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Aurier starts again as Leicester and Spurs name unchanged teams

Leicester City continue their push for a UEFA Champions League qualification place this afternoon.

The Foxes head south face to Spurs in their latest pursuit of three points, with kick-off at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium at 16:00 BST.

The team news is very straightforward as both managers have named unchanged starting XIs following wins in Gameweek 36+.

That means another start for Serge Aurier (£5.1m), who has travelled back from France after spending time with his family in the wake of his brother’s death.

It also means a second successive run-out for Luke Thomas (£4.0m) for the visitors, with the budget Fantasy Premier League defender again featuring at left wing-back.

Brendan Rodgers’ side are without Ricardo Pereira (£6.2m), James Maddison (£7.3m), Ben Chilwell (£5.5m), Christian Fuchs (£4.2m) and Marc Albrighton (£5.1m) through injury, with Caglar Soyuncu (£4.9m) suspended.

Dele Alli (£8.3m) is still unavailable for Spurs but Juan Foyth (£4.8m) returns from a lengthy lay-off and is among the substitutes.

Only one Leicester player has an effective ownership of more than 1% in the top 10k: that, unsurprisingly, is Jamie Vardy (£9.7m), who sits in just over one in five of these squads.

Aurier has been benched by more than half of his owners within the top 10k, meanwhile.

Mourinho’s starting XI may have been unchanged in the last three games but the formation continues to evolve, with Son Heung-min (£9.7m) here playing out wide on the left of a 4-2-3-1 rather than up top alongside Harry Kane (£10.9m).


Tottenham Hotspur XI: Lloris; Aurier, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Davies; Sissoko, Winks; Lo Celso, Lucas, Son; Kane.

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel; Bennett, Morgan, Evans; Justin, Ndidi, Tielemans, Thomas; Perez, Vardy, Barnes.

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  1. Piggs Boson
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Manchester United: DDG, AWB, Lindelof, Maguire, Bailly, Williams, Matic, Fred, Fernandes, Rashford, James

    Chelsea: Willy, James, Azpilcueta, Rudiger, Zouma, Alonso, Jorginho, Kovacic, Willian, Giroud, Mount

    1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Big win for United then same team v West Ham

      Go again

      1. Piggs Boson
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Ole will probably take Rashford, Bruno, Matic, Williams, AWB off early if he can, I'm sure... You'd want those to start against the Hammers!

    2. JONALDINHO
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Of course I own Bruno and Rashford and not martial. Benched Greenwood too

    3. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Relatively strong sides from both

      Can't believe utd are risking Bruno & Rashford - pretty reckless from Ole

      1. Rolls-Royce
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Bruno has looked knackered for the past few games. Definitely needs a rest with all the shift he puts in twice a week.

      2. ZLATAN'S PONYTAIL
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        This. Bruno should've been on the bench. Ole is being completely silly. If he goes this game or next, United are in trouble.

    4. Rolls-Royce
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Surely Ighalo and Romero had to start there. Looks like 3-5-2

    5. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Glad to see Puli and Martial rested. Bruno or Rashford rest vs West Ham would be super but can't see it happening unless they get knocks today.

    6. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Martial to get the golden boot in the next two games
      3+ goals in both

  2. HurriKane
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    just forget about triple city attack

    triple united attack vs morgan bennet thomas is more tempting

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Who knows if Bennett will start the next match.

      1. HurriKane
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Who else they got? Academy players?

    2. Duffy Dunk
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      True. Having Pep's rotation in mind & the fact MCI don't chase anything anymore, I think 3 MCI attackers would be way too many.

    3. Saïss Doesn't Mat…
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Rodgers has already switched to a back four. I don't think he'll make the same mistake against utd

  3. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Whats the Man U line up? Cant find it anywhere?

    1. have you seen cyan
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      nvm its above

    2. Piggs Boson
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Yeah, was waiting too but saw no-one had posted so just did it myself 😀

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

    Martial rested. Nice!

    1. TheDragon
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Dropped?

  5. Burger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Who's nailed in Burnley defence?

    1. JustPark
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Tark, Pope, Bardsley. Long and Pieter if Mee and Taylor couldn't make it.

  6. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Poor finish from Kane that

    1. Burger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Kane is back.

    2. Van der Faart
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      It was blocked?

  7. Siva Mohan
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you Spurs!

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

    Who's the most essential for 38? Auba, Kane, or Salah?

    1. Siva Mohan
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Auba

    2. Releasebreaks
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Kane

    3. ritzyd
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Salah

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

      might go for all three! City assets would just be D.silva and ederson maybe then so not great.

      1. ritzyd
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        I'm having all 3 plus sterling, dilva and martial as my core for FH in 38

  9. GAMBIT
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    I've got to get Martial in next week don't I?

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

      Not if he gets injured vs West Ham. Not saying that will happen. But you got time to wait to see what happens.

      1. GAMBIT
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Yeah provided all goes well of course

    2. HurriKane
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Yes martial involved in most goals since restart (10) vs makeshift Leicester backline

  10. goriuanx
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    With the way Martin Tyler and Gary Neville are unsurprisingly eulogising over Kane, you'd think he was the second coming of Lionel Messi.

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

      Not even the best striker in north london

      1. Van der Faart
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Lol. Are you serious?

    2. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Some here claim Kane is better than Messi.

      1. Piggs Boson
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Surely a troll... 😯

        1. TorresMagic™
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          They are serious.

          1. ZLATAN'S PONYTAIL
            • 8 Years
            3 years, 9 months ago

            Trolling or delusional

      2. Sun Jihai
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        In FPL maybe

      3. Old Man
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        They need to see a shrink

    3. Zladan
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Kane being English means people downplay how good he actually is. They just think he’s being praised because he’s English.

      If he was any other nationality he’d rightfully be compared to the likes of Lewandowski.

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

        😆 😆

      2. Klip Klopp
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        What’s he won apart from the golden boot lol

        1. Zladan
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          Winning individual awards probably says more than a team award in this instance.

  11. Muchentuchel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Lo Celso is this typical championship player every top team needs to have

    1. goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Why do top teams need championship players? 😯

      1. Muchentuchel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        It amazes me... I don't know man but they all have one of these lads that you don't even know how he got to be a professional footballer. Lo Celso is sooooo bad.

        1. Van der Faart
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          You've obviously not watched him much

    2. Isco Disco
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      It’s his first season in the PL. Chill and give him some time. If Jose rates him then he definitely has potential to be a great player

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

      If you say so

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

    Feel sorry for Wes Morgan definitely past it, if he starts against United their forwards will run riot

  13. gooberman
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Martial and Greenwood benched is good news for those who captained them this week. Surely guaranteed to start the West Ham game.

  14. Nightcrawler
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Chelsea playing with 5 at the back/mid

    Alonso 2nd striker then

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      343

      1. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        (Maybe even 523... normally they have Alonso near the forwards on the lineup pics when it's a 343.)

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

          Alonso wingback= alonso striker

        2. Piggs Boson
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          I've always just treated them as the same formation tbh. The shape changes when they defend and attack anyway...

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

            Yes its the same thing

  15. Muchentuchel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    I don't know man but they all have one of these lads that you don't even know how he got to be a professional footballer

  16. Scots Gooner
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Really need Vardy to get something this half. One of my few ML differentials, plus rivals have Aurier in defense : (

    1. WVA
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      This, sorry mate but I've captained him so there's no chance of him getting anything other than a card, been my worst ever season.

    2. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Yes. not many good differentials left to go after this, Mahrez if i'm lucky

    3. Scots Gooner
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      This Vardy/Leicester performance, plus the Ings penalty miss, has been a death nail on my season. Roll on Sept 12th.

      1. DF
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Knell?

  17. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Morgan a threat in both boxes.

  18. Rolls-Royce
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    I think Pedro starts for Chelsea up top vs Liverpool or will it be Tammy?

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

      Giroud after 70 or so mins today.

    2. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      surely tammy starts in league.

  19. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Perez off
    Nacho on

  20. WVA
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    When will Vardy get booked?

  21. Don Kloppeone
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Oh crp just realised I capped Martial but Ings vc!!!

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

      Martial injured?

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        No I doubt it. It’s just going to be a nail biter but I expect it’ll be good for me (I hope!)

    2. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Lucky you then

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Who knows tbh! It’s all a lottery.

    3. Grumbledook
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Martial not starting in the FA Cup semi final this evening perhaps suggests he will start in the FPL match on Wednesday.

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        It’s all in the hands of the FPL spirits 😆

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

      That's good - his rest means he's the best captain option out of Bruno and Rashford
      Far more likely to play 90

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        He’s my bus captain atm

      2. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        For GW38 also

  22. BNMC
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    1. Doherty to Tierney/Tark to fund Vardy to Kane/Auba, or
    2. Vardy to a cheapie and Pulisic to Salah and keep Doherty?

  23. yalala
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    COYG

  24. Isco Disco
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    All United fans will have nothing but love for Jose from now on

  25. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    3 - Kane (57)
    2 - Lucas Moura (34)
    1 - Lloris (27)

  26. TheDragon
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Ole literally can’t rest Fernandes can he?

    Without Fernandes the team doesn’t work

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

      Hopefully subbed early on wednesday

  27. TheSteel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Any chance Son goal is given upon review within 60min after FT per the rules?

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      no

      1. TheSteel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Ty

    2. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      50/50

    3. The Train Driver
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      It wasn't his goal, very obvious, end of story...

      1. TheSteel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Not what i asked

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

    Jonny Evans has a very small head

    1. TheSteel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Sir, this is PG forum...

  29. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Hugo 5.

  30. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Wow, Martial dropped? Wanted to keep him for the rest of the season..

    1. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      😀