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King, Son and Doherty benched as Gameweek 9 continues

Fantasy Premier League managers who took the cheaper route into Bournemouth’s attack for Gameweek 9 were left disappointed on Saturday afternoon.

Ahead of a plum home clash with an out-of-form Norwich City side, Josh King (£6.3m) has been named on the bench – after picking up 100,000+ new owners this week.

The Norwegian international has largely operated from the left-flank of midfield in a 4-4-2 system this season but Ryan Fraser (£7.1m) reclaims his berth for a first start since Gameweek 4.

This news is potentially massive for those who possess Callum Wilson (£8.0m) this weekend as King’s absence might see the England centre-forward take over penalty kick duties for Gameweek 9.

Meanwhile, Lewis Cook (£5.0m) and Adam Smith (£4.3m) return to the starting line-up for Bournemouth.

Opponents Norwich look to have altered their system after running into a poor patch of form in 4-2-3-1 before the international break.

Marco Stiepermann (£5.4m) drops to the bench to potentially facilitate a 4-1-4-1 formation with Alex Tettey (£4.5m) at the base of midfield.

Meanwhile, Kenny McLean (£4.9m) and Moritz Leitner (£4.5m) take up the central roles in the main midfield quartet, flanked by Todd Cantwell (£4.9m) and Emi Buendía (£6.0m).

Naturally, Teemu Pukki (£7.1m) retains his place up-front.

Also causing Fantasy managers frustration on Saturday afternoon is Son Heung-min (£9.8m) who finds himself on the Spurs bench for a favourable home meeting with Watford.

Mauricio Pochettino has handed a recall to Dele Alli (£8.4m) and Lucas Moura (£7.1m) in support of centre-forward Harry Kane (£10.9m).

Meanwhile, Watford go for a back-three for the second match in a row as Quique Sanchez Flores tries a 3-5-2 formation which features Roberto Pereyra (£5.7m) in a strike pairing with Danny Welbeck (£5.9m).

Suggestions of a return to FPL viability for Matt Doherty (£6.0m) were quashed by a second successive benching.

Adama Traoré (£5.1m) gets a second start in a row in place of the Irish international.

Aston Villa line-up as expected for the visit of Brighton, with John McGinn (£5.9m) in the central midfield trio and Jack Grealish (£5.9m) in the front-three.

Meanwhile, Graham Potter’s men are led in attack by Aaron Connolly (£4.5m) and Neal Maupay (£6.0m), while Pascal Groß (£6.4m) and Aaron Mooy (£4.8m) provide the width.

After missing the last four Premier League matches with injury, Leandro Trossard (£5.8m) has been named on the Brighton bench.

Chelsea line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation against Newcastle, with Fikayo Tomori (£4.7m) alongside Kurt Zouma (£4.7m) in defence.

Mason Mount (£6.8m) and Tammy Abraham (£7.7m) come into Gameweek 9 both owned by more than 35% of Fantasy managers.

It will be interesting to see how the Chelsea attack fares against Newcastle’s back-five, as Steve Bruce goes for the usual 5-3-2 system.

Both Longstaff brothers feature in midfield while Miguel Almirón (£5.8m) continues to be used out of position in the front-two.

Jay Rodriguez (£5.7m) comes in for the injured Ashley Barnes (£6.4m) as Burnley travel to face Leicester.

The Foxes are led by Jamie Vardy (£9.0m) while James Maddison (£7.2m) looks set for a central role in the 4-1-4-1 system.

The Starting XIs

Aston Villa XI: Heaton; Targett, Mings, Engels, Guilbert; McGinn, Hourihane, Nakamba; El Ghazi, Wesley, Grealish.

Brighton XI: Ryan; Burn, Webster, Dunk, Montoya; Groß, Pröpper, D Stephens, Mooy; Connolly, Maupay.

Bournemouth XI: Ramsdale; Rico, Ake, S Cook, Smith; Fraser, Billing, L Cook, H Wilson; Solanke, C Wilson.

Norwich XI: Krul; Lewis, Godfrey, Amadou, Aarons; Tettey; Cantwell, McLean, Leitner, Buendía; Pukki.

Chelsea XI: Kepa; Alonso, Zouma, Tomori, Azpilicueta; Jorginho, Barkley; Hudson-Odoi, Mount, Willian; Abraham.

Newcastle XI: Dubravka; Willems, Clark, Lascelles, Schär, Yedlin; Saint-Maximin, M Longstaff, S Longstaff; Almirón, Joelinton.

Leicester XI: Schmeichel; Chilwell, Söyüncü, Evans, R Pereira; Ndidi; Barnes, Pérez, Maddison, Tielemans; Vardy.

Burnley XI: Pope; Pieters, Mee, Tarkowski, Lowton; McNeil, Westwood, Hendrick, Brady; Rodriguez, Wood.

Spurs XI: Gazzaniga; Rose, Sanchez, Vertonghen, Alderweireld, Aurier; Winks, Sissoko; Moura, Alli; Kane

Watford XI: Foster; Kabasele, Dawson, Cathcart; Holebas, Chalobah, Cleverley, Doucouré, Janmaat; Welbeck, Pereyra.

Wolves XI: Patrício; Boly, Coady, Bennett; Jonny, Neves, Moutinho, Dendoncker, Traoré; Cutrone, Jiménez.

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

1,961 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Abusive_Sgt_Daelrhos
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Could Kane blank please please please

  2. Clintymints
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Finally sold Digne and brought King in for a hit

    Everything is fine

    1. Rhodes your boat
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Ouch, son captainer here

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

      No harm done.

  3. tm245
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Welbeck lasts 2 minutes

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Barkely also limping after a challenge.

    2. Yank Revolution
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Dat guy

    3. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      2 minutes isn't so bad, my wife's gotten used to it.

  4. Fpl Richie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Has Wilson scored yet?

  5. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Welbeck finished. Surprised he lasted this long

  6. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    No goals so far. Game week fail

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

    Did Phil Thomson just call Danny Welbeck young man?

  8. Fpl Richie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Wellbeck. Couldn't make it up really

  9. tm245
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Deulofeu on

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

    Not the best of starts.

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

    Hammy delufeu owners with eel eco injury

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

      Welbeck injury

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

        Give up on predictive txt. Went horribly wrong

  12. BigBillyBass
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Welbeck worth a punt?

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

      A point*

      1. BigBillyBass
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        LOL

  13. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Spurs CS now under threat.

    1. CRO KLOPP
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      What is a Spurs CS? Dont speak English good

  14. Eat my goal!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Tammy goal imminent

  15. HamezMace
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Someone must have taken out Digne and Sigurdsson on their WC?

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

      Maybe a month ago.

      Replacements long out scored them no doubt.

  16. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Blessing in disguise for Watford, that. Danny seems a nice lad but Deu is a lot more talented.

    1. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Where's your post above gone?

      1. Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Tbf its not allowed to complain publicly about moderation so I expected that one to be removed.

        1. Epic Fail
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Very true. I won't mention that the mods have regular periods.

  17. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    OMG DOUCOURE

  18. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Spurs concede again...standard

  19. Over Midwicket
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Spurs are TRASH.

  20. Yank Revolution
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    I see Boris the Spider is delaying Brexit.

    G WATFORD!

    1. Ask Yourself
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Well he will try not to but it’s the law now because our parliament voted for it

      1. Yank Revolution
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        They forced him to ask for delay...which can only help.

    2. SADIO SANÉ
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      no he isn't, opposition MPs are

  21. ZeBestee
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Docoure G

  22. tm245
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Watford score!

  23. Rupert The Horse
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Oh Tottenham

  24. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Remember when people got Aurier in?

    Were they joking?

    1. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      ̶l̶o̶l̶ ̶@̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶

    2. ZeBestee
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Was not a bad option. You sound like he was the worst acquisition.

  25. Egg noodle
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    GOALLLALALLALA

  26. UnitednationsXI
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    lol

  27. Salah’s Sonnet
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Lmao Spurs are literally a circus

  28. tm245
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Great assist there, too

  29. Yank Revolution
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Boy did I try to warn people off of Gazza these 2 weeks, hope they listened.

    1. HamezMace
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      I didn’t listen.
      Still let’s see how many points Gazzaniga has vs Pope between now and Christmas.

      1. Yank Revolution
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Wish we could wager!

        1. HamezMace
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Sportsman’s bet my friend.
          See you after the Boxing Day fixtures 🙂

  30. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Welbeck was holding Watford back...