bournemouth players.

      1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        😛

    2. LǝgleSs e|even
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      This. ML got in Mkhi for Shaq instead of Walcott and may pay off well for the next 2

      1. LǝgleSs e|even
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        I mean Mkhi for Sterling

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

        Most of my ML are what most people on here call casuals are none of them are preparing for GW31 whilst i have 8,
        however as most have 3 liverpool players i dont think im going to have an advantage

    3. Defcons are for Kinnear
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Casuals tonk us for 4 GWs but we'll have the last laugh when we get an extra 7 points from 5 extra players

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

        This

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

      Free hit that shit

  2. RubberDucky
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Everton might actua lot keero clean sheets now Williams is out of the team. He has been shocking all season. Disgraceful performances for a professional and I don't think he cares.

      Surely Big Sam has another option at the back?

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

        Wearing oven mitts?

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

        Pickford
        Holgate Jagielka Keane
        Coleman Gueye Davies Baines
        Rooney Sigurdsson
        Tosun

      3. LǝgleSs e|even
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        everton wont do jack.

    • TooDifficuIt
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Wally is shite worst transfer this season

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

        *pickford

      2. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        *Pickford

      3. LǝgleSs e|even
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        You mean Auba?

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

        Mee

    • Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Lowton might even catch Tosun with winning assist baps and Tosun getting -baps for being subbed early?

    • Fresh_From_Desh
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      May as well keep your Everton assets if you have them.

      Except Williams

      1. Royal5
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        🙄

      2. Epic Fail
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Oh ok. Cheers.

    • Rainer
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Burnley now 5 points behind Arsenal in the race for 6th.

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        😆 brilliant.....

      2. ZeBestee
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Burnley are shitty team and will remain so!

    • Cok3y5murf
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Walcott owners patiently waiting for his GW31 2-pointer...

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

        He'll be gone for shaq by then

    • Garfield1001
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      8 points from 4 players.....

      How I have 3 Everton players I will never know.

      Season crumbling

    • tm245
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      I still love you, Theo. Nostalgia is a powerful emotion.

      1. Piggs Boson
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Same. He was an incredible differential back in the day.

      2. LǝgleSs e|even
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Love does not equal to points

    • SAY SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Matty Lowton: Chesterfield's finest had a cracking game. Not a bad first run out for my team at all.

    • Piggs Boson
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Holgate 1
      Walcott 2

      Excellent start 😎

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

        Holgate 0

        1. Jafooli
          • 14 Years
          8 years, 2 months ago

          Bet you're fun at parties 😀

        2. Piggs Boson
          • 14 Years
          8 years, 2 months ago

          Martina* 😳

    • tafrère
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Some people are managing getting a starting XI on GW31 without too many hits nor FH ?

      I will definitely use FH personally...

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

        Save the FH for GW35 if you still have a second WC left.

    • Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Cage Match of all Prem gaffers. Sean Dyche the favorite?

      1. Klopptomist Scott Jelly
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Absolutely. Bilic would have pushed him I reckon. BFS might be like Homer in the boxing episode of the Simpsons.

        Howe wouldn't last 10 seconds

    • Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      And all for 4.3m 😎

      1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Well done. 🙂

        1. Jafooli
          • 14 Years
          8 years, 2 months ago

          Cheers Doos, a rare small success this season 😀

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

        You are not alone in this soldier 😉

    • Give The Todd Some Love
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Ben Mee has been absolutely useless for months

      1. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        This

      2. Yozzer
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        I hate him.

    • IRBOX ⚽
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      #allardyce out. Useless BF knobhead

      1. Epic Fail
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        To be fair he went there to keep them up and he's succeeded.

        1. IRBOX ⚽
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 2 months ago

          They were never going down with their roster. His tactics are woeful, shame for the starting team, shame for the fans, and shame for the club

          1. Epic Fail
            • 15 Years
            8 years, 2 months ago

            Maybe, but I'm sure most Everton fans would be happy with their current position if you told them that's where they would be just before he took charge.

            1. IRBOX ⚽
              • 9 Years
              8 years, 2 months ago

              Absolutely not happy. Our club is better than this. Should be challenging for top 6 and the way we are being made to play is absolutely horrendous tactically.

              1. Epic Fail
                • 15 Years
                8 years, 2 months ago

                Oh of course, I just mean in comparison to where they were. It was quite clear they wouldn't be challenging for top 6 at the point BFS took over no matter who was to take over. They are in a relatively good position compared to then.

              2. Epic Fail
                • 15 Years
                8 years, 2 months ago

                Just talking about position by the way, not taking anything else into consideration. BFS's football is terrible.

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

        #wengerin to shore up their defence

    • Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Ah well, 2 points from Mee not a total disaster. Mustn't be too greedy.

    • Hotdogs for Tea
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Lowton double rise this week 😉

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Get him back to the price we all bought him for 😆

    • Rainer
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Baines owners the real winners there getting a nice autosub.

    • Fpl Richie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      No Oggy. No Kenny.

      I'm not sure I want Duffy off the bench!

      1. Big_Andy_GAWA
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        'Oggy'?

        1. Fpl Richie
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 2 months ago

          Ogbonna

        2. Piggs Boson
          • 14 Years
          8 years, 2 months ago

          Pasty

      2. F4L
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        we all know this is the week Duffy scores his goal, and I don't mean an own goal either!

      3. FDMS All Starz
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Nlessing in disguise, Arsenal are woefull could get a goal and CS 😉

      4. Give The Todd Some Love
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Is Ogbonna injured?

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

          ill

          1. Give The Todd Some Love
            • 14 Years
            8 years, 2 months ago

            🙁

    • Big_Andy_GAWA
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Any info been released re: Danny Simpson no-show...?

    • dunas_dog
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Who comes in for Willians. Holgate?

      1. Big_Andy_GAWA
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Is Jags injured?

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

        Jageilka

    • F4L
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Where's Mahrez playing in that Leicester line up?

      1. Klopptomist Scott Jelly
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Wherever he wants I think...

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

        RW vs Daniels...

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

          As a non owner ." Oh f**k"

        2. Over Midwicket
          • 14 Years
          8 years, 2 months ago

          Good lord

      3. FDMS All Starz
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Somewhere on the right

    • IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Well jonty must be on cloud nine seeing the woes of pickford and ofc its Everton vs his team next week lol

      1. J0E
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 16 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        And my fantasy island risk Barnes scoring against them. 🙂

        But not all happiness - I fell into the Niasse trap sadly.

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

          Nice enabler who could be involved in 31, not a biggie

          1. J0E
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • Has Moderation Rights
            • 16 Years
            8 years, 2 months ago

            Indeed - far better to take a risk on cheapies and bench fodder. The Walcott and Pickford traps are far bigger and deadlier.

        2. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 2 months ago

          Ya lol

      2. Over Midwicket
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Yeah, give Jonty more excuses to rip on Everton, will ya..

        1. J0E
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 16 Years
          8 years, 2 months ago

          Everton’s metamorphosis into Boro is nearing completion 🙂

          1. IRBOX ⚽
            • 9 Years
            8 years, 2 months ago

            Turn it up. They are head and shoulders above your woeful joke of a team Brighton who belong back in the championship.

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

              Cue Brighton win

            2. J0E
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • Has Moderation Rights
              • 16 Years
              8 years, 2 months ago

              Prob not the best day to talk up the virtues of Everton 🙂

              You’re right though it is unfair to compare them to Boro . Pulis is doing wonders there - even Bamford is scoring hat tricks. 🙂

              1. IRBOX ⚽
                • 9 Years
                8 years, 2 months ago

                The managerial skills of Allardyce are disgraceful. The club has the assets to play entertaining football if given the opportunity, yet the tactics employed invite these performances and results. The club has history and you can not compare them to the inferior

                1. IRBOX ⚽
                  • 9 Years
                  8 years, 2 months ago

                  Sorry if I was forthcoming. Just a passionate/extremely frustrated Toffees fan.

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

                    Thing is, it's not like they didn't know what they were getting when they appointed him.

    • Dacra
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Where's Ogbonna?!

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

        Ill

    • LǝgleSs e|even
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      1-2-2
      Points Walcott has produced since I got him in.

      1. Piggs Boson
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Palace, Watford and Burnley. Awful return 🙁

      2. Defcons are for Kinnear
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        At least he's predictable

    • Tekkerslovakiaftw
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Anyone else feeling slight regret about captaining Salah over Kane ? Could see him getting a hatty today

      1. Piggs Boson
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Salah is unstoppable.

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

        Couldn't understand why Kane owners aren't captaining him. Best fixture out of all the Top 6 teams this week. I don't own Kane so for me Salah(c) was an easy decision

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

          Tbh it's a coin toss really isn't it

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

            Is it? Huddersfield have shown no defensive nous away from home. Newcastle on the other hand have and have Rafa

      3. Over Midwicket
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        I'm happy. Son playing means Kane won't get much.

    • FDMS All Starz
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Burnley unlucky to not keep a CS in the last 2 games tbf

      1. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        * 10 games

    • Hotdogs for Tea
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      That Spurs team looks very strong

      1. Fpl Richie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 2 months ago

        Yup. Probably should have doubled myself. Ah well.

    • ZeBestee
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 2 months ago

      Coaches like Allardyce and Pulis are not worth coaching top flight football clubs with all their negative tactics. They are just making watching football games boring.

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

        Don't think that's true at all. The clubs that employ them couldn't care less if you find them boring to watch. They are employed to give stability and to teams and keep them in the PL. If that means using negative tactics so be it.

        1. ZeBestee
          • 11 Years
          8 years, 2 months ago

          I think as a football fan, i wouldn't go to a football match to watch balls being hoofed from one end to the other with no movement, no skills, no goals. Football is about entertainment and if you cant get that then better do something else.