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Three Premier League matches take place today, all of which kick off at 15:00 BST.

Bournemouth entertain Burnley, Crystal Palace head north to face Newcastle United and Leicester City make the trip to relegated Huddersfield Town.

Jamie Vardy starts for the Foxes, following concern about his absence from training ground photos on Thursday.

Harvey Barnes, James Maddison, Youri Tielemans, Ben Chilwell and Ricardo Pereira all start but there is no place for Harry Maguire, who was available after suspension but who fails to make the match-day squad – the Leicester Mercury claim that Maguire has had a “disrupted week” after the birth of his first child.

Brendan Rodgers’ only change sees Caglar Soyuncu replace the injured Jonny Evans at centre-half. Evans reportedly has an issue with his hip.

Huddersfield Town have only made one change, with Jon Gorenc Stankovic coming into the starting XI at the expense of Juninho Bacuna.

Isaac Mbenza returns after a lengthy lay-off and is among the substitutes.

DeAndre Yedlin and Isaac Hayden have recovered from minor injuries to start for Newcastle but Mohamed Diame misses out, so Ki Sung-yueng takes the place of the Senegalese midfielder.

Fabian Schar is back after a two-game ban and replaces Paul Dummett at centre-half.

Salomon Rondon, Ayoze Perez and Miguel Almiron again form the Magpies’ three-man attack.

Andros Townsend is back in the Crystal Palace team after dropping to the bench in midweek, meanwhile, so Cheikhou Kouyate makes way.

Wilfried Zaha, Michy Batshuayi, Jeffrey Schlupp and Aaron Wan-Bissaka all start.

Adam Smith is fit to return for Bournemouth and replaces the injured Charlie Daniels at left-back but the Cherries are otherwise unchanged.

Asmir Begovic lines up in goal again ahead of Artur Boruc, while David Brooks, Ryan Fraser, Josh King and Callum Wilson are all in Eddie Howe’s starting XI as expected.

Sean Dyche has only made one alteration to his team, with Matthew Lowton replacing the injured Phil Bardsley at right-back.

Bournemouth XI: Begovic, Clyne, Mepham, Ake, Smith, Brooks, Gosling, Lerma, Fraser, King, Wilson.

Burnley XI: Heaton, Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor, Cork, Westwood, Hendrick, McNeil, Wood, Barnes.

Huddersfield Town XI: Hamer, Smith, Schindler, Kongolo, Durm, Hogg, Stankovic, Pritchard, Mooy, Löwe, Grant.

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Morgan, Söyüncü, Chilwell, Ndidi, Gray, Tielemans, Maddison, Barnes, Vardy.

Newcastle United XI: Dubravka, Schar, Lascelles, Lejeune, Yedlin, Hayden, Ki, Ritchie, Perez, Almiron, Rondon.

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita, Wan-Bissaka, Kelly, Tomkins, van Aanholt, McArthur, Milivojević, Schlupp, Townsend, Batshuayi, Zaha.

  1. Feloh
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Really need a Haz hatty minimum on Monday.

    1. FPL Scoop
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      God that'd be awful for me 😆 Higuain maybe, aye!

    2. F_Ivanovic
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Haz blank would be superb.

      1. Annie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 27 days ago

        Yeah, can see a blank

    3. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Haz blank, Fabianski with 10 saves to get a extra 3 save points instead

      1. FPL Scoop
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 27 days ago

        and a pen save!

  2. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Anyone on WC34 keeping the likes of Pogba (WHU) and Vardy (NEW) one more week before shipping out for the DGWs???

    Tempting, I must say.

    1. Holmes
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Delaying WC for same reason

    2. CoffeeBean
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Vardy perhaps

    3. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Keeping is tempting, but can't ignore that Kane and Son will face Huddersfield. Will have to monitor the fall-out from the midweek champions league games first.

    4. FPL Pillars
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Nah it’s in session

  3. jia you
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Will be spending 8 or 12 of those Vardy captaincy points for GW34 but nice to have them to spend at least 🙂

    1. Pierce34
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Congrats - good call again, can't call you lucky this time! Pretty happy myself too, I never considered Vardy for captain so no regrets there and a decent score.

      1. jia you
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 27 days ago

        Thanks mate, you're doing pretty well when you include your Maddison benchwankery haha

        1. Pierce34
          • 10 Years
          7 years, 27 days ago

          Haha yeah, to be honest I only did it in order not to have unrealistic expectations on Monday. I normally don't benchwank but otherwise I'd have a big green arrow by tomorrow, and then would come crashing down to Earth because no Hazard. Now my rank is probably indicative of what it can be at the end of the week! Weird reasoning, I know!

          1. jia you
            • 9 Years
            7 years, 27 days ago

            should be interesting to see how we fight it out from here on in, the fact I'm at the disadvantage of no WC/BB but the advantage of points in the bag!

            1. Pierce34
              • 10 Years
              7 years, 27 days ago

              I think you've got the H2H in the bag probably. I've got a better chance at passing you in OR but I'll need lots of luck for the H2H.

              1. jia you
                • 9 Years
                7 years, 27 days ago

                yeah OR battle I meant, should be interesting!

  4. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Top 1k again wooooooo

    1. FPL Scoop
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      nice one

    2. Bruno Bruno!!
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Wow well done mate

    3. jia you
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      well done, hopefully wont be far off it myself after Vardy doing the biz 🙂

  5. Do I Not Like Orange
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Feels good to get my Bournemouth, West Ham & Newcastle crap straight out of my team on WC.

    1. FPL Scoop
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      oh aye. disappointed in wilson and fraser though I must say

    2. CoffeeBean
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Agreed

  6. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    These Palace penalties are just getting silly now, DOUBLE figures from penalties alone in the league.
    Feel like I'm in some sort of parody of it!
    Has to be odds on to get a penalty every week.

    1. Pierce34
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      And the thing is, it's so hard to predict too. Lots of people started the season with Milivojevic in their team, yet they went 7-8 weeks without a penalty.

    2. XabiAlonso
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      They were getting silly last season, I don't get it. Remember Andy Johnson scored 9 pens in one season for them years ago

    3. fr3d
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      What's mind blowing is how reckless right backs are around Zaha inside the box. They should know better.

  7. Niho992
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Vardy is my greatest one week punt ever probably. Thx for service, not is time for Laca on WC.

  8. The Head-Ake
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Why did I not buy Vardy? I feel superdumb rn

    1. Lav
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      It happens. How is your season going?

      1. The Head-Ake
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 27 days ago

        Been different to be honest, ngl, I was in the top 20k for the first time but I went out of the top 100k within a few GWs, tryna climb my way back in.

        How's it going for you?

        1. Lav
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 27 days ago

          Its been okay, just want top 100k. At 109k now.

          Skipped last season in FPL. 16/17 I finished 35k. 15/16 my first year finished 165k.

  9. Rhodes your boat
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Higuain owe anybody else a hat trick or is it just me?

    1. FPL Scoop
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Oh yes

    2. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      He def owes me. I sold him for Laca a few weeks back and of course Laca outscored him by 8 points.

    3. DandyDon
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Need him to come through. Not sure how Wilson managed to not score me any points today either

    4. fr3d
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Who've you got coming off the bench?

    5. Trilly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Owes me like 8 goals.

      Need Hazard to score as little as possible while getting the most out of Higgy. Going to be a stressful one.

  10. Champ
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    So, Westwood @4.6 out scores Mane, Robertson, Rondon, Fraser and Wilson COMBINED - all who had reasonably good fixtures. You have to laugh!

    1. FPL Scoop
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      crazy that

    2. jia you
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Yup, own 4 of those 5 fails unfortunately!

      1. THFC4LIFE
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 27 days ago

        Same

    3. Lampard 8
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      The pain I have for transferring him out for Almirion.

    4. WVA
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Westwood first on my bench won't come on, not had any bench points this season

    5. WVA
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      This game is all luck and this sums that up

  11. FPL ElasticO
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Is it right transfer out Salah to have good balance in 3 positions???

    A. Yes
    B. No

    1. Jebiga
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      A

  12. KING KOUNDER
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Vardy triple captains...line up.
    Let's salute the man!!

  13. Gentle_Turks
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Took cap off Vardy 4 minutes before deadline. Anyone else similarly screwed up?

    1. JIMMY TUGGINS
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Was between him and Haz all week up until the last, still not over.

      1. Gentle_Turks
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 27 days ago

        It feels over.

        1. JIMMY TUGGINS
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 27 days ago

          Who do you have?

          1. Gentle_Turks
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            7 years, 27 days ago

            WOULD ED WOODWARD-

            Haz

    2. _Make
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Yeah. FPL 18-19

    3. WVA
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Yep went Hazard made the wrong choice 30 weeks out of 33

  14. Lav
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    @The Head-Ake

    Yes it is me from FT.

  15. Ronnies
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Any chance David Luiz is benched Monday night ?!!

    I need Wan Bissaka off my bench... ha ha

    1. F_Ivanovic
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Some. But I doubt it.

  16. ooooo
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Which one?
    A) Deeney + Eriksen
    B) Lacazette + Deulofeu

  17. THFC4LIFE
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Need a Digne masterclass or no show tomorrow, tried to be to clever benching AWB

  18. Legohair
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    How do my first WC look like???

    Ryan-Foster
    Robbo-Kola-Trippier-Valery-Bennett
    Salah-Sterling-Son-Redmond-Camarasa
    Kane-Jimenez-Deeney

  19. thunder_mike
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    54 with Fab, Digne and Hazard to play. Happy enough, shame the rest of my season has been awful.

    1. THFC4LIFE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Great score mate, I’m happy with 37. Fab Digne Hazard(c) left

  20. yer old da
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    What’s the template WC34/BB35 team?

  21. Ady87
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Guaita/AWB doing work for me this week. Needed.

    Haz(c), Luiz and Laca to go, only got 8 going this week and Palace defence with BPS keeping me there or there abouts.

  22. HD7
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Deolufeou/ Doucoure?
    Martial/ Ramsey ?

  23. Rhodes your boat
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    First wc draft feel
    Free to destroy

    Foster Ryan
    Laporte taa kola Bennett Valery
    Sterling mane eriksen Doucoure Jota
    Kane Deeney jiminez

    0.1itb

    1. Champ
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      I like it. Decent balance. Good luck.

      1. Rhodes your boat
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 27 days ago

        THAnks mate

    2. SkeletONv01
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Consider Mendy over Laporte maybe? 🙂

    3. Trilly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Think Spurs defence is a shout up until end of the season.

  24. Champ
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Help me decide guys please.

    For WC would you prefer

    Kane+Doucoure
    or
    Lacazette+Son

    1. MiLK2018
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Kane + Douc because Kane is better captain option

  25. HD7
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    How is your WC midfield shaping up mates?

    1. EMBOLOFAN
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      sterlo
      eriksen
      son
      pogba
      jwp/brooks/cho

      1. HD7
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 27 days ago

        Lookin strong
        I guess no Kane or Kun up front?
        Do you think Pogba is still worth it?

        1. EMBOLOFAN
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 27 days ago

          yes not been interested in premium strikers all season and have managed to stay in and around top 1k. can afford laca and still have a great defence.

          pogba it remains to be seen but i bought him so cheap and at the very least he's on pens so i want to give him a little longer

    2. droben
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Pogba - not sure what to do with him, but have big value in him
      Son
      Fraser - still believe he is great filler with his fixtures till the end of season
      Sterling
      Doucouré - DGW35 in mind

      right now, different tomorrow

      Kane, Firminho, Wilson upfront

      1. HD7
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 27 days ago

        Have a feeling Bmouth are at the beach thogh

  26. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    And there off!!

  27. _Make
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    This is my first good week in ages. I could easily get to 70. I've forgotten how it feels to do anything other than hate this game 🙂

    1. The 5% Team
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      haha same here...was on 12 straight red arrows, this looks to be a green one finally

  28. Chucky
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Need Higuain and Richo hatties to Sane my GW

    1. EMBOLOFAN
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Sane

      1. Chucky
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 27 days ago

        😛

  29. The Train Driver
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Ended up with 3 spurs and no Kun and Mane... Oh lawd...

  30. Niho992
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 27 days ago

    Willson sold. I had him about 10 times in 3 years and he never scored a goal. At least he gave me 0.1 on WC.

    1. Dave Bauer
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 27 days ago

      Just thinking the same thing. Absolutely useless, but 0.1 isn’t to be sniffed at right now.

      1. Niho992
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 27 days ago

        Yes, 0.1 is essential now 😀