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Vardy back for Leicester as Southampton visit King Power Stadium

Jamie Vardy (£10.0m) is set to make his first Premier League appearance of 2020 after being named in the Leicester line-up to face Southampton.

He comes into Gameweek 22 heavily backed for the captaincy, both among the top 10,000 Fantasy managers and our own community.

Not only has Vardy been in exceptional form when starting this season but today is also his first outing since becoming a father again and it’s his birthday too.

Brendan Rodgers has made some changes to his Leicester side with the injured Wilfred Ndidi (£5.0m) missing out, replaced by Hamza Choudhury (£4.3m), and Youri Tielemans (£6.3m) consigned to the bench by Harvey Barnes (£5.9m) returning to the starting line-up.

Meanwhile, opponents Southampton line-up largely as predicted in our Team News tab, Danny Ings (£6.7m) leading the attack in a week where plenty of owners left him on the bench.

The all-important Fantasy assets start for Manchester United with Anthony Martial (£7.9m) up-front and Marcus Rashford (£9.2m) on the flanks.

They are also boosted by Harry Maguire (£5.2m) coming through his recent injury problems and the fact that Teemu Pukki (£6.5m) is absent for Norwich, replaced by Adam Idah (£4.4m).

Chelsea shape-up in a 4-3-3 system with Callum Hudson-Odoi (£5.3m) coming in for the injured Christian Pulisic (£7.0m) on the left flank of attack.

Meanwhile, Fikayo Tomori (£4.7m) misses out for the second match in a row, this time on the bench with Kurt Zouma (£4.7m). Antonio Rüdiger (£6.0m) and Andreas Christensen (£4.9m) are the chosen centre-back pairing.

Sean Dyche has made a rare deviation from his favoured 4-4-2 formation as Burnley prepare to face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, lining the Clarets up in a 4-5-1.

Chris Wood (£6.2m) leads the attack with Aaron Lennon (£4.7m) and Dwight McNeil (£6.0m) providing the width from midfield.

Matt Lowton (£4.2m) makes his first start since Gameweek 16, coming in for the benched Phil Bardsley (£4.3m).

Wolves are another team lined-up how we predicted, with Pedro Neto (£5.0m) and Adama Traoré (£5.7m) either side of Raùl Jiménez (£7.5m).

Carlo Ancelotti looks to have gone with a 4-4-2 formation for his fourth Premier League match in charge of Everton with Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£5.9m) joined up-front by Richarlison (£8.1m).

Bernard (£6.4m) and Theo Walcott (£6.2m) look to be providing the width in midfield which may lead to less advanced roles for Lucas Digne (£5.7m) and Djibril Sidibé (£5.4m).

Brighton hand a first start of the season to Alireza Jahanbakhsh (£5.8m), who starts on the flanks of attack, joined by Neal Maupay (£5.8m) and Leandro Trossard (£5.8m) in a front-three.

Line-ups in Full

Chelsea XI: Kepa; Azpilicueta, Christensen, Rüdiger, R James; Mount, Jorginho, Barkley; Hudson-Odoi, Abraham, Willian.

Burnley XI: Pope; Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, C Taylor; Lennon, Westwood, Cork, McNeil; Hendrick; Wood.

Everton XI: Pickford; Sidibé, Keane, Holgate, Digne; Walcott, Davies, Sigurdsson, Bernard; Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison.

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Ryan; Webster, Duffy, Dunk; Montoya, Pröpper, Stephens, Bernardo; Jahanbakhsh, Maupay, Trossard.

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel; Chilwell, Söyüncü, Evans, R Pereira; Choudhury; Barnes, Maddison, Praet, Pérez; Vardy.

Southampton XI: McCarthy; Cédric, J Stephens, Bednarek, Bertrand; Armstrong, Ward-Prowse, Højbjerg, Redmond; Long, Ings.

Manchester United XI: De Gea; Wan-Bissaka, Lindelöf, Maguire, Williams; Fred, Matic; A Pereira, Mata, Rashford; Martial.

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

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

Newcastle United XI: Dubravka; Dummett, Fernández, Clark; Hayden, S Longstaff, M Longstaff, Willems; Almirón, Gayle; Joelinton.

2,342 Comments Post a Comment
  1. FPL Blow-In
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    United need another before HT to settle and have no late jitters in the second half to blow it

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

    Abraham G

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

      Oh.....

  3. Bubz
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Yea Richhhhhhh

  4. Champions League Varane
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    RICHARLSION 🙂

  5. La Roja
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Richarlison goal

  6. Skalla
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Tammy goal same time Ryan concedes 🙂

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

    Had a damn feeling about Dendoncker, and of course on my bench lol

    1. Majestic Chanka
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Same, I did bring to 1st on bench but definitely going to stay there.

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

    Rich yaaaaaaaaas

    1. Champions League Varane
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      And James assist!

      1. Champions League Varane
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        For Chelsea lol

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

        yeeeees 😀

  9. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Goals everywhere...none for me though 🙁

  10. HonestBlatter
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Cannot party until VARs are checked

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

    who assisted to Rich

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Digne

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

    It’s all going wrong again

  13. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Look at all these players I don't own

  14. OPTA FPL
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Digne A

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

    Oof, should’ve done Richa in for Martial after all

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

    Of course tammy scores

  17. Tasty Jerk
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Abraham! GET in!

  18. mad_beer ✅
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rich and Tammy goals! Yes!

  19. JT11fc
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Richy!!!!

  20. BNMC
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Not in the mood to open LiveFPL now.

  21. Londongeezaa
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Alli to Rich feels like a good move now. Regretted it for a while.

  22. SEXY SALAH
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank destroyed within a minute, Richarlison and Abraham goals

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

    HOW S*** MUST YOU BE, ITS ONLY 1-1

  24. threeputt
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Just mine or is everyones st**ms awful today ?

    1. goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      I really can't work out that word

      1. threeputt
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        oops str**ms

  25. Nightcrawler
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Horrible last few mins

    Vardy cap, pope owner
    No abraham
    No richarlison
    No rashford

  26. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Maybe KDB wasn't such a good captain pick.

  27. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    TAMMY CAPITANOOOOOOOOO

  28. TAT
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Dropping Tammy for Jiménez a few weeks ago has been a horrible move.

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

    Sold Tammy

  30. HonestBlatter
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    TAMMY SEASONKEEPER HE IS

    1. Tasty Jerk
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      This, cant believe some got rid before playing Burnley.