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Wilson back in Bournemouth squad as Hanley starts for Norwich

Callum Wilson (£7.4m) returns to the Bournemouth matchday squad ahead of a Gameweek 18 meeting with Burnley.

After missing out against Chelsea, the centre-forward is named on the bench this afternoon.

Joshua King (£6.1m) leads the line in the starting line-up though, supported by a five-man midfield with Lewis Cook (£5.0m) and Ryan Fraser (£6.9m) on the flanks.

Meanwhile, Charlie Taylor (£4.2m) has shaken off his hamstring problem to start for Burnley, while Chris Wood (£6.2m) is good to start despite a knock to his Achilles tendon reported by Sean Dyche on Thursday.

Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder has made two changes for the trip to Brighton, one enforced, the other a tactical switch.

Luke Freeman (£5.1m) comes in for the suspended John Fleck (£4.9m) while Lys Mousset (£5.1m) finds himself benched for Oli McBurnie (£5.7m) to start alongside David McGoldrick (£5.4m).

Brighton line-up exactly as predicted in our team news section, as do Wolves who travel to Norwich.

The Canaries are forced to bring Grant Hanley (£4.0m) back into the side sooner than Daniel Farke would have wanted.

The centre-back has been named in the starting XI alongside Christoph Zimmermann (£4.4m) following the recent long-term injury to Ben Godfrey (£4.4m).

Todd Cantwell (£4.7m) starts on the left flank of attacking midfield while Teemu Pukki (£6.6m) has recovered from him his toe problem to lead the 4-2-3-1 formation as the lone centre-forward.

Jack Grealish (£6.2m) leads the Aston Villa attack from the left of the front-three again while Wesley (£5.7m) retains his starting berth through the middle.

A strong performance against Liverpool’s youth side in the EFL Cup midweek has not been enough for Dean Smith to consider bringing Jonathan Kodjia (£5.4m) in for Wesley.

For the second match in a row, it’s Matt Targett (£4.4m) and Frédéric Guilbert (£4.4m) named in the full-back positions.

Villa host a Southampton side still lined up in a 4-4-2 formation under Ralph Hasenhüttl.

An injury for Moussa Djenepo (£5.2m) sees Stuart Armstrong (£5.3m) come into the team on the right flank, which means James Ward-Prowse (£5.9m) can retain his central midfield role.

Danny Ings (£6.4m) and Shane Long (£4.6m) are the preferred centre-forward pairing for the fourth match in a row.

Crystal Palace welcome back Patrick van Aanholt (£5.5m) to the left-back. berth as their injuries mounted over the last week, while Martin Kelly (£4.4m) starts for the fifth consecutive match.

The Eagles travel to face a Newcastle side that has somewhat recovered from their most recent bout of absences as Jonjo Shelvey (£5.1m) and Miguel Almirón (£5.8m) make much-needed returns to midfield.

Aston Villa XI: Heaton; Targett, Engels, Hause, Guilbert; McGinn, Douglas Luiz, Hourihane; Grealish, Wesley, El Ghazi.

Southampton XI: McCarthy; Bertrand, Bednarek, Stephens, Cedric; Redmond, Hojbjerg, Ward-Prowse, Armstrong; Long, Ings.

Bournemouth XI: Ramsdale; Rico, Mepham, Francis, Stacey; Fraser, Billing, Lerma, Gosling, L. Cook; J King.

Burnley XI: Pope; C Taylor, Mee, Tarkowski, Bardsley; McNeil, Westwood, Cork, Hendrick; A Barnes, Wood.

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Ryan; Burn, Webster, Dunk, Montoya; D Stephens, Pröpper, Mooy; Trossard, Maupay, Groß.

Sheffield United XI: Henderson; O’Connell, Egan, Basham; Stevens, Freeman, Norwood, Lundstram, Baldock; McBurnie, McGoldrick.

Newcastle XI: Dúbravka; Dummett, Fernández, Lejeune, Schär, Manquillo; Almirón, Hayden, Shelvey; Joelinton, Carroll.

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita; van Aanholt, Tomkins, Kouyaté, M Kelly; McCarthy, McArthur, Milivojevic; Zaha, Benteke, Ayew.

Norwich City XI: Krul; Byram, Zimmermann, Hanley, Aarons; Tettey, Trybull; Cantwell, McLean, Buendía; Pukki.

Wolves XI: Patrício; Saïss, Coady, Dendoncker; Jonny, Neves, Moutinho, Doherty; D Jota, Jiménez, Traoré.

1,528 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Ha.
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    My cup opponent has used FH and ended up with Chilwell, Maddison and Vardy, and they’re not a Leicester fan. Am I missing something?

    1. TheTinman
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      City are leaky?

      1. Ha.
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Not that leaky

    2. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Chilwell seems a bit odd. I benched him for this week

    3. Gimli son of Gloin
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      People are strange.

  2. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Hope city smash lcfc

    1. Over Midwicket
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Nah. 1-0 Söyböy thumping header.

    2. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      they will

  3. lordkippe
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    12 from 5 any good ?

    Sterling(C), KDB, Son, Vardy, Rash left.

    1. Mweene
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Same! Dreadful week

    2. fr3d
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Looked good until Sterling (c)

    3. Zenith UK
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      43 post BAPs + Alli, Son, Rashford (c), Tammy & Vardy

      1. lordkippe
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        that sounds a bit under the average mate. Hope Rashford (C) can bust you out

    4. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      not much better for me

    5. FFSbet.com
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Not good,12 from 4 here

  4. Zilla
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Rico suspended as well

  5. Alnair
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    ****ing Almiron

    1. Gimli son of Gloin
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      I had a great laugh when I checked the result. Delighted for him, poor fella looks tidy all over the pitch but hasn't a notion in front of goal.

  6. TheTinman
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    51pts post baps

    Alli Aurier KDB Vardy to go

    1. Zenith UK
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      43 post BAPs + Alli, Son, Rashford (c), Tammy & Vardy

    2. Nightcrawler
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      45 with aurier vardy sterling son kane(c) left

    3. Buck The Trent
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      43 with Alli (c), Kdb, Vardy, Rashy, Soy

    4. Over Midwicket
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Lol

  7. wulfrunian
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    1 bonus for Jimenez?

    1. Over Midwicket
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Yup

  8. JJeyy
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Bench Vardy or Grealish for Cantwell?

  9. Mambino
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    this week sucks. My cup opponent has Ings(C) just to add insult to injury

  10. FPL Blow-In
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Some very good scores. I need a goal feat in this match. I’m on 23 with Aurier, Son(c), Maddison, Kdb, Vardy, Jesus and Rashford to go.

  11. FPL Blow-In
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    This would have been a good week to FH chip. All the obvious players done well

    1. HashAttack
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      A rival has done that - very good so far, Lundstram (6), Baldock (6), Tarkowski (6), Grealish (7) and Jimi (6)

  12. HashAttack
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Just seen that someone in my ML has used bench boost - his team includes Salah, Mane and Reid .. and he also has Button and Sokratis

    BB when you have 10 players ... that's mad

    1. Van der Faart
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Casual

  13. Van der Faart
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    A Kdb blank would be lovely now even though I have him. Two rivals have captained him and I've made massive ground so far today.

    1. Over Midwicket
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Even a cheeky knock in the warmup wouldn't hurt

    2. HashAttack
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Prefer Vardy to score low - 50% ownership and most captained player

  14. Debauchy
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    No stopping the Party

  15. RabMac
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    If you have a moment could you give me some feedback on my wildcard team please.

    Ryan | Ramsdale

    Kelly | Evans | Baldock | Lundstrom | Dunk

    Ali | Maddison | Mane | KDB | Dendoncker

    Vardy | Pukki | Ings

    1. UTD - HATED, ADORED, BUT NE…
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      It’s different - have you taken a look at Sheffield Utd’s fixtures after next week? I would lose Baldock personally. Maybe for Aurier.

      I think I’d sooner have Guaita and Rico than Ramsdale and Rico ( not convinced Kelly’s nailed when everyone’s available)

      Hard to argue with Ings due to his form but looking at his fixtures - I’m just not entirely sold on him and Pukki. Could maybe lose one for Maupay? I’d consider downgrading the other and going 3-5-2 as I think there are more good quality options in midfield

      1. UTD - HATED, ADORED, BUT NE…
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        2nd Rico is Kelly, sorry