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The final match of Gameweek 19 takes place this evening as Southampton take on injury-hit West Ham United. Kick-off at St. Mary’s Stadium is at 19:45 GMT.

Already without the services of Marko Arnautovic (£6.9m), the visitors are also missing Javier Hernandez (£6.4m) through injury – so Lucas Perez (£6.2m) makes only his second league start of the season for the Hammers.

Manuel Pellegrini has made five changes in all to his West Ham starting XI, with Michail Antonio (£6.8m) shifted to right-back in place of the absent Pablo Zabaleta (£4.3m), and Grady Diangana (£4.5m) getting a recall on the wing.

Felipe Anderson (£7.3m) and Robert Snodgrass (£5.4m) retain their places.

Pellegrini has only been able to name six substitutes tonight, including youngsters Xande Silva and Conor Coventry (both £4.5m).

Lukasz Fabianski (£4.7m) is  the most-owned FPL player on show this evening.

The Saints are not quite so injury-ravaged and Ralph Hasenhuttl has made only one alteration to his side from the team that beat Huddersfield Town in Gameweek 18: the suspended Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (£4.4m) being replaced by Mario Lemina (£4.8m).

Danny Ings (£5.6m) has been transferred in by more FPL managers than any other budget asset in each of the last two Gameweeks: just over 350,000 Fantasy bosses have brought the Southampton striker in during this time.

By contrast, Felipe Anderson was the fourth-most-sold Fantasy player of Gameweek 19: over 165,000 managers shipped out the Brazilian midfielder, despite him recording an attacking return in five of his last eight starts.

Southampton XI (3-4-3): McCarthy; Bednarek, Vestergaard, Yoshida; Valery, Lemina, Romeu, Targett; Armstrong, Ings, Redmond.

West Ham United XI (4-2-3-1): Fabianski; Antonio, Diop, Ogbonna, Cresswell; Rice, Obiang; Snodgrass, Diangana, Anderson; Perez.

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  1. Granville
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Felipe sellers feeling the same I felt about selling Hazard.

    Nothing worse in FPL than selling a high scoring player.

    1. ZeBestee
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      You sold Hazard for who? Strange.

      1. Granville
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 16 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Son and Martial

        1. ZeBestee
          • 11 Years
          7 years, 3 months ago

          I am thinking how i can bring Hazard in my team. 🙂

          1. Granville
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • Has Moderation Rights
            • 16 Years
            7 years, 3 months ago

            It would be nice to have everyone but I needed to find a way to fund Son. I had put it off for 2 weeks and it cost me big points.
            I already owned the 4 highest owned players in the game so felt one had to go so Haz was the fall guy.

            1. ZeBestee
              • 11 Years
              7 years, 3 months ago

              Granted you also own Salah, I would have kept Hazard for him because of the fixtures. But i understand everyone has his own way of playing this game. Cheers.

    2. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Felipe to Pogba = no loss though.

    3. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      I sold Anderson last night. Fingers crossed lightning doesn't strike twice.

      Shame that Burnley is a lightningrod for this kind of thing, though.

    4. Boo Ya Ka Sha
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      ain't nothing but a thang

    5. KickIt
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      I benched Anderson and Digne, seems worse. 🙁

      1. Bubz
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Woah

      2. BIG TONES
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Digne ok, but can you explain the rationale behind Felipe benching?

      3. Frank Black
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Why would you bench Anderson against Southampton?

        1. KickIt
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          7 years, 3 months ago

          Expected Jiménez and Ings to do better, win some/you lose some

    6. Richd
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      I benched Fanderson Digne and awb

      1. KickIt
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Thanks, made me feel slightly better

        1. Richd
          • 13 Years
          7 years, 3 months ago

          I’m gonna hang myself.

      2. Pieterke30
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Impossible

        1. Richd
          • 13 Years
          7 years, 3 months ago

          How ?

          I started Ederson
          Kola, Alonso, Doherty
          Sane sterling martial Richarlison
          Jiminez Kane rashford

          1. KickIt
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            7 years, 3 months ago

            Per above a similar story so I can understand, issue with a strong bench and less rotation then expected

    7. Frank Black
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      I knew keeping Felipe Anderson was the right thing to do. I advised some people on here not to sell him and i hope they didn't.

    8. BIG TONES
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Felipe sellers to Martial was probably knee jerk but no one could have predicted his food poisoning

    9. Granville
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      My only bad was benching TAA but I felt that he might not start and didn't want a cameo so played AWB instead. I should have made TAA first sub though, that was daft.

  2. Ninja Fury
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Any thoughts on what to do? Have a wildcard to use!

    Foster
    Alonso - Doherty - Davies
    Salah - Rich - F Anderson - Hazard
    Mitro - Kane - Jimenez

    Stek | AWB - Brooks - Peltier

    £0.2 ITB

    1. Yellin' in my Ear
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Play your wildcard, only two days left

  3. Merlin the Wraith
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    This Anderson run of form is becoming 'Salah-esque' of 2017/18 season. What a bargain!

    1. JustPark
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Brazilian Payet.

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

      Will it continue with the return of Arnie? Surely he will share his points

  4. diesel001
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    West Ham unlucky that Arnie and Yarmolenko are out. Good front three that is.

    1. Smurf
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      To be fair they have probably played their best games without them.

  5. HD7
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    When I see Charlie Austin I associate him with Hemsworth as Thor... only me?
    Allison also looks like Thor Ragnarok 😀

  6. Optimus.
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    I fancy a threeson..

    Richarlison, Anderson and Son

    1. Optimus.
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Maybe even a fourson with Sigurdsson

      1. Optimus.
        • 15 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        And a proper gangbang if you threw Gundmundsson in there also

        1. fedolefan
          • 11 Years
          7 years, 3 months ago

          I did an RMT on a team of Sons earlier in the season: Ederson Robertson Wilson the midfield gangbus etc. Actually got a couple of serious replies.

          1. Optimus.
            • 15 Years
            7 years, 3 months ago

            Ha, nice one

    2. fedolefan
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      I have a threeson: Sigurdsson, Son and Anderson.

    3. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      ☜(゚ヮ゚☜)

    4. Yank Revolution
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Kinky!

    5. Merlin the Wraith
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Sounds positively Icelandic hehe! & that comes from an owner with Sanderson as a surname

  7. caldracula
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Any more goals in this?

  8. Old Man
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Does anyone have an idea how horrendously high the average autosub score will be. I wouldn't be surprised if it was somewhere over 5.

    1. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Seeing quite a few Anderson or Digne for Martial in my leagues.

    2. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Top 10k average set to rise by 2 points with autosubs & VCs.

      1. Rainer
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Overall about 3.5.

    3. Smurf
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Nah. The majority are two pointers apart from Digne and AWB.

    4. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      My cup opponent has Sakho and AWB coming off the bench...

    5. Ragabolly
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      check http://www.livefpl.net/autosubs for your exact question

  9. FPLPANDA
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    sqaud as it stands

    Pickford, button
    AWB, Trent, Van Dijk, digne, bennet
    Sane, richarlison, salah, hazard, snodgrass
    Kane, jiminez, quaner

    Thinking of transferring out Sane, snodgrass, jiminez and bennet for Pogba, Son, kamara and peitterson for a -12

    Leaving me with a Starting 11 of:
    Pickford
    AWB, Trent, Van Dijk, Digne
    Son, Hazard, Salah, Pogba, Richarlison,
    Kane

    Bench: Quaner, Peitterson, Button, Kamara

    Part of me is thinking squad would be great but other part is telling me should I get rid of sane with son only available for 3 more gameweeks and I'll be unable to easily transfer sane back in. The wise part of my head is telling me with Salah, trent and van dijk having a tough gameweek will be hard to make up for the -12.

    Other option could be for me to save a FT or transfer out Snograss and Jiminez (awful gw) and bring in gibbs-white and Rashford (unreliable as alexis, martial and lukaku back).

    Thoughts??

  10. greenybne
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Mr Indecisive's WC team. Thoughts?

    Fab, Guiata
    TAA, WB, Robbo, Digne, Bennett
    Pogba, Hazard, Salah, Siggy, Pereya
    Kamara, Auba, Jiminez

    1. Dannyb
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Where's Anderson?

    2. greenybne
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      It's him or Siggy. Both hauled this week.

  11. BRKFCTrueRover
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Get in! Anderson drags me through the cup by 1 point!

    1. yakirh
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Congrads!

  12. Sif
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Laporte on for Chica while Digne sits 2nd. It's painful

  13. ZeBestee
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    FAnderson does know how to conserve his energy for the counters. Runs less.

  14. IRBOX ⚽
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    What a horrendous GW. 48pts, dropped from top 1k to around 5k. Brutal 🙁

    1. Granville
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      I'll swap your rank for my gameweek

      1. Podge
        • 15 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        You have some random awful team linked 😆

    2. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Yeah well brutal that

    3. Bubz
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Iv dropped from 4k to 20k in 2 weeks

      1. Pieterke30
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        I had dropped from 40k to 160k in 3.

        First good GW in last 5!

        93 pts... with Digne on bench 🙁

  15. how now brown cow
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Fabs seems to have lost a save 🙁

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Oh yeah :/

      Not for that offside aremond one, was it?

      1. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        *Redmond

      2. how now brown cow
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Duuno

    2. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      The shot he saved from Lemina does not count as the offside flag was up against Redmond

    3. FPLGyarados
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Yeah, think the shot was offside so the save doesn't count

  16. fr3d
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Felipe scores me a brace and my arrow is still fat and red 🙁

    1. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Less fat and red at least.

  17. FDMS All Starz
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Which WC team do you prefer?...I know A is the more inform team but B has Some good differentials

    A)
    Fab - Speroni
    TAA - Bednarek - Wanbisa - Doherty - Digne
    Salah - Richarlison - Hazard - Fanderson - Pogba
    Ings - Kane - Kamara

    Or

    B)
    Fab - Speroni
    TAA - Robertson - Wanbisa - Doherty - Digne
    Salah - Son - Hazard - KDB - Pogba
    Ings - Jiménez - Kamara

    1. Yellin' in my Ear
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Bit early for KdB I think, but certainly one to keep an eye on

    2. Kuzser
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      A

  18. Feanor
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hmm, I have just enough to do Fraser -> Hazard and Aubmeyang -> Wilson.

    1. Yellin' in my Ear
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Why get rid of Auba?

  19. Ratatouille
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Felipe is a gameweek saviour!

  20. madame shelly
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Rmwct please. Think I'm done barring late news

    Lloris - (Speroni)
    TAA - Digne - Lovren - (AWB - Doherty)
    Filip - Pogba - Salah - Haz - Richarlison
    Kane - Ings - (Kamara)

    1. JCrosbie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Really good....Maybe lloris out?

      1. madame shelly
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Spurs have such food fixtures though

  21. Yellin' in my Ear
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Kneejerky I know, but Salah has two trickyish games up next, maybe he should be the one to forego on wildcard.
    A) Salah, Camarasa
    B) Sane, FAnderson + £0.9m

    1. JustPark
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Salah is fixture proof.

  22. dark91
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Are the referees blind or something?!!

    1. AzzaroMax99
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Why?

    2. SPorting
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      It’s a prerequisite

    3. Sylas
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Or something.

  23. JCrosbie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hazard +2.2m

    Or

    Salah

    1. Ha.
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Haz

    2. Podge
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Both

  24. Pieterke30
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    A. Keep Sané
    B. Replace him with Siggy/Richarlison (which one?)

    ?

    1. SPorting
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      I’m keeping

      1. Pieterke30
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Why?

  25. FPL Daniel
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    This GW keeps on giving 🙁 All high owned players that I don't know score double figures 🙁

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

      If you don't know who the players are then I don't see the point of playing the game.

  26. FPL Daniel
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Fanderson killing our rank

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      *restoring

      1. diesel001
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        This

  27. SPorting
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Just took my second hit of the season. Got to stop the rot somehow.

  28. Planet Head
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Needed 11 points from Fanderson today to stay in the Fantasy Cup. What a result 😀

  29. Smurf
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Antonio so selfish. Anderson was in acres of space.

  30. diesel001
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Antonio playing better than Zabaleta to be fair.