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Following the lunchtime double-header at Leicester and Southampton, there are another two Premier League matches kicking off concurrently at 14:00 BST.

Two sides who have yet to gain a point are on the road this afternoon, with Arsenal playing host to Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers entertaining Fulham.

The headline team news from Molineux is that Daniel Podence (£5.6m) is fit to feature, with the Portuguese winger replacing Adama Traore (£6.4m) in Wolves’ three-man attack.

Leander Dendoncker (£4.9m) and budget Fantasy Premier League defender Max Kilman (£4.0m) are also brought into the side, with Joao Moutinho (£5.5m) dropping to the bench and Ruben Vinagre (£4.4m) not in the squad at all.

Reports on Friday suggested that Vinagre was set for a switch to Olympiacos.

Raul Jimenez (£8.6m), signed by a further 329,362 FPL managers in the run-up to Gameweek 3, leads the line for the hosts but Marcal (£4.9m) hasn’t recovered from injury and misses out.

Scott Parker’s ongoing search to find his best starting XI has seen him rotate yet again, with the Fulham teamsheet showing three changes from the 3-0 defeat at Aston Villa.

Michael Hector (£4.4m), Denis Odoi (£4.5m) and the injured Kenny Tete (£4.5m) make way in defence, with Antonee Robinson (£4.4m), Ola Aina (unpriced) and Maxime Le Marchand (£4.4m) all starting in their steads.

Aleksandar Mitrovic (£6.0m), the only Fulham player owned by more than 3% of FPL managers, and budget midfielder Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa (£4.5m) both start.

At the Emirates, Sheffield United’s sole alteration sees John Egan (£4.9m) replace Ethan Ampadu (£4.5m) at the heart of the defence.

Bargain-bin FPL midfielder Oliver Burke (£4.5m) is again part of a two-man Blades attack, with the transfer of Rhian Brewster (£4.5m) not completed in time for the ex-Liverpool striker to feature this afternoon.

Mikel Arteta has made four changes from Monday’s defeat at Liverpool, the most notable of which sees Alexandre Lacazette (£8.5m) – who has yet to blank in FPL this season – drop to the bench.

Eddie Nketiah (£5.8m) instead joins Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.9m) and Willian (£8.0m) in a three-man attack.

Rob Holding (£4.5m), Granit Xhaka (£5.5m) and Ainsley Maitland-Niles (£5.0m) are also omitted from the line-up, with Gabriel (£5.1m), Dani Ceballos (£5.0m) and Bukayo Saka (£5.3m) handed recalls.


Arsenal XI: Leno, Bellerin, Luiz, Gabriel, Tierney, Ceballos, Elneny, Saka, Willian, Nketiah, Aubameyang.

Sheffield United XI: Ramsdale, Basham, Egan, Robinson, Baldock, Lundstram, Berge, Osborn, Stevens, McGoldrick, Burke.

Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Patricio, Saiss, Coady, Boly, Kilman, Neves, Dendoncker, Semedo, Neto, Jimenez, Podence.

Fulham XI: Areola, Bryan, Ream, Le Marchand, Aina, Cairney, Anguissa, Robinson, De Cordova-Reid, Cavaleiro, Mitrovic.


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  1. Gudjohnsen
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Wolves are so bad.

    Can I get another WC?

  2. Random Name
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Leno couldn't catch covid if he tried

  3. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Jimi passes the ball straight off the pitch with no one within 20 yards of it haha

    1. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      He has been shocking so far

    2. Neves say Neves
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      I think he was expecting Jonny to be there but unfortunately saiss is not Jonny...

  4. Flair
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Not sure why we bother to watch the first half of Second Half FC

  5. BigBillyBass
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    That Barnes disallowed goal was the best thing I’ve seen this season. Howling

    1. Pedram
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      You think this is funny?

      1. @persecuted_by_mods
        5 years, 9 months ago

        I do, and I'm tired of pretending it's not

        1. Steve The Spud
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 9 months ago

          If you didn’t laugh you’d cry as my old dad used to say

    2. DAZZ
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      I agree

  6. Pedram
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Great now i have to ship out three Wolves players

    1. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Ha. Desperate stuff

  7. Ze_Austin
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Saiss sticks the landing!

  8. Gobigorgohome
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Why i captai Jimi whyy????

    1. Dynamic Duos
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Because you don't own Salah

      1. Gobigorgohome
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        i own him though 🙁

        1. Dynamic Duos
          • 13 Years
          5 years, 9 months ago

          God knows then

      2. Ha.
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Why i captai Jimi when eye own Salad?

        1. Dynamic Duos
          • 13 Years
          5 years, 9 months ago

          Don't know I can't fathom it

    2. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Will still outscore KDB!

  9. OverTinker
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Did Werner to Jimi this GW - apologies

  10. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    The urge to rage quit is strong here. Not one of my players has, so far, gotten more than two points and the only ones still in play are Jimi, Saiss, VvD, Salah and Martinez, so best I can hope for is a mid-30s score for the second week running. I don’t remember another season when all logic went so completely out the window.

    1. DAZZ
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Stop whining lad. You aren’t the only one having a hard time, toughen up and get on with it, it is what it is

      1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Oh, I’m sure of it. I don’t intend to quit, fwiw, this is one sh&(show I plan on seeing through. Just voicing what many are thinking.

    2. Ohhhhh Gary Macca!
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      All logic? You clearly don’t have any in form players and picking a bandwagon captain every week doesn’t help

      1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Jimi last week, KdB this week.

        1. FPL_trail_runner
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 9 months ago

          To be fair both were not good picks for the week.

          1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
            • 14 Years
            5 years, 9 months ago

            Weren’t outright bad ones, either, with their opponents’ propensity for shipping goals.

          2. Ohhhhh Gary Macca!
            • 11 Years
            5 years, 9 months ago

            Yeah agreed they ain’t bad picks at all.

    3. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      I've endured similar mate. It's mindnumbingly frustrating at times. I'm of the opinion, the decent players will rise to the top over 38 games..

    4. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Mid 30s would seem like a haul at this point...

      1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Feels like a dream right now, tbf. On 14 at the moment.

    5. Long ago I drew a walrus
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      2nd week? Try 4th week 😀

    6. Ginkapo FPL
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      I am on 131pts total. You have no idea what struggling is

    7. Piggs Boson
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Are you related to Fudgy?

    8. XabiAlonso
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      I don't wanna log in to check. Kept son and praet who didnt start along with lascelles and dunne. Need a Jimi Captain miracle now

    9. ThisTimeNxtYrRodney
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Everybody on here telling you "not to moan" will have moaned themselves in similar situations. So my advice wont be to "toughen up" but to take stock over the IB and your turn for the good luck will come.

  11. DAZZ
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Podence invisible

    1. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Think he fell into a pothole.

    2. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Can see him with a microscope

  12. Gobigorgohome
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    nice flick

  13. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Saiss teabags Aina

    1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      They’ve got to give you a BAP for that, innit?

  14. Gudjohnsen
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Auba suffering

  15. Right In The Stanchion
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Auba might be off injured here

  16. Dr Van Nostrand
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Mourinho loves parking buses at Trafford. 8 defensive minded players!

    1. Dr Van Nostrand
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Ah that's the expected lineup. Time for a nap

  17. kamdaraji
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    another great week to wildcard

  18. Salan
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Wolves is playing clueless football. Not surprised if Fulham could get something from here.

  19. JBG
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Neto is so bad.

  20. Ginkapo FPL
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Whenever I've had a bad injury I've never clutched my eyes. Couldnt give a cr@p who sees me crying in pain at that point.

  21. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    I need a mitrovic goal but I won’t get it

    1. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      The video pauses at the wrong time. It should freeze as it's passed to Vardy, not as he's passing it on.

    2. Drop Dead Tsimikas
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Thanks for that, saved me searching. What the actual F??? (Gorgeous goal, as well!)

  22. Qaiss
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    How is that not a red card for Berge?!?

    1. TAT
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      He plays Arsenal. Had it been any other team, they might have given the red.

      1. Qaiss
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Spot on

      2. @persecuted_by_mods
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Alright Ty

        1. TAT
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 9 months ago

          Ty who?

      3. @persecuted_by_mods
        5 years, 9 months ago

        Must have missed Luiz pulling back Burke in the first 10 mins

        1. TAT
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 9 months ago

          That's no doubt a questionable intervention too, not denying that. But how that's not a red is strange to me.

    2. Cookie Kid
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Won the ball

  23. FPL_trail_runner
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    So Wolves aint Wolves of old.

    Lots of player turnover - and maybe a bit of hangover from no pre season + europa league into July

  24. L'Aeroplanino
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Auba down
    RIP Arsenal

    1. L'Aeroplanino
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      and up

    2. Right In The Stanchion
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Auba is angry now. Brace incoming

  25. Right In The Stanchion
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Auba up

  26. Flair
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Auba injured and off? KDB (C) locked in

  27. Chalobah's Witness
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Any news about the Liverpool Covid rumours?
    Alisson out and nobody knows what happened.

    1. Dr Van Nostrand
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Allison has an anjury he barely was fit last week

    2. Hy liverpool
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      He is injured

    3. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Injury in training apparently. Heard rumours of 4 weeks out

  28. Traction Engine Foot
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Berge should be off

    1. Qaiss
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Xhaka or Luiz, they are.

    2. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      Got ball

  29. Flair
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 9 months ago

    Rumours regarding Alisson being out for 4-6 weeks are true - Liverpool ITK https://twitter.com/hamza07__/status/1312748608333271043

    Liverpool defense doomed

    1. Ha.
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 9 months ago

      International break for half of that