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West Ham v Norwich team news: Cresswell returns as Soucek misses out

The curtain finally comes down on Double Gameweek 21 this evening, 11 days after it started.

The 10th match of the Gameweek sees West Ham United play host to Norwich City, with kick-off in east London at 19:45 GMT.

Hammers manager David Moyes has made three changes to his starting XI from the 3-2 win over Crystal Palace on New Year’s Day, two of which are enforced.

Said Benrahma is away at the Africa Cup of Nations and Tomas Soucek misses out altogether, while Ben Johnson is benched.

The fit-again Aaron Cresswell, Nikola Vlasic and Pablo Fornals all start in their places.

Norwich boss Dean Smith has made twice as many alterations from the Canaries’ last league outing, which was also against Palace a fortnight ago.

Tim Krul, Grant Hanley, Milot Rashica, Teemu Pukki, Brandon Williams and Max Aarons are back in a stronger-looking starting XI after injury and illness hit Norwich hard over Christmas.

Billy Gilmour is out with an ankle injury, while Angus Gunn, Sam Byram, Jacob Sorensen, Christos Tzolis and Dimitris Giannoulis are all on the bench.

GAMEWEEK 21 LINE-UPS

West Ham United XI: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Diop, Cresswell, Lanzini, Fornals, Rice, Antonio, Bowen, Vlasic.

Subs: Areola, Yarmolenko, Masuaku, Johnson, Kral, Oko-Flex, Alese, Ekwah, Ashby.

Norwich City XI: Krul, Aarons, Gibson, Hanley, Williams, Placheta, Rashica, Lees-Melou, McLean, Pukku, Idah.

Subs: Gunn, Byram, Dowell, Kabak, Tzolis, Sorensen, Giannoulis, Gibbs, Rowe.

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952 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Scots Gooner
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Can you guys stop refreshing LiveFPL so I can enjoy looking at my lovely green arrow?

    Thanks

    1. Mr. O'Connell
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      What's that?

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

      Could you stop doing it?

    3. NorCal Villan
      • 2 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      If your arrow is green you might need some penicillin

  2. Arteta
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Gallagher ➡ Bowen (c) and then Livramento ➡ Coufal for a hit.

    Absolutely brilliant. Thank you West Ham!

  3. TheTinman
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Antonio so bad in that match I might even FH

    1. Sgt Frank Drebin
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Ha had his chances. On the other day he would have scored. No point in selling before Leeds at home

  4. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    A DGW where all 3 assets return & the best captaincy option delivers big...

    2022 might bring a bit of normality back to FPL!

    1. el polako
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      I wish you all the best but most likely next GW will bring back to earth and kick you right in the teeth.

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

      Losing 4 players in postponed match after using WC still hurts. What could have been great green arrow with over 100 pts is just a normal result now.

  5. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Dawson 7 point mega haul!!!!

  6. King Carlos
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    91 pts and 60€. Good nite!

    1. Goodfeathers
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Nice!

  7. iL PiStOlErO
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Bowen you beautyyy!!!

  8. Jonesfromthere
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Bowen captainers, are we going Ronaldo or Dennis captain?

    1. Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Bowen....?

    2. Steve The Spud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Ronaldo

    3. THFC4LIFE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Kane

    4. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Have to go slap stick Kane, unless FH

    5. King Carlos
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Bowen is on fire right now. C-Bow

    6. Scots Gooner
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Dennis for me. Those two fixtures couldn't be much better

    7. mdm
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      CR7

    8. Sgt Frank Drebin
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Ronaldo, pretty simple. Not much competition.

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

      Kane still, I don't have CR7 and I have to buy Dennis back. If Dennis had Norwich on dgw, it would be him though.

    10. Runks
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Dennis

  9. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Bowen is having a quite remarkable season really

    1. Mr. O'Connell
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Perf

    2. iL PiStOlErO
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      True that

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

      mfw Southgate calls up Rashford ahead of him again

    4. DycheDycheBaby
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Absolutely. Should be in the England squad

    5. Sgt Frank Drebin
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Because Bowen has always been a very good winger. Quite underrated.

  10. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Rudiger 15 pointer in a DGW 😎

  11. King Carlos
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Bowen was VERY good tonight...

  12. RamaJama
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    This match was good for the OR.

    But 4 yellow flagged + Son, should consider FH

    5.2 in the bank

    DDG
    RUDIGER, Cancelo, taa*
    Foden*, Jota, Bilva, Bowen
    DENNIS*, KANE (C), Broja*

    Subs: Steele, Coufal, White, Son*

    1.6 in the bank

    1. Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Trent & Dennis back in training so you can probably ignore those flags

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

        Sounds good!

  13. Gooner97
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Today was a good day

    1. bso
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Yep...81 pts (-4) and best rank this season 45K.

    2. Goodfeathers
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Name checks out 🙂

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

      Same, all time high OR before 5 Bilva points coming in from the bench

    4. AIRMILES
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      It rarely happens.

  14. jimmy.floyd
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Bench one:
    A KDB
    B Cancelo
    C Gray

    1. Fefguero
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 2 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Gray!

  15. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Kepa CS patrol 😎

  16. RogDog_jimmy
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    1 point off my safety score with after a -8 that included 0 from Johnson, and Gray missing a game.
    I guess not bad. But bloody annoying.

    Just getting no traction at the moment - stuck in the 150-200k range.

    On to the next week I suppose.

  17. The Suspended One
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    LOL at these big teams who can’t find a manager. THE David Moyes firmly in the shop window.

    1. RogDog_jimmy
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      wait - don't take him from us! we'll need him for europe next year!

    2. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Guy is class.
      Mucho respect.

    3. Mr. O'Connell
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      While not wholly to blame for my team being in league one (probably forever), Moyes still boils my piss for what he did.

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

        Not sure you can blame him for all the dysfunction at the stadium of light

        1. Mr. O'Connell
          • 11 Years
          2 years, 2 months ago

          I'm only attributing about 10% blame overall given he was instrumental in our relegation that season (lost 2-1 to City away opening day after playing well and says we're in a relegation battle, Didier NDong for what is today's equivalent of 50 million instead of re-signing our player of the season who we had on loan with option to buy for half the price, threatening to slap women, signing an endless list of Everton pensioners...)

      2. Big_Andy_GAWA
        • 12 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Thought he'd be finished after United travesty. Not his fault, obviously, but were funny days all the same... 😆

      3. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Managers can improve and evolve into better people and leaders.
        We all have it in our DNA if we work at it.

        1. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
          • 6 Years
          2 years, 2 months ago

          Providing you dump a pad of corporate pesticides into your DNA of course. 🙂

          1. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
            • 6 Years
            2 years, 2 months ago

            #don't

          2. Mr. O'Connell
            • 11 Years
            2 years, 2 months ago

            Of course. He's not the same manager as he was 5 years ago. I'm just bitter.

  18. el polako
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    We got Bowen
    Jarrod Bowen
    I swear he's better than Zidane....

    😉

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Salah replacement in the summer 😉

  19. mdm
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Son to:

    A. Fernandes
    B. Maddison
    C. Moura

    1. Stranger Mings
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      B

      1. Eastman
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        B A C

  20. Ask Yourself
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    What is happening with reguillon why has he decided to disappear off the face of the earth

    1. Scots Gooner
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Annoying. Tough to decide what to do with him this week. Play him, hoping he plays one, let alone two games? Or should him out

    2. Fefguero
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 2 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      I believe he has a minor injury

  21. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Rough: Ben Johnson
    Smooth: Bowen (C)

  22. Cok3y5murf
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    If you had picked Bowen over Benrahma in the first few gameweeks, you would've been laughed at here

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

      And you would’ve been significantly out scored

    2. Steve The Spud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Bowen was always a good long term pick, I’d of had him in a ‘zombie’ team if I was sad enough to make one - he scored well last season as well

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

      If you'd started with Benrahma & got Bowen later, you're laughing 😉

  23. Ze_Austin
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    https://twitter.com/FFScout/status/1481381318147690497?s=20

    More reason to sell Maddison by GW24

    Chelsea assets remain long-term avoids for now. Hot targes from GW28+, though

    1. Ze_Austin
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      *Hot targets

    2. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Swapping Maddison for Salah when back

      1. THFC4LIFE
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Same

  24. Sgt Frank Drebin
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Don't get why some say Bowen non-captainers got away here because apart from missing a big chance he also had his goal disallowed by VAR. It was rightly overturned, it wasn't even a big chance. If it wasn't for the offside player the goalie would have caught the ball with no problem. There was no way for the goal to stand.

    1. Alisson WondHaaland
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      He also hit the bar and post

      1. Sgt Frank Drebin
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Sure, that was unlucky, but the disallowed goal wasn't imho. In general I guess his xG wasn't even higher than 2 so happy with 2 goals anyway.

  25. Stranger Mings
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    How did Kane & moura look tonight? Anything to suggest better picks than my preferred ronaldo & Maddison?

    1. Steve The Spud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      To be fair Kane/spurs could of had 1 at least

      Marginal off sides and some poor decisions in the final 3rd

      1. Stranger Mings
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Ok cheers think will stick with ronaldo/Maddison

    2. AIRMILES
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Disappointing generally. I was hoping to see better from them. Kane did at least hit the back of the net, though he was offside (just). Moura made a couple of decent runs.

      1. Stranger Mings
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Ok cheers

  26. Firminooooo
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Fantastic result with Bowen(C) and Coufal, but Bowen could easily had one or two more goals. Happy days with 87(-4) points.

    1. Big_Andy_GAWA
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Nice one, dude. Had the same two myself and 81 points. Made up great ground in my 50 quid per head league... 😎

      1. Firminooooo
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Mee to. Up to nr 1 in my moneyleague.

    2. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Congrats! Also celebrating all time high OR of 180 after 90 points this round, before 5 jammy Bilva points comes off the bench.

      1. The Ilfordian
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Wow! Well done

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

          Thanks, just had to go for a brag

      2. Pompel
        • 10 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Thats awesome!

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

          Thanks, an opponent in my ML just sent a tribut to me on his guitar

  27. manu4life99
    • 14 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Worth an 8pt hit?

    Son,Antonio,Dawson to Ronaldo,Moura,Veltman

    Sanchez
    TAA Cancelo Reguilion Dawson
    Jota Bowen Son*
    Antonio King Dennis

    ramadale salah* tierney esr

  28. wulfrunian
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Bench one please.

    A)Coufal
    B)Cancelo
    C)Gray

    1. Fefguero
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 2 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Cancelo. City likely to concede v Chelsea. Other two attackers have very good fixtures

  29. Buck The Trent
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    A better -4?

    A Antonio (LEE) to King (DGW)
    B Gray (nor) to Moura (DGW)

    1. The Ilfordian
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      A. Gray is looking good and always worry about Moura. Still don’t feel Antonio is firing while King is good choice with great fixtures

  30. Ajax Hamsterdam
    • 9 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Smith rowe and Silva to

    A tielemans and Madison
    B tielemans and moura
    C Madison and moura

    For a hit

    Thanks 🙂

    1. Stranger Mings
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      C