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Over 50% of the top 10k on Ings for Southampton’s clash with Bournemouth

Three days after they drew with Brighton and Hove Albion, Southampton have another meeting with a fellow south coast club this afternoon.

The Saints this time make the short trip across the New Forest to take on Bournemouth, with kick-off at the Vitality Stadium at 14:00 BST.

The result of this fixture will have huge ramifications in the three-way battle (we’re assuming West Ham United and Brighton are safe now) to beat the drop, with Eddie Howe’s troops three points adrift of Watford and with a marginally inferior goal difference.

Bournemouth wouldn’t be relegated this afternoon if they do lose but, should Ralph Hasenhuttl’s side emerge with a win today, the Cherries would drop to the Championship if Watford take a point or more from their remaining two games.

This match is also significant from a Fantasy perspective, although only one of the players on show has a double-digit ownership in Fantasy Premier League.

That player is Danny Ings (£7.6m), who makes his eighth successive post-resumption start – and his third in six days – this afternoon.

Almost one in three of FPL managers overall own Ings, while just over half of the top 10,000 are also in possession of the in-form striker.

Ings has been captained by 2.03% of the top 10k and 1.48% of FPL managers overall.

He was also the most-bought FPL forward of Gameweek 37+, with 112,345 managers snapping him up.

Ings is partnered by Shane Long (£4.6m) in the Southampton attack today, with the Irishman replacing Michael Obafemi (£4.9m) up front.

He is one of five changes from Thursday’s 1-1 draw with Brighton.

Stuart Armstrong (£5.2m) returns at the expense of Will Smallbone (£4.5m), while three of the regular back four are also recalled: Ryan Bertrand (£4.8m), Jack Stephens (£4.4m) and Kyle Walker-Peters (£4.4m) are in for Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (£4.8m), Jan Bednarek (£4.4m) and Jake Vokins (£4.0m).

Speaking ahead of kick-off, Hasenhuttl said of Bednarek’s absence:

Yesterday, he had a light muscle injury and it was too risky to bring him in with a busy week so it doesn’t make sense.

Bournemouth have made two changes from the side that lost 2-1 to Manchester City, with Callum Wilson (£7.4m) and David Brooks (£6.1m) replacing the benched Dominic Solanke (£5.1m) and Dan Gosling (£4.8m).

Aside from Ings, only one other player in today’s two starting XIs – Alex McCarthy (£4.5m) – has an ‘effective ownership’ of over 1% in the top 10k, which is often a better gauge of popularity than the overall figure given the number of dead teams that currently exist.


Bournemouth XI: Ramsdale; Stacey, Cook, Kelly, Rico; Brooks, Lerma, Billing, Stanislas; King, C Wilson.

Southampton XI: McCarthy; Walker-Peters, Stephens, Vestergaard, Bertrand; Armstrong, Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Redmond; Long, Ings.

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  1. JBG
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Not taking a hit for Greenwood to Ings feels better now XD.

  2. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    that was nice of James tho to let him have it, James is a good pen taker.

  3. BeaversWithAttitude
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    0 bonus points for Ings, lol. What's that smell?

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      So happy

  4. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Ings is not the first choice penalty taker. Why did he have to take it. Non-owners rejoicing

    1. BeaversWithAttitude
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Plenty of time left, rejoicer.

    2. have you seen cyan
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      golden boot hopes

    3. TheSteel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Golden boot

    4. Rolls-Royce
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      He had scored 4/4 before this.

  5. Postman Ty
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    As someone who hasn't had a keeper penalty save in I think years, that was just as satisfying as a non-owner.

    1. BeaversWithAttitude
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Cherries keeper? You are living on the edge, dude!

      1. Postman Ty
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        No I mean a non-Ings owner. (I don't have Ramsdale)

  6. Don Kloppeone
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Btw everyone going nuts about this defining seasons .... it’s 2 points. Maybe 4 max due to deducted baps.

    Come on ppl!

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      This!!

    2. Valar(Keith)
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Ummm.. it's the difference between 13 and 4

      1. wantsharptv
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Exactly. Thats massive. Such an awful pen

  7. TheSteel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Missed pk must be -30 bps. Ings nowhere to be seen

  8. Nightcrawler
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Ings baps gone down the drain

  9. Rolls-Royce
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    That hurts. Main two rivals chasing me by a few points don't have Ings.

  10. CrouchDown
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Imagine owning Ings

    1. The Polymath
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      lol 😀

    2. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Lol i know can’t even score a pen

    3. Rojo's Modern Life
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Nurse- time for nap time, this one's over excited

  11. DAZZ
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Plenty of time for an Ings second.

    1. The Polymath
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      What? Second penalty miss? 😀

  12. Cok3y5murf
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    All these jammy Ings non-owners celebrating

    1. Twisted Saltergater
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Don’t you just love the smugness.

    2. Postman Ty
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Man has a goal from almost every shot on target since the restart, not to mention he's been gifted about 3 goals from opposition keepers/defenders. Keep your jam to yourself.

      1. Cok3y5murf
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        So being clinical = lucky? Lol

        1. Postman Ty
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Sure lets just call him the most clinical striker to ever live, seems rational.

          1. Cok3y5murf
            • 7 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            Never said that. Whatever helps you get through the day

            1. Postman Ty
              • 9 Years
              3 years, 8 months ago

              It's one or the other, make up your mind.

              1. Cok3y5murf
                • 7 Years
                3 years, 8 months ago

                Fool. How is calling him clinical and calling him the most clinical striker to ever live the same? Do you even watch football or just look at his stats?

                1. Postman Ty
                  • 9 Years
                  3 years, 8 months ago

                  His numbers aren't just high as if he's playing well in-form, they are extraordinarily high. I watch every single game; I know he's had good shots but his percentages are still incredibly unsustainable.

  13. SomeoneKnows
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Pope (Martinez)
    TAA, Saiss, Pieters (Lascelles*, Holgate*)
    KDB, Salah, Fernandes, Martial, Pulisic
    Vardy, Rashford (Connolly)

    2FT + 0.4 itb

    Plan is to do Pulisic + Vardy > DSilva + Jesus but open for other suggestions given my lack of bench and Jesus's not so great form....

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      KdB to Sterling?

  14. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Ings' head gone down now too.

  15. Nightcrawler
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Karma for ings for being selfish

    1. Werner Bremen
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Don't be jelly

  16. Jealous Viper
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    9 point swing right there

    1. TheSteel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Disgusting

    2. BeaversWithAttitude
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Ouch.

  17. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Oh my. No worries Danny boy, we still lav ya. It would have been a beauty, but that's fpl life

  18. Twisted Saltergater
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Can’t believe there are active players with Ings when there’s Kane, Jesus, Auba, Rashford and Greenwood.

    1. DAZZ
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Had him since he was 6.5M 15 goals ago. Pure value 🙂 cant cry about 1 penalty miss

      1. Twisted Saltergater
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Oh there you are 🙂 sorry, couldn’t resist a dig back

    2. yalala
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Poverty

    3. BeaversWithAttitude
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Believe it, Twisted. He's in the running for the Golden Boot, you even watching the games? Lmao. And he was/is cheap as chips!

      1. Twisted Saltergater
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        You shouldn’t react to a troll 🙂

  19. Duffy Dunk
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Season long lucky rival brought in Pieters, getting that jammy assist.
    Season long unlucky me, has Ings (C) missing a pen.

    I'm amazed by the way jamminess works in favour of some.

    1. The Polymath
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Check fplreview website to see how lucky he has actually been.

      1. Duffy Dunk
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        It's been crazy. Lucky autosubs, lucky vice captaincies, out of form players exploding out of nowhere.

    2. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Pieters put in a few good crosses yesterday, up against a team. Who can't seem to score.

      Danny Ings scored, but isn't even a designated penalty taker. Jam that he was even taking it!

      1. BeaversWithAttitude
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        He's in the running for the Golden Boot, I'm not surprised he took it.

  20. Louis Van Gaalstones
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Bournemouth need some subs on, they're sitting back deeper and deeper

  21. Monkey Hanger
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    It's JWP owners who are unlucky.

    1. Party time
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Hahahaha

    2. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      H Wilson should have buried that.

    3. Superflymonk
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      I think I have the highest number of penalty misses from my players than anybody else. I have Vardy's two, I think. Aguero. Rashford and now Ings. This has been my most unfortunate season ever. Sometimes you just have to laugh.

      1. FPL Daniel
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Rank?

        1. Superflymonk
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Check my profile.

    4. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Just saw the penalty. Poor taken penalty by Ings. No stamina, no speed, no power, no precision. Easy save if you get the side right

      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        It was awful.

        For his 25th of the season!

      2. Twisted Saltergater
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Must be the drugs.

    5. Champions League Varane
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      McCarthy on bench god sake..

    6. Cak Juris
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Miss penalty should get -4pts

      1. TheSteel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Non owner located

    7. GAMBIT
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      That pen being saved is annoying

      1. FPL Daniel
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        it is, especially this late in the year. nonetheless, it is what is

    8. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Wilson chance

    9. TheSteel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Good thing i didnt captain Ings like i thought about. Went for Doherty instead

      1. La Roja
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Could be worse though

      2. Twisted Saltergater
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Oooh, like the Doherty punt. Considered it.

      3. Postman Ty
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Why..?

    10. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      King off? Hmm risky. He's been running his ass off.