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Back-to-back starts for Lingard as West Ham visit Fulham

Jesse Lingard (£6.0m) has earned a second successive start in a West Ham shirt for a Gameweek 23 trip to Fulham.

The Manchester United loanee netted a brace on his debut for the Hammers and will be hoping for more good fortunes at Craven Cottage.

As he did against Aston Villa, Lingard lines up as a number 10 in David Moyes’ 4-2-3-1 formation, flanked by Saïd Benrahma (£6.0m) and Jarrod Bowen (£6.1m), who comes back into the side at the expense of Ryan Fredericks (£4.2m).

That attacking-midfield trio supports centre-forward Michail Antonio (£6.7m) who comes into Gameweek 23 as a bona fide captain option.

After coming third in this week’s Fantasy Football Scout poll, the West Ham forward has been handed the armband by 20.6% of the top 10,000 Fantasy Premier League managers this weekend.

Bowen’s return is the only change Moyes makes on Saturday afternoon, keeping faith in the defensive midfield pairing of Tomas Soucek (£5.4m) and Declan Rice (£4.7m) in front of Aaron Cresswell (£5.7m), Angelo Ogbonna (£5.0m), Craig Dawson (£4.5m) and Vladimir Coufal (£4.7m).

There will be plenty of attention on the left and right full-backs considering their recent creative output.

Cresswell might have the advantage tonight considering six of his eight assists this season have come in on the road, while no West Ham defender has created as many chances as him over the last four matches.

Having conceded twice in each of their last two league matches, after an encouraging run of defensive form, Fulham come into Gameweek 23 with a rare change at the back.

Ola Aina (£4.5m) drops out of the back-three for the first time this season, replaced there by right-back Kenny Tete (£4.3m).

Key central midfielder André-Franck Zambo Aguissa (£4.5m) finds himself among the substitutes too, with Mario Lemina (£4.5m) and Harrison Reed (£4.4m) handed the starting berths today.

Aleksandar Mitrović (£5.5m) is also on the bench, with Ivan Cavaleiro (£ leading the line in front of Ademola Lookman (£5.0m) and Ruben Loftus-Cheek (£5.9m).

Gameweek 23 Starting Line-ups

Fulham XI (3-4-2-1): Areola; Adarabioyo, Andersen, Tete; A Robinson, Lemina, Reed, De Cordova-Reid; Lookman, Loftus-Cheek; Cavaleiro.

West Ham United XI (4-2-3-1): Fabianski; Cresswell, Ogbonna, Dawson, Coufal; Rice, Soucek; Benrahma, Lingard, Bowen; Antonio.

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1,428 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Pathetic by Mitrovic

    1. DAZZ
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      In his defence that would have hurt. Souceks long skinny arms with razor sharp elbows

      1. Royal5
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        The guy is born in Serbia. Think he'll be fine.

      2. jason_ni
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Off course it would have.. a pointy elbow to the face, even with minimal force will hurt!

        Its not mitros fault, its the 2 refs fault.

        1. AC/DC AFC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          How it can take 6 views then it becomes a serious incident...

          Load of Vollox

          1. jason_ni
            • 8 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            It wasn't a red.. that much is clear, I'm just saying don't blame mitro for reacting to an elbow to the face, blame the refs for not seeing it for what it was.

          2. ilikewud
            • 3 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            Exactly - Mitro was even saying it's not a red yet Mike Dean and VAR 7 minutes to come to a decision. Stupid.

    2. ilikewud
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      This

    3. The Suspended One
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      His best contribution all season

  2. Baines on Toast...
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Moment of the season

  3. JJO
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    How can this imbecil referee games every gw?
    Is that ref lobby that strong that they cant introduce new refs last 5+ years instead od those incompetent fools?

    1. bench boost for every gamew…
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Dean makes a bad judgement bit the problem here is the guy in Var. Why us he giving Dean notion of a violent conduct in the first place? Just hilarious. Annoying to lose 3 points but the worst part is Var, they and by that i mean the persons in there gave done so much strange things om about to give up.

  4. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    This game is so much to do with luck. it’s a disgraceful decision from one of the worst referees in football

    1. Alisson WondHaaland
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Its only 3 points... Suspension will probably be appealed

  5. WVA
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Bore off Cresswell.

    Why is it that whichever defender I bench keeps a clean sheet and I never get them off the bench

    1. WVA
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Benched Coufal not Cresswell

      1. jason_ni
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        I benched awb for Cresswell midweek.. worked a treat for me then.

    2. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Cresswell is a BAP monster and has set pieces and a great cross on him too. He’s more expensive than Coufal for a reason.
      Would always start Cresswell over him

  6. Alisson WondHaaland
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    This guy predicted a Soucek red, almost got the score right too https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/23382297

    1. kennethrhcp
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      At least he wont have to kill anyone now

      1. The Suspended One
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Unless he already did...

    2. The Suspended One
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Didnt exactly predict it...

  7. Parsnips
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    What has football come to

  8. The Ilfordian
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Red card in 90+7 that will get rescinded has absolutely no impact but to piss us Soucek owners off

    1. All Hail K
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Exactly. If it takes 4 minutes to review then it wasn't clear and obvious.

    2. ilikewud
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      This

  9. Baines on Toast...
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    My only player in that game was Cresswell. makes me feel much better about Wilsons 1pt

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Cooking on gas

  10. Disco Stu
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    If West Ham were to get the Red Card rescinded, would we get the points back in FPL?

    1. _Ninja_
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      No

    2. mezza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      No

    3. alsybach
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Ha ha ha ha!!

    4. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Haha
      Reminds me of the Kane 'goal' a few seasons ago!

    5. The Suspended One
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Disco Stu ain’t getting the points! Yeeeah!

      1. Disco Stu
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Absolutely ridiculous call

    6. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Depends how soon it’s rescinded I think

  11. threeputt
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    I do and did feel sorry for owners but this is fpl and I want a nice green arrow. It shouldn't have been red though, I think he was looking to get a clear run around the back of Mitrovic and the natural movement was to clear his arm from a position that would make that movement less easy

    1. All Hail K
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Actually Mitrovic's head was in the way. It'll be rescinded but the points won't be returned.

  12. The Suspended One
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Tim Howard and Danny Higgenbothem both say it’s a red

    Can’t script it...

    1. jason_ni
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Where has Danny higgenbottom made a media career for himself?!
      Of all the mediocre players available, he lands the role?

      1. The Suspended One
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        USA, where else?

  13. TheDragon
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Soucek is an elite level FPL troll

    The more people who start him the less points he gets and vice versa

    1. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      The correlation is just so good! https://i.imgur.com/o9iAIpT.png

      1. jason_ni
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Lol.. is that chart legit? Unreal if so...

        1. Sun Jihai
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Yup. Probably doesn't hold further back, but the correlation recently is unbelievable!

    2. dannyhesse
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Hopefully he gets banned so I can sell him. In the last 6 gameweeks he has provided 5 points for my team and 24 for my bench.

    3. Shatner's Bassoon
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Nice chart. But surely they're top 10k because they didn't bench...?

  14. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    I want my 3 points back if it’s rescinded!

  15. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Dawson best 4.5 ive had for a long time

    1. TheDragon
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Raise your standards

      1. ilikewud
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        This

  16. Boberella
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Ridiculous red card decision and I’m disappointed for the missed Soucek points, but it was absolutely hilarious watching Mitrovic get elbowed 50 times in slow motion on the VAR monitor.

    1. The Ilfordian
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      As a past Mitrovic owner is a rare event that he’s bothered the fpl scorers

  17. Herman Toothrot
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    To those laughing at Antonio blanking, I hope you all own Soucek

    1. ilikewud
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Sad little Herman

    2. The Suspended One
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      That’s why it happened; 100%

      Karma

      1. Shatner's Bassoon
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Can confirm it's not karma. I'm flippin lovely.

    3. LT10
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      If we own neither Soucek or Antonio, do we have your permission to laugh at will?

  18. ZimZalabim
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Another poor decision from Mike Dean, another red card given that will be rescinded.

    Now the question is why is he still a ref at this level when he constantly makes shockingly poor decisions.

    He should be forced to retire or at the very least he should be dropped down a few levels.

    1. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Should have a chat show or something so he can be centre of attention all the time

    2. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      This!

    3. jason_ni
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Lee Mason has given him the chance when he told him to look at the monitor.

      Thats the worry.. var is just generally a joke, get rid of it.

      1. All Hail K
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        This!

      2. ZimZalabim
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        That is actually a massive worry, they didn't use the pitch side monitors at all last season and wouldn't overturn mistakes that were pretty clear but they would argue it wasn't clear and obvious and they didn't want to take the authority away from the actual ref.
        So the fact they started using it this year is good in theory and there have been a few decisions that the ref has looked at and rightly changed, but these refs don't seem to have the ability to distinguish between fouls and accidental contact or even interpret rules correctly and have continuously changed the way they interpret certain rules, like the handball rule.

        It has become extremely frustrating watching mistakes week after week and they have no excuse they have all the tools but are so absolutely inept that they are managing to make more mistakes week on week.

        Human error factor is still the overarching problem.

    4. seanie3
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Agreed surely after making 2 red card decisions in one week that will be over turned shows the powers that be he is not fit to ref anymore.. imagine sending off a player in his next game that could cost a team fighting relegation team

  19. mezza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Cresswell now has 4 clean sheets. 4 assists and 8 bonus points in the last 8 gameweeks.

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Let's all have a Aaron Cresswell themed party

  20. MrZ
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Need to see the referee assignment from now, can't stand this mike dean show anymore.

  21. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Members area showing Cresswell getting 2bps
    Andersen and Tete 3

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

      Grrr

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

      Would be 1 then.

      1. Sun Jihai
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Ah my bad, I never understand the rules here. So Andersen + Tete 3 and Cresswell 1.

    3. The Suspended One
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      That would be dandy

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

    2 horrendous decisions in a week by Mike Dean. He needs suspending for a few weeks.

    1. ilikewud
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      His calls this season have been horrendous - can't watch a single game he's involved in without something stupid like this happening

    2. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Until his retirement I'd suggest

  23. Shatner's Bassoon
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    "0 points for Soucek? Must not have played. Oh well, got DCL on the bench."
    Me checking the FPL app 2 minutes ago ...

    1. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      😀

      It's going to be one of those weeks. Over half of DCL owners benched him so I'm sure he will haul now too.

      1. Shatner's Bassoon
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Yes! No doubt.
        Martinez benched: tick
        Wilson injured: tick
        Soucek RC: tick
        FT Pope+Mee blank: tick
        Last minute (C) from Bruno to Son: tbc!

        1. jason_ni
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Son brace incoming.. keep the faith!

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

          Kane trained today so could well be involved so that Son C might work out

  24. seanie3
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    The Mike Dean show again.. clown should be demoted to championship

  25. Jindaljain
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Looks like soucek owners are more sad than soucek himself

  26. Mweene
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    This is another example of referees at the top level having never played any sport themselves.

    That was an absolutely pathetic decision - why has the VAR told the ref go and see it in the first place?

    The referee then goes over and sees a dozen slow-motion replays completely out of context of what actually happened.

    What a farce.

  27. Jindaljain
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Need AWB goal with cleansheet 1-0 Ft manu

  28. Parsnips
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    What transfers is everyone doing this week then?

  29. @persecuted_by_mods
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Potato salad to cheer myself up

    • jason_ni
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Was Antonio injured when he was subbed?