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Third straight league start for Bale as fit-again Zaha returns on Palace bench

Gareth Bale (£9.3m) has been handed his third Premier League start in a week, as the Welshman and his Tottenham Hotspur teammates prepare to face Crystal Palace in the final Gameweek 27 match of the day.

Kick-off in north London is at 19:15 GMT.

Bale, Harry Kane (£11.2m) and Son Heung-min (£9.6m) were bought by a combined 635,000 Fantasy Premier League managers ahead of this encounter with the Eagles, placing them all in the top 11 for Gameweek 27 transfers in.

That trio are joined by Lucas Moura (£6.6m) in the hosts’ attack, with Dele Alli (£7.4m) making way.

Ben Davies and Tanguy Ndombele (£5.9m) also drop to the bench, with Sergio Reguilon (£5.5m) and Harry Winks (£5.1m) recalled.

Roy Hodgson has made one enforced tweak to the side that began their 0-0 draw against Manchester United on Wednesday, with the injured James McCarthy (£4.3m) replaced by Jairo Riedewald (£4.4m).

That means that Wilfried Zaha (£7.1m) has to be content with a place on the bench despite recovering from injury.

Hodgson said ahead of kick-off:

He could give us quite a lot of time if we feel that’s the right thing to do but I didn’t really want to change the team from the last two performances, which have been very good. Of course, Wilf has been out a long time and hasn’t done a lot of training.


Tottenham XI: Lloris, Doherty, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Reguilon, Winks, Hojbjerg, Moura, Bale, Son, Kane

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita, Ward, Kouyate, Cahill, Van Aanholt, Milivojevic, Riedewald, Townsend, Eze, Ayew, Benteke.


DOUBLE GAMEWEEK 27 SO FAR…

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Manchester City’s Double Gameweek 27 got off to an underwhelming start at the Etihad on Sunday, with the champions-elect’s cross-city rivals once again getting the better of them.

After much negative coverage of United and Bruno Fernandes‘ (£11.5m) recent record against ‘big six’ opposition this week, it was almost inevitable that the Portuguese playmaker would find the net; his second-minute strike coming from the penalty spot, naturally.

Luke Shaw (£5.1m) then continued his fine form by lashing in United’s second goal, which took him to five attacking returns in the last six Gameweeks – that’s two more than any other FPL defender over the same timeframe.

An improved Anthony Martial (£8.7m), who returned from injury at the expense of the absent Edinson Cavani (£7.9m), wasted a further two big chances as United caused City numerous problems on the counter.

Marcus Rashford (£9.6m) was a casualty of the victory, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer saying of the winger’s injury:

It is one of them. It was a great recovery run, a recovery sprint, he saved maybe a goal, so he sacrificed himself for the team.

It is something with his ankle I think. I am not a doctor but hopefully, it is not too bad. We will have to scan him in the morning.

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United’s backline once again shone on the biggest stage: six of the Red Devils’ 10 clean sheets this season have come against Chelsea (twice), Liverpool, Man City (twice) and Arsenal.

City had their opportunities, with a misfiring Raheem Sterling (£11.6m) wasting the best of them, but they were due a sub-par display and it duly arrived on Sunday.

There was some encouragement for Ilkay Gundogan (£6.2m) owners, with the German, getting into some promising shooting positions without capitalising on any of his four attempts.

He and Kevin De Bruyne (£11.8m) were among the City assets who for once were not quite at their best and the worry now, of course, is that rotation will strike for what is the most appealing of their two Double Gameweek 27 fixtures in midweek.


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1,372 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Says
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    oh wow all those people complaining about bringing in Son weren't actually time travellers?

  2. Salan
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    No way to be offside. VAR wasting time.

    1. Dirty Harry
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      The ball was already behind Palace line, why are they even checking?

  3. Bubz
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Okay now not captaining Kane is really starting to sting

    1. Cilly Bonnolly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Especially when I triple captained him last week.

  4. JONALDINHO
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Kane and Son saving my week

  5. RAFA THE GAFFA
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Never change captains on a Saturday morning!

    1. Baron Penguin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Amen. Kane (C) to Gundo, and benched Bruno. Also TC Kane last week.

      1. RAFA THE GAFFA
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Same. Except selling Bruno

  6. Totalfootball
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Go on SOn , go on grab a couple more :’) elllll captainooo

  7. sminkypinky
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    As a non captainer I don’t know how to feel about this.

    1. sminkypinky
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Guess I’m just happy I brought him in for a hit.

      1. The Suspended One
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        That’s jam!

        1. sminkypinky
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          That’s vision! 😉

    2. Iwantmorepointsthanks
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Enjoy the points. He is my vice captain lmao

    3. Says
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      EO well under 100% so you should feel good about it

  8. KUN+10
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Where were you last week when half the world TC you, troll

    1. HonestBlatter
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      THIS

    2. jason_ni
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Yeah. Pretty frustrating..
      Punted on salah this gw, Harry is my vc, so that went well. Just didn't fancy gundo over either, but salah in hindsight was a crazy pick

    3. kennethrhcp
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Loving these points but hating that they're a week late

  9. jason_ni
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Var ready to go in bin again if it disallows this!

  10. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Even for the Prem refs, that was bad.

  11. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Kane monster monster haul!

    1. HonestBlatter
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      One week late as usual

  12. djman102
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    It's like the only purpose of VAR is to try to find reasons not to allow goals

    1. Neevesy
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      So frustrating

  13. FantasyHero
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Happy Kane owner 🙂

  14. Duke Silver ☑
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Bit of a meal made out of it by the VAR guys.

  15. La Roja
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Kane on 19 pts lol

  16. Neevesy
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Please can we just get rid of VAR?

  17. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Grab a goal now Son.

  18. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Good week to TC Kane

  19. Baines on Toast...
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Kane Not captain but below 80% EO. Easy points.

  20. Ange Ball
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Who has the best attack in the league.

    A) Son Kane Bale

    B) Sterling Jesus Mahrez

    C) Rashford Martial Greenwood

    1. Says
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Sterling Gundo Mahrez

  21. Liberate HK - antichinazi
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    25% in top 10k doesnt own Kane

  22. HuthTheMagicDragon
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    The only thing ruining this evening for me after captaining Kane.....is Chris Colemans breathing down the mic, my god man!

  23. Champions League Varane
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Ffs Son assist

  24. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Kane on 80 bonus lol

  25. Messiah Hazard
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    LiveFPL crashed

  26. Kermit Special
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    KANEEEEEEE. Triple attack the way to go!!

  27. MIGHTY JOE
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Kane ripping up my rank!! GOD NO

  28. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Why didn’t you explode with them chances last week, Harry...

  29. Bobby Digital
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Kane (vc) FFS

    1. Iwantmorepointsthanks
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Same. Bit silly.

    2. The Suspended One
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Ditto

  30. Fred54
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Maybe its my ****** rank, but these Kane points are dreamy.