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Thursday team news: Ings, Coutinho and Mount benched

Double Gameweek 37 comes to a conclusion this evening with three more Premier League matches.

Everton v Crystal Palace gets underway at 19:45 BST, with Chelsea v Leicester City and Aston Villa v Burnley kicking off 15 minutes later.

The match at Stamford Bridge is a bit of a glorified dead rubber but the other two fixtures are of huge importance at the foot of the English top flight, with Burnley and Everton battling to save themselves from the drop.

There is massive interest from a Fantasy Premier League (FPL) perspective, too. Of the 25 players with the highest ‘effective ownership’ (EO) figures in the top 10k, 16 have a fixture this evening (see below) – and 13 of them start:

Danny Ings, Philippe Coutinho and Mason Mount are the only three players in ‘green’ above who are among the substitutes this evening.

Coutinho and Ings drop out of the Villa XI, along with the similarly benched Marvelous Nakamba and the injured Ezri Konsa.

Emiliano Buendía, Calum Chambers, Carney Chukwuemeka and Jacob Ramsey are recalled.

Villa are tonight up against relegation-threatened Burnley, who make only one change from the narrow loss to Tottenham Hotspur.

James Tarkowski is back from injury, as Matt Lowton drops to the bench. The Clarets are again starting in a wing-back system, as they did in north London.

Over at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea make two changes from the FA Cup final as N’Golo Kante and Hakim Ziyech come into the side.

Mount is joined among the substitutes by the fit-again Kai Havertz but Mateo Kovacic and Timo Werner are injured and absent.

Kasper Schmeichel returns to the Leicester side this evening, with Kelechi Iheanacho, Daniel Amartey and Luke Thomas also starting.

Out go Danny Ward and Harvey Barnes, both of whom are on the bench, and the missing Youri Tielemans and James Justin.

Frank Lampard’s only alteration to the Everton line-up sees Michael Keane come in to replace the suspended Jarrad Branthwaite.

Patrick Vieira continues his end-of-season tinkering with Palace, as the midfield trio of Conor Gallagher, Cheikhou Kouyaté and Luka Milivojevic are replaced by Jeffrey Schlupp, Will Hughes and Jordan Ayew.

DOUBLE GAMEWEEK 37 LINE-UPS

Everton XI: Pickford, Coleman, Keane, Holgate, Mykolenko, Iwobi, Doucoure, Gomes, Gordon, Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison

Subs: Begovic, Kenny, Godfrey, Allan, Davies, Van de Beek, Alli, Gray Welch

Crystal Palace XI: Butland, Clyne, Anderson, Guehi, Mitchell, Hughes, Schlupp, Ayew, Eze, Mateta, Zaha

Subs: Guaita, Ward, Kelly, Kouyaté, Milivojevic, Édouard, Gallagher, Rak-Sakyi, Benteke


Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Cash, Chambers, Mings, Digne, Ramsey, Luiz, McGinn, Buendia, Watkins, Chukwuemeka.

Subs: Sanson, Traore, Young, Nakamba, Ings, Coutinho, Olsen, Iroegbunam, Feeney.

Burnley XI: Pope, Roberts, Long, Collins, Tarkowski, Taylor, Brownhill, Cork, McNeil, Cornet, Barnes.

Subs: Lowton, Weghorst, Hennessey, Stephens, Lennon, Bardsley, Thomas, Dodgson, Costelloe.


Chelsea XI: Mendy, Chalobah, Thiago Silva, Rudiger, James, Jorginho, Kante, Alonso, Ziyech, Pulisic, Lukaku.

Subs: Arrizabalaga, Loftus-Cheek, Saul, Barkley, Mount, Kenedy, Azpilicueta, Havertz, Sarr.

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel, Amartey, Fofana, Evans, Mendy, Castagne, Maddison, Dewsbury-Hall, Thomas, Vardy, Iheanacho.

Subs: Soyuncu, Barnes, Albrighton, Ward, Perez, Choudhury, Ricardo Pereira, Daka, Lookman.

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

    All in all the teams doubling this week all have terrible defences over the season in general so any CS would have been a miracle, lets just hope that all these full backs weve picked on FH can get some attacking returns now

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

      Holgate working for me.

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

        no CS tho which is my point

        have to hope for attacking returns

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

    Buendia G
    McGinn A

  3. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Burnley busted

    1. Zimo
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      It'll still be in their hands if they get safety or not next week if it stays a draw.

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

    Buendia goal of course, 0% EO

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

      making amends

    2. FPL price manipulators are …
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      I owned him in GW1

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

    +xCouldHaveBeenCoutinhoPoints

    1. @persecuted_by_mods
        1 year, 10 months ago

        X2 ffs missed Burnley twice

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

      Fool me once, shame on you, DGW. Fool me 57 times, shame on me.

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

      Gordon done for tonight

      1. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
        • 10 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        Got to 60 at least

    4. Stranger Mings
      • 3 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Why didn’t ings come on ?

      1. mdm
        • 12 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        Preserved for next match which is gerrard prio

        1. Camino Aleatorio
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          1 year, 10 months ago

          So Gerrard is not going to lay down for Liverpool?

          He's going to make it a Cup Final?

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

      Come on Zaha!

    6. RogDog_jimmy
      • 3 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      ah the two least owned attackers from Villa. beautiful.

    7. nerd_is_the_werd
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      COMMON BURNLEY!!!

      1. NorCal Villan
        • 2 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        Ah, you were so close

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

      Goalscorers and assisters EO in the Villa game - classic FPL!

      McGinn 0.06%
      Buendía 0.38%
      Cornet 1.96%
      Barnes 0.02%

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

        I picked Cornet

      2. NorCal Villan
        • 2 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        You are in extraordinary form today

    9. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Just seen Holgate got more attacking points. Well annoying 😆

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

        Took him out on FH for Cash

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

      Gordon owners buzzing to get through the DGWs without a booking!

    11. ZimZalabim
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Big save Pickford

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

        another one

    12. Tasty Jerk
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Bent ref, foul just as bad as Ayew and no yellow for DCL

      1. Free Hat
        • 5 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        Yeah, bad refereeing

    13. Camino Aleatorio
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Richarlison is tired, time to rest him for Arsenal

      1. Old Man
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        No he's just revving up for a penalty brace finish.

        1. Camino Aleatorio
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          1 year, 10 months ago

          DCL can take those Pens.

          Give. The. Lad. A. Rest!

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

      Watkins wins Digne ranger.

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

        Should get the next one at least 😆

    15. The Knights Template
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Need all my players to score more points.

      1. Mr. O'Connell
        • 11 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        *some points

      2. ZimZalabim
        • 7 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        This would be nice

    16. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Mateta to feast on Maguire

    17. AzzaroMax99
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      So Villa will get a few millions bonus if Grealish wins PL?

    18. Camino Aleatorio
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Is Mount warming up yet?

    19. Salan
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Only 2 CS in this dgw. Crazy.

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

        0 next week

        1. Salan
          • 14 Years
          1 year, 10 months ago

          Possible

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

      Proper tackles flying in the Everton Palace match, wouldn't be surprised if someone sees red

    21. Tasty Jerk
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      YC at last for a Everton player

    22. Tasty Jerk
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      YC for Zaha :/

      1. Old Man
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        f

      2. ZimZalabim
        • 7 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        harsh one

    23. JBG
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Hope City ruins Villa next match, 10-0 would be lovely.

    24. Tasty Jerk
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Getting reckless

    25. FCSB
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Zaha was actually a bad FH pick

      1. Cruyff's Eleven
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        Yeah, considering the Leicester alternative

      2. ZimZalabim
        • 7 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        probably true

        but he was a lock in every draft I made :/

      3. CLIVE MENDONCA FTW
        • 4 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        I never learn w Zaha.
        Always go for him in DGW... always lets me down.
        Perhaps I'll learn next season