Fears over Eden Hazard‘s (£11.3m) fitness were realised this afternoon as the Chelsea winger, who is currently the most-owned midfielder in Fantasy Premier League, was not named either in Maurizio Sarri’s starting XI or on the substitutes’ bench for the trip to Turf Moor.
Hazard was the most-sold FPL player ahead of the Gameweek 10 deadline yesterday afternoon but was also the third-most-popular captaincy choice of this weekend, having been handed the armband by over 785,000 Fantasy managers.
Pedro (£6.4m) and Willian (£7.4m) line up either side of Alvaro Morata (£8.7m), with Ross Barkley (£5.7m) replacing Mateo Kovacic (£5.9m) in central midfield.
Chelsea are otherwise unchanged from the side that drew 2-2 with Manchester United, with Thursday night’s hat-trick hero Ruben Loftus-Cheek (£5.2m) among the substitutes for the visitors.
Their hosts make one change from the side that lost 5-0 to Manchester City, with the fit-again Robbie Brady (£5.4m) replacing the ill Aaron Lennon (£5.0m) on the flank.
Brady hasn’t started a league match since December 2017 but up until his season-ending injury last year had delivered more crosses than any other FPL midfielder in 2017/18.
Arsenal have made two changes to their starting XI from the side that beat Leicester City 3-1 last Monday night, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£10.8m) getting his first league start in three matches in place of Henrikh Mkhitaryan (£6.8m).
Aubameyang, who scored on four occasions in his previous two substitute appearances, will likely come into the side on his usual left flank, meaning Alex Iwobi (£5.5m) will switch over to the right wing.
Nacho Monreal (£5.5m) and Sead Kolasinac (£4.9m) have once again failed to recover from hamstring injuries, so Granit Xhaka (£5.3m) is preferred to Stephan Lichtsteiner (£4.6m) at left-back. Matteo Guendouzi (£4.5m) thus fills Xhaka’s vacated space in midfield, with Aaron Ramsey (£7.4m) once again among the substitutes.
Petr Cech (£5.0m) is also back on the bench for the Gunners.
Crystal Palace have made one change from the side that lost to Everton a week ago, with Jordan Ayew (£5.8m) replacing Jeffrey Schlupp (£4.5m).
That would likely mean a return to a 4-3-3 with Wilfried Zaha (£6.9m) and Andros Townsend (£5.7m) lining up either side of Ayew in a three-man attack, although Roy Hodgson could stick with a 4-4-2 and use James McArthur (£4.8m) and one of Zaha or Townsend as the two wide midfielders.
Max Meyer (£5.6m) and Alexander Sorloth (£4.8m) return from illness and are back among the substitutes.
Aaron Wan-Bissaka (£4.3m), the most-benched player of Gameweek 10, might well be needed as an auto-sub by many Fantasy managers given the no-shows of Marko Arnautovic (£7.0m) and Andrew Robertson (£6.4m) yesterday and Hazard today.
Burnley XI (4-4-1-1): Hart; Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor; Gudmundsson, Cork, Defour, Brady; Hendrick; Vokes.
Chelsea XI (4-3-3): Arrizabalaga; Azpilicueta, Rudiger, David Luiz, Alonso; Kante, Jorginho, Barkley; Pedro, Morata, Willian.
Crystal Palace XI (4-3-3): Hennessey; Wan-Bissaka, Tomkins, Sakho, van Aanholt; McArthur, Milivojevic, Kouyate; Townsend, Ayew, Zaha.
Arsenal XI (4-2-3-1): Leno; Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Xhaka; Torreira, Guendouzi; Iwobi, Ozil, Aubameyang; Lacazette.
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