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Abraham leads Chelsea line as Jorginho drops to bench for West Brom trip

Tammy Abraham (£7.3m) has been tasked with leading the Chelsea line for their Gameweek 3 trip to West Bromwich Albion.

After impressing midweek, the former Swansea City loanee makes his first Premier League start of the season in what looks to be a 4-2-3-1 formation named by Frank Lampard.

That suggests a slightly wider role for Timo Werner (£9.5m), who is capable of operating as a left-winger, while Kai Havertz (£8.4m) gets his first chance to play number 10 in a league match since arriving from Bayer Leverkusen.

Meanwhile, Abraham coming into the team has forced Jorginho (£5.1m) to the bench, which should make for interesting viewing if Chelsea win any penalties this afternoon, as the Italian has taken two since the start of the season.

In defence, Reece James (£5.1m) continues to silence the naysayers worried about rotation, as he starts ahead of Cesar Azpilicueta (£5.9m) for the third match in a row.

His Fantasy credentials are boosted by a Premier League debut for Thiago Silva (£5.5m), although Willy Caballero (£4.9m) makes one last start in goal as Edouard Mendy‘s (£5.0m) came too soon for involvement in Gameweek 3.

Matheus Pereira (£6.0m) remains the only asset of slight Fantasy worth in the West Bromwich Albion side.

The mid-priced midfielder is the most popular among Baggies starters but is only owned by 2.5% ahead of a testing meeting with Chelsea.

West Bromwich Albion XI (5-4-1): Johnstone; C Townsend, O’Shea, Bartley, Ajayi, Furlong; Diangana, Sawyers, Livermore, M Pereira; C Robinson.

Chelsea XI (4-2-3-1): Caballero; Alonso, T Silva, Christensen, R James; Kanté, Kovačić; Werner, Havertz, Mount; Abraham.

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2,429 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Keep Calm and Play On
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Alonso shouldn’t even see the bench for the rest of the season, now cue a 30yard fk

  2. Begbie.
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner does a Brighton

  3. _Ninja_
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Timo off tbe bar

  4. FPL Blow-In
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner crossbar!!

  5. Captain Vantastic™
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Damn you Werner

  6. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner gets in on the crossbar challenge

  7. Pedram
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner is a great CM tbh

    1. Ze_Austin
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 7 months ago

      Reminds me of Kane

  8. Champions League Varane
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner Hits the bar

    Gulps

  9. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner bar

  10. Gobigorgohome
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner hits the bar

  11. Chilli Heatwave
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner cross bar

  12. Zilla
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner hits crossbar..

  13. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Tammy couldn’t finish an M&S meal for one, that’s already been half eaten....

  14. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner post

    1. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 7 months ago

      Hope he put a stamp on it.....

      1. FPL Daniel
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 7 months ago

        Hahahaha

  15. Make United Great Again
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner cross bar. But he’s playing on the wing remember

  16. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    At least Werner looks like an easy transfer back to Ings or Jimi.

  17. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner has to bury that

  18. Meinhoff
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Timo wtf dude

  19. Ze_Austin
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Timo Banner

  20. Dannyb
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Post is on fire today.

  21. Andre W
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    1pt for a crossbar hit?

  22. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Big miss from the German Tammy.

  23. KGFC
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Big miss Werner

  24. Zimo
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    It'll be trossard all over again

  25. potatoace
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Have these crossbars been measured

  26. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner doing a Trossard

  27. Gobigorgohome
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner trying to match Trosaard

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 7 months ago

      Great minds think alike 🙂

  28. Vazza
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Need 4 points from McCarthy to finish today on zero points

    1. have you seen cyan
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 7 months ago

      lol an exciting day of FPL

      1. Vazza
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 7 months ago

        I’m fed up with FPL

  29. Rolls-Royce
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner watched too much Trossard.

  30. The Mandalorian
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 7 months ago

    Werner crossbar