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Spurs roll out a 3-5-2 as Mourinho ditches the wing-back system

After a barnstorming match between Cardiff City and Arsenal on Sunday lunchtime, the two 16:00 BST kick-offs at Vicarage Road and Turf Moor bring Gameweek 4 to an end.

Tottenham Hotspur have made three changes to the side that beat Manchester United last Monday, with Ben Davies (£5.8m), Davinson Sanchez (£5.9m) and Michel Vorm (£4.9m) – in for the injured Hugo Lloris (£5.5m) – the men to come in. Danny Rose (£5.9m) and Eric Dier (£4.9m) drop to the bench.

Sanchez’s inclusion means that Mauricio Pochettino’s side are set to employ a 3-5-2 formation this afternoon, with Lucas Moura (£7.2m) possibly set to join Harry Kane (£12.5m) in attack – as the Brazilian did in the 3-1 win over Fulham. Moura was the second-most-bought player of Gameweek 4, being drafted in by more than half a million Fantasy Premier League managers.

Watford, meanwhile, are unchanged for the fourth successive league match.

The injured Phil Jones (£5.2m) is one of three players to drop out of Jose Mourinho’s starting XI, with Fred (£5.8m) and Ander Herrera (£5.0m) forced to watch on from the bench.

Alexis Sanchez (£10.2m), Marouane Fellaini (£5.0m) and Victor Lindelof (£4.9m) earn a reprieve to the United first team, which looks on paper to be a 4-3-3 following the wing-back experiment of Gameweek 3.

United are yet to keep a clean sheet this season (having recorded a league-high 19 in 2017/18) and David De Gea (£5.9m) – the most-sold goalkeeper of this round – has the worst save percentage of all the Premier League shot-stoppers this campaign.

Having naming an unchanged team for his side’s first three league matches, Sean Dyche has rotated his full-backs, with Charlie Taylor (£4.5m) and Phil Bardsley (£4.4m) replacing Stephen Ward (£4.9m) and Matthew Lowton (£4.9m).

An injury to Johann Berg Gudmundsson (£5.9m) means that 18-year-old Dwight McNeil gets a start on the left flank.

Burnley XI: Hart; Taylor, Tarkowski, Mee, Bardsley; Cork, Hendrick, Westwood, Lennon, McNeil; Wood.

Manchester United XI: De Gea; Valencia, Lindelof, Smalling, Shaw; Fellaini, Matic, Pogba; Lingard, Lukaku, Sanchez.

Watford XI: Foster; Janmaat, Cathcart, Kabasele, Holebas; Hughes, Capoue, Doucoure, Pereyra; Deeney, Gray.

Spurs XI: Vorm; Trippier, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Sanchez, Davies; Dembele, Eriksen, Dele; Lucas, Kane.

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3,734 Comments Post a Comment
  1. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    deeeenneeyyyyyyyyy

  2. Smurf
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Deeney 1-1

  3. Rust Cohle
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    WC’ing to this:

    Ryan/Button

    Alonso/Mendy/Robertson/Trippier/AWB

    Hazard/Mane/Maddison/Fraser/Højbjerg

    Aguero/Vardy/Mitrovic

    Barring injuries over IB, G2G?

    1. Steinburg FC
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      points will be left on the bench every week but like it

  4. Four Hit Wonder
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Cleanie be gone!

  5. Gobigorgohome
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    DEEEEEEENEEEYYY OMMG

  6. My heart goes Salalalalah
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Spurs CS gone

  7. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 15 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Penalty 🙁

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Huh?

      1. Fred54
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Oh right the other game.

  8. Cpt Crunch Scott talent
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you Troy

  9. SADIO SANÉ
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Holebas AGAIN? jesus

  10. Shifty
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Who else sold Lucas for Bilva in gw2 only to see Lucas go on to get 3 goals 1 assist since.

    Makes me wanna puke

    1. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Sold him for Mkhy.. I did puke and have been ever since

      1. Shifty
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        At least u managed one mkhi haul.

        I've got 2 blanks and a non start.

  11. Garlana
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Jay knows!!

  12. Sasquatch Slayer
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Jammy Pogba owners

    1. Patch
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Jammy as in got himself in a mess?

      1. Sasquatch Slayer
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Precisely

  13. Tornado
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Moura going to lose that assist and goal given to eriksen?

    1. Dead Lift
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Yes.

  14. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    😎

    Called it....

  15. Whats the Mata?
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Savedddd

  16. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    PEn--saved pog

  17. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 15 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Pogba pen miss. Hart save

  18. BenDavies
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Jay Eggersdorff did Mane + Pedro --> Mkhitaryan + David Silva on his wildcard

    Ouch...

    1. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      And people are paying this bellend for advice

  19. G-Whizz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Oooops! Poggy misses penalty...

  20. The Enlightener
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Yes! Hart my son!

    1. Jack Frost
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Yes... always adding points, cool.

  21. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    GOLAZO. Bye CS

  22. Lumberjack
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Only the 7 players in my team that I'm thinking of shifting...Hamer/ Bellerin/ Bednarek/ Mkhi/ Wally/ Gunnarson/ Gudmunsson/ Zaha.

    Actually, maybe not Zaha, depending on updates in the next couple of weeks. Still, WC incoming.

  23. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Joe Hart 🙂

  24. KGFC
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Penalty saved!!

  25. jdp219
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    After today (Mkhi's 1 minute), my thoughts on a WC seeming a little more viable. Just not sure I have enough to dump for a WC.

    Current squad:
    Foster, Fab
    Mendy, Robbo, Alonso, W-B, Bednarek
    Salah, Mkhi, Fraser, Gud, Gunnarsson
    Kun, Firmino, Zaha

    On the block: Bed, Gud, Gunn; maybes: Firmino, Mkhi

  26. Zladan
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Pogba...

  27. Fred54
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Most useful thing's Hart's done since.....

  28. Four Hit Wonder
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Who went down for the ManU penalty?

  29. TheTinman
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Why in God’s name is big Rom not taking that pen

    1. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      He is crap at pens

  30. TomSaints
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    That's so annoying. **** off Pogba. Really needed that

    1. Fantastisk
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Casual

      1. Big Ping
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Loool

    2. TomSaints
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      And now united will inevitably concede. What a terrible game week