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FPL differentials the key figures as West Brom host Brighton

It is the Fantasy Premier League differentials on offer in the second match of Double Gameweek 26.

Despite playing just once over the next few days, Brighton are the more popular outfit in this match, Lewis Dunk (£4.9m) starting the match with 5.6% ownership.

Robert Sánchez (£4.5m) is another leading figure as the Seagulls travel to West Bromwich Albion although on 3.0% of Fantasy managers currently rely on the goalkeeper.

2.8% are still invested in Neal Maupay (£6.1m) who leads the line today, accompanied by an out-of-position Leandro Trossard (£5.7m).

It looks as if Graham Potter has gone with a back-four for the visit to the Hawthorns, with Dan Burn (£4.2m) and Joël Veltman (£4.3m) in the left and right-back positions either side of Dunk and Ben White (£4.4m).

Meanwhile, Matheus Pereira (£5.4m) is the most fashionable starting Baggies option today sat in 1.8% of teams.

Ahead of facing two fixtures, the midfielder has a goal and assist in his last two at home.

Mbaye Diagne (£6.0m) has been a much-discussed asset in the build-up to Double Gameweek 26 and starts up-front for the fourth-successive Premier League match.

He is inside the top-four among all players for minutes per expected goal involvement (xGI) over the last four matches but only 0.8% of Fantasy managers are invested in the forward.

Ainsley Maitland-Niles (£4.6m) is also on the radar even though just 0.6% of managers possess the Arsenal loanee.

He is deployed out of position once again today, operating on the right-hand flank of West Brom’s attacking midfield trio.

Double Gameweek 26 Line-ups

West Bromwich Albion XI (4-2-3-1): Johnstone; C Townsend, Bartley, O’Shea, Furlong; Yokuslu, Gallagher; M Phillips, M Pereira, Maitland-Niles; Diagne.

Brighton and Hove Albion XI (4-4-2): R Sánchez; Burn, Dunk, White, Veltman; Connolly, Mac Allister, Bissouma, Groß; Maupay, Trossard.

Double Gameweek 26 so far…

Another Double Gameweek, another attacking haul for Manchester City’s centre-backs.

João Cancelo (£6.1m) watched Saturday’s lunch-time kick-off in dismay as Pep Guardiola benched him for the first time since Gameweek 21.

And his absence from the team, which lasted the whole game, made goals for Ruben Dias (£6.1m) and John Stones (£5.2m) all the more painful for the Portuguese international’s 26.6% ownership.

Cancelo was named on Manchester City’s bench alongside Raheem Sterling (£11.6m) and Phil Foden (£6.1m), although the latter made it on for the second period.

Kevin De Bruyne (£11.8m) and Riyad Mahrez (£8.1m) were the providers for the Citizens’ two goals while Ilkay Gundogan (£6.2m) continued his run of matches without an attacking return to three before coming off in the 89th minute.

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

    Hal Robson-Kanu is apparently an answer to some of Big Sam's questions.

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

    How has West Beom not conceded this game... someone check on Az

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

      Incompetent attack.

  3. Niho992
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Bruno to Sterling (TC) next GW?

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

      Kane better call

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

    Bamford to comfortably outscore Watkins

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

      Watkins YC?

    2. Dynamic Duos
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      In one game with Watkins playing 2?

    3. Hy liverpool
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      No

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

    Barkley finally dropped. They got worse after he returned.

  6. Alexis Nonsense
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    I can't escape regrets

    Grealish --> Barnes (-4) instant regret, could have just played Bamford

    Triple captained Kane, when DCL was the best option!

    we all know this isn't going to end well 😛

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

      Like why bother posting this? Barnes hasn’t even played yet, DCL hasn’t even played yet, Kane hasn’t even played yet, Bamford hasn’t even played yet. I seriously don’t get this kind of thinking and mentality.

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

        loser mentality imo

      2. Alexis Nonsense
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Makes as much sense as the thousands of tmplate team "G2G?" questions around here 😉

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

      Don't understand the moaning here mate, oh your name is nonsense 😉

      1. Eh, just one more thing ...
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Prozac.

  7. Woy_is_back
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Traore brace

    1. Hy liverpool
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      No

  8. El Presidente
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Elmo, Neto and Diagne made the scout picks?... Hum....

  9. deathcabofdevil
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    As a Martinez Dallas Watkins Bamford owner, fully expecting a 1-1 with Raphinha and Traore on the scoresheet.

  10. Mr. O'Connell
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Brighton are such a tragic football team

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

      When its not your day ...

      1. Mr. O'Connell
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        It's never their day

      2. Eh, just one more thing ...
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        ... It’s West Brom’s ...

  11. Pukki Blinders
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    That Villa side is looking close to championship Villa...

    Leeds will feast

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

      Villa are a championship side

    2. El Presidente
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Emi Martinez to you pal

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

      Nah only Elmo and El ghazi are championship quality, rest are decent, emi is class

    4. tambourineman
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      £225m well spent in the last 2 seasons

  12. Old Man
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Question for those with encyclopaedic memory: has any team ever missed three penalties in a Premier League match?

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

      don't know but Jon Walters almost did that by himself 4/5 years ago

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

        And scored an OG in the same game, I think...

      2. Nightcrawler
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Missed only 1 peno

        2 OGs

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

          Ah was that it then? I knew it was a hatrick of some sorts.

      3. Old Man
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Who could ever forget it - the poor sod looked as sick as a parrot!!!!

    2. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      It was 3 years before the Premier League started, and it wasn't Brighton but was in a match against them...

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

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_%26_Hove_Albion_F.C.%E2%80%93Crystal_Palace_F.C._rivalry#1980s

        "In 1989, referee Kelvin Morton awarded five penalties in a Crystal Palace v Brighton game, all awarded in a 27-minute spell - a Football League record. Palace were awarded four of the penalties, and they missed three of them but still won the match 2–1... "

        1. Old Man
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Wow - just wow! Top marks Hazz.

      2. pingissimus
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Beat me to it 🙂

        Historic game that one

  13. Nightcrawler
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Dallas in midf or def??

    1. Mr. O'Connell
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Def

    2. Utopsis
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      LWB

  14. El Presidente
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Is LEE playing 3 at the back with a wing back system?...

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

      No.

      1. El Presidente
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        No? LLorente, Cooper and Struijk + Dallas and Ayling. Klich is playing Kalvin´s position

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

      No standard 4 back

      1. El Presidente
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Definitely not a standard back 4. Actually there´s nothing standard in their tactical display...

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

      BBC has them playing two banks of back theee!

  15. Duke Silver ☑
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    2-1 Raph brace with a Martinez pen save from Bamford would be sublime.

  16. Captain_Shirokov
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Need Villa to do a job on Leeds big time.

  17. Kun Tozser
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Let’s go Traore

  18. Eh, just one more thing ...
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    0-1 Villa. Watkins.

    1. Eh, just one more thing ...
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Reply fail ....

  19. Shaw must go on
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi everyone..
    What's your opinion about Nuno(wolves manager)? Can he go higher than wolves? He has done a good job with Rio Ave, valencia and wolves, unfortunately he wasn't lucky in F. C. Porto! (my team).. Did you know he was Jorge Mendes 1st signing?and its a crazy story how that happened.. :)..

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

      He’ll manage a big club one day.

    2. @persecuted_by_mods
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Most boring negative manager in the league

        1. Shaw must go on
          • 11 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Yeah, I have to agree..

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

      When is the best time for BB..

      WC31 but bb when

      I am on tc now..

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

        This GW

      2. mojoindojo
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        This week

    4. Rash
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Johnstone haul on the bench

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

        Biggest jam ever?

      2. Dthinger
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Why wouldn’t you start him?

        1. Mr. O'Connell
          • 11 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          I'm guessing Martinez

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

      No idea how Johnstone has kept a clean sheet but I’ll take those points!!

      1. Fred54
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Second time today there's a John/stone's unlikely haul...

      2. Dthinger
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Can’t believe he hasn’t saved a pen yet this match

        1. Fred54
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Need to be on target for that to happen.

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

      1-0 win for wba.

      Everton will beat them by a couple though.

    7. Eh, just one more thing ...
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Oh Brighton.

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

        Unreal that game

    8. Duke Silver ☑
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Big Jam Allardyce.

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

        Still going down. Awful, awful team

    9. Pukki Blinders
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Let’s all take a minute to laugh at Brighton.

      Oh wait, we’ve already been laughing at them all season...

      1. Hy liverpool
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Did you watch the game?

        1. Pukki Blinders
          • 4 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Watching 2 relegation sides in a slopfest isn’t my cup of tea

        2. Philosopher's Stones
          • 3 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Laughing after checking livescore.com I guess.

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

        Why? Play great football, don’t have the money for a top finisher. For footballs sake I hope they stay up.

    10. fedolefan
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      The great escape begins.

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

        No chance. Awful team.

    11. Liberate HK - antichinazi
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      AMN punter half succeeds!

    12. Bollard
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Cancelo, Sterling, Gund and Dunk owner here. Hows your weekend going - lol

    13. NULL-X-VOID
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      tbh, West Brom def was a bit leaky, if Bri had better finishers, especially a good number 9 in front of the goal, this could've been a goal fest. I'm excited for my Digne (C) and DCL against this team

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

        Yup