The four outfield Bournemouth and Crystal Palace players who are owned by more than 10% of Fantasy Premier League managers – Aaron Wan-Bissaka (£4.3m), Wilfried Zaha (£7.0m), Ryan Fraser (£5.9m) and Callum Wilson (£6.9m) – all start at the Vitality Stadium this evening, with no huge surprises in either line-up.
Palace’s only change sees Max Meyer (£5.7m) make his first league start of the season at the expense of Cheikhou Kouyate (£4.8m).
Meyer’s creativity in the centre of the park might well be needed to unpick the Cherries’ defence, who have conceded only three big chances on home soil this season – though Eddie Howe’s side did ship four goals at Burnley last weekend.
Howe, meanwhile, has made two changes to his starting XI, with Simon Francis (£4.4m) and Lewis Cook (£4.8m) replacing Diego Rico (£4.5m) and Andrew Surman (£4.8m).
Rico had been a doubt for this match with a hamstring injury, though is fit enough to take his place among the Bournemouth substitutes.
Francis will be presumably be playing at right-back, with Adam Smith (£4.5m) filling in for Rico at left-back: both players played in those positions last Tuesday in the Carabao Cup tie against Blackburn Rovers.
Surman drops to the bench and is joined there by the fit-again Dan Gosling (£4.9m), who has recovered from a calf complaint.
The creative Lewis Cook’s selection again might be an acknowledgement of their opposition’s resilience, with Palace having kept clean sheets in two of their three away fixtures so far this season and having conceded only two big chances to their opposition in those matches on the road.
Wan-Bissaka is owned by more than 30% of all Fantasy managers, but as well as being the most-purchased defender of Gameweek 7 is also the most-benched outfielder of this round of fixtures: 30.9% of his owners started this weekend without the budget defender in their first XI.
Zaha, meanwhile, has scored in every league fixture away from Selhurst Park this season.
No player for any Premier League club has created as many big chances as Fraser in 2018/19, with four of the Scottish winger’s five goal involvements coming on home soil.
Wilson hasn’t scored since Gameweek 2, though has chipped in with three assists since his last league goal.
Bournemouth XI (4-4-2): Begovic; A. Smith, S. Cook, Ake, Francis; Brooks, L. Cook, Lerma, Fraser; Wilson, King
Crystal Palace XI (4-3-3): Hennessey; Wan-Bissaka, Tomkins, Sakho, Van Aanholt; Meyer, Milivojevic, McArthur; Zaha, Townsend, Ayew
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