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FPL GW18 Scout Picks - Final Selection

Pickford

O’Reilly
van Dijk
Keane
Saliba

Saka
Wilson
Wirtz

Thiago
Haaland
Ekitiké

Dubravka
Alderete
Miley
Le Fée

GW19 Chip Poll

Price Change Predictions

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Cherki	MCI	6.6m	112.1%	Very Likely
Lewis-Potter	BRE	4.8m	99.4%	Likely
Chalobah	CHE	5.5m	96.9%	Likely
Mukiele	SUN	4.2m	98.6%	Maybe
Keane	EVE	4.7m	68.6%	Maybe
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	94.0%	Maybe
Wirtz	LIV	8.1m	75.3%	Unlikely
Alderete	SUN	4.0m	90.0%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	88.0%	Unlikely
O'Reilly	MCI	5.3m	87.3%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.3m	73.0%	Unlikely
Virgil	LIV	5.9m	74.8%	Unlikely
Rice	ARS	7.2m	65.0%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.6m	72.4%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.8m	68.8%	Unlikely
Tete	FUL	4.5m	69.7%	Unlikely
Mount	MUN	5.9m	69.1%	Unlikely
Saliba	ARS	5.9m	63.1%	Unlikely
Semenyo	BOU	7.7m	58.9%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	63.2%	Unlikely
Dorgu	MUN	4.1m	35.7%	Unlikely
Watkins	AVL	8.5m	52.5%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	6.0m	50.3%	Unlikely
Heaven	MUN	3.8m	54.7%	Unlikely
Pickford	EVE	5.5m	55.1%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.5m	57.3%	Unlikely
E.Le Fée	SUN	4.9m	55.0%	Unlikely
Calvert-Lewin	LEE	5.8m	51.3%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	56.3%	Unlikely
Trossard	ARS	6.9m	54.6%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	52.8%	Unlikely
Konaté	LIV	5.4m	53.2%	Unlikely
Tarkowski	EVE	5.5m	45.7%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	52.7%	Unlikely
Rúben	MCI	5.7m	46.6%	Unlikely
Smith Rowe	FUL	5.6m	47.7%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	45.4%	Unlikely
A.Becker	LIV	5.4m	45.0%	Unlikely
Hall	NEW	5.2m	39.1%	Unlikely
De Cuyper	BHA	4.3m	43.1%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Eze	ARS	7.6m	89.1%	Likely
B.Fernandes	MUN	9.2m	91.5%	Likely
Cucurella	CHE	6.2m	101.4%	Very Likely
McAtee	NFO	5.1m	100.1%	Very Likely
Udogie	TOT	4.4m	100.3%	Very Likely
James	LEE	5.3m	100.1%	Very Likely
Enzo	CHE	6.5m	94.2%	Maybe
Nwaneri	ARS	5.1m	96.3%	Maybe
Tasker	BHA	3.9m	94.7%	Maybe
Yoro	MUN	4.3m	97.0%	Maybe
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	97.6%	Maybe
Trafford	MCI	4.6m	96.6%	Maybe
Mosquera	ARS	5.4m	95.5%	Maybe
Bevan	BOU	3.9m	95.7%	Maybe
L.Guilherme	WHU	4.9m	96.1%	Maybe
Barnes	BUR	4.3m	94.3%	Maybe
Gibbs-White	NFO	7.3m	93.9%	Unlikely
Jair Cunha	NFO	4.3m	97.0%	Unlikely
Fitzgerald	MUN	4.4m	91.8%	Unlikely
Adams	BOU	5.0m	89.8%	Unlikely
Hermansen	WHU	4.3m	89.1%	Unlikely
Robertson	LIV	5.8m	88.9%	Unlikely
Fer López	WOL	5.2m	94.0%	Unlikely
Bruno G.	NEW	7.0m	85.1%	Unlikely
Johnson	SUN	3.9m	87.8%	Unlikely
Aké	MCI	5.3m	87.8%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	87.5%	Unlikely
Bellegarde	WOL	5.2m	86.1%	Unlikely
Bayindir	MUN	4.8m	87.5%	Unlikely
Broggio	AVL	4.5m	86.8%	Unlikely
Odobert	TOT	5.3m	85.2%	Unlikely
Seung soo	NEW	4.4m	82.6%	Unlikely
J.Timber	ARS	6.5m	40.1%	Unlikely
R.Gomes	WOL	4.4m	81.7%	Unlikely
March	BHA	5.8m	80.5%	Unlikely
Morgan	BRE	4.4m	78.5%	Unlikely
Reinildo	SUN	3.9m	78.0%	Unlikely
Agbadou	WOL	4.3m	78.7%	Unlikely
Roberts	BUR	4.4m	78.5%	Unlikely
Anderson	SUN	3.9m	76.6%	Unlikely

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Watchlists

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	B
Up	Pickford	EVE	B, Vs
Down	Alisson	LIV	C, Vs
Down	Donnarumma	MCI	B, Vs, Sus
No Change	Kelleher	BRE	B, Vs
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:46pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	C, Vs
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C
Up	Keane	EVE	Vs
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Marc Guehi	CRY	A
No Change	van den Berg	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	C
Down	Andersen	FUL	C
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	C, Sus
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	A
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:50pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	A
No Change	Foden	MCI	A, Vs
Up	Matheus Cunha	MUN	A
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	A
Up	Wirtz	LIV	B, Vs
Up	Grealish	EVE	B, Vs
No Change	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	B, Sus
No Change	Schade	BRE	C, Vs
Down	Minteh	BHA	C
No Change	Anderson	NFO	C, £

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:54pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	A, Vs
Up	Ekitiké	LIV	A, Vs
Up	Bowen	WHU	B, Vs
Down	Thiago	BRE	C, Vs, Inj
No Change	Mateta	CRY	C
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B, Rest

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:56pm

Fixtures

Monday’s Dugout Discussion

18 October 2010 1627 comments

Akers

The eighth gameweek of the season is brought to a close tonight at Ewood Park, as Blackburn Rovers host Sunderland.

The visitors are bolstered by the availability of their star striker Darren Bent, and out-of-position fantasy favourite Ahmed Elmohamady also starts to the relief of many. Elsewhere, there is only one change from the side that held Manchester United before the international break, as Danny Welbeck comes in for Boudewijn Zenden after not being eligible against his parent club.

The home side make two changes from their previous league outing at the Britannia Stadium, with Martin Olsson and Nikola Kalinic replacing Ryan Nelson and Mame Biram Diouf.

Blackburn XI: Robinson, Salgado, Samba, Givet, Olsson, Nzonzi, Jones, Emerton, Pedersen, El-Hadji Diouf, Kalinic
Sunderland XI: Mignolet, Onuoha, Turner, Bramble, Bardsley, Malbranque, Cattermole, Elmohamady, Henderson, Welbeck, Bent

The Dugout Discussion is open and available right here.

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Qbotski
15 years, 2 months ago
Nope I'll be out of the cup, he very wisely had paul robinson which has screwed me.
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Back on the horse
15 years, 2 months ago
absolutely sailed through to the next round of the cup.

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that's a sail
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1. Back on the horse
  15 years, 2 months ago
  lol. it's collapsed. it looked better than that in courier font.
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  1. Declan
    15 years, 2 months ago
    nice
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    1. Babytigrrr
      15 years, 2 months ago
      That's the same boat Samba's on...
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teddy.
15 years, 2 months ago
Bps done:

Robbo 3
MGP 2
Turner 1
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1. Ringo
  15 years, 2 months ago
  Thanks mate! Nobody had mentioned that yet! 🙂
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  1. teddy.
    15 years, 2 months ago
    Just for the benefit of anyone too lazy to scroll back...
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njfsdkffslkf
15 years, 2 months ago
This samba sending off hopefully sets up Gerrard to score 1700 points next week surely.
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1. dogtanion
  15 years, 2 months ago
  Yeah hopefully. I was saying last night that I was thinking of captaining him...might just go for it now
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  1. Declan
    15 years, 2 months ago
    Choooo Choooo!!! All aboard
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    1. Grimmaldi - Send in the Clo…
      15 years, 2 months ago
      If Sunderland can't score past a 10 man Blackburn then I can't see Liverpool getting out of their own half.
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dogtanion
15 years, 2 months ago
Didn't even break 50, the wheels are coming off
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1. Attila the Bum
  15 years, 2 months ago
  That's why I wildcarded - three piss weeks in a row undoing all of my earlier good work
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  1. dogtanion
    15 years, 2 months ago
    You couldn't have actually picked a better time to do it..my team is in such rag order, I'm finding it hard to even look at it
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  2. Waldaz
    15 years, 2 months ago
    I need a wildcard right now. 😡
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    1. Attila the Bum
      15 years, 2 months ago
      You beat Jamsie P though no? He needed 6 from Samba I think
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      1. Waldaz
        15 years, 2 months ago
        Yeah yeah, a consolation at least.
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        Attila the Bum
        15 years, 2 months ago
        And one you should remind him of, regularly 🙂
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        Granville
        15 years, 2 months ago
        Nice one Attila, that'll keep him quiet for a while
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2. Grimmaldi - Send in the Clo…
  15 years, 2 months ago
  I haven't had a 70+ weak in what feels like ages. I know it shouldn't annoy me but it kinda does.
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  1. Declan
    15 years, 2 months ago
    All green arra's apart from this week, wouldnt worry!
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hillbillypete
15 years, 2 months ago
4 saves hardly justifies full bonus. he stopped bent 1 on 1 but only cos bent was crap
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1. hillbillypete
  15 years, 2 months ago
  still, 67 aint bad 🙂
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Kings of Lyon ★
15 years, 2 months ago
lost 62-61 🙁 sunderland yer shite!!!
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1. Just_Ty
  15 years, 2 months ago
  Same here, lost 62-61 coz of Robbo's BPs, gutted
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  1. Kings of Lyon ★
    15 years, 2 months ago
    there cleanie dunn me 🙁
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Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius�…
15 years, 2 months ago
Soooo - my prayers were answered. Mr. Paul Robinson, COME ON DOWN! 😀
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Im Not Marshal Foch
15 years, 2 months ago
lol.. i know lots of people here have Robinson, and no one near me has him so i don't really care that much.. but i just watched that game and he made, what 4 saves.. 1 good one.. how on earth does that constitute 3 bonus? I thought the lad jones deserved something or henderson..
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1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius�…
  15 years, 2 months ago
  Well, I agree - but I'm hardly going to complain ... 🙂
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andy85wsm
15 years, 2 months ago
Robinson at 7 points made me draw. Robinson getting bonus made me win my round of the cup!
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1. Holden On
  15 years, 2 months ago
  Congrats. One of these weeks I'll pick the correct captain.
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MTPockets
15 years, 2 months ago
knocked out by robinson bonus. brilliant
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Pablitto
15 years, 2 months ago
I thought this qw sucked (30p) but this match just gave me another 18!p so I am happy (Robo Elmuhamadi Givet) and maybe Robo some bp I would really apreciate too...
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denial
15 years, 2 months ago
Can't really ask for a better GW than that. Great fun.
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1. hannibalos
  15 years, 2 months ago
  Very good this week. Well done mate!!
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2. DickFranDyke
  15 years, 2 months ago
  It was like saving 2 weeks worth up and then a massive explosion!
  Very entertaining indeed.
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  1. JWF
    15 years, 2 months ago
    Another annoyingly good week for you. Booooooo
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  2. Granville
    15 years, 2 months ago
    DFD, like Mark you're beating me by 1 point.
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Mourinho factor
15 years, 2 months ago
robison 3 bonus points how do u like that
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snipsnap369
15 years, 2 months ago
Just so you all know....I was right Robinson 3 bps

Love it

I'm top of my private league
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For Fuchs Sake
15 years, 2 months ago
I don't have him but why did Jones get Sky MOTM but no bps for FPL?
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1. Just_Ty
  15 years, 2 months ago
  +1, BPs are rubbish as usual
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BMox81
15 years, 2 months ago
Flatmate had Robbo and Bramble and has now gone ahead of me. Just goes to show that I pay far too much attention to this game than I probably should because he pays no attention to his team whatsoever apart from Saturday mornings....
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1. Horizontal
  15 years, 2 months ago
  Well done to "Next Goal Wins!". 70 points to my 63.
  
  Tough to come up against someone who on paper has a similar team, but knocks me out first round. He had Coleman and Adam, and I had ShawX and Davies. 🙁
  
  Oh well. C'est la vie....
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Jafstar - TheRedDevil
15 years, 2 months ago
ok wt the hell

who got the BP??

and why hasnt jones got ne =_= god dam it
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mufc802
15 years, 2 months ago
i'll take the givet 6 points but was hoping maybe some bps. seems he gets bugger all.
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Chris Finch - squeal piggy …
15 years, 2 months ago
Big jizzum for Robinson
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Mourinho factor
15 years, 2 months ago
64 points eleven up from last gameweek nice (just have to sehh the auto captain thing will afect me
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Cheggers
15 years, 2 months ago
ridculous BPs but whats new.

Anyway, for all the gamblers out there, there is some great lay value tomorrow night -

Ajax, Roma, Chelsea and Munich look decent lays, 2 of them will fail to win.
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1. Kings of Lyon ★
  15 years, 2 months ago
  im goin for ajax ars bayern marsaille real roma barca inter man u shalke and pana draw.
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Scratch
15 years, 2 months ago
Wow quite gutted, tied 65 - 65 in the cup so im out b/c of rank. A bit unlucky with only being able to field 10 players (Drog, Alex, Albrighton, O'Shea) Elmo's booking sealed it for me 🙁
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Jafstar - TheRedDevil
15 years, 2 months ago
i end on 67 with bale comin in for fab

not a bad game week....probably cda been a bit better had nani got anutha assist or so
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Hybrid.power
15 years, 2 months ago
I'm out the FFS cup, I dropped places in my mini-leagues, but Robinson getting 10 sends me to bed with a smile on my face and feeling optimistic about next week!
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Davido989
15 years, 2 months ago
Oshea or Carroll for gw9
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1. Jafstar - TheRedDevil
  15 years, 2 months ago
  oshea guaranteed to play??
  
  hes gna b playin on wed...mite get a rest on weekend
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Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius�…
15 years, 2 months ago
73-8=65 Not too bad at all. 😀
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1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius�…
  15 years, 2 months ago
  Actually 74-8=66! 😀
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Im Not Marshal Foch
15 years, 2 months ago
only had 10 players this week and still did alright.. not too xabi alonso
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SuperDorrans
15 years, 2 months ago
Out the cup by a point, damn you and Torres and you yellow card and damn you bonus point judges for not giving Jones any.

My second team got 89 points for the week though!

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/M/eventhist.mc?id=2211733&event=8
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1. BMox81
  15 years, 2 months ago
  Why have a 2nd team?
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  1. The Bandit
    15 years, 2 months ago
    Tut
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2. greghammer95
  15 years, 2 months ago
  With Coleman on the bench too.
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3. HST
  15 years, 2 months ago
  As I mentioned before having 2 teams is very lame.
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4. Jafstar - TheRedDevil
  15 years, 2 months ago
  89 points
  
  holy crap wt a midfield
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greghammer95
15 years, 2 months ago
Ouch on Da Beeeeez. 32 points on bench, soon to be 28 but still :O

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/M/eventhist.mc?id=34136
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1. Mourinho factor
  15 years, 2 months ago
  u cant blmae him that much he made rational choices for the week except putting too much faith on bolton
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  1. DickFranDyke
    15 years, 2 months ago
    Mark & Granny are flying the flag for the contributors I see. Game on again for those 2.
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