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Wednesday team news: Alonso and Mount start, Havertz benched again

Four Premier League matches take place on Wednesday evening as a mammoth Gameweek 36 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) slowly winds its way to a conclusion.

The north London derby will draw the Gameweek to a close tomorrow but there is plenty of Fantasy interest in tonight’s fixtures, with eight of the 12 ‘doublers’ in action.

Leeds United v Chelsea gets us underway at 19:30 BST, with Leicester City v Norwich City and Watford v Everton kicking off a quarter of an hour later. Finally, Wolverhampton Wanderers v Manchester City starts at 20:15 BST.

As for the team news, Thomas Tuchel has made four changes from the Blues’ disappointing 2-2 draw with Wolves.

Mason Mount is recalled along with Jorginho, Andreas Christensen and Trevoh Chalobah, as Cesar Azpilicueta, Thiago Silva, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Timo Werner drop to the bench.

Marcos Alonso keeps his place as Tuchel attempts to draw a line under the tiff that he and the Spaniard had in the first half of Saturday’s game, while Kai Havertz has to again make do with a place among the substitutes.

Jesse Marsch has matched his opposite number and made four changes from the 2-1 defeat at Arsenal.

Rodrigo, Liam Cooper, Lewis Bate and Pascal Struijk come in for Junior Firpo, Mateusz Klich, Joe Gelhardt and the banned Luke Ayling.

The changes are plentiful at the King Power Stadium, too. Brendan Rodgers has made five of them, with James Maddison and James Justin both returning from injury to start.

Jamie Vardy, Harvey Barnes and Ademola Lookman also come into the team, as Wesley Fofana, Kelechi Iheanacho, Patson Daka, Ayoze Perez and Nampalys Mendy drop out. Fofana doesn’t even make the bench.

Dean Smith recalls Angus Gunn, Lukas Rupp, Dimitris Giannoulis and full debutant Tony Springett at the expense of the benched Tim Krul, Brandon Williams, Jacob Sørensen and Kieran Dowell.

Roy Hodgson has beaten all of the above managers for team tinkering, making seven alterations – six of which are enforced.

Jeremy Ngakia, Joao Pedro, Adam Masina, Ken Sema, Dan Gosling, Christian Kabasele and Samuel Kalu all start at Vicarage Road.

Craig Cathcart drops to the bench, while Kiko Femenia, Hassane Kamara, Tom Cleverley, Ismaila Sarr, Josh King and Emmanuel Dennis are absent through either suspension, illness or injury.

Frank Lampard, by contrast, makes just one tweak to his starting XI, and that too is enforced.

Yerry Mina is ruled out because of a minor calf injury, so the Colombian is replaced by Michael Keane at the back.

In the late kick-off, expected recalls for Fernandinho, Bernardo Silva and Phil Foden have materialised. The benched Jack Grealish and Gabriel Jesus and the injured Ruben Dias drop out.

There is again no place in the starting XI for Riyad Mahrez, however; that’s a fourth straight Premier League benching for the Algerian.

A ‘working from home’ Bruno Lage, still ill with Covid, has kept the Wolves changes to a bare minimum, as Chiquinho makes his first Premier League start in place of the injured Romain Saiss.

GAMEWEEK 36 LINE-UPS

Leeds United XI: Meslier, Koch, Cooper, Llorente, Struijk, Bate, Phillips, Harrison, Raphinha, Rodrigo, James.

Subs: Klaesson, Firpo, Gelhardt, Hjelde, Cresswell, Greenwood, Klich, Shackleton, Gray.

Chelsea XI: Mendy, Chalobah, Rudiger, Christensen, Alonso, James, Kovacic, Jorginho, Pulisic, Mount, Lukaku.

Subs: Kepa, Silva, Werner, Loftus-Cheek, Barkley, Ziyech, Azpilicueta, Havertz, Sarr.


Leicester City XI: Schmeichel, Justin, Amartey, Evans, Castagne, Maddison, Tielemans, Dewsbury-Hall, Vardy, Lookman, Barnes.

Subs: Ward, Soyuncu, Albrighton, Iheanacho, Perez, Mendy, Daka, Thomas.

Norwich City XI: Gunn, Aarons, Hanley, Byram, Giannoulis, Rupp, Gilmour, Springett, Lees-Melou, Rashica, Pukki.

Subs: Krul, Gibson, Dowell, Placheta, Tzolis, Sorensen, Williams, Gibbs, Rowe.


Watford XI: Foster, Masina, Kabasele, Samir, Sema, Ngakia, Gosling, Sissoko, Kayembe, Kalu, Pedro.

Subs: Bachmann, Etebo, Ekong, Cathcart, Sierralta, Morris, Çukur, Blake, Grieves.

Everton XI: Pickford, Iwobi, Coleman, Keane, Holgate, Mykolenko, Gordon, Doucoure, Delph, Gray, Richarlison.

Subs: Begovic, Kenny, Allan, Calvert-Lewin, Gomes, Davies, Branthwaite, Rondon, Alli.


Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Jose Sa, Boly, Coady, Jonny, Chiquinho, Dendoncker, Neves, Moutinho, Ait-Nouri, Jimenez, Neto.

Subs: Ruddy, Hoever, Marcal, Trincao, Mosquera, Silva, Toti, Hee-Chan, Cundle.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Cancelo, Fernandinho, Laporte, Zinchenko, Rodri, Gundogan, Sterling, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Foden.

Subs: Steffen, Ake, Jesus, Grealish, Mahrez, Egan-Riley, Mbete, Palmer, Lavia.

1,909 Comments Post a Comment
  1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Kdb has earned himself a rest for next gw

    See you in gw 38

  2. Scots Gooner
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    KDB came out light in that 5-0 first game too. This haul could have been even bigger

    1. jason_ni
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Yep, I felt hard done by with his 6 points at the time.

  3. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Foden post

    Kdb assist denied

    1. Firminooooo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Unlucky KdB owners.

  4. Firminooooo
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Sterling to Mahrez for a hit instead of KdB will stay with me forever.

  5. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Foden post from Kdb pass

  6. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Foden, ffs.

  7. The Mantis
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Slightly unsure about the FH Everton triple up and Rich (c) now

  8. jason_ni
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    20points on bb, with Davies to go.

    Guess its a success barring 4nill spurs tomorrow.

    Foster saved it for me!

  9. Duke Silver ☑
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Andy has Foden. Been making phone calls to Towers.

  10. DycheDycheBaby
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Arghh. Really should have done Dubravka to Foster for a hit !

    1. Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      dont jinx it

      1. DycheDycheBaby
        • 8 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        It's Full Time lol

  11. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    As a KdB non owner and Salah capper I need something special from Son, Nketiah, Saka and Ramsdale tomorrow…

  12. DA Minnion (Former great)
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    39 on my bench boost with foster holgate Nkeitah and Gelhart .
    Best bench boost ever.

    1. jason_ni
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Great score.

      Picking pukki and Dennis on wc 36 over eddie was a blunder on my part!

  13. Philosopher's Stones
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Is 100+ without KDB good enough this GW?

    1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Yes.

    2. MIGHTY JOE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      I wish

    3. jackruet
      • 2 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      No. Depends on your rank tho

  14. BeaversWithAttitude
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Dammit! I wanted that KDB assist! I'm so greedy.

  15. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Donkey playing CF these days.

  16. Old Bull
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    This week was the game changer

  17. Paul Psychic Octopus
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Foden remembering he had captained Salah....

  18. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    I actually thought I made good moves when I did Saiss, Weghorst to R.James, Nketiah but rival captained KDB and I don't even have him.

  19. pundit of punts
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    32 points on BB. 😀

    Amazing stuff.

    Pickford - Barnes - Alonso - Cash doing the business.

    103(-8) with Nketiah, Saka and Kulusevski to go tomorrow.

    Inside Top 600 😀

    1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Poor score this gw

    2. mox81
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Nice! I'm 24pts off 1k and TC Mo over KdB (last min change) cost me 56pts!!! Still on 119pts with Eddie, Saka and Son to go

      1. space mercenary
        • 4 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        I did the same last minute change. Gutted I didn't trust my own judgement. Anyway, no time to post any more, it's sheering time for me.

  20. Nightcrawler
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    KDB Cappers there is one more coming

    THEN we'll FEAST

    1. Firminooooo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      I am DEEP in the MUD with Mahrez.

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        Same here.

  21. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    As if Foden got the assist!

  22. @persecuted_by_mods
      1 year, 10 months ago

      My weekly streak of would have been better off had I done nothing continues as Kasper comes in for a hit only to bench Foster!

    • Rash
      • 6 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      2 ML rivals have kdb captain and triple captain and then there's me who don't even own him!

      Opting for FH37 over 36 proving very costly as it stands

    • Harry Ball Bag™⚽⚽…
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Well kdb has finished my season

      1. wulfrunian
        • 7 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        I have 100 points with Kdb and only 800 places rise.

    • BECKS TO THE FUTURE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 2 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      If we could post gifs, it would be the “Stop, stop, he’s already dead”

    • ChelseaGuy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Had 2 gut feeling moves
      Salah (C) to KDB (C)
      Foster to Schmeichel

      Guess which one I went for lol

    • Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      BB of Foster, Holgate, Nketiah and Gordon not too shabby.

      Wiped out by no KDB tho...

      1. asr
        • 7 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        Was about to write the same thing: BB of Foster, Laporte, Nketiah and Gelhardt, obviously take that, but KDB is just demolishing ranks for fun 😀

    • Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Expect Salah to KDB might be a popular transfer

      1. Philosopher's Stones
        • 3 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        And then Salah hauls 😀

    • I SPEAK ENGELS AND DRINK GI…
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      I was behind @ money league before this GW 110points. Now im leading with 18points. Holysh*t. Didn't seee that one coming

    • Jimmy Boy
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      What's the all-time record for a player's gameweek haul anyone?

      1. Rohirrims
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        Rooney 32