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25 August 2018 3013 comments
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All eyes turn to Arsenal and their home meeting with West Ham this afternoon in the first favourable fixture of the season for Unai Emery’s men.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan (£7.1m), signed by 450,000+ managers and now in 19 percent of teams, retained his place in the side while the 16.3 percent owned Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.0m) leads the line once again.

As expected, Mesut Özil (£8.4m) misses out through illness and is replaced by Aaron Ramsey (£7.4m), while Alexandre Lacazette (£9.4m) is named on the bench for the third week running.

Marko Arnautovic (£7.0m) reclaims his monopoly on the West Ham centre-forward role with Javier Hernandez (£6.5m) dropped down to the bench.

Bournemouth are unchanged for the third match in succession with Callum Wilson (£6.1m) and Josh King (£6.4m) once again the front pairing, with Ryan Fraser (£5.6m) deployed on the left of midfield.

Ben Hamer (£4.0m) keeps his place in the Huddersfield net while Lee Peltier (£4.0m) was absent from the Cardiff line-up for a second week running, although this time he was named on the bench instead of missing out all-together.

Our Spot the Differential lead pick Danny Ings (£5.5m) gets a second start in a row for Southampton while Shane Long (£5.0m) comes in for Charlie Austin (£6.0m).

Meanwhile, FPL defender Ricardo Pereira (£5.1m) looks to have returned to an attacking midfield role for Leciester.

ARSENAL XI (4-3-3): Cech; Monreal, Mustafi, Sokratis, Bellerin; Guendouzi, Xhaka, Ramsey; Iwobi, Aubameyang, Mkhitaryan

WEST HAM XI (4-2-3-1): Fabianski; Masuaku, Balbuena, Diop, Fredericks; Sanchez, Wilshere; Anderson, Antonio, Snodgrass; Arnautovic

BOURNEMOUTH XI (4-4-2): Begovic; Daniels, S Cook, Aké, A Smith; Fraser, Surman, Gosling, Brooks; King, Wilson.

EVERTON XI (4-2-3-1): Pickford; Baines, Keane, Holgate, Coleman; Gueye, Davies; Richarlison, Sigurdsson, Walcott; Tosun.

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN XI (4-5-1): Hamer, Kongolo, Zanka, Schindler, Haderjonaj; Diahkaby, Hogg, Billing, Mooy, Van La Parra; Mounie.

CARDIFF CITY XI (4-3-3): Etheridge; Bennett, Bamba, Morrison, Manga; Ralls, Camarasa, Arter; Murphy, Zohore, Mendez-Laing.

SOUTHAMPTON XI (4-4-2): McCarthy; Bertrand, Hoedt, Vestergaard, Cedric; Redmond, Lemina, Hojbjerg, Elyounoussi; Long, Ings

LEICESTER CITY XI (4-4-1-1): Schmeichel; Chilwell, Maguire, Evans, Pereira; Gray, Ndidi, Mendy, Albrighton; Maddison; Iheanacho.

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  1. So Troublesome
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Crazy gameweek so far.

  2. Big Sam Time
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Awwwww richarlison 🙁 to be honest i dont thank theres many teams without him, guna be a low scoring week, i need salah to get a hattrick and taa to assist in them lol

    1. Yankee Toffee
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      I'm without him

      1. Big Sam Time
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        You'r one of the lucky ones 🙂

  3. OldBenKenobi
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Calling it: going to have a shocker of a week!

  4. Royal5
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Rixh violent conduct 3 games?

    1. Velocity
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      yup

  5. dunas_dog
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Is there likely to be successful appeal of Richarlison red card?

    1. Neeskens Under Matip
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Probably not, looked pretty tame though...

  6. Give The Todd Some Love
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    ffs auba

    1. Coys96
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      What happened?

  7. TAT
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Played the WC a GW too early!

  8. Coys96
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    How many games will Richarlison miss?

    1. OPTA FPL
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      3 for violent conduct

    2. Desperately Seeking Dusan
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Three

    3. Nicks93
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      2 in PL after this one

    4. Nicks93
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      1 cup game I think

    5. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Read it looked soft. Could be applied.

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

    So far - I am glad I still have my WC

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

      I never get it when people play it so early. You have to be doing so poorly to do it after 1 or 2 gameweeks to justify.

      1. Botman and Robben
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        Truth.

  10. Lallana's Bananas
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    So happy I went Maddison over Richarlison now

    1. Top 210 Club
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Maddi isn't a good fpl option so u may make up 9 points on us in three weeks

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

        Hasn’t he scored and assisted already?

        1. Velocity
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 15 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          hahahaha

      2. Pariße
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        Who says that?

  11. Nicks93
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    3 city blanks

    Hamer injured, Hart uncertain future

    Richarlison

    Can’t get much better, right ?

    1. Ghost Gooner
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Kun fail?

    2. Desperately Seeking Dusan
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      So many are in the same boat though so rank wise I think you’re ok. Everybody in top 10k has Richarlison and the same City players and as many played Hamer as DDG.

    3. Nicks93
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Didn’t captain kun thankfully

  12. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Why you do this to me Richarlison?

    1. Yankee Toffee
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Lol

  13. Kuyt Dirkula +42
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    5 players, 1 point (on a - 4).
    After 2 weeks of 80+, fpl has kicked me squarely in the nads...

    1. Khark
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      RIP bro

  14. tm245
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    FPL happily returning from its World Cup summer.

  15. The Train Driver
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Richarlison on wc win

  16. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Redcardson.

    Seriously.

  17. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    GW3 wildcards already need another wildcard!

    1. Mic
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Hahaha

      1. Richd
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        Ban

        1. Baps Hunter
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          Why 😉

    2. Top 210 Club
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Same

    3. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      How do you cancel.

    4. Desperately Seeking Dusan
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Haha

  18. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Richarlison you absolute twat

  19. billysupertramp
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    TEMPLATE IS FALLING

  20. ALTOID11
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Can’t believe I managed to avoid the Richarlison bandwagon for once! I usually jump straight on and pay the price ... not this time my friends 🙂

    1. Mic
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Missed out on a lot of points then!!

      1. ALTOID11
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        Nah had Pedro instead.

    2. Homer21
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Me too

  21. Sasquatch Slayer
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Guess I’ll be able to get Richy at his base price again

  22. Ghost Gooner
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    So much bad luck today. Kun capt fail, Hamer off injured now Richarlison 😥

    1. Khark
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Lol wow thought I had done bad

    2. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Well, I have Lössl and ditched Kun after captaining him... Time to cash Rich and perhaps get Kun back.

    3. Desperately Seeking Dusan
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Yeah but most of the top 10k are in this boat. Of course you’ll have casuals here bleating about their successes this week but who cares about people ranked 2.5 million? 94% own Rich, Kun the most picked Striker and as many had Hamer start as DDG. It was my own lack of balls that made me play DDG over Hamer, nothing else.

  23. EL tridente
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Wildcard activated... Richarlison..

  24. Dr. Ante Pavlovic
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Wtf thats not a red card

  25. Dr. Mantis Toboggan
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Redcharlison and City players blanking is classic FPL after 2 good gameweeks for the FFS template

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

      Lol this is so true

  26. mocky666
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    lol over 7k have brought in Richarlison this morning

    1. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Terrible judgement
      .....
      .....
      I brought him in last Saturday evening.

  27. threeputt
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    The only match I was watching with one of my players involved and he gets a red card ! Oh well back to live Gillette Soccer Special it is then

  28. Forza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Richarlison's red might actually be good for owners - we don't have to watch many gameweeks of crap before we get fed up of him.

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

      Hahaha so true. He was always on borrowed time for me. I remember last season.

  29. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    All aboard the Richarlison > Theo wagon

    1. Mic
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Gosh no thanks

    2. Velocity
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      no my squad can afford to wait for him to come back from suspension 😉

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

        Mine can too but I think I’d rather ditch, watch him fall straight back down to his starting price (he will at this stage of the season) and get him cheaper.

    3. Desperately Seeking Dusan
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      If the answer is Theo my friend, you’re asking the wrong question.

  30. Maddi Son
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Anyone know if Auba is alright?

    1. TAT
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      On the pitch still.

    2. Forza Papac
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      He is