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The Boxing Day programme continues in earnest with another six afternoon matches.

Stamford Bridge is likely to be the venue under the microscope for Fantasy managers, as Chelsea play host to Brighton.

The Blues boast two of the top captain selections for Gameweek 20 in Alvaro Morata – backed by 188,000 (3.4%) and Eden Hazard, who has the support of 133,000 (2.4%). Marcos Alonso will also go into this encounter with 93,000+ new owners and in 19.5% of squads, although Chelsea’s most popular signing heading into today’s deadline – Andreas Christensen brought in by 95,000+ – misses out through illness according to the club.

Another of the Gameweek’s big signings – Huddersfield Town’s Laurent Depoitre – also sits out as he makes way for Steve Mounie’s return in attack. The Belgian was signed by 200,000+ ahead of the clash with Stoke City but starts the match on the bench.

At Old Trafford, Zlatan Ibrahimovic starts his first Premier League match of the campaign as Jesse Lingard makes way. Paul Pogba and Romelu Lukaku – backed by 43,000+ and 752,000+ Gameweek captaincies – are both named in Jose Mourinho’s line-up, as is Phil Jones in defence.

Meanwhile, at Vicarage Road, Richarlison looks likely to be leading the Watford attack against Leicester City. Sold by 90,000+ ahead of Gameweek 20, the Brazilian is in the starting line-up while Andre Gray drops to the bench and Troy Deeney continues his suspension. Marvin Zeegelaar returns for the Hornets at left-back as Jose Holebas drops out.

Finally, Everton take on West Brom at The Hawthorns without Wayne Rooney in the starting XI once again. The veteran striker misses out through illness, with Yannick Bolasie – a 6.4 midfield option – earning a first start of the season.

Mark Mark created the beast. He's now looking to tame it.

  1. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hegazi > Christensen with Mee on the bench 😎

    Every transfer I make this season loses me points.

    1. VFORVANDETA
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Tell me next one.

    2. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Unkucky. I got Christensen in too for Smalling. Waste of a transfer.

  2. Darsh
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Pickford has been such great value

  3. liiusions
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Work ML leader who's ranked #400 in the world transferred in Lingard this week. What can you do...

    1. VFORVANDETA
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Same here.Ml leader bring Alonso this week

    2. pjomara
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      So did I, have Quaner first sub on 8 pts so was actually hoping Lingard wouldn't come on.

  4. ZeBestee
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Coutinho starting today will mean he is almost 100% not starting next..

    Coutinho + Kabasele 》Lingard + Alonso ??

    Or not worth it now?

    1. MTPockets
        8 years, 1 month ago

        People said that about this game. No idea

    2. lugs
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      after going 7 captain fails in a row after gw 6 i said feck it i might as well captain Kane from here on out and what will be will be , after 1 captain fail too many i bottled it and i didn't captain Kane against City , good call 🙂 , so i also didn't captain him last gw or this gw , feck 🙁

    3. Cpt Crunch Scott talent
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      69 with Salah, Cout and Firmino left.

      Not bad for a Kaneless wonder.

      1. THFC4LIFE
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Very nice. Worried about no city?

        1. Cpt Crunch Scott talent
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Meh, why worry and it's not like it's gonna hurt my crappy ranking anyway.

          1. THFC4LIFE
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Can’t be worse than my rank lol

      2. UnitedFan
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Nice Alonso (C) I see. Fairplay.

        1. Cpt Crunch Scott talent
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          🙂 Cheers

          All is clouded by the Utd loss though...

      3. HALFSPACE
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        arnieeeee came thru for us

        1. Cpt Crunch Scott talent
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Very much so and we're ahead of the curve for dgw.

          Thinking Son.

      4. ChampChomp
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        If that's without Kane you are a god

        1. Cpt Crunch Scott talent
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Actually that is how I introduce myself 😉

      5. Jairzinho
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Well done so far!

      6. VFORVANDETA
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Nice one

      7. Cpt Crunch Scott talent
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Cheers ppl!

    4. FPL Scoop
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      HELP
      What to do??
      2.4 ITB, 0FT (just did pogba to lingard)
      DDG (Fab)
      Jones Ota Azpi Mee Gomez
      Lingard Salah Sterling Hazard Surman
      Firmino Rooney JAyew

      Bringing in kane for DGW somehow, along with either son/Alli/Arnie/Lanzini
      But what do I do? Hazard underperforming, Rooney MIA, United home to shite and unable to keep a cs......

    5. Sterling is £11Mill..…
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I had a dream earlier and Man City win 8-0 tomorrow

      1. Arctic monkeys
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        All scored by Otamendi ?

        1. Sterling is £11Mill..…
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Hopefully 🙂

        2. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Thisss

    6. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Its a shame Alonso is so overpriced.

      1. wowBOBwow
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        I hope this is sarcasm?

      2. Numb
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Mark didn't think so

      3. Homo Neanderthalensis
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Consider him a midfielder and his price suddenly looks really cheap!

      4. wowBOBwow
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        He's just about the best value player in the game.

    7. Big_Andy_GAWA
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Is City match on TV tomorrow?

      1. Jar Jar Winks
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        yup

      2. Bury94
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Yeah SkySports

    8. Paulie Walnuts
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Lingard is a steal!!

    9. WVA
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Cant wait to ditch haz and kaku

    10. Chucky
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Only Robertson can save my GW now 🙁

      1. diesel001
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        This.

        1. Chucky
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          you had kane(C).. i need his haul 🙁

    11. Arctic monkeys
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Need that bobby masterclass now

      1. diesel001
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        *Robertson

        1. Jar Jar Winks
          • 12 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          both

      2. VFORVANDETA
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        This

    12. Slam
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Gomes' save point puts me up to 12 points
      Cannnot wait to respond at every score check opportunity 😎

    13. We Will Klopp you
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Pope (Adrian)
      Mee Dunk *Christensen Otamendi (Masuaku)
      Salah Silva Sterling Coutinho *Pogba
      Firmino (Kane Quaner)

      Best idea I've been able to come up with is Christensen and Pogba to Alonso and Lingard -4 + 0.7m to get rid of one of the West Ham boys after the dgw, look good or does anyone see something better?

      1. Rik Waller
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Lol Christensen straight out?

        1. We Will Klopp you
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Straight out? I've had him for the past 4 gwks...

      2. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Save for dgw I think. Chasing points that

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

      DCL & Depoitre leading the line next GW 😆 how do you delete your account please? 🙂

    15. Optimus.
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      23 points 😎

      Really need my Salah differential to come through

      1. Slam
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Mate, you're flying...

      2. diesel001
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Damn. Hoping for a Salah blank personally.

    16. Game of Throw_ins
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      512 mins. 6 goals. 2 assists. £6.0m
      Lingard worth getting in for Richarlison?

      1. VFORVANDETA
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        I wont.

      2. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Yes. I don't know if the timing is right given the upcoming DGW, though.

    17. fitzy
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      On a wildcard so transferring out Kane for a week to someone like Aguero with money in the bank for the immediate switch back.

      Can't quite believe i'm about to take out a player with two hat tricks in a row.

    18. Salarrivederci
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Wow. Begovic captained Arnie. What a troll

      1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Surely not

        1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          That's pessimism at its finest

        2. Salarrivederci
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Just gave him 2 free goals. I'll check Begovics team before my transfers next GW.

      2. Jairzinho
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        I've said it before and I've been shot down for it, but Premier League players should not be allowed to play FPL, just like they're not allowed to gamble. They affect the outcome of the games, so no way should they be allowed to have a team.

        1. Patch
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Much harder to monitor against...

      3. HALFSPACE
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        fake news

      4. Jairzinho
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        He actually didn't - he captained Kane. I still stand by my above point.

        https://fantasy.premierleague.com/a/team/111821/event/20

      5. Salarrivederci
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Oh he actually plays?

        I was just taking a p***

        Well Begovic should be benched - he was very very very bad.

    19. suddenorgan
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Gameweek 20- Azpi's revenge

      1. Jusagoras
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Finally downgraded him to Christensen 😉

        Even managed to buy Jones with the money!

    20. Stimps
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      My -8 paid off

      Did Lukaku, Daniels, Smalling -> Kane (c) DLC, Alonso 🙂

      1. Salah’s Sonnet
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Now that’s what i call a nice pay off 🙂

      2. Bury94
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Nice one!

      3. Dont give a fuchs
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Who is this DLC?

    21. navin
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      47 now. Still have Ota, Klavan, Sterling, Silva and Salah to go.
      Have add-in autosub Quaner for Christensen.

      Good week it seems.

    22. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Can FPL please hurry up and red-flag Arnie.

      1. HALFSPACE
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        for what

      2. SADIO SANÉ
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Annoyingly won't be flagged, although not necessarily a bad thing

        1. Hazz
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Really? Darn. Thought he'd get one for the flag. That's a shame (...for prospective buyers, such as me...)

          1. SADIO SANÉ
            • 10 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Yeah pretty gutted I decided to do Simpson -> Vert instead of RLC -> Arnie (need RLC for blank next week). BUT at least people will buy him and have to insta-bench him.

    23. wowBOBwow
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Alonso 5th highest scoring player in the game, guys ahead of him are 12.9m, 10.1m, 10.3m and 8.3m.

      1. MTPockets
          8 years, 1 month ago

          And only just back to price I paid for him.

      2. Ninjaa
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Arnautovic gotta be on everyone's list? Any reason not to bring him in?

        1. Halftime
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Not playing next GW

        2. SADIO SANÉ
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Blank GW I guess

        3. Hooky
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Blank GW is a pretty good reason

        4. UshFPL
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Well he's got no game this week

        5. Hazz
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Blank... otherwise straight in 😉

        6. Ninjaa
          • 15 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Aye no better reason not to bring in than that

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

        Help me decide...
        A) Elliot > Adrian
        B) Mariappa > Ogbonna / Masuaku

        Rest of my defense is: De Gea, Mee, Otamendi, Azpilicueta & Duffy

      4. Differentiator
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Any other Pope + Jones + Ogbonna owners?

        😎

        1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Pope and Oggy

        2. Jusagoras
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Yes, and add in Christensen and Dunk

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

          Pope+Jones+Masuaku here. I've got Maguire too

      5. Chucky
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Morata bap?? any chance he gets 1??

        1. Rainer
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Small chance, Chucky! Get jinxing against it 😛

          1. Chucky
            • 12 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            cheers 🙁