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Walcott up-front with Adams as Hasenhuttl forced to start Bednarek at left-back

Fantasy Premier League managers will roll back the years as they fix their eyes upon Theo Walcott (£5.8m) in the second match of Gameweek 8.

The Everton loanee has been named up-front alongside Che Adams (£5.8m) as Southampton host Newcastle on Friday night.

Classified as a midfielder, that makes for an out-of-position deployment for Walcott, who has two assists from three Premier League appearances this season.

With Walcott moving forward to replace the injured Danny Ings (£8.4m), Moussa Djenepo (£5.4m) fills the vacancy on the left-hand side of midfield while Nathan Redmond (£6.4m) is named on the bench.

Meanwhile, owners of Callum Wilson (£6.6m), who picked up over 300,000 new managers this week, will be licking their lips at the enforced changes in Southampton’s defence.

Ryan Bertrand (£5.0m) misses out with a hamstring problem, leaving centre-back Jan Bednarek (£4.5m) to stand in at left-back, leaving Jack Stephens (£4.8m) to make his first start in the middle of defence since the 5-2 defeat to Spurs.

Wilson really is the only Fantasy asset of note among the Newcastle players for Gameweek 8, his 16.6% ownership comfortably the highest of any Magpie.

Allan Saint-Maximin (£5.3m) is the second-most-fashionable from the north east but, even then, the Frenchman sits in just 6.9% of squads.

Southampton XI: McCarthy; Bednarek, J Stephens, Vestergaard, Walker-Peters; Djenepo, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Armstrong; Walcott, Adams.

Newcastle United XI: Darlow; Lewis, Fernández, Lascelles, Schär, Murphy; Saint-Maximin, S Longstaff, Hendrick, Almirón; C Wilson.

786 Comments Post a Comment
  1. KGFC
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Wilson broken

  2. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    wilson fail

  3. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Wilson hammy?

  4. DRIZ ✅
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Wilson injured hamstring

    1. Soonmixdin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Oh you are f*cking joking!!! He was my replacement for Ings!!!!

  5. Rash
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Surely follow-through alone worth of a pen?

  6. JBG
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    How that is not a pen is beyond me.

  7. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    wilson injured as usual

  8. ZimZalabim
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    wilson off

  9. yakirh
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Wilson hammy

  10. Gunners in Haaland
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Joelinton essential

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

    Congrats Southampton defense owners.

  12. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Pukki subbed

  13. Diddly Squat
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Hammy for Wilson

  14. TomSaints
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Premier league told the reffs that Saints can’t win.

    He’s doing his best

  15. The Train Driver
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    He caught the ball before the player, clueless people on here...

    1. Diddly Squat
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Not a pen ,correct .

    2. FPL Blow-In
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Keep driving trains lad

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

      Off the floor, out of control and dangerous.

    4. Lanley Staurel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Bye bye then

  16. michaelington
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Brought Pulisic in last week, injured.
    Wilson this week, injured. Can’t catch a break.

    1. Leaf
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      It seems your players are having breaks

    2. Pedersen
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      You have done a magnificent job catching breaks

    3. Soonmixdin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Same here!!! What a waste of a transfer!!!

  17. noone
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    My rival leader has double Southampton defense, and 3 others have McCarthy, so of course, they'll keep a CS

  18. Bury94
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    KWP first on bench, love it

  19. KGFC
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    ASM is such a poor player.
    All fart and no poo.

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

      There wouldn’t even be a fart, he’d feel it coming and be like guys “be quiet, listen!” and then nothing

      1. Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        I’m laughing hard at this and no idea why

  20. BeWater
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Alan Smith seems to be willing a jammy Newcastle point into existence.

  21. Abusive_Sgt_Daelrhos
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    This should have been a 3-3 game:/

  22. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    ASMs patented 'Ill pretend I'm injured so I don't have to track back'. What a pathetic player

  23. Hulk Smash
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Is JWP on pens with Ings out?

    1. Zimo
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Yeah

  24. Zimo
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Honestly think a team of bargains can win it this year. Don't need any premiums. Maybe only one

    1. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Something like this:

      Martinez
      TAA | Chilwell | Lamptey
      Salah | Son | Rodriguez | Grealish | JWP
      Kane | DCL

      Steer | Dallas | Kilman | Brewster

  25. Ógie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Armstrong goal

  26. ZimZalabim
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Armstrong goal

  27. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Armstrong G

  28. Abusive_Sgt_Daelrhos
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    pass it to Che Dude

    1. TomSaints
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Ha I was thinking that

      1. Abusive_Sgt_Daelrhos
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Such an obvious pass man

  29. Ze_Austin
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Amstrong G

  30. TomSaints
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Thank god or that