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Fantasy interest limited as Villa face West Ham in final Gameweek 5 fixture

The final match of Gameweek 5 takes place this evening as Aston Villa take on West Ham United at Villa Park.

Kick-off is at 20:00 BST.

Not one of the 22 players in the two starting XIs sits in more than 7% of Fantasy Premier League squads, with Sebastien Haller (£7.5m) the most-owned asset on show.

Haller was transferred in by just under 180,000 Fantasy bosses in the run-up to Gameweek 5.

All of West Ham’s other players are owned by 5% of FPL managers or fewer.

Tyrone Mings (£4.6m), Tom Heaton (£4.5m) and John McGinn (£5.6m) are the only members of Aston Villa’s starting XI who are in more than 5% of Fantasy Premier League squads.

Dean Smith has made two changes to the side that lost at Crystal Palace, one of which is enforced.

The suspended Trezeguet (£5.3m) is replaced by Anwar El Ghazi (£5.5m), while Marvelous Nakamba (£4.4m) is brought in at the expense of Douglas Luiz (£4.6m) in central midfield.

West Ham’s team news is a lot more straightforward, with Manuel Pellegrini naming the same starting XI that lined up in Gameweeks 3 and 4.

The Hammers are unbeaten in three Premier League matches and have taken four points from their first two away games.

Aston Villa won their previous home fixture, defeating Everton 2-0 in Gameweek 3.

Aston Villa XI: Heaton, Taylor, Engels, Mings, Guilbert, Marvelous, McGinn, Grealish, Jota, Wesley, El Ghazi.

West Ham United XI: Fabianski, Fredericks, Diop, Ogbonna, Masuaku, Rice, Noble, Lanzini, Yarmolenko, Anderson, Haller.

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

    Would you take a prime berbatov over firmino right now? Berbatov had similar casual brilliance and football intelligence to Bobby, but Bobbys work rate trumps Dimitar by a country mile, Berbas touch was unreal.

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

      Firmino but can hardly imagine how good Berba would have been if he had work rate.

    2. The Train Driver
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Berba had a better eye for goal tho'...

    3. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      You need a Firmino to cover for Berba! I always loved him though.

    4. TRIPOS TOPPER
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Firmino miles ahead for me

      Has workrate, teamwork, finishing

      Berbatov more of a maverick and far less consistent

      1. The Train Driver
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Berba much better finisher...

    5. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Firmino in real football.
      Berbatov is FPL

  2. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Come on Heaton. Concede early then I don't need to get my Hope's up.

    1. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Is Hope any good?

  3. Tshelby
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Why don't I have McGinn he just shoots from everywhere anytime

    1. mookie
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      So does Yarmolenko

      1. BENOIT
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        But he is good

    2. ClassiX
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Aaah, reminds me of when I was 13...

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

    El Ghazi headbuts Mings.

    Mings likely to stamp on his soon.

    1. Volley127
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      As if they VAR checked it

    2. tucaoneo
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      * and not receive a red card

  5. BENOIT
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    First time watching McGinn. Don't get it?

    Looks a scrappy ass player, just trying to foul and shoot and every opportunity.

    1. Fpl Richie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Plus he's a jockey with a rat face

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

      A goal and an assist so far, costs 5.6m, good stats and fixtures.

    3. Mr. O'Connell
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Looks far more likely to get points than Lanzini who you'd say

      1. Mr. O'Connell
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Is the opposite of how you described McGinn

    4. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I would rather have McGinn than Cabellos.

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

    Trouble in paradise

    1. GOTHAM City F.C.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      CS?

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

        Mings and El ghazi having an argument. Looked a little bit like El ghazi lowered his head.

        1. ‘Tis the Season
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          JT reaction was hilarious

  7. FOO FIGHTER
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    I am watching this match.

    Will we see the Westham striker curse with Haller? I am not sure he is even on the pitch. Lots of time left but I am having second thoughts and might rather go for Son.

    1. BENOIT
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Lol

    2. Fpl Richie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      He's still bedding in for sure - but a quality player and decent fpl option. 7m ish strikers will be one of our common transfers

    3. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      He has had one attempt with his head and passed the ball to Noble who fell...

  8. ‘Tis the Season
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    JT has done way worse than knocking heads. Didn’t he bang his teammates wife?

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

      He made love to Wayne bridge's wife wasn't it?

      1. ‘Tis the Season
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Lol that was it. Wayne bridge was a real knob actually, prob deserved it

      2. FPL Forward Thinker
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        It was not Wayne’s wife. Get it right

    2. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Think it was former teammates, former girlfriend/ mother of his kid

      Terry was the one with the wife who didn’t seem fussed.

      1. FPL Forward Thinker
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        I hear Craig Bellamy was most angry and annoyed by it and as a result viciously hates JT

        1. ‘Tis the Season
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Bellend Bellamy, sure JT doesn’t mind to much.

    3. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I mean, he didn't do it on the pitch now, did he.

      1. ‘Tis the Season
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Wayne is that you

        1. Hazz
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Wayne would want to deck Terry, not defend him.

    4. el polako
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      He did.
      He also allegedly made racist remarks towards Anton Ferdinand.
      No surprise really that for Chelsea fans he is a legend.

      1. ‘Tis the Season
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        I don’t support Chels but reckon JT is a legend tbh. London lad

    5. RichardNixon
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Not defending it but this happens all the time to top footballers.

      de Bruyne cheated on his fiance so to get back at him she slept with Courtois when he was at Chelsea. Courtois' mrs found out about it took the kids and returned to Madrid. As a result Courtois refused to train for Chelsea so he could engineer a move to Real to be close to his kids. They are still Belgium team mates today and don't hear any bad blood between them.

      Icardi was knocking off Maxi Lopez's wife resulting in a split of their marriage. Icardi is now married to her and she is his agent.

      Giggs had an affair with his brother's wife. Stories about Rooney as well. I also read somewhere that Real Madrid players a few years ago were pretty much swapping girlfriends as they pleased.

      Life as a famous footballer..............

  9. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Noble dive?

    1. DGW blindness is for Kinnea…
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Is that like a white lie?

  10. The Train Driver
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Congrats Mike Dean, you made the game umwatchable..

    1. tucaoneo
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Crabtree with his no-Liverpool team is flying high.

  11. TopwithKlopp
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Anyone know if Martial will be playing next week? Keep or sell before sitting too long with a ‘valuable’ asset..?

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

      He's a maybe. Unfortunately we just have to wait it out until Friday for news

    2. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Might find out more around EL match.

      1. TopwithKlopp
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Yep, thanks to both

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

        Good call

  12. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Haller not impressed me.

    Haller to Wilson?

    1. fr3d
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Every time

    2. Tshelby
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Are all your decisions based on 40 min of football?

  13. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Doosra is lucky to not be sent off for diving

  14. BENOIT
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    All west ham

    1. Gudjohnsen
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Overstatement

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

    El Ghazi will have a very sore head tomorrow.

  16. The Train Driver
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Engels is doing a great job manmarking Haller..

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

      Surely you make a marks pun here.

  17. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Aston Villa Jota has been better than Wolves Jota in the PL so far this season.

    1. Cok3y5murf
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Pretty sure you said the opposite not too long ago

      1. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Aston Villa Jota is still the crap Jota as in ability terms he is not as good as Wolves Jota, who is the good Jota.

        But form is temporary, so at the moment crap Jota is winning the battle.

        1. FPL Forward Thinker
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Who’s better, doesn’t matter a Jota

    2. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Even Che Adams has been better than Wolves Jota 🙁

    3. BENOIT
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I couldn't care less...

      Why are you comparing Jota's you weirdo?

      Jog on.

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

      Quality post.
      I miss this stuff.

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

    Superman!

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

    Fabianski and Mings know each other from before?

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

    Another English player dive going unpunished...

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      That was painful to watch in slowmo.

    2. BENOIT
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Jesus wept.

  21. Sgt Frank Drebin
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    I know it's probably not the best moment given emotions over the game - but I linked before a thread stating that a 'form' is generally a misconception and such a thing does not exist.

    Many of you probably know the 'hot hand' fallacy - it is generally a busted myth that a player it more likely to score points after a streak of succesfull throws in basketball. I dig into it and it turns out that it is a fallacy itself (fallacyception). Here are the details: https://www.google.com/amp/s/jasoncollins.blog/2018/06/28/explaining-the-hot-hand-fallacy-fallacy/amp/

    The result would be that after a successful streak player is 11% more probable of getting a successful throw. That would also indicate that such a phenomenon would also exist in football! Fascinating!

  22. tucaoneo
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    This is so hard to watch with Guilbert on my bench. He is well on track to outscore Digne.

    1. Valar(Keith)
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Things would really have to go downhill in the second half for him not to outscore digne

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

    Wesley was born offside.

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

      Like Pippo!

  24. el polako
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Fabianski is such good goalie.

    1. dark91
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Totally agree. Unfortunately for him the last 2 saves won't count since they were called offside

    2. BENOIT
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Shame half the saves don't count because Hammers play a high line and catch people off side all the time

      Especially donkeys like our Wes

    3. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Better than anything Arsenal have right now.

  25. Chenku╰☆╮
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Haller and lanzini are world beaters they said. I listened 😀 jokes on me of course

    1. Albrightondknight
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Haller only needs a second and it's a goal. Lanzini not an FPL option.

      1. Triple P
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Haller looks sharp, doing everything right. Now give this man a couple of proper balls

  26. Albrightondknight
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Maybe I should have watched McGinn again before ditching 🙂
    Great hit but what a save from Fab.

    1. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I was thinking the same thing.

      1. Albrightondknight
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        It was the stats that puts me off saying they were all long range shots so I was thinking he can't keep putting those in

  27. FPL Forward Thinker
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Anyone accumulated more than 10 points from their keeper and defence this weekend ?

    1. Triple P
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      12 so far, mings still playing

    2. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Robbo + AWB here

    3. KnightSlayer
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Rico gave me 5 - Total 12 from 3 defenders and a goalkeeper

  28. Triple P
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Please sub that Yarmolenko guy at half time, he messes up everything

  29. pingissimus
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Clean sheets dried up?

    If this finishes 0-0 that’ll make 23 cs this season - last season there were 24 at this point.

    1. tucaoneo
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Not so much dried up, just happen in all the wrong places.

    2. Bobby Digital
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I hope not.. need some McGinn points.