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Eriksen benched as both Son and Moura start for Spurs

There are some slight concerns about Harry Kane‘s (£11.1m) positioning in this afternoon’s match between Spurs and Newcastle.

The centre-forward naturally keeps his place in the side but shares the team-sheet with both Lucas Moura (£7.5m) and Son Heung-min (£9.5m).

Crucially, Christian Eriksen (£8.9m) finds himself on the bench once again, which could require Kane to drop deep to provide creativity for Moura and Son.

Spurs did not look in particularly good shape for the first hour of their Gameweek 1 hosting of Aston Villa, when Eriksen was on the bench.

It was only after he took to the field that Mauricio Pochettino’s men really got into their attacking stride.

It will, therefore, be of great interest to Fantasy managers how Kane, Moura and Son line-up against Newcastle.

Elsewhere in the Spurs side, Kyle Walker-Peters (£5.0m) continues his spell at right-back while Jan Vertonghen (£5.3m) makes it onto the bench but is still waiting for his first Premier League minutes of the season.

Opponents Newcastle line-up as expected, in a 5-3-2 formation, which continues to feature FPL midfielder Miguel Almirón (£6.0m) as a centre-forward.

Meanwhile, Wolves host Burnley in the other 4:30pm kick-off, with the benching of Leander Dendoncker (£4.5m) the biggest news.

After starting both league matches for Wolves so far this season, he has been replaced in the starting line-up by Morgan Gibbs-White (£5.0m).

That marks the only change from the side that drew with Manchester United, Matt Doherty (£6.0m) back at right wing-back after missing out against Torino midweek.

Hoping to crash another party away from home is Ashley Barnes (£6.6m) who came into Gameweek 3 behind only Teemu Pukki (£6.9m) and Raheem Sterling (£12.2m) for shots in the box.

Spurs XI: Lloris; Rose, D Sánchez, Alderweireld, Walker-Peters; Sissoko, Winks; Moura, Son, Lamela; Kane.

Newcastle XI: Dubravka; Ritchie, Dummett, Lascelles, Schär, Krafth; Saint-Maximin, S Longstaff, Hayden; Almirón, Joelinton.

Wolves XI: Patrício; Boly, Coady, Bennett; Jonny, Neves, Gibbs-White, Moutinho, Doherty; D Jota, Jiménez.

Burnley XI: Pope; Pieters, Mee, Tarkowski, Lowton; McNeil, Westwood, Cork, Gudmundsson; Barnes, Wood.

2,138 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Nice to Finally Michu
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Bringing in Robbo after he drops in price this week could be a master stroke

    1. Budweiser
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Not really TAA is still better

      1. Nice to Finally Michu
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Both!

    2. Ambrosiana Inter
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Why for the 0.01 bargain?

      1. Typo
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        0.1

  2. KOKAK
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Look at Spurs leading 1-0 and has no urgency of scoring another! 😀

    1. Nice to Finally Michu
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Err

    2. Nice to Finally Michu
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Don’t tell him

    3. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Ok

  3. La Roja
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Pope up to 2 baps lol

    1. MTPockets
        4 years, 7 months ago

        From 2 saves?

        1. La Roja
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Yep

      • ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Boom love it

      • MagicMessi
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Pope is a beast lol

      • CostaCoffee
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        And I was chuffed after playing Heaton over him on Friday night. Set and forget Pope really is the way to go

    2. Guy Demel
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Surely that was a foul

    3. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      2nd SAVE

      HOLDDDD

    4. Nice to Finally Michu
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Ah yes Ben Davies to supply the attacking oomph they need

    5. Rust Cohle
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      COYM!!!

      1. *sigh*
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        HwTL!

    6. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      HOOOOOLD TOON

    7. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      That touch by kane...

      1. MagicMessi
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        No Kane no pain

    8. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Pope pen save Jota rebound goal would be beautiful

    9. Nightcrawler
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Kane is a joke compared to salah sterling aguero

      1. Guy Demel
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        He'll get a goal you watch

      2. GreennRed
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        He's very poor. Who is he?

        1. fantasyfog
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          rubbish, feel sorry for anyone who took -8 to get him in AND captained him.....

          1. GreennRed
            • 12 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            I capyltained him, gone off form a bit. Still a class act, will bounce back. Happy for Bruce, a lot of rubbish posted about him here.

    10. Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Another Sunday evening ruined by FPL and VAR

    11. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Kane to Kun, no harm done

    12. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      3rd Pope save would be worth 2 points If I'm right

      1. FPL Daniel
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        He has 0 saves no?

        1. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          2 now haha

    13. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Come oooonnn Wolves

    14. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Spurs more interested in a penalty than scoring in open play.

    15. Tsparkes10
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Kane, Robinson to KDB, Pukki sound

    16. FER FUSCH AKE
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      top 10k avg??

      1. Johnny Drama
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        o/

    17. SHOOTER MCGINN
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Kane has been bad, but I don't really blame the guy. He's stayed up front the whole game and hasn't had any service. Shocking team performance.

      1. Nice to Finally Michu
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        A top class holding mid like him needs to track back to the touch line more frequently

      2. Supersonic Marv'
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Yep. He's an old fashioned CF. People on here don't seem to understand that.

        1. SHOOTER MCGINN
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          The biggest disappointment was the chance he got at the end but missed the ball. That's where I'd expect him to prove his worth.

      3. CostaCoffee
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Been poor the first too games too. Wasn’t great last season either but the performances were masked by his goal tally. Not the complete player he was like on 16/17 imo

        1. SHOOTER MCGINN
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Hard to disagree, but always expect him to do 'something'. Guess you can't rely on that in the same way as Salah/Sterling et al in the premium bracket.

      4. Alan Watts
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Could have had an assist and penalty on another day...

        Decent call having him for this fixture, if no hits, or major changes to get him in....

        Can easily switch / downgrade..

        No Eriksen was main problem today...

        KDB only got 5 pts today, lets not forget

        1. SHOOTER MCGINN
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Very true. Fine margins of football and FPL. I'll probably just keep him for the Arsenal game and WC as planned for the international break. Pretty miserable week of football tho.

    18. Das Boot
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Yes I have 3 Spurs in my team and yes I am bitter atm, Now I have cleared that up. Pochetino. you are an arsse

    19. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Absolutely hate for going Ryan instead of the fpl legend Pope

    20. FIRMINOLOOKGOAL
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Jota out for -4 to:

      1. Barnes
      2. Haller
      3. Tammy
      4. Wesley

      1. Cookie Kid
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Barnes or Haller

      2. The Man Pastore
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        2

    21. Ha.
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Kane > Aguero

      No regrats

    22. The Man Pastore
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Is Laporte worth 0.5m more than Walker?

      1. Buck The Trent
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Yeah

    23. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      who’s old enough to remember kane at home to cardiff last year?

    24. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I hate you, (K)ane

    25. Typo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Safe to say I will not own Kane this season.

    26. sminkypinky
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Dubravka has been solid for the very few occasions he's had to do something.

    27. jdp219
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Someone want to take over my team?

      1. Cpt Crunch Scott talent
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        No

      2. Gnu
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Me 🙂
        Good chance it's better than mine.

    28. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Blew them up, refs!