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8 February 2022 1306 comments
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Gameweek 24 gets underway this evening with Newcastle United v Everton and West Ham United v Watford at 19.45 GMT, followed by Burnley v Manchester United 15 minutes later.

At St James’ Park, Eddie Howe makes one change from Gameweek 23, with new signing Matt Targett replacing the injured Paul Dummett at left-back.

Fellow new recruits, Bruno Guimaraes and Dan Burn, are both named on the bench.

Frank Lampard, meanwhile, makes two changes from Saturday’s 4-1 FA Cup win over Brentford, with Yerry Mina and Andros Townsend coming in for the injured Ben Godfrey and Vitaliy Mykolenko.

That means Dele Alli and Donny van de Beek are substitutes, plus Dominic Calvert-Lewin, with Demarai Gray and Anthony Gordon flanking Richarlison up front.

Elsewhere, Kurt Zouma surprisingly starts for West Ham, whilst further forward, Michail Antonio leads the line after missing Saturday’s FA Cup tie at Kidderminster Harriers, having featured for Jamaica three times during the winter break.

As for Watford, Roy Hodgson recalls Emmanuel Dennis following his one-match suspension, plus Tom Cleverley, with Joao Pedro and Ken Sema dropping out.

At Turf Moor, Josh Brownhill and Jay Rodriguez replace Dale Stephens and Aaron Lennon, both of whom are on the bench.

However, the headline news involves the visitors, with Cristiano Ronaldo – owned by 28.1% of FPL managers – benched.

As a result, Edinson Cavani will lead the United line, with Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes paired together in central midfield, in what looks like a 4-3-3 formation, a system Ralf Rangnick used in Friday’s FA Cup loss against Middlesbrough.


GAMEWEEK 24 LINE-UPS

Newcastle United XI: Dubravka, Trippier, Lascelles, Schar, Targett, Shelvey, Willock, Joelinton, Fraser, Saint-Maximin, Wood

Subs: Darlow, Krafth, Manquillo, Murphy, Burn, Guimaraes, Almiron, Longstaff, Gayle

Everton XI: Pickford, Holgate, Keane, Mina, Coleman, Allan, Gomes, Townsend, Gordon, Gray, Richarlison

Subs: Begovic, Kenny, Patterson, Branthwaite, Iwobi, Van de Beek, El Ghazi, Alli, Calvert-Lewin


West Ham United XI: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Zouma, Cresswell, Soucek, Rice, Bowen, Fornals, Benrahma, Antonio

Subs: Areola, Yarmolenko, Lanzini, Vlasic, Noble, Diop, Fredericks, Johnson, Kral

Watford XI: Foster, Femenia, Cathcart, Samir, Kamara, Kucka, Sissoko, Kayembe, Cleverley, Dennis, King

Subs: Bachmann, Ngakia, Louza, Joao Pedro, Masina, Sema, Kabasele, Kalu, Cucho


Burnley XI: Pope, Roberts, Tarkowski, Mee, Pieters, McNeil, Brownhill, Westwood, Cornet, Rodriguez, Weghorst

Subs: Hennessey, Lowton, Cork, Barnes, Stephens, Lennon, Collins, Bardsley, Long

Manchester United XI: de Gea, Dalot, Varane, Maguire, Shaw, McTominay, Pogba, Fernandes, Sancho, Rashford, Cavani

Subs: Henderson, Lindelof, Jones, Mata, Ronaldo, Lingard, Wan-Bissaka, Matic, Elanga

  1. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Zouma to score and do the Bafetimbi Gomis celebration

    1. PartyTime
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      🙂

  2. Thanos
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Likely chalked off 🙁

  3. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 15 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Goal disallowed

    1. Ask Yourself
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Lovely

      1. The Train Driver
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Lovely that the game is becoming a joke?

  4. Lieutenant Frank Columbo
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Disallowed

  5. Pat Bonner
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Var overrules it

    1. Pompel
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      pheew

  6. Pukki Party
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Wtf

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

    Consistent at least.

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

    Ruled out for offside.

    What a joke!!!

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

      Click your fingers

  9. Norco
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    VARd

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

    Still sweating.

  11. Atimis
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Ronaldo benched, Gray injured already, FPL spell back with a full strength for me!

    1. Salan
      • 16 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Not only you.

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

    Unlucky Varane owners.

    1. Nate(U)dog(ie)
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Rival of mine actually brought him in this week! Was sweating for a minute there

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

        I was on him for a while, him, Dalot or Digne.

  13. BeWater
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    That walk to the screen is just a complete waste of time.

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

      Yes, we all know what it means

  14. Ady87
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Please can we get a break at some point.

  15. Eat my goal!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    VDB kicking himself!

  16. EDUARDO DA SILVA
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Unlucky Varchester

  17. Norco
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Gray injured the first time I start him

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

      Lucky, I've been starting him for a few weeks now 🙁

  18. thegaffer82
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Bummer!

  19. Nightcrawler
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Absolutely NOWHERE to hide for those celebrating early

  20. Mr Arsenal
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    LOAL

  21. JJO
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    What a faking group of imbecils they are

  22. JBG
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Lol ridiculous decision that.

  23. Fish up a tree
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Newcastle still look shiiiite

  24. Paqueta Rice
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    2 VAR decisions against United b2b people. Just saying…

    1. JBG
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      A handball that directly leads to a goal is given... But an offside that doesn't really affect the goal, doesn't. Okay, that makes sense.

      1. Paqueta Rice
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Yeah, I understand the rule. Just saying it for all those that think VAR favours United

  25. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Shelvey doing Shelvey things...

  26. Thanos
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Mina down now

  27. Lieutenant Frank Columbo
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Shelvey utterly stupid YC

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

    Might as well get Olise for Gray now...

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

      He looks a good option.

    2. Ask Yourself
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Keeps his place with Zaha back?

  29. Old Wulfrunian
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    F**k off Gray

  30. Oggle22
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    What happened to Gray? Kept hold of him instead of being part of a -4 to bring cancelo in