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21 September 2020 1407 comments
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Aston Villa have handed Premier League debuts to three key new signings for their first match of the 2020/21 season.

Ollie Watkins (£6.0m) slots straight in at the apex of Dean Smith’s front-three, flanked by Jack Grealish (£7.0m) and Trézéguet (£5.5m).

Fresh from defensive improvements during Project Restart, the Villa defence features Matty Cash (£5.0m) at right-back for the first time while Arsenal’s post-lockdown goalkeeper Emi Martínez (£4.5m) is between the sticks.

Interestingly, Villa’s two most-popular Fantasy assets in Ørjan Nyland (£4.0m) and Keinan Davis (£4.5m) both miss out on a place in the starting XI.

Jed Steer (£4.0m) has been turned to as the second-choice goalkeeper, while centre-forward Davis backs up Watkins from the bench, where is joined by Anwar El Ghazi (£6.0m).

The exciting news coming out of the Sheffield United camp is a the position deployment of FPL midfielder Oliver Burke (£4.5m) up-front.

Chris Wilder has handed him a Blades’ debut in the front-two of his 3-5-2 formation alongside David McGoldrick (£5.5m).

Oliver Norwood drops to the bench as the Sheffield United manager goes with a midfield trio of John Fleck (£6.0m), Sander Berge (£5.0m) and John Lundstram (£5.5m).

John Egan (£5.0m) is therefore handed the captain’s armband in Norwood’s absence, as he sits at the heart of an unchanged defence.

Aston Villa XI (4-3-3): Martínez; Targett, Mings, Konsa, Cash; Hourihane, D Luiz, McGinn; Grealish, Watkins, Trézéguet.

Sheffield United XI (3-5-2): Ramsdale; O’Connell, Egan, Basham; Stevens, Fleck, Berge, Lundstram, Baldock; Burke, McGoldrick.

FPL Lessons Learned from Gameweek 2

  1. Chuism
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Pick one WC team for GW3:

    (1)
    Martinez (Steer)
    TAA - Saiss - Lamptey (Mitchell - 4.5)
    Salah - Prodence - KDB - J.Rodríguez (Burke)
    Jimenez - Werner - DCL (4.5)

    OR

    (2)
    Martinez (Steer)
    TAA - Saiss - Lamptey - Castagne (Mitchell)
    Salah - KDB - J.Rodríguez - Son (Burke)
    Jimenez - DCL (4.5)
    0.4m in the bank

    OR

    (3)
    Martinez (Steer)
    TAA - Saiss - James - (Lamptey, Mitchell)
    Salah - Prodence - KDB - J.Rodríguez - Foden (Burke)
    Kane - DCL (4.5)
    0.3m in the bank

    1. Sharkytect
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Your 3rd team has 6 mids.

      I spent most time trying to work out the differences. If you're gonna post 3 complete teams, maybe format in a way where we can see which players change from team to team.

      I think i like team 2 most

  2. JHolmes
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    0 FT 1.0 ITB
    Current squad:
    McCarthy (Ryan)
    TAA, KWP, Lamptey (Justin, Ferguson)
    Fernandes, KDB, Rodriguez, Burke (Barnes )
    Werner, Ings, Mitrovic

    Held my wc although it was tempting, took one hit...
    Play ryan or mccarthy? Benching barnes stupid?