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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. Red Star Toro
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Starts smelling like WC

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

      Cool kids already did

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

        not cool wc kids brought in Richarlion

  2. moment
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Arnie off pre-60

  3. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Arnie OFF
    Chicha ON

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

    Arnie off ffs. Mare week!

    1. Duffy Dunk
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Fpl reveals its true evil face after 2 gwks off.

  5. La Roja
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Arnie off

    George Clooney on

    1. Ross From Friends
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      hahahahahah

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

    Arnie off, Chicharito's new hair on

  7. JustPark
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    How does Maddison look, chaps?

    1. Oven Glover
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Blonde, kinda handsome.

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

    Totally spewing.....

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

    Bet I'm the only one here with Iheanacho 😎

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

      Probably, but after his City days I've tended to keep an eye on him, hasnt taken off yet for him

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

    Template well and truly falling apart

    1. Make United Great Again
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Salah Mane Robbo to the rescue

  11. Simon69
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hamer, Arnie, Richarlison.. FPL is properly back now

    1. fedolefan
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Not that I own him, but what's wrong with Hamer?

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

    Go on Klopper, twist the knife and hit us with rotation!

    1. FPLGyarados
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Waiting for Shaqiri, Solanke, Sturridge front three for me to throw my laptop out the window

  13. n-doggg
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Jesus wept

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

    Disaster

  15. Weasel Boy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Gonna be a low scoring week

  16. L'Aeroplanino
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    welcome back FPL

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

    Arnautovic injured

  18. TheTwelfthMan
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    First two 90+ point weeks spoilt us all..

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

    Arnie 5 pointer likely.

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

      Decent returns this week

  20. Fpl Richie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Richa and Arnie to who?
    Crap.

    1. Limbo
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Zaha + Wally will be most common

  21. Limbo
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Ooooh. 10 v 10 now...

    1. Tommy Tynans Left Shin Pad
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Who's gone off?

      1. FPLGyarados
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        Smith

  22. SirStevieG
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    I have no words for this gameweek.

  23. BON
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Why have 15,000 people already transferred Richarlison out before the 3 o'clock games have even finished instead of waiting?

    1. skybluecam
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Because I was on the beach with 4% battery and worried I wouldn’t be able to in time 🙂

  24. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Mark's team looks shocking, he should WC next round.

  25. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Most certainly going to be using my WC this week

  26. moment
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    After two glorious sunny gameweeks, this is the equivalent of a wet wednesday at Stoke. One for the purist.

  27. caldracula
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Arsenal look like winning this one?

    1. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Nope, very shaky in defence

  28. potatoace
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Adam Smith red !

  29. fedolefan
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Dodged the Richarlison bullet after his hopelessness in my team last year. Probably get on the Wally train now.

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

      Same, I couldn't quote got on board with Richa after last season...

    2. Tommy Tynans Left Shin Pad
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Out of the frying pan, straight into the fire then!

      1. fedolefan
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        Probably, but those three home games in four look worth a FT.

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

    Adam smith RC