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Murray benched as Brighton host strong Bournemouth side

Glenn Murray (£6.4m) has been named on Brighton’s bench for their opening Double Gameweek 34 fixture.

He was captained by just over 100,000 Fantasy managers this week given that the Seagulls have two fixtures to play.

However, Chris Hughton has preferred to leave the veteran striker among the substitutes, selecting Florin Andone (£5.0m) to lead the line instead.

Anthony Knockaert (£5.2m) and Jurgen Locadia (£5.3m) are the two options to flank the Romanian international.

All eyes will be on Shane Duffy (£4.8m) now that Son Heung-min (£8.8m) managed just an assist against Huddersfield.

The centre-back was the second-most captained player inside the top 10,000 managers for Double Gameweek 34 and he starts in Brighton’s back-line today.

Alongside Lewis Dunk (£4.4m), he is flanked by Bernardo (£4.2m) and Martin Montoya (£4.3m) in defence.

In central midfield, it’s Yves Bissouma (£4.6m), Davy Pröpper (£4.8m) and Dale Stephens (£4.3m).

Both of them currently yellow-flagged, there was no room in the matchday squad for Pascal Groß (£6.7m) or Solly March (£4.7m).

Bournemouth have named a strong first XI with Josh King (£6.6m), Callum Wilson (£6.6m), Ryan Fraser (£6.3m) and David Brooks (£5.1m) all in the starting XI.

Danny Ings (£5.4m) is back in the side for Southampton as they host Wolves today.

He missed the visit of Liverpool in Blank Gameweek 33 because he was ineligible to face his parent club.

With some Fantasy managers looking to the Saints for Double Gameweek 35 investment, they will be happy to see Nathan Redmond (£5.3m), James Ward-Prowse (£5.1m) and Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (£4.4m) in the starting line-up.

After recent tinkering, Nuno Espirito Santo has selected what appears to be his best XI.

Raúl Jiménez (£6.8m) is paired with Diogo Jota (£6.2m) up front, while Matt Doherty (£5.3m) plays on the right of midfield.

Brighton XI: Ryan; Montoya, Duffy, Dunk, Bernardo; Bissouma, Stephens, Pröpper; Knockaert, Andone, Locadia.

Bournemouth XI: Boruc; S Cook, Mepham, Aké; Fraser, Gosling, Lerma, Smith; Brooks, King; Wilson.

Burnley XI: Heaton; Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor; Hendrick, Westwood, Cork, McNeil; Barnes, Wood.

Cardiff XI: Etheridge; Peltier, Morrison, Ecuele Manga, Bennett; Gunnarsson, Arter; Hoilett, Camarasa, Murphy; Zohore.

Fulham XI: Rico; Bryan, Le Marchand, Ream, Fosu-Mensah; Cairney, Anguissa, Chambers; Sessegnon, Mitrovic, Babel.

Everton XI: Pickford; Digne, Jagielka, Zouma, Coleman; Gueye, Gomes; Bernard, Sigurdsson, Richarlison; Calvert-Lewin.

Southampton XI: Gunn; Bednarek, Yoshida, Vestergaard; Valery, Ward-Prowse, Højbjerg, Bertrand; Sims, Redmond; Ings.

Wolves XI: Rui Patrício; Saïss, Coady, Boly; Doherty, Dendoncker, Rúben Neves, João Moutinho, Jonny; Jiménez, Diogo Jota.

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  1. Ajax Hamsterdam
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Are people in tears ?? :0

  2. gooberman
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Rashford benched. Hideous gameweek.

  3. OldBenKenobi
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    WCs and DGWs are meant to be an advantage LMFAO

  4. SweeSwee
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    As long as Brighton don’t concede 4, this is still a positive result.

    ..say Duffy captained as they rock themselves back and forth in the dark.

    1. Lanley Staurel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Lol

  5. DA Minnion (Former great)
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Should have captained Wilson.

  6. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Wilson OFF

  7. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Dunk 0
    Duffy 0
    Ryan 0

  8. QUEN
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    When your pre wildcard team is doing better

    1. Bouncebackability
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Not doing better, but smashing it.

  9. LosBlancos
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Brighton conceded 11 goals in last 12 home matches
    Bournemouth scored 6 in last 12 away matches.
    Bmouth have nothing to play for "on the beach"
    Brighton playing to stay in the league.
    How does this happen?

    1. JohnnyMagrinho
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Because Brighton are awful and Howe would have been embarrassed by how Bournemouth played against Burnley last week and would have demanded a response.

    2. SEXY SOLO SAUCE FOR THE LAS…
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      What I think of this gameweek?

      Two words...

      As if

    3. Numb
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Anyone hit the ton yet?

      1. SEXY SOLO SAUCE FOR THE LAS…
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Yes, with my head

    4. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Double Brighton defence was a good idea...

    5. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Valery off
      Stephens on

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

      Fraser coating me my head to head and probably my league! #%*$!!

    7. Niho992
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      WC wasted.

    8. JohnnyMagrinho
        5 years, 1 month ago

        The amount of comments leading up to this weekend about how Duffy was the standout captaincy pick - there was even an article written about their defence being of interest.

        Bizarre. Utterly bizarre. Kept 6 clean sheets all season and all of a sudden because of a DGW people get so blinded they throw logic and stats out the window.

        Craziness.

        To be fair, Duffy captainers might at least get a couple of points from the Cardiff game so it's not all bad.

        1. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Cheers paragraph hindsight

      • jia you
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Fraser to Son for a hit...lol@me!

        1. Party time
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Fraser to Sigurdsson lol@me.
            Wilson benched for Vardy(C) lol@me.

            1. jia you
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              really horrific GW this one so far!

        2. pjomara
          • 13 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Can't see Duffy starting next game after this performance.

          1. Lukakuna
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Has he in particular been poor?

        3. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
          • 14 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Well you did captain Duffy.....Shane Duffy captain in an FPL gameweek

          Say that back, it is as ridiculous as it sounds when someone first says it

          1. EMBOLOFAN
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            not really

        4. Differential C (Mark)
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          City 1 - 0 BHA
          Bou 4 - 0 BHA

          So . .
          City < Bournemouth

        5. SM001
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Me, red arrows. Ghost teams, green arrows.

        6. tucaoneo
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          OR 1 has Wilson and benched Fraser.

          1. AzzaroMax99
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Me too. But I'm not OR 1 xD

        7. Donblaster
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Somehow, bringing Moura in could end up being a 'rough' not a 'smooth' for me.

          -4 hit and benched Wilson...

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

          It was only 3 hours ago that Duffy cappers were laughing. Turns out Son and Vardy could end up outscoring him.

        9. FPLtfs
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          My WC team is so bad, I'm not even annoyed anymore. Haha. Pre wc team would have had 5 times more points :p

        10. French Gooner
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Triple Brighton defense working out great

        11. Ajax Hamsterdam
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Brighton still have to play Cardiff cheer up guys !!

        12. Pariße
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Wilson really is something, never performs when I need him to.

        13. SPorting
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Well done to all those whose spunked their WCs early.

          You don't know how lucky you are.

        14. Rainer
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Get a YC Duffy, just for the memory.

          1. Mysterion
            • 6 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            😀 would then only need appearance points and CS vs Cardiff to match Son