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Henderson returns for the Blades as Wolves hand start to £4.0m FPL defender

There are four Premier League matches taking place today, with the first double-header kicking off at 14:00 GMT.

Fresh from their win over Everton, Norwich City take on an Arsenal side who are under the stewardship of Freddie Ljungberg for the first time.

Meanwhile, at Molineux, sixth hosts seventh as Wolverhampton Wanderers face Sheffield United.

The Blades welcome back Dean Henderson (£4.7m) and John Egan (£4.5m) for this encounter, with the pair returning from ineligibility and injury respectively.

Understudies Simon Moore (£4.4m) and Phil Jagielka (£4.2m) make way, while there is another run-out up front for the in-form Lys Mousset (£5.1m).

Wolves have made only one change and it is an enforced one, at that: budget Fantasy Premier League defender Max Kilman (£4.0m) gets his first start at centre-half as Romain Saiss (£4.4m) is suspended.

Raul Jimenez (£7.7m), the most-bought player of Gameweek 14, starts again in attack.

Interim Arsenal boss Ljungberg has made four changes from Unai Emery’s final Premier League line-up.

Having made his return from exile in the Europa League on Thursday night, Granit Xhaka (£5.2m) is back in a Premier League starting XI for the first time since that ill-fated draw with Crystal Palace in Gameweek 10.

Having impressed against Eintracht Frankfurt, Shkodran Mustafi (£5.2m) makes his first league start of 2019/20.

Joe Willock (£4.9m) and Sead Kolasinac (£5.3m) are also recalled as Kieran Tierney (£5.4m), Lucas Torreira (£4.7m) and Sokratis Papastathopoulos (£5.0m) are named on the bench, along with Nicolas Pepe (£9.1m).

Hector Bellerin (£5.4m) misses out through injury.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£10.9m) and Alexandre Lacazette (£9.3m) will again lead the line.

Norwich’s team news is far more straightforward, with Ibrahim Amadou (£4.5m) replacing Alex Tettey (£4.5m) in midfield.

Jamal Lewis (£4.5m) returns from injury but is only among the substitutes, while Todd Cantwell (£4.6m) has shaken off an ankle injury to start.


Norwich City XI: Krul, Aarons, Godfrey, Zimmermann, Byram, Amadou, Trybull, Hernandez, Cantwell, McLean, Pukki.

Arsenal XI: Leno, Chambers, Mustafi, David Luiz, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Willock, Ozil, Aubameyang, Lacazette.

Wolves XI: Patricio, Dendoncker, Coady, Kilman, Doherty, Neves, Moutinho, Jonny, Adama, Jimenez, Jota.

Sheffield United XI: Henderson, Stevens, O’Connell, Egan, Basham, Baldock, Fleck, Norwood, Lundstram, Mousset, McGoldrick.

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  1. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    F off that is so stupid f sake

    1. twoplustwo
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Do you know the rules?

      1. Salah’s Sonnet
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Do you?

      2. Top Lad Dakes.
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Yes. Don’t know why the hell the players are encroaching like that, pure stupidity

        1. twoplustwo
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          Agreed

    2. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Really is

      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Really isn’t

        1. Salah’s Sonnet
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          Kind of is

    3. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Don’t be daft

    4. Scholes Out For Summer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Why is that stupid? Non auba owner

      1. Top Lad Dakes.
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Yes I am? So that’s annoying.

        And I’ve explained above

  2. HurriKane
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Aubaaaassss yesssssss

  3. Bobby Digital
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    VaR sucks

    1. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      VAR or not, the rule is the rule. VAR applied the rule correctly there.

    2. Scholes Out For Summer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Dont break the rules, how is that VARs fault

    3. Pacer.
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      You suck

  4. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    no one with a good rank owns auba anyway

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      True

  5. Niho992
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    I did KdB and Auba to Salah and Kane...

    Happy days

  6. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Complete and utter jam for Auba owners

  7. FPL_Sponge
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    The emotions I just went through as an Aubameyang owner

  8. Pacer.
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    When will players learn. They're almost as dumb as FPL managers complaining. Encroach an opposition pen and it's a retake. Christ

  9. Wilshere Knowledge
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Tim Krul is a bit of a knob.

  10. Arteta
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Captain success - never in doubt.

  11. Woy_is_back
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    bullshit!

    Come on Norwich

  12. Sailboats
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    VAR IS SH*T

    1. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      The VAR is bound by the rulebook. It's the rule that's the issue.

      1. Pacer.
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        No issues with the rule. There HAS to be an encroachment rule

        1. Forza
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          Agreed, I didn't mean 'issue' in a bad way.

  13. NWallis
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    The pitch microphones are unusually loud on my NOR-ARS stream. Love it!

  14. Old Man
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Was it the defenders encroaching or Krul off his line?

    1. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Could have been either tbf.

    2. Twisted Saltergater
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      4 Norwich defenders encroached

      1. how now brown cow
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Most coordinated they've been all season

      2. Old Man
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Idiots. I've always thought that you could get the same effect from starting deeper and arriving in the box at speed

    3. Licky
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Norwich defenders.

    4. Bobby Digital
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      There was an Arsenal player encroaching aswell.

  15. Woy_is_back
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    HAHA Auba schhhusing, u suck bro

  16. Twisted Saltergater
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Aubameyang... boom!

    Never in doubt 😆

    1. HurriKane
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Haha. Lucky goal but id take it

      Still selling unless he gets a brace or hatty

      1. Twisted Saltergater
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        I might downgrade to Mousset and bring in a big hitter in midfield.

        I think Jesus will come good but not going to leap too early.

  17. La vida FPL
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Does auba get both miss pen minus points and goal points?

    1. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Should do but don’t think so

      1. The Ejiptian King
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        lol so someone should also keep the points if they score and it has to be retaken?

        1. Baps hunter
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          Even from offside 😉

          1. The Ejiptian King
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 3 months ago

            That's like 3 extra Sterling goals!

    2. Podge
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      No

    3. twoplustwo
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      No miss per vardy last week I think

      1. Baps hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Correct.

  18. Jekori
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    You can say var is a joke. But this isn't the first time there has been a retake for going too soon from players, players must learn from it but they don't. Feel bad for Krul tho he is a penalty-killer

  19. Podge
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Has anyone scored a pen and be made retake it ?

    1. DLL18
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Encroachment only matters if the penalty is cleared or the rebound is scored. No advantage either way if they score from the spot.

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        you could say the encroaching players distrracted keeper or taker

        1. DLL18
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          You really couldn't, that's a massive stretch, may as well just have every stand on the halfway line then.

    2. Hawk
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Yes, Lampard against WestHam in 2011. Took it thrice and scored all.

  20. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    God I hate VAR. Havent had a single VAR decision in my favor all season

    1. JJO
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      This

    2. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Don't own Vardy? Otherwise last week was pretty jammy

      1. Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        I own Maddison it was net negative for me.

        1. Business Cat
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          Sucks. I owned both, but captained Vardy, so I finished up

  21. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    blades have 8 players from the repblic of Ireland squad?

  22. Pukki Party
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    How did Ozil get an assist?

    1. @persecuted_by_mods
        4 years, 3 months ago

        He crossed it for the handball

      • Deulofail
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Crossed the ball. Hit an arm. Penalty. Assist.

        1. Pukki Party
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          7 years playing and somehow missed that rule

      • Arteta
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Magician.

    2. krzys
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Rule applied correctly.
      Problem is, they apply it whenever they want.

    3. Differential C (Mark)
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      VAR doing its job.
      It's the rule that's BS. And the players who encroached on said rule.

      1. twoplustwo
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        There are loads of arbitrary rules, average footballer is just thick as mince

      2. Deulofail
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        How is the rule BS pls

        1. Differential C (Mark)
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          Apologies, should've worded it correctly. I thought the pen was VaRed out due to Krul being off his line, which is the rule I find BS, considering how much a pen already favors the attacker.
          The encroachment, the players only have themselves to blame.

      3. Baps hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        What should the rule be?!?

        1. Differential C (Mark)
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          See above.

    4. Jolly Good
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Sterling + Auba -> Vardy + Mane this week going well...

      NOT!!!

    5. Dacra
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Auba to Kane was a great move.

      1. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        I was tempted.

      2. Baps hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Congrats!

        1. Baps hunter
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          Ouch, sorry 🙁

    6. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Cmon Lacazette and Jimenez...

    7. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Auba what.

    8. Licky
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Awful pass.

    9. S.Kuqi
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Pukki goal against Southampton and we might have two parties going