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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. Arteta
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    I expected more from Richarlison to be fair.

  2. The Philosopher
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Cut the ML lead down from 54 to 5 in 2 GWs, and KDB has just blown it away. Need a massive FH next week.

  3. Wolfman180
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Dreadful night of fpl.
    Foster on my bench taunting me and Havertz was useful after for starters

  4. Bench-Life
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Agh!! Mount + James + KDB non-owner rank drop: -83%
    Good bye top 10k finish

    1. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 21 days ago

      Exact same -83% here! Annoying to be close and slip away at the end of the season

      1. Bench-Life
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 21 days ago

        Punishing

    2. lilmessipran
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 21 days ago

      333 percent here, 3k to 13k

      1. Bench-Life
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 21 days ago

        Blimey that's rough...

    3. Rambo Motin
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 21 days ago

      Im that dude with those three + KDB C coming into the top 10k, sorry bruh

      1. Bench-Life
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 21 days ago

        Well-played, I'll say hello on the way past...

  5. Malinwa
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Thoughts on my FH team:

    Pickford
    Digne - Matip - Andersen
    KDB - Salah - Son - Zaha
    Watkins - Ings - Richarlison(c)

    McGovern - Gordon - Amartey - Tsimi

  6. SINGH
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Will Mahrez start against Westham and Mane against Soton?

    1. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 21 days ago

      Pep is unknown.

      Mane is overdue a rest.

      1. SINGH
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 21 days ago

        Oh man I have both on FH for 37

    2. The Philosopher
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 21 days ago

      I bet even Pep doesn't know that right now

      1. SINGH
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 21 days ago

        True I have both for FH37

  7. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Anyone watching Everton?

    WTF has Iwobi been doing?

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 21 days ago

      Iwobi things

  8. HonestBlatter
    • 15 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    FOSTER keep that your beauty

  9. _Ninja_
    • 15 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Laporte doing more damage to that knee by playing on

  10. Gudjohnsen
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Started Ramsdale and benched Foster!

  11. JONALDINHO
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Need this Foster haul

  12. Cheeto__Bandito
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Feels like every player highly owned has returned tonight

    1. SteJ
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 21 days ago

      Salah says hi

      1. Danno - Emre Canada
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 21 days ago

        Last night says hi

  13. _Ninja_
    • 15 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    KDB 4

  14. SINGH
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    4 KDBBBBBB

  15. Nightcrawler
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Apart from KDB(c) this has been a terrible day

    No Mount, James, Madison, foster, Barnes

  16. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Ake inc, Laporte is done here.

  17. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 16 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    OMG kdb..

  18. Scots Gooner
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    FOUR!!!

  19. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Kevin de Fourth.

  20. Nightcrawler
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Yesss kdb yessss

  21. SINGH
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    KDB Cap here with 4 goalsssssssssssssssssss

  22. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Season defining GW this!

  23. sminkypinky
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    I love it

  24. Ady87
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    DREAM LAND OMGGGGGG

  25. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    KDB(tc) this is a joke!

  26. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Blow the whistle ref. Need my Foster points!!!

  27. SINGH
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    FOUR KDBBBBBBBB

  28. Shultan
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    4

  29. BeaversWithAttitude
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    How sweet it is! x

  30. jonnybhoy
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 21 days ago

    Please please no more kevin im on my knees begging

    1. Rambo Motin
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 21 days ago

      lol