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Saturday team news: Perisic and Doherty benched, Bailey starts

After an entertaining and surprisingly evenly matched contest at Craven Cottage, four more Gameweek 1 matches take place at the traditional kick-off time:

Tottenham HotspurvSouthampton
Newcastle UnitedvNottingham Forest
Leeds UnitedvWolverhampton Wanderers
BournemouthvAston Villa

The news isn’t good for owners of Ivan Perisic and/or Matt Doherty, both of whom are benched this afternoon after cautionary words from Antonio Conte about the pair’s fitness.

Harry Kane and Son Heung-min are joined by Dejan Kulusevski in the Spurs front three, with Richarlison suspended.

New signings Gavin Bazunu, Romeo Lavia and Joe Aribo are handed competitive debuts by Ralph Hasenhuttl, who also opts for Adam Armstrong up top.

Leon Bailey is part of Aston Villa’s starting XI but Ollie Watkins is not; the latter has to take his place among the substitutes as Danny Ings leads the line.

Marcus Tavernier makes his Bournemouth debut after arriving from Middlesbrough, with Kieffer Moore supporting Dominic Solanke in attack.

Pedro Neto is part of a Wolves side who are not only without Raul Jimenez but also Joao Moutinho, who has reportedly picked up a problem in training. Morgan Gibbs-White drops back into midfield as a result, with Hwang Hee-Chan joining Pedro Neto and Daniel Podence in attack.

Four of Leeds’ summer signings are include in Jesse Marsch’s starting XI: Rasmus Kristensen, Tyler Adams, Marc Roca and Brendan Aaronson.

Patrick Bamford starts in attack, having missed much of last season through injury.

In the final match at St James’ Park, Sven Botman has to make do with a place on the bench as Eddie Howe sticks with Fabian Schar and Dan Burn at centre-half.

Nick Pope is between the posts.

Steve Cooper names six of Nottingham Forest’s summer signings in his line-up, including Jesse Lingard, Dean Henderson and budget FPL defender Neco Williams.

GAMEWEEK 1 LINE-UPS

Bournemouth XI: Travers, Kelly, Mepham, Lerma, Solanke, Smith, Tavernier, Moore, Pearson, Billing, Zemura

Subs: Dennis, Cook, Christie, Marconde, Stacey, Stanislas, Dembele, Hill, Anthony

Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Cash, Carlos, Konsa, McGinn, Ings, Coutinho, Digne, Bailey, Ramsey, Kamara

Subs: Olsen, Mings, Luiz, Buendia, Watkins, Chambers, Augustinsson, Young, Archer


Leeds United XI: Meslier, Kristensen, Koch, Llorente, Struijk, Adams, Roca, Aaronson, Harrison, Rodrigo, Bamford

Subs: Klaesson, Hjelde, Drameh, Klich, Gray, Gyabi, Summerville, Gelhardt, Greenwood

Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Sa, Jonny, Collins, Kilman, Ait-Nouri, Neves, Dendoncker, Gibbs-White, Podence, Neto, Hwang

Subs: Sarkic, Mosquera, Boly, Coady, Ronan, Cundle, Hodge, Bueno, Campbell


Newcastle United XI: Pope, Trippier, Schar, Joelinton, Wilson, Saint-Maximin, Targett, Almiron, Willock, Burn, Guimaraes

Subs: Dubravka, Botman, Lascelles, Ritchie, Wood, Fraser, Murphy, Anderson, Longstaff

Nottingham Forest XI: Henderson, Worrall, Williams, Colback, Lingard, O’Brien, Toffolo, Surridge, Niakhate, Johnson, McKenna

Subs: Hennessey, Biancone, Mangala, Soh, Awoniyi, Mighten, Cafu, Taylor, Hammond


Tottenham Hotspur XI: Lloris, Romero, Dier, Davies, Royal, Sessegnon, Hojbjerg, Bentancur, Kulusevski, Son, Kane

Subs: Forster, Doherty, Spence, Lenglet, Sanchez, Perisic, Bissouma, Bryan, Lucas

Southampton XI: Bazunu, Walker-Peters, Bednarek, Salisu, Valery, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Lavia, Aribo, Djenepo, Armstrong

Subs: McCarthy, Stephens, Adams, Redmond, Perraud, Stuart Armstrong, Elyounoussi, Diallo, Kotchap

Who played the most minutes over the March international break?

1,310 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Might be Ait-Nouri OG

    1. DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      Dam it.

  2. The Train Driver
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    With players like Almiron and ASM, Wilson will never get that assist, will he? Several occasions now they've shot when there was a better opportunity to pass him.

    1. The Train Driver
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      Timing

    2. The Train Driver
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      Tbf it was Joelinton who assisted...

  3. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Cilson G

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      Knew it 😛

  4. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Callum Wilson G

  5. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Wilson goal

  6. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Wilson back of the net!

  7. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Forest will have the most CS's this season
    CS against

  8. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    WILSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON

  9. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Goalinton.

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      Well, Assistlinton.

  10. BrockLanders
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Wilson goal

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

    Neco haul!

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

      !!

  12. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    When is the second WC available, need it already…

  13. MYNAMEISBigtopmark.sman
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    It's okay if you captained Kane in August. How could you have known?

  14. DBW - Slug's Mortgage …
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Steven Gerrard out

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

      Target Bournemouth?!

  15. hueycho
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    dont like kane s position as a captainer…

    1. Differentiator
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      not exactly different to last year

  16. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Bournemouth 2 nil

    Big man scores

  17. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Villa filth…

  18. lilmessipran
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    More score one more

  19. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Jesus might be £7.7m by KO vs Leicester.

  20. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Moore goals please…

  21. Fer Fuch's Ake
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Aston Villa deary me

  22. Drexl Spivey
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    And there it is...

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

    People fell for Digne again

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      Never the troll again

    2. Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      more than a few who were testy about it

  24. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Gerrard is absolutely poo

  25. Pukki Party
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Queefer Moore goal

  26. Glad He Ate Her
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Kane basically played as CDM last season and people still captain him, let alone buy him

    1. tokara
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      Becos of content creators lol

    2. Steve The Spud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      My face after captaining him again is like your profile pic

  27. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Sa denies Bamford

  28. fish&chips
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    How long before Gerrard gets sacked?

  29. markmcr
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Not even 5pm and I cba… why does it never go to plan on the opening day lol

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      Did you have 3 Arsenal?

      1. markmcr
        • 8 Years
        1 year, 8 months ago

        2 just, Jesus and Gabriel and benched the latter

  30. HashAttack
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Kulu, Aaronson & Wilson - Lovely

    1. tokara
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      Nice

    2. Dead Balls
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      And no Salah???

      1. HashAttack
        • 7 Years
        1 year, 8 months ago

        Went for triple Liverpool defence 🙁 ... same result as the time that I started a season with triple 'pool defence

    3. R.C
      • 6 Years
      1 year, 8 months ago

      No goal for Aaronson. OG for RAN