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Saïss at wing-back again as £4.0m defender gets another start in Wolves’ defence

Wolves’ most popular Fantasy Premier League defender Romain Saïss (£5.2m) has been handed another outing at left wing-back.

Following the departure of Ruben Vinagre (£4.3m) and an injury to Marçal (£4.9m), the Moroccan filled in there for the 1-0 win over Fulham in Gameweek 4.

Despite Marçal making the bench on Monday night, Saïss has held off the competition a little while longer to play a more advanced role than usual.

That also means a second successive start in the back-three for £4.0m defender Max Kilman (£4.0m).

He is joined there by key men Conor Coady (£5.0m) and Willy Boly (£5.5m), while Nelson Semedo (£5.5m) starts as the right-back again.

Meanwhile, it is unchanged front-three for Nuno Espirito Santo as Raúl Jiménez (£8.5m) sits in the middle of Pedro Neto (£5.5m) and Daniel Podence (£5.6m), which means a place on the bench for Adama Traoré (£6.4m).

Neto has offered the best value of any Wolves midfield player so far this season, although he is still owned by fewer managers than the benched Ruben Neves (£5.4m), Joao Moutinho (£5.4m), Podence and Traoré.

Marcelo Bielsa keeps faith with his favoured 4-1-4-1 formation, offering a second start of the season to Rodrigo (£5.8m) after his dramatic equaliser against Manchester City.

With veteran Pablo Hernández (£5.8m) on the bench, the Spaniard is deployed in midfield alongside Mateusz Klich (£5.6m) while Patrick Bamford (£5.8m) leads the line once again.

Coming into Gameweek 5, only Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£7.7m) and Harry Kane (£10.7m) have more owners than Bamford among forwards. And of those in his position priced at £6.0m or less, none have managed as many shots on target as the Leeds man.

Leeds United XI (4-1-4-1): Meslier; Dallas, Cooper, Koch, Ayling; K Phillips; Harrison, Rodrigo, Klich, Costa; Bamford.

Wolves XI (3-4-3): Patrício; Kilman, Coady, Boly; Saïss, Moutinho, Dendoncker, Semedo; Neto, Jiménez, Podence.

LESSONS LEARNED FROM FPL GAMEWEEK 5

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  1. King Kun Ta
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    4 players to go! Game on!

    1. Party time
        3 years, 5 months ago

        4 as well. Shall we? 🙂

    2. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      LMS safety score currently 43 with autosubs.

      https://www.livefpl.net/LMS

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

        Feels good to be safe

      2. Eddie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Scraping each week through this season.

        1. Nomar
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          Same.

    3. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Need a big showing from the popular wolves boys here

    4. THFC4LIFE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Need 18 points from Saiss and Jimenez to hit a ton, come on lads!

      1. Leonard hatred
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Same!

        .....Except I need them to score 35 points 🙁

      2. Whiskerz
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        19 for me from Saiss, Podence and Jimenez.

      3. Scholes Out For Summer
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        need 20 from the same two.

        A 1-0 win for Wolves with Saiss and Jimenez combo would do nicely

      4. Jack Burton
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Need 4 off Saiss and Podence

    5. Teomi
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Grealish or Barkley and idé the cash elsewhere?

      Haven’t watched villas last two.
      Are Barkley playing as no 10 in a 4-2-3-1 or are villa still playing their original 4-3-3 setup?

      1. I Member
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        4-3-3

        1. Teomi
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          Cheers, so McGinn is playing just as advanced as Barkley then?

          1. No Professionals
            • 6 Years
            3 years, 5 months ago

            I think Barkley is further forward

      2. No Professionals
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        I put grealish in this week, but if I did it now I’d go Barkley for the saved cash

        1. polis
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          Over the season I still think Grealish.

          1. No Professionals
            • 6 Years
            3 years, 5 months ago

            Yea he will probably score more points, depends what the 1m does to the rest of your team.

        2. Lets jump straight into it.
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          I did the same and am wondering the same. Barkley; a few years ago was Englands 'next big thing' and has shooting boots. Glealish has silky balls but bottles it when a shot is on....

          1. Ain't No Holebas Girl
            • 6 Years
            3 years, 5 months ago

            You had me at silky balls

    6. Botman and Robben
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      So, is Max Kilman a nailed on starter for the foreseeable future?

      1. No Professionals
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        No Marcal is back on bench and Saiss will probably revert to cb

      2. R.C
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        No

      3. polis
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Nope

    7. Feed tha Sheep
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Mccarthy
      TAA Saiss Taylor Davies Mitchell
      Salah Son Foden Soucek Bissouma
      Werner DCL Wilson

      Have 5.1ITB so thinking Wilson > Kane is a no brainer but wanting to sort Davies & Soucek...which is the priority?

      1. Punter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Bench Davies, Mitchell and Bissouma. Do the Kane move

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

      Which 2 would you bench this week? Realise all my defenders have good fixtures and have solid 5 midfield with DCL Kane (Brewster ) up top

      A Saïss (NEW)
      B Lamptey (WBA)
      C Chilwell (mun)
      D Mitchell (ful)

      1. Scholes Out For Summer
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        D and A, if Wolves dont play well tonight

      2. Punter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Bench D and Brewster mate

    9. Zimo
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      So Marcal on bench. This Kilmans last match as starter probably?

    10. Gobigorgohome
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Struijk bandwagom

      1. Muller Reus Corner
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        what's happened?

        1. Muller Reus Corner
          • 3 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          Ahhh - Cooper got injured. C'mon Jimmy!!

    11. Vazza
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Which is better

      A. KDB => Sterling (free)
      B. KDB, Wilson => Grealish, Kane (4pt hit)
      C. Do nothing
      D. Quit FPL and do something more meaningful in life.

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

        B
        Because we don't have any life

      2. Punter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        B or D

    12. keefy59
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      If Hegazi & Kilman become nailed
      They rotate home & away all season at just £8.3m
      Most of us probably play 3 at the back

      1. polis
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Less than zero chance

    13. Dacra
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Podence, Saiss, Jimi (c) let's go!

      1. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Jiminez (c). Damn.

      2. No Professionals
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Wow Jimi c is a bold move

      3. AnfieldLad
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Did you forget to change your captain?

        1. Dacra
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          Yes.

      4. Top Lad Dakes.
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Jimenez captain took some balls. Hope it pays off for ya

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

          rank amaetur, I had DCL cap

      5. Botman and Robben
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        First guy I have seen with cappo on Hendrix.

    14. Lets jump straight into it.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Players stinking up my team:

      McCarthy, Steer, TAA, Justin, Lamptey, Brewster, Souceck, Mitchell and Walker-Peters..

      Players I desire to stink up my team:

      Martinez, Robbo, Chilwell, Rashford, Kane or Kun & a chelski attacker..

      Two free transfers (and wildcard) available.

      Question is; which two to get rid of first?

      Please and thank you

      1. polis
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Justin, Mitchell (who'll both lose their spots soon enough) and KWP (fixtures & I wouldn't want to double up).

        1. Lets jump straight into it.
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          Nice, thanks

      2. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        I have four of those.

        At least you don’t have Doherty and Ramsdale. £11m for eff all production.

        I actually don’t think it’s that bad. Maybe Soucek and KWP first?

        1. Lets jump straight into it.
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          I know what you mean but without a wildcard to re-distribute funds, there are no 'magic beans' out there. Interested to watch Kilman this evening tho' ...

      3. Bushwhacker
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Not Brewster.

        1. Lets jump straight into it.
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          Ok, agree in retrospect, so much an enabler and a super sub maybe. Guaranteed he's on the bench when he hauls haha.

    15. tiger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Departing present please Jimmy Nez?

    16. Make United Great Again
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Podence, Ayling Saiss = 2 goals, & 3 assists tonight. Let’s go!

    17. Chucky
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Jimmy grab a hattie tonight please

      1. Top Lad Dakes.
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Oh that would be a beautiful thing. Podence assists?

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

        LOL
        Chucky has he ever scored one .??

        I'm intrigued

    18. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Wolves wearing a Portugal kit. LOL

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

        Not gone on that away kit myself.

        Their home kit is savage though and probably the nicest looking in the league imo.

    19. DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Leeds V Portugal on now. Come on lads.

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

      Leeds will win 1-0

      Goal for Harrison.

      (Own nobody so this is as unbiased prediction as it can be 😎 )

      1. Botman and Robben
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Goal for Dallas

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

          He's advanced yeah generally

    21. Differentiator
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Hands up if you're in the Klich crew o/

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Got him in my draft team. Not in the main game.

      2. Andy_Social
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Well, on my bench, next to Saiss. I'm regretting my choices in life.

    22. Gobigorgohome
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Real Madrid vs Portugal

      1. OPTA FPL
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        lol

    23. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Got Son, but starting to feel like Son and Kane are essential.

      Also feel like Bruno is too.

      Trouble is I’d have to WC to get them both in.

    24. Party time
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Bielsa looks like a maths teacher

        1. Nomar
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          As clever too, in a footballing sense.

      • Do I Not Like Orange
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        This Wolves Portugal kit is nice

      • Bushwhacker
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        13 seconds and already more exciting than the Burnley vs West Brom game.

      • Bubz
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Got Saiss on my bench... pls don’t hurt me

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

        what a horrible kit, aint winning in that

      • OPTA FPL
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Some Leed players look so handsome @@

        1. Over Midwicket
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          ...

          1. OPTA FPL
            • 12 Years
            3 years, 5 months ago

            that 4.0 def

        2. Gobigorgohome
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          huh

        3. g40steve
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          Man bun United

      • Gobigorgohome
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        YESSS This is the Bamford I know 😉

        1. g40steve
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 5 months ago

          What offside