West Ham v Chelsea team news: Ward-Prowse debut, £4.0m Gusto starts

FPL GW33 Scout Picks - Final Selection

Darlow

O’Reilly
Senesi
Struijk

Semenyo
Bruno Fernandes
Tavernier
Palmer

João Pedro
Welbeck
Haaland

Dubravka
van Hecke
Hill
Okafor

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Thiago	BRE	7.3m	99.6%	Likely
Darlow	LEE	3.9m	95.4%	Maybe
Aaronson	LEE	5.4m	94.1%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	91.2%	Unlikely
Struijk	LEE	4.3m	91.6%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	82.5%	Unlikely
Justin	LEE	3.9m	83.2%	Unlikely
Mavropanos	WHU	4.4m	75.3%	Unlikely
Semenyo	MCI	8.2m	80.8%	Unlikely
Leno	FUL	4.9m	73.4%	Unlikely
Aït-Nouri	MCI	5.7m	74.0%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.4m	74.1%	Unlikely
Wan-Bissaka	WHU	4.1m	73.6%	Unlikely
Beto	EVE	5.0m	72.1%	Unlikely
Alderete	SUN	4.1m	73.5%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	71.3%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.5m	71.7%	Unlikely
Gomez	BHA	4.9m	71.5%	Unlikely
Frimpong	LIV	5.7m	67.4%	Unlikely
Groß	BHA	5.5m	64.8%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.7m	61.9%	Unlikely
Bijol	LEE	3.9m	61.7%	Unlikely
Gakpo	LIV	7.3m	60.5%	Unlikely
Richards	CRY	4.4m	59.4%	Unlikely
Ngumoha	LIV	4.3m	59.2%	Unlikely
Mukiele	SUN	4.5m	54.2%	Unlikely
Shaw	MUN	4.5m	55.4%	Unlikely
Sarr	CRY	6.3m	55.4%	Unlikely
Minteh	BHA	5.5m	52.4%	Unlikely
Aina	NFO	4.7m	51.5%	Unlikely
Kelleher	BRE	4.8m	47.3%	Unlikely
Watkins	AVL	8.6m	35.5%	Unlikely
Ndiaye	EVE	6.2m	45.4%	Unlikely
Damsgaard	BRE	5.6m	47.1%	Unlikely
Bassey	FUL	4.4m	45.3%	Unlikely
F.Kadıoğlu	BHA	4.4m	44.0%	Unlikely
Cunha	MUN	8.0m	39.9%	Unlikely
M.Fernandes	WHU	5.5m	42.7%	Unlikely
Ødegaard	ARS	7.8m	42.1%	Unlikely
Casemiro	MUN	5.7m	39.6%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Mbeumo	MUN	8.5m	100.5%	Very Likely
J.Timber	ARS	6.2m	95.7%	Likely
Merino	ARS	5.4m	100.0%	Very Likely
McAidoo	MCI	4.5m	99.5%	Maybe
Piroe	LEE	4.9m	97.0%	Maybe
Tchaouna	BUR	4.8m	96.5%	Maybe
Emenalo	CHE	4.5m	96.0%	Maybe
Mac Allister	LIV	6.3m	92.9%	Maybe
Longstaff	LEE	4.8m	95.6%	Maybe
Dalot	MUN	4.6m	96.0%	Unlikely
Mayenda	SUN	5.2m	94.4%	Unlikely
Slonina	CHE	3.9m	91.5%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	4.9m	91.2%	Unlikely
Grealish	EVE	6.3m	90.8%	Unlikely
Salmon	ARS	4.0m	90.1%	Unlikely
Johnson	CRY	6.5m	89.6%	Unlikely
Reijnders	MCI	5.0m	89.2%	Unlikely
Garner	EVE	5.3m	90.5%	Unlikely
Trafford	MCI	4.5m	86.6%	Unlikely
Gyökeres	ARS	8.8m	86.5%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.6m	83.4%	Unlikely
Szoboszlai	LIV	7.1m	85.2%	Unlikely
Saliba	ARS	6.1m	84.7%	Unlikely
John	NFO	4.0m	80.9%	Unlikely
Andrey Santos	CHE	4.5m	79.3%	Unlikely
Mee	MUN	3.9m	78.9%	Unlikely
Cairns	LEE	3.9m	75.4%	Unlikely
Schade	BRE	7.0m	72.8%	Unlikely
Steele	BHA	4.2m	74.8%	Unlikely
Ebere	EVE	4.4m	74.6%	Unlikely
Dorgu	MUN	4.1m	72.7%	Unlikely
Martinez	AVL	5.1m	74.4%	Unlikely
Mainoo	MUN	4.7m	71.4%	Unlikely
Mané	WOL	4.3m	72.6%	Unlikely
Estève	BUR	3.9m	70.6%	Unlikely
Webster	BHA	4.4m	68.8%	Unlikely
Byfield	TOT	4.0m	68.1%	Unlikely
Kilman	WHU	4.1m	68.0%	Unlikely
Amissah	FUL	3.8m	67.4%	Unlikely
Angel	WOL	4.7m	67.4%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C
No Change	Verbruggen	BHA	B, Vs
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	B
No Change	Darlow	LEE	B, Vs, £
No Change	Petrovic	BOU	B
No Change	Henderson	CRY	C

Last updated: 16 Apr, 2026 10:18pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	A
No Change	Gabriel Magalhães	ARS	A
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	B, Vs
No Change	Hill	BOU	B, £
No Change	Struijk	LEE	B, Vs, £
No Change	Lacroix	CRY	A, Inj
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	C
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	C
No Change	Cash	AVL	C

Last updated: 17 Apr, 2026 12:20pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
No Change	Semenyo	MCI	B
No Change	Palmer	CHE	B
No Change	Tavernier	BOU	C, £
No Change	Ismaila Sarr	CRY	A
No Change	Gordon	NEW	A
No Change	Rice	ARS	C
No Change	Rogers	AVL	C
No Change	Anderson	NFO	B, £
No Change	Szoboszlai	LIV	A
No Change	Wilson	FUL	B
No Change	Hinshelwood	BHA	C, Vs, £

Last updated: 17 Apr, 2026 8:11pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	C
No Change	João Pedro	CHE	A
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	B, Vs
No Change	Calvert-Lewin	LEE	C, Vs
No Change	Bowen	WHU	A
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A

Last updated: 17 Apr, 2026 8:13pm

Dugout Discussion

20 August 2023 1418 comments

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West Ham United and Chelsea square off in a derby at the London Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Kick-off is at 16:30 BST.

James Ward-Prowse makes his debut for the hosts after his £30m move from Southampton, replacing Pablo Fornals in David Moyes’ starting XI.

Meanwhile, £4.0m goalkeeper Alphonse Areola continues in goal.

As for Chelsea, Malo Gusto comes in for the injured Reece James, suggesting Mauricio Pochettino will stick with the 3-4-2-1 formation he used against Liverpool in Gameweek 1.

Moises Caicedo is among the substitutes but fellow new signing Romeo Lavia fails to make the matchday squad.

GAMEWEEK 2 LINE-UPS

West Ham United XI: Areola, Coufal, Zouma, Aguerd, Emerson, Soucek, Ward-Prowse, Bowen, Paqueta, Benrahma, Antonio

Subs: Fabianski, Johnson, Cresswell, Ogbonna, Fornals, Cornet, Alvarez, Ings, Mubama

Chelsea XI: Sanchez, Disasi, Silva, Colwill, Gusto, Enzo, Gallagher, Chilwell, Sterling, Chukwuemeka, Jackson

Subs: Bergstrom, Cucurella, Humphreys, Maatsen, Ugochukwu, Caicedo, Madueke, Mudryk, Burstow

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Zalk
2 years, 8 months ago
That's how we do it JWP!
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⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
2 years, 8 months ago
JWP what a player
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1. Marvin.
  2 years, 8 months ago
  He's ripped too.
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2. DycheDycheBaby
  2 years, 8 months ago
  Brilliant. 2 corners both on the money and BOOM!
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Joelinton Travel Tavern
2 years, 8 months ago
Maybe Che df double up not so great after all
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1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
  2 years, 8 months ago
  They are rubbish defensively
  
  Lucky not to concede a hat ful v Liverpool
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  1. Joelinton Travel Tavern
    2 years, 8 months ago
    Yeah true although 2 new DMs to come in might help on that front
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Cojones of Destiny
2 years, 8 months ago
gallagher u moron
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1. JBG
  2 years, 8 months ago
  Great marking job... just standing there holding his hand.
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AC/DC AFC
2 years, 8 months ago
Clean sheets are tricky to get.
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1. The Mentaculus
  2 years, 8 months ago
  Starting to think set & forget of Chilwell, Estupinan & Moreno (when fit) might be the way to go rather than rotating 4.5s / CBs
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BobB
2 years, 8 months ago
Why are Gallagher and Chucklemaker playing instead of Caicedo?
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1. lilmessipran
  2 years, 8 months ago
  Chuckles
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They are eating the dogs
2 years, 8 months ago
Chelsea defence is like Swiss cheese.
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1. Cheeseoid
  2 years, 8 months ago
  This offends me
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fantasist
2 years, 8 months ago
Aguerdddddd
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lilmessipran
2 years, 8 months ago
Jwp doing what he does..another 6.5 mid.. can fill my team with 5 of these and still outscore my Salah midfield
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1. Nightcrawler
  2 years, 8 months ago
  What u on about? Most Salah mid have lots of 6.5s compared to the ones with Bruno Madison rashford etc
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2. lilmessipran
  2 years, 8 months ago
  Nevermind he is 6.0 even, seems underpriced
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TheBiffas
2 years, 8 months ago
Ward Prowse is class
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Andy_Social
2 years, 8 months ago
That's could've been Maguire's slabhead, there.
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Zoostation
2 years, 8 months ago
Lol, forget the Chelsea double up in the back.
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Nightcrawler
2 years, 8 months ago
MUDwell
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1. Hazz
  2 years, 8 months ago
  He can still score and assist
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2. TheBiffas
  2 years, 8 months ago
  We HATE to see it OH YES we DO!
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g40steve
2 years, 8 months ago
Jackson close to pen
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Andy_Social
2 years, 8 months ago
Jackie wins pen but offside.
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1. Gizzachance
  2 years, 8 months ago
  Var
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⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
2 years, 8 months ago
Offside
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JBG
2 years, 8 months ago
Almost Chelsea pen... but offside. Maybe, VAR check.
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It’s gonna Ben Mee
2 years, 8 months ago
Think I’ll reconsider with the Chelsea double defence
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g40steve
2 years, 8 months ago
Could be on
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Hazz
2 years, 8 months ago
Dammit.
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⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
2 years, 8 months ago
No way they change that. Go with the ref even though he’s probably on they will manipulate the lines
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JBG
2 years, 8 months ago
No pen.. damnit
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1. JBG
  2 years, 8 months ago
  We would have found out who's the pen taker there haha.
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BobB
2 years, 8 months ago
Joke of a club paying 115m and leaving the bloke out for average players.
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1. Gizzachance
  2 years, 8 months ago
  Lot of money on their bench
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2. The Train Driver
  2 years, 8 months ago
  Good management not playing a player that hasn't hd any time to train with the bew teammates adapting to a new system.
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  1. BobB
    2 years, 8 months ago
    Harry Kane doesn't seem to have needed time to get a game with Bayern
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    1. AC/DC AFC
      2 years, 8 months ago
      It's probably easier for a keeper or centre forward to slot right in.
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3. WVA
  2 years, 8 months ago
  Been a joke of a club for a long time
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TheBiffas
2 years, 8 months ago
Who's on pens anyway?
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1. g40steve
  2 years, 8 months ago
  Waiting to find out, Jackson?
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Dat Guy Welbz
2 years, 8 months ago
The elites didn’t own Jackson and didn’t want him getting mega points.
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The Train Driver
2 years, 8 months ago
How are they drawing these lines, looks manipulated every time.
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1. Dat Guy Welbz
  2 years, 8 months ago
  Based on whatever Andrew Mears wants
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  1. Vazza
    2 years, 8 months ago
    It’s his full time job and clearly has an influence on the decision making
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lilmessipran
2 years, 8 months ago
And we still don't know who would have taken that Chelsea pen
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Uppercut Panda - A legend i…
2 years, 8 months ago
Onana (Turner)
Estu, Saliba, Chillwell (Botman Kabore)
Bruno, Rashford, Saka, Martinelli, Mitoma
Haaland, Pedro (Archer)

Kabore and Archer > Jackson and Gusto + BB a good option?
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1. Uppercut Panda - A legend i…
  2 years, 8 months ago
  2.5 ITB btw
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2. Gizzachance
  2 years, 8 months ago
  Could well work, or save bb?
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3. Hog Roast Junkie
  2 years, 8 months ago
  I want to say no but I can’t think of a single reason why you shouldn’t - good luck if you do
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Andy_Social
2 years, 8 months ago
JWP only 6.0. Bookmarked for GW7
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Ady87
2 years, 8 months ago
I don’t own Chilwell for clean sheets
I don’t own Chilwell for clean sheets
I don’t own Chilwell for clean sheets
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