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Gameweek 3 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) continues on Sunday with Leeds United v Chelsea and West Ham United v Brighton and Hove Albion.

Both matches kick-off at 14:00 BST.

Thomas Tuchel makes one change from last weeks 2-2 draw against Tottenham Hotspur, as Conor Gallagher comes into midfield for N’Golo Kante, who misses out as expected with a hamstring injury.

That suggests Reece James will once again feature as a right-sided centre-back, with Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Marc Cucurella preferred in the wing-back roles.

For the hosts, they also make one enforced change, as Patrick Bamford fails to make the starting XI after coming off injured in Gameweek 2.

Daniel James starts instead, with Rodrigo – the second-most bought player for Gameweek 3 – pushed forward in attack.

At the London Stadium, Thilo Kehrer makes his Premier League debut for West Ham with Ben Johnson dropping to the bench.

“He has good experience, is versatile and has played at a high level with Germany and PSG so he will bring a lot to us and we’re looking forward to working with him. He’s played predominately for the national team at left-back and centre-back for PSG last season, so we feel we have a really good acquisition for the squad. He will be able to add to us in a number of areas.” – West Ham assistant manager Billy McKinlay on Thilo Kehrer

The visitors, meanwhile, are unchanged after making an unbeaten start to the season, with Pascal Gross and Adam Lallana tucking in behind Danny Welbeck in Graham Potter’s 3-4-2-1 formation.


GAMEWEEK 3 LINE-UPS

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

Subs: Klaesson, Hjelde, Drameh, Klich, Forshaw, Greenwood, Summerville, Sinisterra, Gelhardt

Chelsea XI: Mendy, James, Silva, Koulibaly, Loftus-Cheek, Gallagher, Jorginho, Cucurella, Mount, Sterling, Havertz

Subs: Kepa, Ampadu, Azpilicueta, Chalobah, Chilwell, Chukwuemeka, Hudson-Odoi, Pulisic, Ziyech


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

Subs: Areola, Johnson, Scamacca, Lanzini, Downes, Cornet, Ogbonna, Coventry, Ashby

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Sanchez, Veltman, Dunk, Webster, March, Mac Allister, Caicedo, Trossard, Gross, Lallana, Welbeck

Subs: Steele, Lamptey, Colwill, Mwepu, Maupay, Alzate, Undav, Mitoma, Tenorio

  1. dshv
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    What to do with Mount ?

    1. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Out ASAP

    2. _Ninja_
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      I'd sell

      1. _Gunner
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        even with LEI home next gameweek?

        1. Make United Great Again
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 6 months ago

          Yes

        2. Nomar
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          3 years, 6 months ago

          Leicester win that game based on what you’ve seen here.

    3. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Get rid.

    4. Assisting the assister
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Gone defo

    5. Fish up a tree
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Flog him & then sell

    6. Count of Monte Hristo
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Dead.

    7. Jock Grealish
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Don't pick him gw1

  2. Khark
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Dias on the bench, bloody pep

    1. The Senate
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Cancelo will be benched soon and FPL and scout will explode

      1. Arn De Gothia
        • 15 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        “I knew he was a trap”

    2. TomSaints
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Urghhhh

  3. El Libe
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    I believe now everyone are looking to bring Rodrigo in, but next fixture is away to Brighton. Not the easy one for them IMO

    1. Chalobah's Witness
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      players in the style of Rodrigo are fixture proof imo

    2. GREEN IS GOOD
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      true but I assume his price will rise even more this week

    3. thegame983
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      That's what they said about the chelsea fixture, but yeah Brighton is tough

      1. El Libe
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        Yeah, but i believe Leeds are going to play different in away games, plus today Chelsea was without Kante

    4. JamTart
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Thought the same about them v Chelsea...

    5. Call Me Old Fashioned
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      He could be 6.4M by then

  4. jonoelgrande
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    2 fts

    Ramsdale (Ward)
    TAA Cancelo James Perisic (N Williams)
    Salah Diaz Martinelli Bailey (Andreas)
    Jesus Haaland (Archer)

    James + Bailey > Walker + Rodrigo?

    Want to get rid of Bailey to Rodrigo but need to free up funds somewhere

  5. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks for @#** all and a price drop, Mount.

  6. pundit of punts
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Mount fire sale incoming

    1. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Are you surprised?

  7. Dammit_182
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Just want to apologise to everyone for ditching Rodrigo on my WC and using the £6m to get James instead. Got swayed by the week of podcasts saying James is essential for his attacking potential and caved in. My bad folks. I ruined it for everyone

  8. Weak Become Heros
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Interested to see how Stones gets on. Very surprised Dias benched.

    Reckon Cancelo and Ederson best bet for City defensive cover on WC this week?

    1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      i'd be worried as a city defence owner

      1. bench boost for every gamew…
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        nah, some money have been sent from manchester to newcastle or rather from one saudi account to another

    2. faux_C
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Walker the best pick.

  9. Zenith UK
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    March missing a sitter

  10. JohnnyCroat
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Coufal looks in bad shape... like, bad bad. Poor lad. Mad miss from March too.

    Anyway, what a score for Leeds. Just Walker in the 3rd match. Somehow fading a lot of pitfalls. Erik the Blue & Salah the final hurdles.

    1. Weak Become Heros
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Mate he has been awful since he signed that new deal.

    2. Jock Grealish
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      O......K....

  11. Bury94
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hopefully I can break into the top 4mil soon...

  12. Mona Lisa
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Mount to Diaz is my easiest move for a while

  13. TomSaints
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    How can Dias be benched?!

    1. Weak Become Heros
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Cos Pep.

    2. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      It's rather simple really...

    3. _Ninja_
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      When pep does the team sheets and he writes Dias on the bench.

    4. TomSaints
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      At least that should be some bench points

  14. Hughes Your Daddy
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    As much as it pains me, fair play Brighton getting £60m for Cucu, might rival our £50m for AWB.

  15. waltzingmatildas
    • 15 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Which one to lose for Rodrigo?
    A) Bailey
    B) Mount

    1. Pep's Money Laundry
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      B

    2. fish&chips
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Depends what you can do with the cash but I'm rapidly losing patience with mount

  16. fish&chips
    • 15 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Mount doesn't even tick along anymore. Absolute fraud along with saka and mahrez, all of whom I started with. The 8m mid dream is over

    1. _Ninja_
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Diaz Kulu Maddison still decent.

      1. fish&chips
        • 15 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        Yeah, basically I picked the wrong 3. Not a good start to the season at all

    2. Berkshire Hafaway-Line
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Diaz good. Kulu very good but minutes risk

    3. BobbyDoesNotLook
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      What a bad luck with the results.

  17. bso
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Have DBL CHE...should I move Cucurella on and for who? 0 mib.
    Ramsdate - Begovic
    TAA - Cucurella - James - Cancelo - Walker
    Salah - Diaz - Martinelli - Bailey - Andreas
    Haaland - Jesus - Taylor

  18. JAYPEE
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Early transfer thoughts:
    Mount and Iversen to Rodrigo and Sanchez?

    1. The Mighty Hippo
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      I'm looking at similar, but thinking of Nick Pope over Sanchez.

  19. SomeoneKnows
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Ederson
    TAA, Cancelo, James, Saliba
    Salah, Mount, Martinelli, Andreas
    Haaland, Jesus

    (Ward, Neco, Bailey, Greenwood)
    1FT + 1m itb

    A) Bailey > Jensen / DaSilva
    B) Mount > Maddison
    C) Mount > Rodrigo
    D) Mount + Greenwood > Rodrigo + Toney (-4)

    Leaning towards D and switching to a 4-3-3 formation but other suggestions are also welcomed

  20. Haalander
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Currently standing at a gameweek rank of 7.8m can anyone beat that. Absolute disaster week! Gone from 600k to 2.6m!

    1. Mr. O'Connell
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      How many points?

      1. Haalander
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        Currently on 16 pts 5/12 played

    2. The Ilfordian
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Wow, makes my 5.9m look okay. Got to ride the storm

    3. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Last time I looked on LiveFPL my GW rank was 8,373,863

      1. Haalander
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        Head wrecking! Have you many left to play?

        1. Old Man
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 6 months ago

          3 TTA Salah(c) Buddah

  21. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Havertz save point

  22. Union_Jacks
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Who else played Ward over Sanchez lol

    1. Orion
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      0/

    2. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Not many, surely.

    3. Zenith UK
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      o/

    4. Khark
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      I played Ward over Meslier..

    5. Cojones of Destiny
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      kept faith in sanchez:)

  23. Kodap
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Mount to Rodrigo for free?

    1. My heart goes Salalalalah
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Acher to Toney (-4) too

  24. Jock Grealish
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Harrisoff

  25. GoonerSteve
    • 16 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Who would you go for? Odegaard or Rodrigo?

    Reya (Ward)
    Trent, Robertson, Cancelo, James (neco)
    Salah, XXX, Martinelli, Neto (Andreas)
    Haaland, Jesus (fodder)

    1. Arn De Gothia
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Harrison?

  26. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Lol Sterling still can’t finish his dinner

    1. PogChamp
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      I kept faith for 3 GWs but definitely selling.

      1. Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        Bruno?

        1. PogChamp
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 6 months ago

          Sterling

      2. Haalander
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        Definitely not earning his 10m price tag to warrant a place on current performance

  27. Fish up a tree
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    We can pick players outside the top 5 teams!

    Brighton, Leeds, Palace & Brentford are teams to get on

    1. Hughes Your Daddy
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Yeah, "but fixtures" we are always told 😉

  28. Dynamic Duos
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Harrison a good option over Rodrigo , so I can use 0.5m to get new keeper for Ward ?

    1. Cojones of Destiny
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      yep lad keeps giving

    2. Pep's Money Laundry
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Good option but not a better option, Rodrigo is playing up front and classified as a midfielder

    3. Chalobah's Witness
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      don't feel Harrison is the player to get, would rather go with Aaronson

  29. Cojones of Destiny
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    bailey to :
    a. Rodrigo
    b. Aaronson

    1. Cojones of Destiny
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      c. Harrison

    2. Fish up a tree
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A

  30. Nanoelektronicar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    All the talk about United, no one comments the WHU's three defeats on a bounce and rock bottom.

    1. Jock Grealish
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Yes cos man u are a big club

    2. F_Ivanovic
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      All that european football with a small squad starting to catch up with them. They were poor at the back end of last season and hasn't changed now.