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Ings and Minamino benched as Llorente returns to face Southampton

Double Gameweek 25 has gone from bad to worse for some Fantasy Premier League managers as Southampton name a rotated squad for their Tuesday-evening meeting with Leeds.

Fresh from blanking against Chelsea on Saturday, and giving away a penalty, Danny Ings (£8.5m) finds himself among the substitutes tonight.

The striker was signed by 640,000+ FPL managers for Double Gameweek 25, more than any other asset but his owners now face an uphill struggle for an immediate return on their investment.

Che Adams (£5.8m) and Nathan Redmond (£6.4m) lead the line at Elland Road tonight as Ralph Hasenhüttl lines his troops up in the usual 4-2-2-2 formation.

However, Ings is not the only one to suffer from the Austrian’s rotation as Saturday’s goal-scorer Takumi Minamino (£6.0m) is also on the bench.

Nathan Tella (£4.3m) and Stuart Armstrong (£5.5m) staff the flanks in his absence, either side of James Ward-Prowse (£6.0m) and Oriol Romeu (£4.5m).

Meanwhile, Leeds make just one change from the side that lost 1-0 at Wolves on Friday night.

Diego Llorente (£4.4m) comes in for Jamie Shackleton (£4.8m) to play at centre-back for only the third time this season, his most recent outing lasting just nine minutes before he sustained an injury.

Marcelo Bielsa’s faith in his first-team personnel means another start for this season’s best-value forward Patrick Bamford (£6.9m), who has produced 19.4 points per million spent thus far.

Stuart Dallas (£5.0m) remains at left-back while Raphinha (£5.4m) is stationed on the right-hand side of midfield.

Double Gameweek 25 Line-ups

Leeds United XI (4-1-4-1): Meslier; Dallas, Cooper, Llorente, Ayling; Struijk; Harrison, Roberts, Klich, Raphinha; Bamford.

Southampton XI (4-2-2-2): A McCarthy; Bertrand, Vestergaard, Salisu, Bednarek; Tella, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Armstrong; Redmond, Adams.

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1,927 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Bushwhacker
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Dreadful game.

    1. Boly Would
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Aww

  2. RamaJama
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    How to get Spurs attack?

    A) Bamford/Rashford to Kane/Barnes for -4
    B) Rashford to Son for free

    1. Hulk Smash
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      A

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

    Grey arrow, thx Dallas and Raph as otherwise it's a big slip!

  4. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Please Phytons

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

    76, just above average despite Ings (C) fail.

    WC success, just

  6. Crouching Tiger
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Had a bigger green arrow at 2-0 but not having Raphinha made huge swings....

    Play Bamford (AVL) or Lowton (TOT, LEI)?

    1. Hulk Smash
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Bamford

  7. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    I am so excited to see on whether I finally entered the top 100K with all the chips in tacked

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

      In tacked?

  8. M2.0
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Have comment replies always been collapsed by default?

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

      No, you’ve unticked the box

      1. M2.0
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Where’s the box? Cant see it anywhere, sorry

        1. Art Vandelay
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Far right of the green bar at the top of the comments section. Next to the “sort by” drop down.

      2. M2.0
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Found it

  9. Cok3y5murf
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Ings (c) fail costing me a 100-pointer

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

      Same 🙁

    2. Towsor44
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Raph getting booked cost me! Missed out by 2 points!

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

    Can we delete Southampton?

  11. Messiah Hazard
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Any chance of winning goal bonus for Bamford?

    1. el polako
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Hope not

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

      No

    3. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      In game now

  12. CroatianHammer
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    72, green arrow, won't complain at all at that.

    Roll on DGW26!

  13. FPL price manipulators are …
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    That was fun

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

      Indeed, fun indeed

  14. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Remember ”Ayling or Dallas?” 😀

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

      Who is Ayling?

    2. CroatianHammer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      When I was doing some rejigging I couldn't afford Dallas, but was happy with the returns from Alioski at the time... he scored not long after. Would have been better served had he played 0 of the 180 this GW... but, he's going back to the bench for now, and will be used as a makeweight in some audacious swoop for a midfield general/box to box dynamo/born poacher/the next Cantona.

  15. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    So my -4 off Digne, Soucek and Antonio to Dallas, Raphinha and Ings was a moderate success.

  16. Dirty Harry
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Bye bye Ings.

    Too bad 9/10 people above me in my ML had Bam/Dallas/Raph as well.

  17. FPL ZB
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    My cup tie has gone to a virtual coin toss. The nerves.

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      I lost that one last time 🙁

  18. pjomara
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Would have been so great if it stayed 2-0, but as a Dallas owner, happy anyway

  19. Ha.
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Bruno VC stings a bit, but otherwise can’t complain

    Now need to decide on Kane or No Kane

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

    Members area suggesting...

    Dallas 38
    Meslier 34
    Bamford, Raphinha 29

    1. FPL price manipulators are …
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      That's fair. Everyone wins

    2. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      That would be amazing . Currently Bam Bam is on 0

    3. Sloane426
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Nope

    4. Sloane426
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Bamford 0

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

      Oh that’s bloody annoying

  21. Coys96
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    300k green arrow - finally a decent week 🙂

    Felt I should've got more form raphinha though

    (sorry for the brag, i haven't had any good weeks really this season)

  22. HonestBlatter
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    With three Leeds and BB DGW26...How many would you switch to DGW player?

    1. Tinkermania
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      0-3

  23. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Raphinha captainers won 5pts against Bamford ones. Congrats Mark

    1. Coys96
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      😀

  24. Arteta
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Sooooo who captained Dallas?!

  25. FantasyClub
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Ings flopped big time. Will not be coming back into my team. Especially not the way Southampton are playing

    1. Bushwhacker
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      They could have won this game easily . . .just not taking the chances. And the ref stops them when they do.

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

        Don’t blame the ref dude. They were shite period.

  26. Towsor44
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Argh, Raph yellow cost me reaching 100 points!

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

    Just 15k rank drop with Ings(C) feels ok. Could have been a lot worse.

  28. Stupendous
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    42 or 43 pts today!!! Wow!

    Mega haul!

  29. BeWater
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    I would have burned a transfer so I got Ings in for Antonio before getting Kane. Turns out burning a transfer isn't as bad as burning points.

  30. Albrightondknight
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Imagine if Raph had really decent players around him. How he keeps making these runs when the rest around him aren’t good enough to pick him out.