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There are some slight concerns about Harry Kane‘s (£11.1m) positioning in this afternoon’s match between Spurs and Newcastle.

The centre-forward naturally keeps his place in the side but shares the team-sheet with both Lucas Moura (£7.5m) and Son Heung-min (£9.5m).

Crucially, Christian Eriksen (£8.9m) finds himself on the bench once again, which could require Kane to drop deep to provide creativity for Moura and Son.

Spurs did not look in particularly good shape for the first hour of their Gameweek 1 hosting of Aston Villa, when Eriksen was on the bench.

It was only after he took to the field that Mauricio Pochettino’s men really got into their attacking stride.

It will, therefore, be of great interest to Fantasy managers how Kane, Moura and Son line-up against Newcastle.

Elsewhere in the Spurs side, Kyle Walker-Peters (£5.0m) continues his spell at right-back while Jan Vertonghen (£5.3m) makes it onto the bench but is still waiting for his first Premier League minutes of the season.

Opponents Newcastle line-up as expected, in a 5-3-2 formation, which continues to feature FPL midfielder Miguel Almirón (£6.0m) as a centre-forward.

Meanwhile, Wolves host Burnley in the other 4:30pm kick-off, with the benching of Leander Dendoncker (£4.5m) the biggest news.

After starting both league matches for Wolves so far this season, he has been replaced in the starting line-up by Morgan Gibbs-White (£5.0m).

That marks the only change from the side that drew with Manchester United, Matt Doherty (£6.0m) back at right wing-back after missing out against Torino midweek.

Hoping to crash another party away from home is Ashley Barnes (£6.6m) who came into Gameweek 3 behind only Teemu Pukki (£6.9m) and Raheem Sterling (£12.2m) for shots in the box.

Spurs XI: Lloris; Rose, D Sánchez, Alderweireld, Walker-Peters; Sissoko, Winks; Moura, Son, Lamela; Kane.

Newcastle XI: Dubravka; Ritchie, Dummett, Lascelles, Schär, Krafth; Saint-Maximin, S Longstaff, Hayden; Almirón, Joelinton.

Wolves XI: Patrício; Boly, Coady, Bennett; Jonny, Neves, Gibbs-White, Moutinho, Doherty; D Jota, Jiménez.

Burnley XI: Pope; Pieters, Mee, Tarkowski, Lowton; McNeil, Westwood, Cork, Gudmundsson; Barnes, Wood.

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  1. Four Hit Wonder
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Anyone else a fan of Jim Beglin?

    He predicted 3-1 for Liverpool yesterday. Said 4-0 routine win for Spurs.

    1. GOTHAM City F.C.
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Happy with 4-0

    2. Balls of Steel
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Ya Jim is sound :p

    3. Podge
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Yeh surprised to see him on sportklub

    4. jia you
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      He gives me a pain in my face if I'm honest!

  2. Champ
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Pool/city...1 clean sheet in 6 games between them. Okay.

    1. Pumpkinhead
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Not ideal

    2. jia you
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      They're incoming though for sure!

    3. Majestic Chanka
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      VVD and Trent still ticking away though, they’ll come good soon enough.

      City conceding 7 shots on target is worrying though, very high for them!

    4. Champ
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Yeah. Patience required...

  3. lilmessipran
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    After a terrible he, would you wc this lot

    Pope 4.0
    Taa vvd Digne zinch lundstorm
    Salah sterling kdb pogba dendonck.
    King Wickham Greenwood

    1. lilmessipran
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Gw*

    2. Pumpkinhead
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Probably - I’ve want a change of formation and to re-think such a heavy back line.

    3. Ze_Austin
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      -8 would do it

    4. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      No.

    5. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Pogba to Mount, get Pukki.

      Job done

      1. lilmessipran
        • 13 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Have exact money for Pogba + Wickham to mount+Wickham for a -4

        1. lilmessipran
          • 13 Years
          6 years, 10 months ago

          Pukki*

          1. Business Cat
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            6 years, 10 months ago

            Ring up the till then, cash that oder out 🙂

          2. Hulk Smash
            • 10 Years
            6 years, 10 months ago

            I'd pull the trigger on that

          3. Balls of Steel
            • 10 Years
            6 years, 10 months ago

            They're the moves

    6. GE
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      No, close to my team and I am top 20k..

  4. Rash
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Chances of a kane blank?

    1. Party time
      6 years, 10 months ago

      85.8% precisely

      1. Rash
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        I like those odds

    2. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      50/50

    3. Podge
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Reasonable

    4. Balls of Steel
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      15%

  5. luk46
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    This gw is going really well so far, just thinking about the next moves already... What pair is better from gw5 onwards?

    A - KDB + Barnes
    B - Mount + Lanzini/McGinn (Wilson instead of Barnes there)

    1. Tsparkes10
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      A easy

    2. Positive vibes
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      A

    3. luk46
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Ye, I would feel more comfortable with that as well. Not worth a hit tho, right? Barnes got Liverpool next, can't really hope for a return there!

  6. jia you
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    How's she looking chaps?

    Pope
    TAA / Laporte / VVD
    Sterling / KDB / Salah / McGinn / Cantwell
    Pukki / Haller
    (Woodman, Mings, Greenwood, Lundstram)

    1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Is this your planned captaincy run?

      GW4 Sterling BOU
      GW5 Salah NEW
      GW6 Sterling WAT
      GW7 Salah shu
      GW8 Salah LEI
      GW9 ?
      GW10 Sterling AVL
      GW11 Sterling SOU
      GW12 ?

      1. BobbyV
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Sterling has BRI next

      2. jia you
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        GW 9 - Pukki
        GW12 - Pukki

        1. Majestic Chanka
          • 9 Years
          6 years, 10 months ago

          If Watford are still as awful as right now then def Pukki in GW12

  7. Nightcrawler
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Good from stokes but still not the best test innings of the year 🙂

    1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      In that crap English batting line up? Come on - the pressure on him was intense. 🙂

      1. Nightcrawler
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Haha I know. One ofthe all time great innings. Him and root the one test batsmen in that team

        1. Nightcrawler
          • 7 Years
          6 years, 10 months ago

          Only*

      2. Debauchy
        • 13 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        This probably the greatest one man show I have witnessed in test cricket. England were dead and buried

        1. Nightcrawler
          • 7 Years
          6 years, 10 months ago

          One of the greatest for sure

          Kusal perera vs south africa earlier this yaar was the greatest I have ever seen

          1. Debauchy
            • 13 Years
            6 years, 10 months ago

            Yeah, SA in the 90s bowling Ays out for 130 odd to win the test was special, but this was a Stokes show ,did it on his own

          2. Debauchy
            • 13 Years
            6 years, 10 months ago

            Stokes had to do it with 1 wicket in hand with 50 odd runs to go , not sure but under the circumstance its a no contest greatest turnaround of all time in cricket

        2. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          6 years, 10 months ago

          This. Even Botham had Dilley. 😉

          1. The 12th Man
            • 12 Years
            6 years, 10 months ago

            RIP Graham

            1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 16 Years
              6 years, 10 months ago

              🙁

        3. Kinkladze
          • 11 Years
          6 years, 10 months ago

          That was amazing.

  8. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Maitland Niles from GW5 anyone?

    1. Pumpkinhead
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Nah - they can’t defend

    2. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      When’s Bellerin back?

      1. Deulofail
        • 10 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Bellerín
        (Héctor)
        ARS Injured
        Unknown
        Knee injury Taken off with a knee problem in Arsenal's GW23 meeting with Chelsea on 19/1. Confirmed as a cruciate ligament injury on 22/1 which will require surgery. Ruled out for the remainder of the season and the start of 2019/20. An update on 15/8 said he was continuing rehab and aiming to return to full training in October.

    3. Debauchy
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Considering...

  9. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Eriksen has to be leaving right? They were so flaccid without him vs villa.

    1. Hulk Smash
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Flaccid, great word

      1. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Thoughtfully chosen :p

    2. Peter Ouch
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      So without him Kane blank incoming

  10. have you seen cyan
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    if Kane stays quiet I make massive jumps on like all my rivals

    1. MTPockets
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Pray with me

      1. GOTHAM City F.C.
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Let's see in 10min

      2. have you seen cyan
        • 6 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        im certain Son is the star of this show so im not too worried, Son has very low oenrship (2.2%). Just want Newcastle to score 1 and wipe the cs

      3. Gudjohnsen
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        As an owner and capper I smell a blank.

      4. Peter Ouch
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Also praying

      5. MTPockets
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Amen

  11. Four Hit Wonder
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Watch out for counter attacks. I need a cleanie.

  12. TAT
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Unsure about this team going forward. WC time?

    Heaton
    VvD - TAA - Digne - Zinchenko
    De Bruyne - Salah - Sterling - Trossard
    Jota - Pukki
    (Button - Lundstram - Dendoncker - Greenwood)

    1. GOTHAM City F.C.
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Check out Jia You's WC team.

      1. TAT
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Link?

    2. Moderately content penguin
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      That is the team you want in WC right?

      1. TAT
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Uhm, no…
        Jota (tonight depending), Heaton, Dendoncker, one LIV def and Zinchenko to make way for other options.

  13. Botman and Robben
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Dendoncker benched, oh well.

  14. Ze_Austin
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    If you're afraid of hits, check this out: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/660/history

    1. have you seen cyan
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      i saw this one guy a couple of seasons ago, every week he took a -8. In like 8 weeks he went from 2mil+ to 25k

  15. Fpl Richie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    OMG Almiron!

    Still hasn't scored.

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Looks too lightweight for the Prem

      1. Agger
        • 10 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Flipping heck, don't bag this myth around here

  16. Brosstan
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    I thought Linton was injured?

  17. Twisted Saltergater
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 17 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Newcastle insulting the colours of Holland

    1. Marvin.
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      My word that is a frightful kit.

    2. Podge
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      And carrots

    3. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Newcastle Dutch greats...go!

    4. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      I thought that was Patrick Kluivert up top for a second

      1. Twisted Saltergater
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 17 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        😀

    5. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      It'll be like 1996 all over again. 4-0 🙂

      1. Bram
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        4-1, Scotland would have qualified if 4-0 if I remember right.

  18. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Son essential?

    Just practicing.

    1. FPL Scoop
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Ofc

  19. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Please keep it to 1-0 Newcastle

    1. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      0-1 Newcastle also good

    2. Debauchy
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Please get behind the sofa

  20. Positive vibes
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Come on Moura and Pope!!

  21. FOO FIGHTER
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    No doubt, Spurs have a top team.

    1. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Top team excluding the top 2.

      1. FOO FIGHTER
        • 6 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        True

  22. MagicMessi
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Anywone knows why Jesus didn't make it to the bench

    1. FOO FIGHTER
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Hamstring.

    2. MTPockets
      6 years, 10 months ago

      hamstring

    3. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Hammy. Back after IB.

    4. Podge
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Busy on Sunday 😉

    5. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Watching the cricket

    6. Superkitten
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      He was nailed

    7. Brap.
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Too busy in church to study his law books?

    8. MagicMessi
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Thanks all ... So Auba to. Kun. Worked out after all i guess !

  23. Cahill
    • 15 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hey lads, quick poll please

    Heaton Button
    Robertson VVD Montoya Rico Lund
    Salah Sterling Ceballos martial Robinson
    Auba Pukki Greenwood

    A) Robinson & Auba -> KDB & Abraham
    B) Robinson & Robertson -> Mount & Laporte

  24. seewhyaxe
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Kane blank would be good for OR

    1. FPL Scoop
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Very

    2. Podge
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Vital

    3. Twisted Saltergater
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 17 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      No poo poolock!

    4. FOO FIGHTER
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Hits left right and centre if Kane blsnks.

    5. Positive vibes
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Yes

  25. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Pope and Jota. Need points from both... 😆

    1. FOO FIGHTER
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Same here!

  26. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    I am worried about Moura's output today. No creativity in that line up, how is he gonna get any chances

    1. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Lets hope its Lamela who goes off when Eriksen comes on in the second half.

      1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Yeah. That would be nice

  27. have you seen cyan
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    did you guys know this pitch is on rollers and can be rolled in to reveal the NFL pitch underneath. Its pretty cool

    1. FPL Scoop
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Yeah learnt that in PE class

    2. Marvin.
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Where do they roll it to?

      1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Underneath itself

      2. have you seen cyan
        • 6 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        idk how it works havent actually seen it, must be a video somewhere. I assume it splits down the middle and goes under the stands

      3. Deulofail
        • 10 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Snoop Doggy Lion's house

  28. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    IT'S....... KAPTAIN TIMEEEEEE

    1. Gudjohnsen
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Blank incoming

      1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        Don't swear like that please

    2. FOO FIGHTER
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Watch out for trolling!

      1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 10 months ago

        😉

  29. Bartowski
    • 15 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    These games have 0-0 written all over them so far...

  30. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 10 months ago

    Sky where’s the football?

    1. Deulofail
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 10 months ago

      Sky: Not in the cloud
      G40STEVE: Sky but I can watch movies on the cloud
      Sky: But G40STEVE, the football is live
      G40STEVE:Uh... I don't... und-
      Sky: Well this is an awkward atmosphere
      G40STEVE:
      Sky: I'm the Sky