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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. OverTinker
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Stop it son

    1. Van der Faart
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Nooooo keep going Son!

  2. Forever In Our Shadow
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Utd are a disgrace. From top to bottom.

  3. DA Minnion (Former great)
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Son has taken over from Lukaku as my biggest troll of all time.

  4. Forza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    :mrgreen:

  5. RAFA THE GAFFA
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Werner+Zaha >> DCL+Son for free?

    McCarthy
    TAA, Justin, Saiss, Davies
    KDB, Salah, Rodríguez, Zaha
    Werner, Ings
    (Nyland, Bissouma, Mitchell, Davis)

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Priced out? 2 weeks international though ... could be mare.

      1. RAFA THE GAFFA
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        I’m bang on the money yeah. I will be priced out

      2. RAFA THE GAFFA
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        I still have a WC if it went really bad?

  6. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Loving this game. Son seller but want more

    More goals in this. Kane hatty I’m feeling

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

      Pleaasee!

    2. Forever In Our Shadow
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Don’t. Please.

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

    Jose masterclass playing Aurier

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

      buying Doherty was the most expensive mind game ever.

  8. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Right. Werner Foden to Son DCL/7.9 striker looks obvious right

    1. Dont_Win_Friends_With_Salah…
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Definitely

      1. TyroneGAA
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        I might just do ings and kdb to son and Kane it even leaves me .5 in the bank

    2. RAFA THE GAFFA
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Same above. Seems too obvious. Annoyed I’m bang on the money so will need to move soon

  9. Camzy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    This feels like Germany - Brazil in the 2014 world cup. Astonishing stuff.

    United to be absolutely clobbered here and it will be a wake up call.

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      TBF Brazil were still mourning the death of Neymar.

    2. Ohhhhh Gary Macca!
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Love to see it, put the manc scum in there place

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

    GW1: Son (2)
    GW2: Son (24) > Fernandes (2)
    GW3 WC: Fernandes (12) > Son (1)
    GW4: "Injured" Son (?) > Barnes (2)

    That's just scratching the surface.

    1. Big Hands Barry
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Ouch

    2. Stoic
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Same :/

    3. sunzip14
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      That's worse than me selling Kane+Son this gw on WC. Been that kind of a season mate!

    4. Kun Tozser
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Son back?

  11. Wizard of Ozil
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    WTF, I thought SON was injured!!!!! hes sat on my bench with only Salah and TAA to play and i have a measly 24 points. hate this damn game!!!

    1. Milk, 1 Šuker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Oz, I feel your pain man

    2. Cok3y5murf
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Why didn’t you start him anyway just in case?

      1. Wizard of Ozil
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        He looked certain to be out for a couple of weeks. hamstring injuries i thought were killers

    3. The Reptile
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      If Son was yellow I would have started him but he was dark Orange _ I should have listened to the rumours of him starting

    4. teneighty
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Second on my bench with TAA and Salah left to play an stuck at 23 pts. 😀

  12. OPTA FPL
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Son price is protected and locked for how many days?

    1. THFC4LIFE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Don’t think it is locked

      1. OPTA FPL
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        It is. it has been for years

    2. F4L
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      no lock, flag never went red

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

    So all the “good fixtures” have produced nothing
    Now there’s a goal fest 🙄

  14. Bavarian
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Jim-Havertz 》 Kane-Son -4 done

    1. Ohhhhh Gary Macca!
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Point chasing at its finest, Hope Jimmy and Havertz bag in the next gw

  15. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Haven’t owned Son at all yet. So have missed all these points but also haven’t been trolled at all lol

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

      Same
      Feels bad, but not as bad as it could have been

  16. NWA
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Man U defense and midfield in total disarray..... What will be the final score????

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

    It seemed like Man U were ehading in the right direction, but not they seem to have hit the bottle again. And signing Cavani is a step backwards

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

      *heading in the *

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

      Ole is totally incapable... long as he’s there United will struggle

  18. Dynamic Duos
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Need another 4.5m defender, got KWP, getting Son in asap, hate when my planned transfer smashes it..

  19. Monklane
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Son first sub. Sigh.

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

      Why? Just why?

  20. Milk, 1 Šuker
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    I've just got in to get a score update. There's a massacre at the Theatre of...Nightmares! Wow!

  21. Stoic
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    A)Son to Bruno when Son scored 24 points..
    B) Bring in Son on WC for 1 point
    C) Selling Son(1poiint) after his alleged Hammy for Ings (-8)
    Anyone else?

    1. svasei - Up (?) the Rovers
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      If you haven't learned already: Keep faith in your transfers. Keep players for three to four weeks at least.

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

        Yeah..

  22. Pukki Blinders
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    This clown of a referee clearly has his favourites... wrongly sent off Kovacic in the FA cup final and now this. Needs to be sacked without question

  23. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Fpl experts in disarray

    The collective thought was to take son out. Look silly now

    1. Manani
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Jose said hamstring injury, most would have kept if it wasn't for that

    2. Esalman
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      He is stilled red flagged 25% on FPL.

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

    Good chance that Son/Kane get go off at HT now. Easy rest

  25. mr messi
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Which is better
    A. Son Bamford Ings
    B. Kane Wilson Soucek

  26. Manani
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Im so done with this season. Jose saying hamstring injury, and Son plays the next week with double figure return. Already 5m+ in rank I think I will just be a causual this year lol

  27. luk46
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    who would you rather have?

    A - Wilson
    B - Maupay
    C - Bamford

    1 - Klich
    2 - Trossard
    3 - Podence

    1. Critical Observer
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A2 easy

  28. ivantys
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Manu are a mid table team

  29. AIRMILES
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    This isn't a huge shock. Utd lost 3-1 to Palace and should have lost to Brighton, with Trossard hitting the post/bar three times. Ole won't be long in the job.

  30. riot
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Don't panic yet guys, Salah will probably do his hamstring later as well

    1. Milk, 1 Šuker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Nooo! I have him as captain!