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6 May 2018 1543 comments
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Day three of Double Gameweek 37 treats us to three more fixtures, with champions Manchester City getting us underway at home to Huddersfield Town at 1.30pm.

After Harry Kane’s blank at The Hawthorns yesterday, Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling get the chance to vindicate the recent raft of interest from Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers.

Snapped up by 268,000+ and 199,000+ new owners respectively, they were the two most bought players for this round of fixtures.

Handed the armband by 5.04% and 32 of the top 100 managers, Jesus has scored in each of his last four starts for the champions. As a result, over 75,000 FPL managers played their Triple Captain chip on the Brazilian.

Meanwhile, Sterling has three goals and seven assists in six league outings since returning from injury and is seeking a fourth straight double-figure haul. Captained by 4.79% and 11 of the top 100, over 69,000 have played their Triple Captain chip on the England wide man.

Meanwhile, David Silva returns to the teamsheet as Pep Guardiola names a full-strength line-up today.

Sold by 63,000+ FPL managers for Double Gameweek 37, the playmaker has four goals, three assists and a trio of double-digit returns in his last seven Gameweek appearances.

With six and five double-figure hauls respectively at the Etihad, Kevin De Bruyne and Leroy Sane have the potential to rack up the points against a Terries side that have conceded in each of their last 14 road trips.

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

    "Ozil misses due to a light back issue."

    Probably no backbone. Like at all.

    1. Fantastisk
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      #banter

    2. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Just doesn't give a ****, doesn't want to play.

    3. Sailboats
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      He plays when he wants

    4. Desperately Seeking Dusan
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      This

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

    lol @ ozil

  3. Cok3y5murf
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Firmino on Salah:

    “In whatever way the team can help him, we will all do our best so that he ends the season as the top scorer.”

    A hat-trick and an assist is all I ask for

    1. Desperately Seeking Dusan
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I never thought owning Salah would be a differential in my MLs but this week it is.

      Hat-trick would be very welcome.

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

      Have you bookmarked this yet?

  4. Ghost Gooner
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Mangala gets a medal? 😕 😆

    1. Desperately Seeking Dusan
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Clubs discretion who gets them these days.

      Back in the days when we were challenging for the league it was different of course.

      1. Ghost Gooner
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Strange seeing as he wasn't wanted

  5. -SB-
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Kompany you pudh.

    Could have got me 6 points.

  6. Syd.
    • 17 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    City players just knocked the PL Trophy flying

    1. -SB-
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Looooool

  7. johnnys balloons
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Now, more than ever, I am sure that all football competitions are rigged! CL in the first plays than goes the others. PL for sure! To much money in the game going around, bookies, overpaid players, 100+ milion transfers. All that must be controled in some way... We are just sheeps who dont see it, that this is all staged for us. An easy entertainment for us blind folks

    1. Podge
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Again sheeps ! It’s sheep

      1. Taking the Mkhitaryan
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Sheeps????

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

        Ram it home.

        1. Desperately Seeking Dusan
          • 14 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Lol

      3. johnnys balloons
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Ok, my mistake

    2. johnnys balloons
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      The final piece of the puzzle will be WBA's "miracle" salvation like QPR few seasons ago. Just to show how competition is "unpredictable"...

      1. Dave Bauer
        • 16 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Just let me get my tinfoil hat.

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

        Happy memories.

        We beat Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs in that run in to stay up!

    3. GREEN IS GOOD
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I blame it on aliens.

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

    Jesus sighting 😮

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

    Sergio Aguero hobbling still.....

  10. -SB-
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Oh wow, Kompany sighting...

  11. Deulofail
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    AGUEEERRROOOOOOOO

  12. Syd.
    • 17 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Yessssssssssssssss

    Champions

    😎 😎

    1. Red Dagger ✪
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      The best part of this trophy presentation is it isn't United 😉

      1. Desperately Seeking Dusan
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        This. And the Sky fawning over them that makes me wretch.

  13. GE
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Mustafi and Willian benched..great!

    1. -SB-
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Serious?

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

        Not great

    2. La Galatica
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Oh no... Why. Worst dgw this season

      1. -SB-
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Worst GW!

    3. Taking the Mkhitaryan
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Mustafi was due. He has been baaaad

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

        He was benched last match..

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

    Would be funny if Burnley kept a CS today.

    1. BIGREDDOG
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      It would but I would be crying not laughing

  15. La Roja
    • 14 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Well done deserved City. Clap clap etc

    1. Fantastisk
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      If you're the champions and you know it clap your hands.

    2. Debauchy
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Was a pleasure to witness total football

      1. Fantastisk
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Huddersfield just couldn't cope.

  16. Epic Fail
    • 15 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    I hope one of you nerds has made a note of which Man City players need a game or 2 to qualify for a trophy. I certainly haven't.

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

      None of them?

    2. Taking the Mkhitaryan
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      1. They already have the trophy
      2. Medals are at the club's discretion, not based on appearances anymore

      1. Epic Fail
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        They need 5 appearances.

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

        But I did mean medal rather than trophy.

        1. Taking the Mkhitaryan
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Clubs discretion now

          1. Epic Fail
            • 15 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            It isn't.

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

      Needed 5 games before today to get the medal today.

      Extra medals given at the end of the season.

      1. Desperately Seeking Dusan
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Is that true? Only in England could there be such a pedantic rule... What's the difference between giving them now and at the end of the season?!

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

      That English young fellow Fodeon and another young lad need 2 i fully expect them both to be accommodated before seasons end.

      1. Taking the Mkhitaryan
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Clubs discretion now

        1. Taking the Mkhitaryan
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Getting repetitive

          1. BIGREDDOG
            • 8 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            It's 5 appearances AND the clubs discretion

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

            Repeating it doesn't make it true.

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

          Still need 5 appearances you twat.

    5. Debauchy
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Can non nerds answer ?

      1. Taking the Mkhitaryan
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        As long as they don't claim there is an appearance based medal system

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

        They can on this occasion, but not in future.

    6. Red Dagger ✪
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      By the book, a player has to make 5 league appearances in order to be eligible for an EPL medal.
      However, exceptions are always made on a discretionary basis.
      A club can request exemption and order a medal if it wants any additional medals for some squad members. In such a case, an exemption request is raised by the club that needs to be approved by the English FA and the club has to pay the necessary charges for 'buying' these extra medals.

      1. Desperately Seeking Dusan
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Didn't City buy the league in the first place? Not sure they will care about buying a few more medals!

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

        An injury is usually the exemption rule. Dion Dublin only played 3 or 4 in the first Prem season but he got a medal as he broke his leg in August.
        Of course if he'd never broken his leg we'd probably not have signed Cantona so its a tad ironic.

      3. Perthite
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Isn't the backup keeper an automatic exception to the 5 games?

    7. Taking the Mkhitaryan
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Good grief guys the club is given 40 medals and they give them to who they want.
      That is the way it works whether you believe it or not

        1. MTPockets
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Basically everyone's correct. 5 guarantees a medal, but club does get 40 to hand out to those with fewer if they want.

            "The League Champions shall further receive 40 commemorative medals to be presented by the Club to its Manager and to such of its Players and Officials as it thinks fit provided that any Player who has entered the field of play in a minimum of five of its League Matches that Season shall receive from the Club a commemorative medal. Additional medals may only be presented with the consent of the Board which shall only be given if the total number of Players who have entered the field of play that Season in a minimum of five of the Club’s League Matches exceeds 39"
            Handbook - https://www.premierleague.com/publications

    8. La Galatica
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Fffx projected score 113pts. I am bloody sitting on 23pts with Monreal and William left.

      1. Taking the Mkhitaryan
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Close

        1. La Galatica
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          I wish

      2. Ghost Gooner
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        1+1=2 and 3
        2 and 3 close really 😆

    9. seanie3
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      wow, that 0-0 scoreline is more of a shock than WBA beating spurs yesterday...

      1. Desperately Seeking Dusan
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        I agree with this.

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

      Thoroughly deserved. What a squad of talented players.
      Congrats to City. One of the best teams that's ever played in English football in all the years I've been watching this league.

      1. Podge
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Agreed but possibly the worst standard the league has had since the division one days

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

        Fully agree! The Championship is a very tough league to succeed in.

        Well done, Cardiff City!

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

      Brighton 1 - 0 Man Utd
      WBA 1 - 0 Spurs
      Man City 0 - 0 Huddersfield

      Who would have thought it? What next Burnley win?

      1. Taking the Mkhitaryan
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        That wouldn't be a shock

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

        Someone said on Friday night after the Brighton win he was going to back 1-0 WBA & 1-0 Hud... so close!

      3. Sailboats
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        A Burnley win wouldn't be a surprise at all

      4. CloudSky
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Arsenal win. Its a week of shock results after all.

      5. Debauchy
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Chelsea 4- 1 would do it

      6. Over Midwicket
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        An Arsenal win would acually be shock

    12. -SB-
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Yaya get’s his phone back

    13. jbenny1107
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Man City will still start a strong side next game. Records still to be beaten. Most goals scored, most wins, etc.

      1. Fantastisk
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Expecting full rotation then?

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

        Nah. Give the second string a chance now.

    14. La Roja
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      lol at Yaya

      1. Podge
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        And his millions

    15. Debauchy
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Besides Sid and Pop are> there any other MCity supporters on the site ?

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

        Andy.

      2. MTPockets
          8 years, 1 month ago

          There'll be loads next season.

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

            lol

      3. Pierce34
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Does anyone know which of the four championship playoff teams is statistically more likely to get promoted?

        Off the top of my head, I would probably guess that whoever finishes 3rd (Fulham in this case) tends to lose more often than not due to the disappointment of narrowly missing out on automatic promotion. Or is that a myth?

        1. Fantastisk
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          There must be odds?

          1. Pierce34
            • 10 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Yeah I guess, I meant historically.

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

          Not a myth no, the team who barely scrapes in often goes up

          1. Podge
            • 15 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Guy called pullein had a good write up on it in the racing post a year or 2 ago

          2. Pierce34
            • 10 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Yeah I was thinking of Hull two years ago for example. Huddersfield last year also was 5th or 6th, I think. Mentality tends to be more positive than the team that just missed out on 2nd.

        3. Taking the Mkhitaryan
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Guaranteed Fulham will blow up after today's heartbreak

          1. Pierce34
            • 10 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            My thoughts too, though I would like to see Fulham in the Premier League, both from an FPL and a real football perspective.

      4. TLF
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Been away this weekend and not had a chance to watch any footy, not even MOTD ! Just saw Arny is flagged, what was the nature of his injury? Unlikely to play v Man U?

      5. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Sterling 0 shots

        1. Taking the Mkhitaryan
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          None off target
          No negative Baps
          Hero

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

        piss oiff otamendi the ultimate rival pain in the arse this year

      7. markdmwilliams
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Early doors, but if this second double gameweek proves to be poor could be the best thing for long-term future of FPL! The level drops in performance of the big teams and large amounts of rotation for various reasons might mean using the chips in a single gameweek in the future becomes anl genuine option for more of the community.

        1. Dave Bauer
          • 16 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          I understand your point but there is zero chance we won’t all be using our chips in double gameweeks next season.

        2. Ghost Gooner
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          I'm more open to using chips in a favourable single gw now

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

            Same here, DGWs are usually overrated and end up in huge disappointment.

        3. Bilbao Baggins
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          They are over hyped but it doubles your chances of points so it's definitely worth it.

      8. Over Midwicket
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Klopp has a cracking beard. Now that's what I call coverage.