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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
    11 months, 14 days ago

    Sessegnon!!

  2. borat
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 14 days ago

    Cunha cappers unite

    1. Mr. O'Connell
      • 13 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Cunha non-owners unite

      1. borat
        • 9 Years
        11 months, 14 days ago

        He's owned by all i think

  3. FPLAnon
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Thank you Sess!

    • Utopsis
      • 6 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

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

    • RICICLE
      • 3 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

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

      1. The Suspended One
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        11 months, 14 days ago

        Sa and Sess for me

        Not wrong just unlucky

      2. borat
        • 9 Years
        11 months, 14 days ago

        Nice names

    • Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Anyone but Sess!

    • The Philosopher
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Leno assist. Please.

      1. Silecro
        • 8 Years
        11 months, 14 days ago

        Traore

    • Drop Dead Tsimikas
      • 14 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Absolute belter from Baleba wins it.

    • Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Yes Sess

    • Make United Great Again
      • 13 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Liveramento & Leno

      Over
      Trippier & Sa

      So costly when chasing even with Cunha (C)

    • squ1rrel
      • 11 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

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

    • Camzy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      11 months, 14 days 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
        11 months, 14 days ago

        I did say

      2. Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        11 months, 14 days ago

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

        1. BeaversWithAttitude
          • 7 Years
          11 months, 14 days ago

          Many thought he would not start.

    • Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Murphy and Sessegnon on bench, I’m good lol

    • TheBiffas
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Every 50/50 gone wrong. Kill me now

      1. Royal5
        • 14 Years
        11 months, 14 days ago

        Take notes

      2. Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        11 months, 14 days ago

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

    • ViperStripes
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Went Barnes over Tripp 🙁

      Tripp is in my normal team

      1. g40steve
        • 8 Years
        11 months, 14 days ago

        Same, still got Trent to play

      2. Atimis
        • 9 Years
        11 months, 14 days ago

        Same here, gutted

      3. BeaversWithAttitude
        • 7 Years
        11 months, 14 days ago

        Same! What a bummer!

    • Tonyawesome69
      • 7 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

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

    • BIGREDDOG
      • 8 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      YES TO THE SESS.

    • FPL Scoop
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      11 months, 14 days 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
        11 months, 14 days ago

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

        1. FPL Scoop
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          11 months, 14 days 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
          11 months, 14 days ago

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

    • Make United Great Again
      • 13 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Sess goal?! LOOOOL

    • Mr. O'Connell
      • 13 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Cunha subbed. Get in!!

    • g40steve
      • 8 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Sess finally 🙂

      Now wtfu Welbz

    • The Mandalorian
      • 13 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

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

      What an awful pick.

      1. The Suspended One
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        11 months, 14 days ago

        I did try to warn everyone

    • BeaversWithAttitude
      • 7 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Yes, Ryan!

    • Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Palmer the only blanker in my team

    • Shifty
      • 12 Years
      11 months, 14 days 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
        11 months, 14 days ago

        Unbelievable

      2. The Suspended One
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        11 months, 14 days ago

        No trippier hurts

    • Mother Farke
      • 2 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

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

    • RICICLE
      • 3 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

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

      Sa, Sess and Cucu

    • BIGREDDOG
      • 8 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      3 bonus for Sess looks like

    • SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
      • 9 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      No Welbeck involvement in 3 Brighton goals, great …

    • Royal5
      • 14 Years
      11 months, 14 days ago

      Sess straight up to 3 baps. Money.

      1. Andy_Social
        • 13 Years
        11 months, 14 days ago

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