Live Match Chat FA Cup Special FPL News
Welcome to Live Match Chat FA Cup Special FPL News. This weekend sees the 5th round ties for the FA Cup, meaning that it is a FPL-free weekend. However, FPL-free does not signify FPL-irrelevant far from it. If you scan through the fixtures listed below you will see eight Premier League teams are left in the competition and bizarrely all eight have been kept apart in the draw. Now a closer scan of those fixtures will show that all eight top tier teams are firm favourites to win their tie – possibly Leicester being the less obvious. We have banged on about GW28 for weeks now – and this is when we get to find out exactly how disrupted GW28 will be as that is when the 6th round of the FA Cup will be played. At present only three fixtures are guaranteed for GW28 and if results go as expected in the Cup, then those three fixtures will be our sole game-week interest.
Therefore, keep a close eye on this weekend’s games to see how GW28 will pan out and also to keep an eye on potential transfers and injuries etc.
We talk about about things going as expected, but of course life doesn’t always turn out like that does it? Look at Brexit, President Trump, Arsenal losing to Bayern in the round of 16…….
….the FA Cup really can produce some upsets and maybe, just maybe some Premier League teams may get beaten by lower level opposition. Who would ever have predicted lowly Bournemouth humbling holders Man Utd in 1984, reigning league champions Arsenal losing to Wrexham who were bottom of the the old fourth division in 1992, non-league Sutton knocking out Coventry in 1989, Ronnie Radford’s famous goal leading Hereford to upsetting Newcastle or indeed Wimbledon beating the then mighty Liverpool on the biggest stage of all at Wembley in 1988?
See below this weekend’s fixtures and to the right of each fixture the GW28 match which is at risk if the Premier League team win this weekend.
FPL carnage! Love it.
Saturday 18th February
12:30pm
Burnley vs Lincoln – Game at risk – LIV vs BUR
3:00pm
Millwall vs Leicester – Game at risk – ARS vs LEI
Huddersfield vs Man City – Game at risk – MCY vs STO
Middlesbrough vs Oxford – Game at risk – MID vs SUN
5:30pm
Wolves vs Chelsea – Game at risk – CHE vs WAT
Sunday 19th February
2:00pm
Fulham vs Tottenham – Game at risk – CRY vs TOT
4:15pm
Blackburn vs Man United – Game at risk – MUN vs SOU
Monday 20th February
7:55pm
Sutton vs Arsenal – Game at risk – ARS vs LEI
Keep track of all the action, the goals, the talking points, right here at FF247 Live Match Chat, an interactive chat which encourages you to keep involved and share your thoughts and emotions as the matches take place.
Good luck to absolutely everyone for GW26 from all at FF247!
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Fixture Tracker
Hey guys, how are things with ee verybody. Very boring weekend without FPL. Anyway, I did sanchez to mane for a hit last night, I feel a bit better now about gw26. Could I get a Rmt on my team please?
Jaku
Pva nyom chambers baines
Mane erik zaha hazard
Lukaku costa
Subs randolph ibra carrick nyom
Thanks guys.
This is a decent squad but you have Nyom twice??
Cheers Mat. That should be Amat on the bench.
strong Spurs team. hopefully they , MU, MC and Arsenal will get through.
current set up for gw28 gives advantage to active managers and I wouldn’t mind if it stays that way.
Guys, any suggestion for transfers? I’ve missed the Sanchez > Mane boat with the price increases. Figured that I might as well just wait till gw26 comes. Apart from that, or is there a better transfer than Sanchez to Mane building up to gw28? Don’t mind taking a hit if it’s good for long-term. Benteke > Lukaku?
Hi coys, I’d want Lukaku this week so I’d do that one for sure. Palace defo off in 28 helps that argument too.
How about Sanchez to Mane? Thanks Init
Afternoon all how are we all doing thk I’m going to struggle Gw 28 what are thought on double GW when do you thk it will happen;)
Afternoon Silvers, we’re looking at GW34&37 again this season.
Afternoon Kop cheers mate thk I will probably hold on to at least two Che player if not all three 😉
Have you used your WC Silvers?
No not used WC yet Kop I will probably use it just before the GW before the DGW 😉
Why do you need to hold onto 3 Chelsea players so?
Kop I will have lost a lot of cash with losing Sanchez & Ibra so I won’t be able to lose another load on Costa & Alonso I could probably drop Haz for Mane 😉
How much would you lose by selling Hazard &/or Costa? I’m not sure there’s a requirement to own both at the moment.
I’ve only just brought Haz in so I can lose him I have a bit of cash in Costa not sure why I brought Haz in thk I must have been out that night haha I will have a good look at all the fixtures
Plenty of time to make decisions anyway Silvers
Now Kane decided to start scoring. Butch please.
Kane Hatrick !
And going off to a round of applause…injury free phew!
Dude, his hattricks mean shit all unless in epl.