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Saiss benched and Doherty returns as Santo continues to rotate Wolves starting XI

Wolverhampton Wanderers take on Crystal Palace in Monday’s late kick-off, with play getting underway at Molineux at 20:15 BST.

Nuno Espirito Santo continues to tinker with his starting XI and has made three changes from the side that drew 1-1 against Burnley.

Romain Saiss (£4.8m), Ruben Vinagre (£4.1m) and Diogo Jota (£6.0m) are the men to drop out, with regular wing-backs Matt Doherty (£6.5m) and Jonny (£5.5m) returning along with Leander Dendoncker (£4.4m).

Saiss’s benching is a notable one from a Fantasy perspective: the Moroccan sits in just over 6% of FPL teams overall and in 35.11% of the squads in the top 10,000.

Dendoncker appears to be playing at centre-half this evening as a result of Saiss’s omission.

Doherty sits in more than one in two of the teams within the top 10,000, with Raul Jimenez (£8.1m) – starting his 36th league game of the season – boasting an ‘effective ownership’ of 50.63% among this group of leading managers.

Crystal Palace have made two changes to the side that lost 2-0 against Manchester United in Gameweek 36+, both of which are enforced through injury.

Patrick van Aanholt (£5.6m) is replaced by budget FPL defender Tyrick Mitchell (£4.0m) at left-back, with Jeffrey Schlupp (£5.4m) coming in for Luka Milivojevic (£6.4m) in midfield.

Not one of Palace’s starting players has a double-digit ownership in FPL and there is negligible interest within the top 10,000.

Jordan Ayew (£5.1m) has the highest ‘effective ownership’ among these managers – and his ‘EO’ is only 0.19%.

The Eagles are on a six-game losing streak, a sequence of results that has seen them ship 15 goals and score just twice in reply.

Wolves have kept clean sheets in eight of their last 12 games, by contrast.


Wolves XI: Patricio, Doherty, Dendoncker, Coady, Boly, Jonny, Neves, Moutinho, Traore, Jimenez, Podence.

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita, Ward, Dann, Sakho, Mitchell, McArthur, McCarthy, Schlupp, Zaha, Ayew, Townsend.

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  1. FOO FIGHTER
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Zaha trying to get Doherty booked. Bloody cheat.

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

      Zaha owns Saiss...

  2. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Palace goal imminent.

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

      Nah

    2. Fudgy
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Hopefully

    3. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Nope.

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

    Just need a Jimi goal now

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      This

  4. Bobby Digital
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Woy looks like he's having a stroke.. All the time.

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

      Lol

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

    Just a pity that Jimi didn't get on the end of it.

    Hopefully he will for the next one.

    1. The Senate
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Was about to say the same

    2. thepuntmaster
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      My captain... too early to regret?

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

        Nope

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

          I mean stay positive 😀

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

        Same but Wolves are always better in the 2nd half

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

      I thought he'd put his foot through the shot !
      6 points would have been awesome ...

      No worries. Another assist incoming

    4. bench boost for every gamew…
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Ha ha for me the Pity was that the player starting over jota scored.. Bested by nuno tactical tweak, hopefully comes in early second half and gets a goal-)

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

    Jimi goal now with Dohertys second assist would be dreamland

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

      Won’t happen, have them both...

  7. The 12th Man
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Zaha always looks as if he’s going to burst into tears .

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      You would too if you tried to leave Palace but they blocked the move.

      1. The 12th Man
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Could you imagine Zaha and Richarlison in the same team?

    2. SuperMane Returns
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Him and Jesus.

    3. The Train Driver
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      He should try to move to the airport like Mahrez did, worked out in the end...

  8. FOO FIGHTER
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Just need Pat and Doc to keep that cleanie now. Doc goal will be lovely...

    1. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      All of this

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

      Would be nice parting gift.

    3. Obi Wan Elokobi
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Undoubtedly another 103rd minute goal

      1. Baps hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        With my luck, yes.

    4. Bubz
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      I have those 2 too. Double clean sheets never happen so not optimistic

  9. EL tridente
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Auba or Kane for last GW?

    1. rhino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      kane

    2. FPLord
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Both will score a brace

    3. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Watching this match tells me Kane. Maybe TAA to Aurier also (and perhaps Son in).

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

    About time Roy retired, and accepted that £164-35 a week state pension.

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

      It's his experience that kept this overaged overused lackluster Palace team in PL IMHO.

      Just see. They're so bad 😀

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

      Harsh. Doing a better job than most other managers in the PL.

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

        Keeps them up, but plays such a boring, outdated mode of football.

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

          So do Burnley.

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

            Dyche will have to wait twenty years to get it.

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

    Hi there. Non football related. I know a lot of you are probably older and wiser than I.

    Anyone ever been through / currently in a long distance relationship?

    How did you cope? My girl just ended it because of logistics of all that

    1. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Did it start long distance, or become it?

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

      I’ve done it before - it partly depends on whether it has always been long distance and ask if it is for a finite time period and there is a known time when you will no longer be long distance

      I know some people make it work and it was fine for me at the time but I certainly wouldn’t want to have a long distance relationship again. Huge amount of sacrifice

      For it to work there has to be a lot of trust and communication

    3. Hulk Smash
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Sorry to hear that mate.

      Did it once, would never do it again unless only for a short, pre-defined, temporary time like a month or two.

      Unless the above circumstances apply, my advice is to agree with yourself now that you will never initiate a long distance relationship and would end any existing relationship if it necessarily became long distance. The honest truth is that neither party gets enough of what they need and want in a LDR but most would rather carry on the pretense for as long as possible than face up to that fact. It's also near impossible to maintain your boundaries and expectations, which is why infedility or lack of trust due to suspecting infidelity, often arise.

    4. Greek Freak
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      I met my now-wife 13 years ago - within two months of getting together we found jobs on opposite ends of the world and took them. We were long distance for about six months with no plans of whether we'll stay together or not. In the end it worked out partly because I was on a six-month contract so the distance had an expiry date.

      Honestly there's no advice - if it's long distance indefinitely then I don't think I'd advise anyone to commit. It's easier if you know you're going to be together in a set amount of time. But it's all about individual cases - you can't generalise.

  12. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Glad I sold Doherty over Trent 2 weeks ago

    🙄

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

      Lol ffs same.

  13. FOO FIGHTER
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Aurier to Robertson
    Sterling to Son
    -4

    Patricio
    Dunk TAA Robertson Doherty
    Salah Son Dilva Martial Fernandes
    Jesus

    Want to take away some of the Pep handing over the vaseline.

    How does that look?

    1. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Bad

      1. FOO FIGHTER
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Well should I take the whole tub of vaseline?

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

      You mean "to" or "for"?!?

  14. OverTinker
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Moved out Saiss for Bardsley and great to see Doherty assist
    But the rank hasn't changed much

  15. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Just wondering how Pickford is in the Baps with ZERO saves??!

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

      Nice passing

    2. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Passing/distribution.

      1. Fred54
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        A save is actually only worth 2 bps.

    3. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      He’s not?

      1. HuttonDressedasLahm
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Oh no, he’s not now, but only one point off 1
        Silly system really though

      2. Fred54
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        He isn't, but he was very close to.

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

          Lol
          Shows quality of game 😀

  16. FPLord
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Nightmare if Saiss comes on...26p lead in my ML down to 3p prior bonus

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      You benched Kane?!

      1. FPLord
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Nope...rival has kane! Aurier first on bench, Stephens second

  17. Garam MOSALAH
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Pieters Branthwaite Williams ? ?

    A) Aurier Thomas
    B) Egan Long

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      A

  18. Bobby Digital
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Martinez
    Long Pieters Bardsley
    Sterling KDB Fernandes Antonio Son
    Kane Jesus

    Martin Greenwood Cresswell Lamptey

    Good FH team? Go big or go home no?

    1. Garam MOSALAH
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Gtg

  19. circusmonkey
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Spent the whole day wanting no goals, what a miserable life.

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

      🙁

  20. lordkippe
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Mahrez (C) suddenly got the feeling he will come on for 10 minutes tomorrow and start on the bench

    1. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Happy I capped Salah 🙂

      1. Fudgy
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Same

      2. Warby84
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Same

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

        Blank incoming then

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

        I'm not. Chelsea played bloody fantastic yesterday.

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

      Always pretty likely, in fact less likely after losing.

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

        Yeah I know. But always exciting to buy a coupon for the pep-roulette lottery

  21. Firminooooo
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Doherty goal, Patricio assist.

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

      Ban

    2. Chucky
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      😛

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

      whats this man!!

    4. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Yes please!

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

      Wake up ...
      It's No assist ..
      Doherty goal ...
      😉

  22. Warby84
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    No way am I selling Doc

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

      Play the fixtures. Don't get attached to them. Be ruthless 😀

      1. Warby84
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        But he’s playing right wing almost, not sure it’s wise to sell, I’d rather lose Wan-B and keep him vs Chelsea Defense

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

          If not on FH hold definitely

          1. Warby84
            • 8 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            No FH,

    2. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      I have Doc and Pat.

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

        K

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

      Wont get this week's points next week too

  23. FCSB
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    For 38+, best combo:

    1. TAA (new) Greenwood (lei)
    2. Aurier (cry) Ings (SHU)

    Martinez
    XXX Bardsley Pieters
    Salah Martial KDB Silva Sterling
    Kane XXX

    Thanks

    1. The Senate
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      1 IMO

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

      2

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

    Some good matches lined up for next GW:

    West Ham vs Villa (relegation fight)
    Everton vs Bournemouth (relegation fight)
    Arsenal vs Watford (relegation fight)
    Chelsea vs Wolves (Euro play-off)
    Leicester vs Man Utd (Euro play-off)

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

      Bournemouth are basically down aren’t they due to goal difference?

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

        Are they? Watford lose both games and they are in trouble if Bournemouth or Villa win.

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

          Bournemouth: 31 points, -27 goals difference
          Villa: 31 points, -27 goal difference
          Watford: 34 points, -23 goal difference

          So Bournemouth need to win, Watford lose both with a 4 goal swing

          I guess it’s possible

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

            City and Arsenal not exactly conducive for increasing your goal difference.....

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

        No they shd be safe if they win and others dont cross 34

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

      Thanks didnt know this

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

      Norwich going to Manchester to get ripped apart for mistaken victory earlier in the season

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

        Norwich doing the league double over City would be just classic for this FPL season

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

          Ha ha ha ha

    4. Warby84
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      What about the one-sided goal fests??

      1. The Senate
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        he did mention Leicester - Man Utd...

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

    These NBC adverts, imagine being a Palace fan in the US lol

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

      There are plenty

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

        really? I reckon they just saw the kit online and thought it was a Barca kit

  26. Says
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Richarleson scored the only goal in the game, but isn't even in the top 5 Everton players for bonus. How bad was he??

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

      Let’s just say Giroud would be proud of him

    2. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      YC doesn’t help. Doesn’t complete passes, gets tackled.

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

        He’s the Merseyside Salah.

    3. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Saw he got a YC also

  27. Ange Ball
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Worth minus 12

    TAA> Pieter's
    Fernandez > DSilva
    Martial > Son
    Ings> Auba

    KDB Foden DSilva Son Salah
    Wood Auba

    1. The Legend Squad
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Depends if you’re chasing or not

    2. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      -12 usually a bad idea no matter which moves you make.

      1. Dosh
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Went ok for this me this week with triple Burnley defense transfers. Hopefully captain Salah can top it off.

    3. DF
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Depends if your after rank or craic.

    4. THFC4LIFE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      The 4 your transferring out could easily outscore the 4 your bringing in, even without the 12 point hit

      1. Ange Ball
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        thanks guys

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

      those are bad moves, I am toying with a -8 but for these moves which would pay off imo:
      Justin>Pieters (Justin CS impossible)
      Doherty> Tierney/Mendy (Doh got Chelsea :/)
      Foden>Dilva (Needs no explaining)

  28. goriuanx
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Apparently Liverpool have spent £1m preparing for Wednesday's trophy lift.

    Podium in the Kop, pyrotechnics, fireworks, flying out players and staff families for the game etc.

    Spending more on a trophy lift than in the transfer market 😎

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

      They had long enough to save!

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

      Once in a life time moment for pool fans so why not

    3. FFSbet.com
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Damn they will be still drunk for Newcastle game

      1. goriuanx
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        That is going to be a hilarious performance

  29. Strchld
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Please atleast one Jimi assist and Saiss cameo.

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

      And goal. And one more for Doherty too.

  30. drughi
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Which option looks best on FH ?

    A. 3-5-2 with Son and Sterling
    B. 3-4-3 with KDB and Kane