Scout Notes

How Adams fared in Ings’ absence as Walcott plays up-front for Southampton

Southampton 2-0 Newcastle

  • Goals: Che Adams (£5.9m), Stuart Armstrong (£5.5m)
  • Assists: Theo Walcott (£5.8m)
  • Bonus points: Kyle Walker-Peters x3 (£4.5m), Armstrong x2, Jack Stephens x1 (£4.8m)

NEXT BIG INGS?

Che Adams (£5.9m) made a positive start to life in a Southampton team without the injured Danny Ings (£8.4m).

It only took a few minutes for the former Birmingham City man to get on the scoresheet against Newcastle on Friday night, sweeping home Theo Walcott‘s (£5.8m) cross with tremendous aplomb.

That was Adams’ sixth attacking return of 2020/21 and his fifth in the last four matches. That certainly represents promising form even with clashes against Wolves (away), Manchester United (home), Brighton (away) and Sheffield United (home) in the next four Gameweeks.

There had been some concern that Adams would suffer without Ings as the spearhead, whose five goals, two assists and incessant high-press have made him such an important part of Ralph Hasenhüttl’s style.

Instead, the Southampton manager chose to use Adams as his Ings replacement, so to speak, asking his number 10 to shoulder more responsibility for shots on goal, using Walcott to fill in as the more mobile second-striker.

Together, the two players caused Newcastle all sorts of problems, combining for the opening goal, before Walcott went close to bending an effort in from the edge of the box shortly after.

“(Walcott was) very good, I think, especially when he can turn on the ball. He has good technique. He had two good chances where the finish, we need to work on. But what he invests for us is amazing.” – Ralph Hasenhüttl

HOME COMFORTS

Since conceding five times in a Gameweek 2 defeat to Spurs, Southampton’s defence has become one of the most reliable in Premier League home matches.

They have now gone three St. Mary’s Stadium outings without conceding, helping Alex McCarthy (£4.5m) to claim the top spot for points-per-million spent among goalkeepers this season (7.3).

Kyle Walker-Peters (£4.5m) was the chief beneficiary in the latest round of action though, as he claimed all three bonus points in the 2-0 win over Newcastle.

Keeping a clean sheet on Friday night was made more impressive by recent injury developments at Southampton.

Ryan Bertrand (£5.0m) missed the game with a hamstring injury, the lack of options forcing Hasenhüttl into deploying centre-back Jack Stephens (£4.8m) on the left-hand side of his four-man defence.

Whether Southampton can continue this run of solid defensive form perhaps depends if they can shore themselves up on the road.

For all their solidity at home, the Saints have conceded three times in each of their last two away encounters and they face trips to Wolves (Gameweek 9) and Brighton (Gameweek 11) soon.

WILSON!!

As much as Southampton were deserving of praise for the way they managed this game, it must be said that Newcastle put in one of their worst performances of the season.

The combination of Allan Saint-Maximin‘s (£5.3m) pace and Callum Wilson‘s (£6.6m) poacher’s instinct has proven fruitful in recent weeks but, for an unknown reason, Steve Bruce elected not to deploy the Frenchman in wide areas on Friday night.

Stationed alongside Wilson in a central role on paper, Saint-Maximin struggled to get on the ball and, with Newcastle’s midfielders repeatedly losing the ball in key areas, their striker was completely starved of service.

“The best team won. We weren’t anywhere near the side that beat Everton. We gave the ball away far too often and we should look after it better.” – Steve Bruce

“That’s the difficulty we have. We go up and down too much. In the 15 months I’ve been here, we have a string of good performances and then we have games like tonight when we’re not ourselves.” – Steve Bruce

Whether Wilson can continue to reward his ownership in upcoming favourable matches against Aston Villa (away), West Bromwich Albion (home), Leeds (away) and Fulham (home), is now dependent on two factors.

Firstly, can Newcastle get back to the sort of performance they showed against Everton in Gameweek 7, characterised by pace in wide areas rather than through the middle.

And, secondly, it also hinges upon whether or not Wilson can recover from a hamstring injury sustained in the closing stages of Friday night. The striker does have the international break to recover, although the severity of the issue is not yet known.

“We’ll not know how bad it is until we get him scanned. We hope that it’s not too bad but we’ll see. It was a hamstring injury.” – Steve Bruce

Southampton XI (4-4-2): A McCarthy; J Stephens, Vestergaard, Bednarek, Walker-Peters; Djenepo (Redmond 74′), Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Armstrong; Walcott (S Long 88′), Adams.

Newcastle United XI (5-3-2): Darlow; Lewis, Fernández, Lascelles, Schär, Murphy (Joelinton 79′); Almirón, Hendrick (M Longstaff 61′), S Longstaff; Saint-Maximin, Wilson (Carroll 78′).

Lessons Learned from FPL Gameweek 8

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  1. Simon69
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Surprising amount of Salah (c)ers in my ML - Kane haul would be a beautiful thing.

  2. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Lookman!

    1. Balls of Steel
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Don't look man 🙂

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

    Soucek 1 or 2 bonus?

    1. Scholes Out For Summer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      I think itll be Flappy 3 Soucek 2 Coufal 1

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

        Hope so!

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

    Never a penalty. and a stupidly taken penalty

    West Ham vs Fulham in a nutshell

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

    Starting XI - 26 from 5
    Bench - 24 from 3

    1. Henryyy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      KWP Soucek and?

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

        Ryan

    2. FPL_Motty
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Why would you bench kwp with Newcastle, and soucek is lucky but was also playing possibly the worst team in the league

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

        KWP is my fault as I missed the deadline so lined up with same team from last week, doh! He would have started.

        Soucek would have still been benched. He's perma benched for me atm, needed to downgrade and pocket the extra cash at some point.

        1. chrismoo75
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          KWP was in your starting line up the week before so you dropped him

    3. Gudjohnsen
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Good week to use bench boost

    4. McSauce
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Well that’s fake news according to your linked team??

      1. Forever In Our Shadow
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        THIS^ 😀

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

        Been a few years since I've updated, it's 2055537 now, need to figure out how to update it again 😀

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

    Ryan > Fabianski for a -4 has gone from painful to a blinder

    1. Neves say Neves
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Jeeeez what a move. Username checks out

  7. DantheManinaPan
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Can't decide whether to feel sorry for Lookman because it clearly upset him, or just find it funny that he tried to clever and missed really badly.

    1. aapoman
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Its funny because that penalty was so arrogant and ge failed miserably

    2. F4L
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      What's there to feel sorry for? I feel sorry for players that give it their all and just don't get the rub of the green. Not for being arrogant unprofessionals.

      Football is obviously just a pay check to Lookman, a mercenary like most are nowadays.

      1. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        I get that you're annoyed as a Fulham fan.

        But then you also need to face up to reality that Fulham aren't good enough for the PL. You'll do well to finish 18th.

        1. F4L
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Exactly, so that's why we need every point we can get. I fully expect us still to be relegated this year unless you need around 32-33 points to stay up.

          But it's another reason why I hate having our club filled with loan players, they know they can do whatever they want and just swan off to their next pay check next season.

      2. Well you know, Triffic
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Lookman has been one of Fulhams best players in the past month or so. Yes he screwed up tonight but to say he doesn't care is not right. If he didn't care Parker would not bother picking him and he wouldn't bother playing well.

        1. F4L
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Yeah I guess I've overacted, but you just can't be doing that in that sort of a situation.

          What he needs to do now is donate this weeks wages to charity, come out and apologise to the fans and say he'll work his hardest to earn back the lost point in the season to come.

          And yes, he has been our best attacker so he's got the capability to make up for it, and our fan base would be fully supportive of him because we know how important he is to the team. But he can have all the talent in the world and not go anywhere if he's not professional. Tonight showed he does not have the right mental attitude yet, and probably why he's currently on loan with us, rather than playing for a top European side.

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

      Feel bad for Fulham, not Lookman. I'd bench Lookman for that next GW

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

    Holy crap! My defense of Coufal, KWP, and Lamptey really succeeded this gameweek.

    1. Simon69
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Bout time some CS rolled in!

  9. 2OLEgend
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Mitro to
    A) Che Adams,
    B) Antonio,
    C) Bamford
    D) Wilson?

    1. Simon69
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Bamford

    2. aapoman
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Adams. Antonio if fit

    3. Wılly
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Bamford for the long run, should have had 2 goals today

    4. Volley127
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      C or B, depending on fitness. Tough call between the two

  10. Nanoelektronicar
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    I've been away from the computer.

    Log into the Live fpl to see how the game ended. Coufal dropped from 3 to 2 baps... what the hell happened?

    My overall rank is from 1.5 to almost 1 mil. Whaaaat? I'm on 36 points?

    Soucek with 9!!!

    1. The-Red-1
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Fab saved a pen so he got the 3

      1. Nanoelektronicar
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        I've seen that after this post, what a crazy ending and I missed it.

  11. The-Red-1
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Tempted to hit the button on this team for gw 10 onwards. Thoughts?

    Martinez Steer
    Dias Coufal Zouma (Konsa Mitchell)
    KDB Sterling Zaha Mane Ziyech
    DCL Bamford (Brewster)

    Would be playing 352 most weeks assuming everyone fit

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

    Utter disaster that penalty miss. Awful day. Bring on tomorrow!

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

      Did you have Lookman?

    2. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Coufal cs after Che disaster...

  13. Nespinha
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Thoughts on these moves over the next weeks:

    Robbo - - - Cresswell/James
    Mitchell - - - Lamptey/Coufal
    Son - - - KDB

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      like em apart from son to kdb

      whats the rush to bring in kdb when the next game is against spurs?

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

        KDB would be after spurs. He's my favorite PL player.

        1. Salah’s Sonnet
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          ahh ok, cool, still tough to lose eson though, guy is on fire.

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

    Sums up the season so far. Brought in Lookman last week as a budget enabler with upside, started him this GW as well as Masuaku (hedging bets). What a terrible attempt at a penalty. Disgusting.

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

      These things happen sometimes 🙁

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

        They seem to happen quite often lately. But on we go.

  15. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Need Son to go nuts tomorrow even though I didn't captain him.
    Somehow he's a differential in my mini league.

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      i'm on of 3 out of 26 people to cap son, rest went kane and almost everyone has him, never needed son to go off as much as i need him to this GW

  16. Tsparkes10
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Back 4 of McCarthy, KWP, Chillwell and Coufal... lovely

  17. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Is that Bamford offside call the worst post war or?

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Can't see it. Liverpool would need to play defensively with a TAA FK special for TAA to haul.

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

        I know it’s a while back but I keep thinking of the City vs Leicester game, and imagine Liverpool to play how Leicester did.

        Depends what City turn up ultimately I think.

        Another thing in Liverpool’s favour imo is the fact City battered them end of last season, so will be fired up to avenge and not to mention without VVD etc they will attack a lot.

  18. XABI 15
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    what are the final bonus in West ham v Fulham game?

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      3 - Fabianski (41)
      2 - Coufal (31)
      1 - Soucek (30)

      With luck

      1. beric
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Wont soucek get winning goal?

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

          Apparently it’s added in play now

      2. Scholes Out For Summer
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Is that Soucek with winning goal baps

        1. TorresMagic™
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Should be.

  19. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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    • 14 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    LMS safety score currently 15

    https://www.livefpl.net/LMS

    1. Gudjohnsen
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      How many players played?

      Average?

      I'm only on 2, Chilwell and DCL

      1. TorresMagic™
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        • 14 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        5.36/12.01
        29.76 (-1.08) = 28.68

  20. All For One
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Mccarthy
    Taa, Pva, Taylor, Lascelles
    Bissouma, Son, Zaha, Salah, Grealish
    Jimenez

    Button, Justin, Davis Ings

    1 FT 3.3 ITB

    A)-4 Taa> Coufal, Bissouma>Bruno
    B)-8 Taa> Coufal, Bissouma>Bruno, Ings> Antonio
    C)Ings>Dcl
    D)-4 Ings> Dcl, Jimenez>Antonio
    E) Wildcard

  21. Mr. Mystic
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Saiss to Chilwell now before price rise? Or wait? :/

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

      Depends if you can afford the rise

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

      Wait if you can and got cash, its two weeks until next deadline and injuries will come.
      You probably do need Chilwell, but still im not comnvinvced Saiss is a bad option, their fixtures do turn a bit soon though

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

      I would'n wait

  22. Don Kloppeone
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Held onto Robbo this week (dropped Dallas to Cresswell instead of him in the end) and started him, benching KWP’s 9 points.

    Yes, I know .... it’s “possible” Robbo can outscore but .... in reality ..... 🙁

  23. Nanoelektronicar
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Brag alert: Maupay, Barkley and Saiss out, DCL, Soucek and Coufal in for a hit. Sure Barkley and Saiss yet to play, but it will be hard to match it. You can trash me in the comments for not owning DCL until now and paying 7.7 for him, and for falling into the Barkley trap.

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Well done.

      1. Nanoelektronicar
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Thanks, I think this is the first time this season I feel some kind of joy rather than being completely down or indifferent.

        1. TorresMagic™
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Just Saiss to Coufal for me and 2 FTs. Much easier selling duds.

          1. Nanoelektronicar
            • 9 Years
            3 years, 4 months ago

            I thought I need DCL for Fulham. I could have done just Maupay and Barkley out early, had the exact funds. And I had exact funds to do Saiss to Cresswell. But then Maupay dropped. And I thought, well, if I want DCL, I would spend the transfer anyway, and I would go into the gw 10 with just one, so why not take a hit now and get done with it.

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

      Barkley wasnt aor isnt a bad pick, but well done. You certainly made the right decision ditching Maupay

      1. Nanoelektronicar
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        I was so frustrated he blanked those two home games that were good on paper.

  24. Aaa
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Is it time to wildcard?

    Mendy/Button
    TAA/Taylor/KWP/Kilman/Mitchell
    Salah/Son/Grealish/Zaha/Burke
    Kane/Werner/Mitrovic

    1. Gudjohnsen
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Why?

      Nothing wrong with that team.

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

    Doing a Panenka is perfectly fine..

    .. if you can hit the middle of the goal

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

      Not if the keeper chooses not to guess a way to dive...

      Lampard had the best penalty policy, smash it

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

      well he took an absolute age to do it, Flapyy made his move and still had time to laugh and save it

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

    So mitrovic doesn't take pens now? Lolz

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

      Probably back on them now haha. It looked like he handed the ball to Lookman I think

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

    Anyone else think Fernandez will outscore KDB thru Jan WC time?

    1. J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      You’ll want both.

      Im ditching pool and going double city mid with Bruno ziyech grealish

  28. Wılly
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Martinez
    Chilwell Lamptey Dallas (Lewis)
    Salah Sterling Rashford Son Jota
    DCL Bamford (Brewster)

    Money ITB to do Son (or Rashford) to KDB.

    Stick to the plan? 2.4m available

  29. Slitherene
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Is Jamal Lewis nailed for the season??

    1. RAFA THE GAFFA
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Yep

      1. Slitherene
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Ritchie not his competition for the spot when back?

        1. RAFA THE GAFFA
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Nope

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

          Come on, Rafa should know 😉