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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.

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  1. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Doherty YC

    1. JIMMY TUGGINS
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      Sigh.

  2. JIMMY TUGGINS
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    This upcoming beautiful fixture run is gonna be wasted on Bournemouth.

    1. One More Hit
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      I am strongly considering Ramsdale based on fixtures but who knows now.

      1. Bushwhacker
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 7 months ago

        He was great last week. The only week since I’ve had him but ...

  3. sunzip14
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Doherty YC

  4. AzzaroMax99
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Hendo+Lundy cs, bought Grealish for a hit. Wow!

  5. Fudgy
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Doherty YC

  6. Party time
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Doherty yc

  7. Sailboats
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Deleting my team if Brighton scores

    1. dark91
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      The game is over

      1. Greasy
        • 13 Years
        6 years, 7 months ago

        Hahahahahha

    2. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      0-1. Already finished.

  8. Niho992
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Come on Raz(C) save my GW

  9. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Doherty YC

  10. OptimusBlack
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    F*** u doherty

    1. tucaoneo
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      Think that's what I said every week last year.

  11. ChelseaGuy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Doherty getting multiple YCs. RC incoming

  12. TomSaints
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    So terribly predictable watching the clean sheets go at the death

  13. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Imagine benching Grealish & Cantwell.

    Hate this shite game!!!

    1. Catastrophe
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      Surprised people even have a bench!

    2. WVA
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      How can you bench them this week?

      I captained Grealish and Started Cantwell

      1. Zladan
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 7 months ago

        Autosub shithousery.

    3. ChelseaGuy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      Benched Cantwell. In hindsight, it's a good decision.
      Pretty sure you didn't bench Grealish

    4. IN SANE IN DE BRUYNE
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      Benched Cantwell, classic Cantwell scoring when he is benched and blanking when you need him.

  14. Party time
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Henderson + Lundy you lads are Magnificient

  15. Catastrophe
    • 15 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Chances of Pope or Lundstram sneaking a BAP?

    1. Over Midwicket
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      Pope 0 made 0 saves
      Lund possibly but O'Connell was a beast

    2. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      Pope has a chance.

  16. Zilla
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Jiminez G, Grealish G, Rico and Kelly CS wiped. All gone wrong at the end.

    1. TomSaints
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      Welcome to this season =(

  17. CRO KLOPP
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Jimenez (c),Grealish and Cantwell here,yes

  18. OPTA FPL
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Buendia 33bps without goal or assist?!

    1. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      Cause Pukki kept mucking up his assists.

  19. Niho992
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    MCginn to Grealish no brainer?

  20. Aftermath
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    It would've been the scam of all scams if palace would've kept their cleanie, oh well happy with Jimmy and Grealish goals

  21. One More Hit
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    54 from 7. Shame about Rico and Kelly losing their CSs otherwise I'd be doing laps of the room

  22. Over Midwicket
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Ings 10 goals in 12 matches. For 5.9 mil when I go him, I'll take that.

    1. Over Midwicket
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      Got*

  23. Woy_is_back
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Rico & Guaita

    U bastaaads 🙁

    1. One Wheels Enough
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 7 months ago

      Having defs from crap teams is a bit of an occupational hazard

  24. Party time
    6 years, 7 months ago

    What an assist from Henderson

  25. _Ninja_
    • 15 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Get in Pope, 7th cleanie this season.

  26. how now brown cow
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Nearly had all 5 of my players return but for rico 🙁

    Still 47 from 5 inc cap if baps hold!

    First unsubtle brag in a long time.

  27. lordkippe
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    100 k drop from theese games. Will probably fall another 100 k come tomorrow.

  28. Zenith UK
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Kelly the only player burning me right now, I need a good comeback week...

  29. tucaoneo
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    Pope outscored Guaita. Oops.

  30. have you seen cyan
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 7 months ago

    49 from 6, nice 😀