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West Ham v Chelsea team news: James returns, Lukaku and Benrahma subs

The dust of Gameweek 14 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) has barely settled but we’re already up and running for Gameweek 15, which gets underway in east London this lunchtime.

A tasty-looking clash between West Ham United and Chelsea kicks off at 12:30 GMT.

Reece James – who rather curiously dropped in price last night – is back for this clash as expected and is one of four changes that Thomas Tuchel has made from the Blues side that unconvincingly beat Watford 2-1 at Vicarage Road in midweek.

Thiago Silva, Jorginho and Hakim Ziyech also return, with Christian Pulisic, Saul and Cesar Azpilicueta dropping to the bench and Trevoh Chalobah missing out altogether with a hamstring injury.

Romelu Lukaku is again only a substitute.

Hammers boss David Moyes makes two alterations to the team that drew 1-1 at home to Brighton and Hove Albion on Wednesday.

Issa Diop and Manuel Lanzini return to the starting line-up, with Pablo Fornals and Said Benrahma dropping to the bench. That will see the hosts turn to a wing-back system, a shape Moyes has adopted in the past when up against the big guns.

Aaron Cresswell remains out with a back injury.

GAMEWEEK 15 LINE-UPS

West Ham United XI: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Zouma, Diop, Johnson, Soucek, Rice, Bowen, Lanzini, Antonio

Subs: Areola, Yarmolenko, Fornals, Vlasic, Noble, Benrahma, Masuaku, Kral, Ashby

Chelsea XI: Mendy, Thiago Silva, Christensen, Rudiger, James, Loftus-Cheek, Jorginho, Alonso, Mount, Ziyech, Havertz

Subs: Kepa, Lukaku, Pulisic, Werner, Saul, Barkley, Hudson-Odoi, Azpilicueta, Sarr

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  1. Zimo
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Updates and crashes. Lovely

  2. Captain Vantastic™
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Fpl site down?

    1. Firminooooo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Pants up.

  3. Rupert The Horse
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    It’s crashed in to a burning bush.

  4. Gooner97
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Pants down

  5. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Mark refused to change his captain! Give it a few seconds people.

    1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      forgot*

      1. Fitzy.
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        It was almost so funny too...

      2. Cilly Bonnolly
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        F**ked it mate.

  6. Matjes_taet
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Hiding behind the sofa. No Chelsea-defender in my starting 11.

    1. Bavarian
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      no worries, they will blank

      1. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
        • 14 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Based on?

        1. El Presidente
          • 4 Years
          2 years, 4 months ago

          Wishful thinking

    2. Zimo
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Who do u have?

      1. Matjes_taet
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Trent, Regi, Cancelo (Rudi second on my bench)

        1. Zimo
          • 5 Years
          2 years, 4 months ago

          Why not go 4 at the back with James or Alonso? It'll be fun. That's a solid back 3 tho 🙂

          1. Matjes_taet
            • 6 Years
            2 years, 4 months ago

            I missed that Chillwell/James/Alonso train, but i still think there are two many options further forward to play 4 or 5 at the back. For me it worked fine so far.

            1. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
              • 14 Years
              2 years, 4 months ago

              Typical German understatedness. 😀
              I looked at your team you are ranked 4.5k!
              Well done, keep doing what you are doing.

    3. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Their luck is running out, you'll be fine.

    4. Gooner97
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      No problem

    5. El Presidente
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      You should

    6. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
      • 14 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      I looked up your profile pic. Brilliant (Mike Werner) - on his wiki page. The first few lines are known for his mullet!

  7. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Free Wildcard?

    1. Zimo
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Yup just for u

  8. Bobby Digital
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Server error

    1. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
      • 14 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Would be a great team name.

      1. Andy_Social
        • 11 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Upgraded to

        Unavailable

        Sorry, but we are unable to load the requested page at this time.

        Please try again in a few minutes.

        1. Eze Really?
          • 9 Years
          2 years, 4 months ago

          Overload

        2. Andy_Social
          • 11 Years
          2 years, 4 months ago

          LiveFPL ahead of the official site

        3. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
          • 14 Years
          2 years, 4 months ago

          I don't think they allow that number of characters for the team name.

    2. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Oh that’s why I got a carrot instead of fish and chips.

  9. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    BT sport with the Declan half hour.

    Anyone got Rice in their team?

    1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Their sports editor. Not too sure if he mingles here with mortals like us,

  10. DARE TO BISCAN
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Almost like a coupla million people just tried to log on to a webpage, or something.

    1. Zimo
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Happens every week

      1. DARE TO BISCAN
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Weird coincidence. It'll be different next time.

    2. Cilly Bonnolly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Like they do every week.

  11. El Presidente
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    No Fornals???

    1. DARE TO BISCAN
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Subs bench

  12. Captain Vantastic™
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Form is temporary but service is unavailable

  13. Gooner97
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Loading ...

    1. Deulofail
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      I'll keep refreshing this comment

  14. Firminooooo
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Antonio on my bench and playing James and Alonso.What could possibly go wrong!

    1. Gooner97
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Servers

    2. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Antonio could score.

      1. Firminooooo
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        You win.

      2. Pedersen
        • 5 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        No comeback from this one

    3. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Server

    4. Cilly Bonnolly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Same situation. Couldn’t decide whether to play Antonio or Dennis so went with the one playing against one of my defenders over the one playing two of them.

  15. Amartey Partey
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Any news on Ronaldo injury?

    1. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Who?

    2. Deulofail
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Depends on what the last thing that was new to you was. Give us a chance!

      1. Amartey Partey
        • 4 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Two broken legs

        1. Deulofail
          • 8 Years
          2 years, 4 months ago

          Ah so you haven't heard about the third

          1. Amartey Partey
            • 4 Years
            2 years, 4 months ago

            Not yet. I hope it’s not serious.

    3. DARE TO BISCAN
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      What've you got, so far? It's all new to me.

      1. Amartey Partey
        • 4 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Knock 75% chance of playing flag.

        1. DARE TO BISCAN
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          2 years, 4 months ago

          67.8% of stats are made up on the spot.

  16. Zimo
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Draft fpl is working tho. Keep the shite one on why don't u

  17. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Time for FPL to move on from their CERN httpd servers.

    1. Deulofail
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Gone are the days of the Large Hadrondon Collider

      1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Might need it to kickstart this one!

      2. DARE TO BISCAN
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Rafa still loves it.

    2. DARE TO BISCAN
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Higgs Boson bandwagon, over.

      1. Deulofail
        • 8 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Haha, over and out.

      2. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Higgs' Bosoms might be the solution!

  18. The Mandalorian
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    FPL works for me, you guys must be stuck in the matrix.

    1. Firminooooo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      You are probably dreaming it stays that way some GWs.

  19. Walter White (WW)
    • 2 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Fpl working perfectly over here

    1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Ground control to Major Tom!

      1. Walter White (WW)
        • 2 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Lol 😆

    2. Deulofail
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Can't see other people's teams over here

      1. Walter White (WW)
        • 2 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        🙂

    3. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Points system not working for me, very few points in last few GWs.

      1. Amartey Partey
        • 4 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        I’ve got that same issue too. Antonio keeps showing as 1 point for last 10 gameweeks.

    4. Chemical76
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Rubber band has snapped

  20. Lemonade
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Who else played it risky and decided not to captain Salah this GW?

    1. Amartey Partey
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      I wanted to captain Son but couldn’t do it after getting burned by captaining Alonso last week.

    2. TheBiffas
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      risky....or foolish?

      1. Lemonade
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Smart... or luck?;)

        1. Lemonade
          • 3 Years
          2 years, 4 months ago

          lucky*

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

      not anymore

  21. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Well in the site down time we've got Zola....

    https://twitter.com/SachinNakrani/status/1467099607020851201?t=DDMh8zt5bgRhVuo4I1wvtA&s=19

  22. Deulofail
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Error: Server Error
    The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
    Please try again in 30 seconds.

    Going to have to be precise with the timing of my refresh. 10 seconds left.

    1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Damn! 0.0001 second too late! Need to switch it from Chinese to Swiss.

      1. Deulofail
        • 8 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        It's all relative

  23. Ze_Austin
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    3-4-2-1 works better for Antonio than 4-2-3-1, I think

    More players feeding him

    Maybe this will continue with Cresswell at LCB when he returns from injury, making Diop Drop

  24. OPTA FPL
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Error: Server Error
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    Please try again in 30 seconds.

  25. GreennRed
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Double R. Jesus wept.

  26. Ginkapo FPL
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Why do you want to get on the site so badly?

    1. Andy_Social
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Check ML rivals. I can do that on LiveFPL although that's not fully running

    2. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      To make transfers for next week

    3. Zimo
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      It's a part of the ritual

  27. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    The App is down but the browser is working.

    1. Cilly Bonnolly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Nope. It’s down again too.

  28. Gooner97
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 4 months ago

    Meanwhile..

    Eight consecutive league starts for 4.0m Johnson

    1. Deulofail
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Do you think his friends and family also call him 4.0m Johnson?

      1. Gooner97
        • 10 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        "4.0m, come here!" when they get angry against him

        1. Andy_Social
          • 11 Years
          2 years, 4 months ago

          Angry parents use the embarrassing full name, don't they?
          "4.0 million, go to your room!"

      2. Andy_Social
        • 11 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Prob a better pick than Livra now, but still a sideways move.

        1. Deulofail
          • 8 Years
          2 years, 4 months ago

          The old double switcharoo? Wouldn't mind a quick in-out with the 4.0 Johnson

    2. Cilly Bonnolly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Isn’t 4.0m his first name?

    3. @persecuted_by_mods
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Not nailed, coufal was returning from Injury and Johnson did well enough to stick around, West ham as a team however haven't been firing like they were when it was coufal. I think he would have been dropped already had creswell not got injured

    4. Deulofail
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Anyone got a magic bean?

      1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Will shrooms do?

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

        Bit personal

        1. Deulofail
          • 8 Years
          2 years, 4 months ago

          😆

    5. TheBiffas
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 4 months ago

      Optimistic about this week, this is the team

      Ramsdale

      TAA - James - Cancelo - Lamptey

      Salah - Son - Jota - Cornet

      Vardy - Jesus

      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        2 years, 4 months ago

        Pretty much 10 attacking players there!