FPL notes: Kane and Keane score, both sides see red

Same. Me being a United fan, I did White + Ødegaard > Shaw + Bruno for a hit.

Currently down 14 pts.

Need Man U , Brighton, Brentford, Newcastle and Salah to all go nuts in the 2nd game for sure too!

‘Hopefully next weekend he can be involved’ was the most recent utterance from Pep

My bench has Toney, Watkins & Mitoma on it with Kane, Saka & Mee starting. It's always nice to think you've actually nailed a BB 😀

Yeah i always try and line mine up with the actual worst players of the week, so i can get a fair idea of how successful it was.

So i'm on 18 with DDG and Botman left. I consider 2 returns a success so i've reached that, and my highest bench score of the season so far has been 20 so i look like i'm surpassing that at least.

Eighteen with De Gea to again. All the rest were my single gameweekers.

I put doublers "on my bench" but I know my actual bench is Neto, White, Saka and Kane. 16pts + Neto tonight, can't really complain honestly especially given the way the Arsenal and Spurs games went. Just have to hope Neto has a decent game tonight to ease the pain of picking him over Martinez

D

B. Playing well but no FPL points

D or B….. probably B

Is there a player returning from injury that threatens Mitoma's minutes?

Burnemouth not so easy at their ground but hope mitoma will score

This, and a Maddison goal please. He's been stinking up my team for weeks now...

I'm more concerned if he starts

Sounds like it will need to come for then bench.

I'm just hoping for Bruno Saltar to not play Badiashile so Ode can come off the bench.

You’ve misspelled March.

it is an overrated chip

21 pts for me this GW

Haaland brought zero points but Mings and Pinnock saved the day.

Yep

17 for me so far with Steel and Mee to come not great but it's taken me to my highest OR of the season.

25 points so far and Steele has another fixture.

Granted, I've also had blanks from Kepa(1), Badiashile(0), Henry(1), Estupian(1), Maddison(2), Rashford(2). GW score: 74 (-4)

Ollie

if United cant crack NC, u think Ivan can?

Ivan maybe

Kane's next few fixtures looks trickier, so I would drop him.

Same foward with me...im thinking to replace ivan

Same 3 here. I will sell Toney because NEW is much harder than NFO, right?

I can swap Ollie back to Ivan later

The button works for me. Tried closing and reopening browser, etc?

Click on that 3 dots icon at top right corner and check if you have selected "Desktop Site"

try it through duck duck go...

Pretty clean interface and it gives you a simplified view if want, or snaps into the full screen for comments too.

Mine's been doing this for months now, each time I change pages I have to zoom into the comments--very frustrating!

Salah I think. Pretty good set of fixtures.

This is a trick question right. The obvious answer is on the beach.

Do you think KDB is hitting form now, or is it just that he performs better without Haaland? The 3 games that Haaland hasn't started (FUL lei LIV) he's got 2G 2A, 31pts. Those games aside, his recent record isn't too impressive. But then I haven't actually been watching aa closely as usual lately so I'm not too sure.

Salah came off early v City. Unless injured there's absolutely no way he's being rested or their season is over.

Oh yes please, gimme some Jomez action to save my Chelsea triple up! 😀

I so hope Salah plays - my captain this week as I thought he'd do well against Chelsea. The City goal was a bonus

Darwin owner here but not putting too much hope

Naughty?

He is a spicy player isn’t he.

What I would give for a 9 of his quality at Utd!

If Toney picks up that YC on Wednesday it’s an easy switch

Yeah I was disappointed he picked up no returns but heard he played really well, caught up with MOTD late yesterday and he looked superb, points will definitely come

Don't remind me. I'd had him ages and decided to "upgrade" to Zinc.

True. Just a shame i benched him once and took him out on a FH during that time.

Dont remind me of him! 😀
But to be fair, i didnt remove him because he wasnt good, had more to do with him being rotated with Tomi more often.

I see your 77 and fail to match it with a 74(-4)
I see your 12 left to play and match it with 12 left to play
I see your Big Mac Cap and raise you Salah(c)

GAME ON!

Hope this youngster isn't coming in to take big Mac's place. Will be anxiously checking the team news later.

On 77 with 13 to play. Have Mitoma captain though.

On 81 with 12 players left to play, including Mitoma (c), big night ahead indeed

Couldn't agree more with what you've said. I referee my boys U12 matches and see this every week. Diving, feigning injury, wrestling each other at corners, mouthing off to the ref, time wasting. They've learned it all from watching Prem players do it on TV and it's a very sad state of affairs.

Agreed, ugly stuff from Kane

Agreed with everything you said. That's one thing I hate most about football in general, the play-acting. The dives, the flopping. It's ridiculous and sooo ugly.

tbf to Kane I think players do it now because they don't trust the refs to give it without them going down. I remember a situation with Foden where he got fouled in the box but tried to stay up and they said that because he didn't go down it wasn't a penalty. I'm pretty sure every single player in the premier league would have gone down like Kane did and that's because of how bad the standard of refereeing is currently

I’ve been calling for referees to be issued with jousting sticks for years, would soon put a stop to this nonsense. Happy to compromise though with a mace or two.

Kane said years ago that Mou wanted him to playact and dive like that to get freekicks and pens, He's still doing it and gets away with it .

I think this is the big problem, definitely not defending him at all because he's absolutely one of the biggest playactors around which sickens me because I love watching a player as incredibly talented as him play. But we have seen on so many occasions before that if a player just stands and takes something like that that it's often ignored or not punished sufficiently because the reaction isn't there. I saw a close-up of that and of Dembele doing the same to Diego Costa a number of years ago and both looked like attempts to eye gouge, Dembele got a 6 game suspension, wouldn't have been surprised to see Doucoure get a yellow card and nothing more if Kane just stood and told the ref what happened.

In relation to the post directly above it's never nice to see it and the affect it can have on kids watching games, yet it's similar with penalty calls, players so often get fouled but are honest and don't get the call, resulting in them next time throwing themselves down under any contact as they're anticipating they need to do it. It's an unhealthy cycle that won't ever be fixed until simulation is properly dealt with (why did Gakpo not get booked if that wasn't a penalty? He threw his leg in-between the player's leg attempting to deceive the ref) or these types of events are dealt with without player's having to feign injury in order to ensure the offender is punished

I do have a good deal of sympathy for referees in situations such as this. Their job is to apply the laws of the game and they should not have to determine the extent to which a player is cheating. I have long thought that there should be retrospective bans for players deemed to have obviously cheated based on match recordings. It would soon put an end to it .

Sell the thespian.

Kane doesn't double. Salah does. See if Haaland is fit then Kane could be sacrificed but he will still consistently get returns. We are yet to discover if Haaland will be prioritised for Champions League games. Remember at the start of the season Pep said he would be rested - that never actually materialised.

I think those are sensible moves. Maddison is the new Zaha.

Could maybe wait another week on Maddison - Salah if we see some improvment from Leicester, but that sounds like a good plan

Maddison has BOU @ home next up. Just saying.

I have them all, and am thinking WC 33, or 31.
FH i save for later.

Depends on current team tbh. Wouldnt really want to triple on any of those teams.

Maybe you can navigate with FTs till 33 and WC34? Some of the teams are likely to be on beach by that time.

Think there's 2 main routes, and it might depend on how heavy you want to go on Liverpool & City. Could FH34 if you don't want triple Liverpool and City punts (e.g. Stones/Grealish) in your core team, and use the WC to set up a more balanced squad that maybe still includes 2+ Arsenal. Or the more common FH32 & use the WC to set yourself up for DGW34

Think I'm FH32 and WC 34.

I think so

see above. Currently thinking 31 or 32 because initially thinking that using it very late in the season would minimize the good potential, but then 34 is looking great as well

I'm using in 33 for DGW34 (TCing that week)