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Many Gameweek 34 Free Hit picks will be in action in the 3pm BST kick-offs, with four Premier League matches getting underway:

Newcastle United’s starting XI is finally changed after seven matches but it’s not Jacob Murphy or Harvey Barnes making way. Those two wingers start again as Anthony Gordon has to make do with substitute duty once more.

Eddie Howe’s one alteration is actually an enforced one, as Joelinton misses out with a knee issue. Joe Willock replaces him.

Fabian Schar is fit to start, while Sven Botman is named on the Magpies’ bench after recovering from injury.

Ipswich Town’s Kieran McKenna is the busiest boss of the afternoon, making four changes.

Luke Woolfenden, Cameron Burgess, Jack Taylor and Liam Delap come in, with George Hirst and Jens Cajuste dropping to the bench. Leif Davis is suspended and Axel Tuanzebe is unexpectedly absent.

The Tractor Boys do at least have Omari Hutchinson back among the substitutes.

Fulham are also facing a member of the bottom three in the shape of Southampton, who have Ross Stewart starting for the first time in six months. He replaces the absent Paul Onuachu.

The Cottagers themselves are without Antonee Robinson, while Sasa Lukic is demoted to substitute duty.

Willian and Harry Wilson return to an attacking-looking starting line-up, with Ryan Sessegnon presumably dropping back to left-back to cover for Robinson.

At Molineux, Jose Sa and Matt Doherty are fit enough to return to join Matheus Cunha and co in Wolverhampton Wanderers’ starting XI.

Dan Bentley and Santiago Bueno are the unfortunate men to make way.

Facundo Buonanotte replaces the injured Stephy Mavididi in Leicester City’s only change.

Finally, at the Amex, there are three alterations apiece.

Two of Brighton and Hove Albion’s changes are enforced as Jan Paul van Hecke is injured and Joao Pedro is suspended. Yankuba Minteh also drops to the bench.

Solly March, Simon Adingra and Yasin Ayari get recalls but Kaoru Mitoma again has to make do with substitute duty. Joel Veltman and Tariq Lamptey are on the bench after recovering from injury.

For the Hammers, Niclas Fullkrug, Carlos Soler and Vladimir Coufal drop to the bench.

Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Tomas Soucek and Konstantinos Mavropanos replace them.

LINE-UPS

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Verbruggen, Hinshelwood, Dunk, Baleba, Estupinan, Wieffer, Ayari, O’Riley, March, Adingra, Welbeck.

Subs: Steele, Lamptey, Gruda, Cashin, Minteh, Mitoma, Gomez, Veltman, Tasker.

West Ham United XI: Areola, Wan-Bissaka, Todibo, Kilman, Mavropanos, Emerson, Soucek, Ward-Prowse, Paqueta, Kudus, Bowen.

Subs: Fabianski, Cresswell, Soler, Coufal, Fullkrug, Guilherme, Ings, Rodriguez, Irving.


Newcastle United XI: Pope, Trippier, Schar, Burn, Livramento, Bruno Guimaraes, Tonali, Willock, Murphy, Isak, Barnes

Subs: Dubravka, Ruddy, Botman, Wilson, Gordon, Krafth, Osula, Longstaff, Miley.

Ipswich Town XI: Palmer, O’Shea, Woolfenden, Burgess, Greaves, Morsy, J Taylor, Johnson, Enciso, Clarke, Delap.

Subs: Walton, Chaplin, Cajuste, Hutchinson, Luongo, Hirst, Godfrey, Boniface, T Taylor.


Southampton XI: Ramsdale, Harwood-Bellis, Bednarek, Stephens, Walker-Peters, Downes, Ugochukwu, Manning, Fernandes, Sulemana, Stewart.

Subs: McCarthy, Aribo, Smallbone, Bree, Wood, Archer, Dibling, Welington, Robinson.

Fulham XI: Leno, Tete, Andersen, Bassey, Sessegnon, Berge, Pereira, Willian, Wilson, Iwobi, Jimenez.

Subs: Benda, Reed, Cairney, Traore, Vinicius, Cuenca, Lukic, Castagne, Smith Rowe.


Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Sa, Semedo, Doherty, Agbadou, Toti, Ait-Nouri, Andre, Joao Gomes, Munetsi, Cunha, Strand Larsen.

Subs: Bueno, Hwang, R Gomes, Sarabia, Forbs, Bellegarde, Guedes, Djiga, Bentley.

Leicester City XI: Hermansen, Ricardo, Faes, Coady, Thomas, Ndidi, Soumare, El Khannouss, De Cordova Reid, Buonanotte, Vardy.

Subs: Justin, Okoli, Kristiansen, Skipp, McAteer, Monga, Ayew, Daka, Stolarczyk.



  1. tbos83
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Sessegnon!!

  2. borat
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Cunha cappers unite

    1. Mr. O'Connell
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Cunha non-owners unite

      1. borat
        • 10 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        He's owned by all i think

  3. FPLAnon
    • 1 Year
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Thank you Sess!

  4. Utopsis
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Lol literally everyone in the points today. GET IN SESS!!

  5. RICICLE
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Well, that’s Sa, Sess, and Cucu on my bench lmao!

    1. The Suspended One
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Sa and Sess for me

      Not wrong just unlucky

    2. borat
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Nice names

  6. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Anyone but Sess!

  7. The Philosopher
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Leno assist. Please.

    1. Silecro
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Traore

  8. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Absolute belter from Baleba wins it.

  9. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Yes Sess

  10. Make United Great Again
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Liveramento & Leno

    Over
    Trippier & Sa

    So costly when chasing even with Cunha (C)

  11. squ1rrel
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    67 w/ Diaz (c), Salah, TAA left. Maybe I should have just stuck to Salah (c)

  12. Camzy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Not going Cunha this week was a really bad decision. He was too good not to go for even if it was only for 1 week.

    1. _Ninja_
      • 15 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      I did say

    2. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      I’m surprised he’s a differential as captain!

      1. BeaversWithAttitude
        • 7 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        Many thought he would not start.

  13. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Murphy and Sessegnon on bench, I’m good lol

  14. TheBiffas
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Every 50/50 gone wrong. Kill me now

    1. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Take notes

    2. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      I think that’s why with 2 teams I’ve had such a good season, it really is always 2 decisions!

  15. ViperStripes
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Went Barnes over Tripp 🙁

    Tripp is in my normal team

    1. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Same, still got Trent to play

    2. Atimis
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Same here, gutted

    3. BeaversWithAttitude
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Same! What a bummer!

  16. Tonyawesome69
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Sa, Sessegnon, Trippier and RAN defence on FH34 is cooking!

  17. BIGREDDOG
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    YES TO THE SESS.

  18. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Moral of this season is definitely to stop second guessing.

    Mitoma, JSL, Sa, Sessegnon in the Free Hit draft all week long.

    Ended up on Bowen, Raul, Leno and a benched Sessegnon 😆 what can ya do but sigh and laugh!

    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Sorry dude loads and loads of (bad) luck this gw

      1. FPL Scoop
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        A weird one because at least Isak(c) didn’t blank even if the original plan of Cunha would have been much better… and same with Bowen double assists, even Sessegnon is only getting two more points than my lowest scoring defender (Cucu).

        Just a case of what could have been!

      2. FPL Scoop
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        Never mind… didn’t see the Sess bonus! Drat

  19. Make United Great Again
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Sess goal?! LOOOOL

  20. Mr. O'Connell
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Cunha subbed. Get in!!

  21. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Sess finally 🙂

    Now wtfu Welbz

  22. The Mandalorian
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Jiménez couldn't score if he played for a week.

    What an awful pick.

    1. The Suspended One
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      I did try to warn everyone

  23. BeaversWithAttitude
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Yes, Ryan!

  24. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Palmer the only blanker in my team

  25. Shifty
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    This is the craziest chip i've ever played. Chasing and I might have just caught up with leader going into final GWs.

    Went an unorthodox 5-3-2 FH with

    Sanchez
    Sess Trippier(c) RAN Livra Cucu
    Salah Bowen Diaz
    Isak Cunha

    I can't believe how it's going!

    1. BIGREDDOG
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Unbelievable

    2. The Suspended One
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      No trippier hurts

  26. Mother Farke
    • 2 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    69 with Salah (C) Diaz and TAA to go. That's green arrow music 😀

  27. RICICLE
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Genuinely think I’ve got the most bench points on here.

    Sa, Sess and Cucu

  28. BIGREDDOG
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    3 bonus for Sess looks like

  29. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    No Welbeck involvement in 3 Brighton goals, great …

  30. Royal5
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Sess straight up to 3 baps. Money.

    1. Andy_Social
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Sess and AIN lessen the pain of a Cucu in the nest