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Murray benched as Brighton host strong Bournemouth side

Glenn Murray (£6.4m) has been named on Brighton’s bench for their opening Double Gameweek 34 fixture.

He was captained by just over 100,000 Fantasy managers this week given that the Seagulls have two fixtures to play.

However, Chris Hughton has preferred to leave the veteran striker among the substitutes, selecting Florin Andone (£5.0m) to lead the line instead.

Anthony Knockaert (£5.2m) and Jurgen Locadia (£5.3m) are the two options to flank the Romanian international.

All eyes will be on Shane Duffy (£4.8m) now that Son Heung-min (£8.8m) managed just an assist against Huddersfield.

The centre-back was the second-most captained player inside the top 10,000 managers for Double Gameweek 34 and he starts in Brighton’s back-line today.

Alongside Lewis Dunk (£4.4m), he is flanked by Bernardo (£4.2m) and Martin Montoya (£4.3m) in defence.

In central midfield, it’s Yves Bissouma (£4.6m), Davy Pröpper (£4.8m) and Dale Stephens (£4.3m).

Both of them currently yellow-flagged, there was no room in the matchday squad for Pascal Groß (£6.7m) or Solly March (£4.7m).

Bournemouth have named a strong first XI with Josh King (£6.6m), Callum Wilson (£6.6m), Ryan Fraser (£6.3m) and David Brooks (£5.1m) all in the starting XI.

Danny Ings (£5.4m) is back in the side for Southampton as they host Wolves today.

He missed the visit of Liverpool in Blank Gameweek 33 because he was ineligible to face his parent club.

With some Fantasy managers looking to the Saints for Double Gameweek 35 investment, they will be happy to see Nathan Redmond (£5.3m), James Ward-Prowse (£5.1m) and Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (£4.4m) in the starting line-up.

After recent tinkering, Nuno Espirito Santo has selected what appears to be his best XI.

Raúl Jiménez (£6.8m) is paired with Diogo Jota (£6.2m) up front, while Matt Doherty (£5.3m) plays on the right of midfield.

Brighton XI: Ryan; Montoya, Duffy, Dunk, Bernardo; Bissouma, Stephens, Pröpper; Knockaert, Andone, Locadia.

Bournemouth XI: Boruc; S Cook, Mepham, Aké; Fraser, Gosling, Lerma, Smith; Brooks, King; Wilson.

Burnley XI: Heaton; Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor; Hendrick, Westwood, Cork, McNeil; Barnes, Wood.

Cardiff XI: Etheridge; Peltier, Morrison, Ecuele Manga, Bennett; Gunnarsson, Arter; Hoilett, Camarasa, Murphy; Zohore.

Fulham XI: Rico; Bryan, Le Marchand, Ream, Fosu-Mensah; Cairney, Anguissa, Chambers; Sessegnon, Mitrovic, Babel.

Everton XI: Pickford; Digne, Jagielka, Zouma, Coleman; Gueye, Gomes; Bernard, Sigurdsson, Richarlison; Calvert-Lewin.

Southampton XI: Gunn; Bednarek, Yoshida, Vestergaard; Valery, Ward-Prowse, Højbjerg, Bertrand; Sims, Redmond; Ings.

Wolves XI: Rui Patrício; Saïss, Coady, Boly; Doherty, Dendoncker, Rúben Neves, João Moutinho, Jonny; Jiménez, Diogo Jota.

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  1. LǝgleSs e|even
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 15 days ago

    Anyone else miss FPL Virgin

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Cant wait for his hindsight paragraphs later 😆

    2. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Nope.

    3. Pat Bonner
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Said no one ever

  2. YEAH PITCH!
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 15 days ago

    Is it even worth bench boosting with this Brighton tosh next week? I have 3 of them 🙁

    1. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Just build for 38 and BB then haha

  3. jia you
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 15 days ago

    8 points from 6 including captain fail...what a shocker of a GW thus far!

  4. FPL Forward Thinker
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 15 days ago

    Remember that season when folk brought in Brighton’s players and many captained them.

    Compare how they felt on the Saturday night compared to after the Cardiff game!

  5. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 15 days ago

    Missed all of todays games. Is this a joke? Even sold Fraser and Callum.

    1. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Same with everyone mate 😀

      1. Royal5
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        Jeeeez.. brutal 😆

  6. BIGREDDOG
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 15 days ago

    United are going to finish off an amazingly bad night by punishing us all.. pog rashy Lukaku martial bet there's a couple of double digits there

    1. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Hopefully held onto Pogba as well as wilson

  7. FFSbet.com
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 15 days ago

    Ryan/Dunk/Duffy/Doherty for grand total of 0 🙂 lucky i went with Lloris

    1. Manani
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Benched Lloris for Ryan, as expected to be honest

    2. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      You might get a Dunk OG out of it yet 😉

  8. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 15 days ago

    In other news, FPL legend Colin Quaner has been relegated twice this season with Ipswich now confirmed going down!

  9. Differential C (Mark)
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 15 days ago

    19 pts from 7 players,
    Mane, Robertson, Sterling, Aguero, Montoya and Dunk to go.

    52k->50K green arrow still intact, bu for how long?

    Many games to let me down left this GW.

  10. Manani
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 15 days ago

    last minute change from Knockerat to Camsamra.

    I will take the small victories

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Well done. Camarasa was unlucky not to get a penalty today.

    2. BIGREDDOG
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      You're better at faces I presume

    3. LǝgleSs e|even
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      kept cama too

  11. HashAttack
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 15 days ago

    9 player down - 20 points in the bag - 20 points (hits) = 0 points 🙁

    1. MTPockets
        5 years, 15 days ago

        nice

      • jia you
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        Wow, that's rough! Horrible GW for most on here though at least!

      • SM001
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        I feel a little better now. Thanks. lol

    2. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      I don't know why you lot are all beating yourselves up about Duffy for.

      I kept and played Digne for that absolute banker against Fulham!

    3. skooldaze
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Worse. WC. Ever.

      Transferred out Wilson, brooks and woods - at least 35 negative.

      Put Duffy as captain

    4. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Basically captained Duffy in a SGW vs Cardiff.

      Let that sink in... 😆

    5. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Who are people getting as Auto subs for Doherty, Ryan and Duffy ?

      1. tokara
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        lol

    6. Eddie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Not feeling very clever at the moment.

    7. Football Heaven
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      i cannot believe i got rid of fraser and wilson. absolutely useless planks when i own and then ballon d'or contenders when i don't, but it's literally everytime i get rid. happened like 4 times this season. why would i captain a brighton defender? because of 'experts' thinking theyre clever and saying after kane got injured that it's almost a no-brainer. sorry for seeming angry but im just in shock how this gw can be so bad. lost out on like 40 points. anyway, have a good gw and rest of season people (ps im not as angry as i seem) 🙂

      1. Twisted Saltergater
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        If someone tells you it’s a good idea to captain a player and he does well, do you feel good about making the right choice? How can you feel bad if you let other people make your decisions.

        Live by the sword, die by the sword!

      2. Champ
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        That's fine buddy. Don't bottle it up. Or kick out at any family pets.

    8. tisza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Ryan, Doherty, Duffy don't think i've ever had three starters all score 0 pts 🙂

    9. ZeBestee
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Commiserations for Duffy captainers. Perhaps to himself as well as he did captain Duffy. 😛 😀

    10. kalmoffit
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Any bps for my Brighton defence?

      1. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        They've already had their Big Painful Spanking.

    11. KOKAK
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      This is evidence that FPL manager is more luck than skill! Wonder how people here would react, if a dead team became FPL champion in the future?!

      1. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        Won't happen

    12. moment
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Ryan, Duffy, Doherty, Dunk backline currently returning me zero points. This may be some kind of a record.

      1. Limbo
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        Remarkable.

      2. conorbon
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        I have Dunk and Duffy, so peeved that I actually want them to lose to Cardiff during the week, pathetic team that don’t deserve to stay up

    13. Limbo
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      Logging into BBC for scores might give people a bit of an "oh well not too bad"... Then later seeing real scores, more of an "OHHH WTFFFFFFF%%$%$£%£$%^£%RYT ...."

    14. conorbon
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 15 days ago

      If there was any justice Brighton would be relegated! Absolute nightmare of a week, brought in dunk and Duffy and played Bench Boost. Took Fraser out for Son. Need Hazard, Mane and Aguero to score big tomorrow otherwise my 80 point league will be halved at best, rival has also played bench boost but he had Wilson and Redmond on his bench!

      1. MTPockets
          5 years, 15 days ago

          BB? Makes me feel a little better cheers

          1. conorbon
            • 10 Years
            5 years, 15 days ago

            Seems like everyone has been screwed over, also took a -12 hit this week. Written it off but I am not letting Brighton near my team next week

      2. JammySprat
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        Seen any good scores this GW?

      3. Sim Simma
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        How many penalties was Camarassa denied ?

        1. Old Man
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 15 days ago

          At least two I believe, maybe three. My heart rate went up to about 180 and then back down to 5 in about 20 seconds. Unfair to old pensioners.

      4. RAFA THE GAFFA
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        Could really do with a WC now!

      5. skooldaze
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 15 days ago

        My admin rival put KNOCKAART AS TRIPLE CAPTAIN!

        1. Party time
            5 years, 15 days ago

            Received a heavy knock in

        2. Champ
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          5 years, 15 days ago

          Fraser on 160+ for the season. Keeps getting lucky

        3. Bob Sacamano
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 15 days ago

          Incedible gamewek! My Brighton triple-up gave me -1p with Knockaert out for next game, and my mate who I'm chasing took a -4 to get Ryan in for captain. I'm not even upset, this was just...wow!