Gameweek 23 comes to a conclusion at a wintry Elland Road this evening as Leeds United take on Crystal Palace.
Kick-off is at 20:00 GMT.
Patrick Bamford (£6.7m) carries the hopes of almost 50% of Fantasy managers this evening, having seen his ownership swell even further in the last Gameweek: just under 250,000 FPL bosses transferred in the striker ahead of Saturday’s deadline.
Bamford’s ownership is up around the 85% mark in the top 10k, with Stuart Dallas (£4.8m) also widely owned among this elite group: the Northern Ireland international sits in over one in three of these squads.
As we’ve become accustomed to seeing this season, Leeds are unchanged from their previous game.
There is no Pablo Hernandez (£5.7m) among the substitutes, however, with the veteran playmaker missing out through injury.
The Palace team news is more noteworthy, with Roy Hodgson opting to field Tyrick Mitchell (£3.9m) and Patrick van Aanholt (£5.4m) in the same side.
One of them, likely van Aanholt, will presumably be playing ‘out of position’ further up the left flank.
Hodgson also hands Jean-Philippe Mateta (£5.9m) his debut, with Michy Batshuayi (£5.7m) only on the bench and Wilfried Zaha (£7.2m) absent because of a hamstring problem.
Mitchell and Leeds’ Pascal Struijk (£3.9m) are two of the three cheapest starters of Gameweek 23, with the latter making his eighth successive Bielsa line-up in the Premier League.
The reverse fixture between these two sides ended in a 4-1 win for Palace, a match in which Eberechi Eze (£5.8m) registered his highest FPL score of the season.
Leeds United XI: Meslier, Ayling, Cooper, Struijk, Alioski, Dallas, Klich, Phillips, Harrison, Raphinha, Bamford.
Crystal Palace XI: Guaita, Van Aanholt, Cahill, Dann, Clyne, Mitchell, Milivojevic, Riedewald, Eze, Mateta, Ayew.
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2 months, 12 days agoWhat a week. I love moments like this.
Before tonight’s game I was in 41 points and dropped a shed load in rank. I’d benched Martinez and Gundo and was pretty gutted.
I was also well and truly out of the cup as the guy I was against had 2 Leeds players to my 3 but had a 15 point lead.
We both had Bamford, but I had him as captain. But here’s the best bit; I had Dallas and Meslier, who somehow go and get themselves clean sheets and 3 bonus points each to scrape me through and probably end up on a 10th consecutive green arrow with 75 points for the week.
Happy days.