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Son recovers from injury as Doherty and Davies drop to bench for United v Spurs

Son Heung-min (£9.0m) is fit to feature in Tottenham Hotspur’s clash with Manchester United this afternoon, having made a swift recovery from a hamstring injury.

Having initially ruled the Korean out until after the October international break, Jose Mourinho appeared to be slowly backpedalling on that initial prognosis during the week and Son indeed makes the starting XI this afternoon.

Kick-off in the penultimate match of Gameweek 4 is at 16:30 BST.

Son may have been passed fit but Mourinho has otherwise rung the changes from the Gameweek 3 draw against Newcastle United, no doubt in response to the Lilywhites’ brutal schedule that has seen them play cup matches on both Tuesday and Thursday this week.

Full-backs Matt Doherty (£5.9m) and Ben Davies (£4.9m) drop to the bench, while Giovani Lo Celso (£6.9m) isn’t risked after sustaining a knock in the 7-2 win over Maccabi Haifa.

Midfielders Lucas Moura (£6.9m) and Harry Winks (£5.5m) are also among the substitutes, having started all three Premier League games before today.

Dele Alli (£7.6m) makes the 18-man squad but again doesn’t feature from the start.

Serge Aurier (£5.2m), Sergio Reguilon (£5.5m), Moussa Sissoko (£4.8m), Tanguy Ndombele (£5.9m) and Erik Lamela (£5.9m) are the players who come into Spurs’ side at Old Trafford.

The Manchester United team news is a lot more straightforward.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has made one alteration to his side from Gameweek 3, with Eric Bailly (£5.0m) replacing Victor Lindelof (£4.9m) at centre-half.

Almost 1.4 million FPL managers sold Son ahead of the Gameweek 4 deadline, with no other Fantasy asset suffering as many transfers out as the South Korea international in a single Gameweek so far this season.

Anthony Martial (£8.9m) was also out of favour, with his 303,342 sales making him the second-most sold FPL forward of this weekend.

Bruno Fernandes (£10.5m) is the only Manchester United player who has a double-digit ownership in FPL at the time of writing, with three Spurs players – Doherty, Son and Harry Kane (£10.5m) – featuring in more than 10% of Fantasy squads.


Tottenham Hotspur XI: Lloris, Aurier, Dier, Sanchez, Reguilon, Hojbjerg, Sissoko, Ndombele, Lamela, Son, Kane.

Manchester United XI: De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Bailly, Maguire, Shaw, Matic, Pogba, Fernandes, Rashford, Greenwood, Martial.


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2,957 Comments Post a Comment
  1. ivantys
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    DDG is total crap can't save anything

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

    Glad I switched Son from bench in for Justin just before deadline! Phew!!!

  3. Finical
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Feel sick having got Mahrez in for Son. Already reversed the transfer for GW5. This season been a right nightmare for me. Gotta laugh though.

  4. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    People selling Son 😆

    1. DycheDycheBaby
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      People laughing at people who sold Son...

  5. Ha.
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Had Son (c) before his injury 😆

  6. FPL Blow-In
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Why Aurier had all that space. Shaw standing CB.

  7. Planet Jo
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Best decision of my FPL days to avoid selling Son not once but twice this season.

    Lethal under Mourinho.

  8. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Woodward is seething

    1. Planet Jo
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      He's the problem though.

  9. Party time
      3 years, 6 months ago

      What the fork is this game

    • fr3d
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Son saving my week here

    • It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Had Son from the start. Got rid for Zaha. About to have a breakdown.

      1. AC Yew
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        Same. For a hit though..

    • Steve The Spud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Son a better option than kdb and bale not even in the mix yet

      1. Planet Jo
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        Son-Kane-Bale

    • Cok3y5murf
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Maguire and DDG both nutmegged. No surprise there 😆

    • Sif
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      What a troll from Son.
      Transferred him out twice already this season. Miss his 4 goals and now missed this game week.

      1. HuttonDressedasLahm
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        Answers my question

    • Oggle22
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      There'll be that guy who kept and triple captained son no doubt

    • F4L
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      DDG og?

    • Ady87
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Son saving my GW. Was in my team since the restart last season and he’s going nowhere!

    • HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Own up....
      Anyone has Son in GW1, and 3, but not 2 and 4?

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

        Hello.

      2. Sloane426
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        Idiots

    • Esalman
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Son transfer out backfired bigly.

    • Drop Dead Tsimikas
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Son + Burke >> Pereira + Barnes for a (-4), following a WC went well. Last time I trust Mourinho's "he'll be weeks out" lines...

    • jonnybhoy
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Thank god I didnt bench Son

      1. Old Man
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        leader in my ML did ..... and had Maddison and Mount on the pitch. Lucky *******

    • norab
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      that's an own goal

    • Stupendous
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Son to Barnes to Son

      Just done the last part

      Will I get the 20 for son?

    • insertcomedyname
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Anything better than Werner and Greenwood to Wilson and Son?

    • Rainer
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Son sales for GW2 & GW4 sum up 2020 😆

    • diesel001
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Own Son, but Spurs are scabs. Mourinho lying about Son's 'injury'. Lamela diving to get players sent off.

      1. HuttonDressedasLahm
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        Utd fan I presume

        1. diesel001
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 6 months ago

          Nope. Don't support a PL team.

    • HNI
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Patient Son owners unite! Another benefit of waiting till pressers before deciding to knee jerk

    • Puntillimon
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      mou masterstroke started from newcastle game

    • Samwise
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      the only good thing about transferring son to Zaha is, I have the funds to transfer Zaha to Son without using another transfer 😮

    • Party time
        3 years, 6 months ago

        United are a terrible side