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Ings starts third straight match for Saints in Sunday’s only Gameweek 32+ fixture

Gameweek 32+ continues to move at a glacial pace, with just one Premier League fixture taking place on Sunday.

Southampton are the visitors to Watford, with kick-off at Vicarage Road at 16:30 BST.

Danny Ings (£7.2m) makes Ralph Hasenhuttl’s starting XI for the third straight match, quelling fears that he may have been rested amid the fixture congestion.

The Southampton manager has made changes to his starting XI elsewhere, however, with Stuart Armstrong (£5.2m), Yan Valery (£4.6m) and Michael Obafemi (£4.9m) all dropping to the bench.

Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (£4.8m) misses out with an ankle injury.

Oriel Romeu (£4.3m), Will Smallbone (£4.5m), Kyle Walker-Peters (£4.4m) and Shane Long (£4.7m) are the players replacing them.

Jannik Vestergaard (£4.5m) fills in for the suspended Jack Stephens (£4.4m) at centre-half, meanwhile, but Alex McCarthy (£4.5m) keeps his place after his high-profile error in the defeat to Arsenal.

Nigel Pearson has made three changes to his starting XI from the side that lost 1-0 at Burnley.

Craig Cathcart (£4.3m) replaces Christian Kabasele (£4.3m) at centre-half, while Roberto Pereyra (£5.6m) and Abdoulaye Doucoure (£5.6m), both of whom were rested in midweek, return to the side.

Danny Welbeck (£5.8m) and Tom Cleverley (£4.8m), as well as Kabasele, are all among the substitutes after their run-outs against the Clarets.

Three of Watford’s fringe players, Andre Gray (£5.5m), Nathaniel Chalobah (£4.4m) and Domingos Quina (£4.3m), have all been omitted from the matchday squad amid rumours of a “lockdown party” hosted by Gray.

Ings has been transferred in by approximately 260,000 FPL managers since his double-digit haul in Gameweek 30+.

The striker is by some distance the most-owned player on show in today’s fixture and has been handed the armband by just over 75,000 Fantasy bosses.

Over one in five of the top 10,000 FPL managers own Ings, too.

The forward and Ismaila Sarr (£6.3m) were both on target in the reverse fixture back in November, with Hasenhuttl’s troops running out 2-1 winners.


Watford XI: Foster, Femenía, Cathcart, Dawson, Masina, Hughes, Capoue, Sarr, Doucoure, Pereyra, Deeney.

Southampton XI: McCarthy, Walker-Peters, Bednarek, Vestergaard, Bertrand, Smallbone, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Redmond, Long, Ings.

FPL Lessons Learned from Gameweek 32+

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  1. TomSaints
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Get in!!!!!

    1. TomSaints
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Ings points and a Saints win =D

      1. Bruce Lee
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Hope Watford come back

  2. EWH2020
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Annoying that I have DCL stinking out my team when Ings continues to rack up points

  3. Forza Papac
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Oh Danny boyyyy

  4. Miguel Sanchez
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Yeah - Ings first on my bench

    1. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Benched for who?

    2. DycheDycheBaby
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      he is coming on for you right? what was he doing on your bench lol

  5. Feanor
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Getting DCL for Ings in the break was a bad move.

  6. Clintymints
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Dominic Calvert Ings

  7. Garlana
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Cya DCL

  8. Right In The Stanchion
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    That’s Watford down then.

  9. Bruce Lee
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Are Watford able to score a goal?

  10. pundit of punts
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Get the fook in

    Wish I captained ings

    1. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Me too.

      At least we have him, though. 🙂

      1. pundit of punts
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        High five

    2. Queens of the South Age
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Wish I never sold him for Jimenez. Was right move on paper to counter higher Jimenez ownership and was expecting a rest for Ings.

      1. TomSaints
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        That is really bad luck. I had this down as Ing’s rest.

        Then again he’s in the form of his life and chasing golden boot so seems to be wanting to play all the time.

        1. Queens of the South Age
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 10 months ago

          True. I've had my fair share of good luck this season though so got to get them wrong sometimes. 🙂 Not making that transfer would have had me back at OR1 though so pretty annoying.

          1. TomSaints
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 6 Years
            3 years, 10 months ago

            Easy with hindsight, Good luck with the run in and hope you get first!

  11. Feanor
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Ings going for the golden boot

  12. SHOOTER MCGINN
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    I wish I had Danny Ings. Same story over and over this season.

  13. Bielsa's Blue Bucket
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Getting Foster instead of Pope was the gashest decision of the season

    1. BNMC
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Joe will be livid

    2. Clintymints
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Yea I’ve not understood the Foster Love with Pope and Patricio available

      It’s Watford ffs

  14. Postman Ty
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    You've got to be joking... Ings was useless for me for weeks before the break, my ML rival kept him because he had to and he's being gifted points like every week is Christmas.

    1. Yank Revolution
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Join the club

      1. Postman Ty
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        1 in 7 before the break and all these people held him...

        1. Yank Revolution
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 10 months ago

          Its bizarre

  15. BNMC
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Guys, I sold him. That's why.

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Don’t buy back

  16. Stupendous
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Wow!!!! Gtfi Danny boy!!!

  17. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Ings is a beast!

  18. EmreCan Hustle
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Ings doesn't take penalties and still on 18 goals. Amazing.
    Of course Southampton have played fewer games than other top scorers in the league.

    1. Postman Ty
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Perks of being the focal point of a relatively bad one-man team.

  19. Botman and Robben
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Seems Watford are eager to play in the Championship.

  20. Champions League Varane
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    DCL you better pull through

  21. Bruce Lee
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Great throw from Foster tbf

  22. Reg83
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Lok. Played kiko on bench boost. Don't have ings. Miserable Sunday. Worst possible outcome

  23. TheDragon
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    DcL iS a BeTtEr OpTiOn ThAn InGs

    Literally everyone on this forum

    1. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      What if, like me, you have both of them?

      1. beric
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Me too, would love dcl to do something this week too!

    2. Bruce Lee
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      How sad

    3. Piggs Boson
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      DCL gets far more opportunities, but Ings is a better finisher. Hard to draw a line between the two. Got both myself, and went without Jimenez.

  24. Treadstone
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Replaced Ings with Vardy on slow wildcard.Looked a good move at the time.

  25. 1zverGGadeM
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Danny Ings is a murderer.
    Cant wait to swap Vardy for him..

  26. Herman Toothrot
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    May do Jimmy to Ings on WC

    Then again, i probably won't

    1. Herman Toothrot
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Ings and Origi over Jimmy and Nketiah

  27. Piggs Boson
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Think I'll keep him 😀

    1. beric
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Same. Will have to live without rashford

  28. fplking14
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Long you greedy c***.

  29. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    This is the best 11 for City. Bedides, Kun and Ederson. Looks like Pep is going all in on cups

  30. Stupendous
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    City defense won't scare Danny Boy.
    No pressure away v Everton
    United probably sternest test
    Then it's Brighton, Bournemouth and SHU

    He's got a shot!