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Blank Gameweek 34 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) kicks off with Chelsea v Everton, which gets underway at 12.30pm BST.

There’s only one alteration to Enzo Maresca’s line-up from the win over Fulham.

Reece James drops to the bench, with Romeo Lavia brought in for his first Premier League start since January.

That’ll very likely see Moises Caicedo drop to right-back and invert into midfield.

Cole Palmer starts again as he bids to end his 16-game goal drought.

Everton manager David Moyes makes two changes to his starting XI, both of which are enforced.

James Tarkowski‘s run of 111 consecutive Premier League appearances – and indeed his season – is over because of a hamstring injury sustained last weekend.

Nathan Patterson, rather than Michael Keane, replaces him. That will see Jake O’Brien move across to centre-half to partner Jarrad Branthwaite.

Loanee Armando Broja is also ineligible to feature against his parent club, so Beto gets a recall up top.

The reverse fixture of this clash ended in a goalless draw at Goodison Park.

Last year’s corresponding match was more one-way traffic, however: a 6-0 win for the Blues, with Palmer scoring four goals.

The Toffees, in fact, haven’t won a Premier League game at Stamford Bridge in over 30 years.

LINE-UPS

Chelsea XI: Sanchez, Caicedo, Chalobah, Colwill, Cucurella, Lavia, Fernandez, Madueke, Palmer, Neto, Jackson.

Subs: Jorgensen, Tosin, Badiashile, Nkunku, Sancho, Dewsbury-Hall, James, George, Acheampong.

Everton XI: Pickford, Patterson, O’Brien, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Garner, Gueye, Harrison, Doucoure, Ndiaye, Beto.

Subs: Virgínia, Begovic, Keane, McNeil, Chermiti, Young, Coleman, Alcaraz, Iroegbunam.

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

    Sessegnon starts LB

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

      Robinson right wing?

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

      Robinson not in the squad

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

        Amy news as to why? That leaves only 2 playing on my bench now lol

      2. FPL Blow-In
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        Really?

      3. Sun God Nika
        • 5 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        The hell

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

      Lovely

  2. Captain Mal
    • 1 Year
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Murphy, Barnes start.

    1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 16 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      No surprise

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

      😎

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

      Thought he might start all of them

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

    Chop chop lineups boy

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

      😆

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

    FPL aside, this must be one of the most dull GWs of the season.

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

      They don't call them gameweeks anywhere else.

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

    Barnes and Murphy start 🙂

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Brilliant

    2. CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Should've gone triple Newcastle attack.

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

    Joelinton to Willock the only change from previous game

    Pope, Trippier, Schar, Burn, Livramento; Tonali, Bruno, Willock; Barnes, Murphy, Isak

    1. Thanos
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Go Isak cap!

  7. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Sess back to left back

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

      Robinson not playing?

    2. F4L
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      very attacking line up. like it. iwobi central

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

    Does Trippier start, homies?

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

      Yep

    2. tiger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      He does indeed

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

    Happy days 🙂

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

    Full house!

  11. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Everybody starts!

  12. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    F*** off FPL… why is Robinson missing? On -8 and down to 10 playing ffs

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

      Very unlucky...sorry bout this

      1. FPL Blow-In
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        Nothing from Silvas conference either of course.

    2. circusmonkey
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Yeah well, did my wc, had 2 mc 1av on bench, 11 nailed players, so I thought. A bit unlucky but wanted to keep those 3.

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

    Should have gone Sanchez over Kepa, smells like CS here

    1. tiger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      30 mins left...still time for Chelsea to implode

      1. Merlin the Wraith
        • 10 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        Would celebrate the c/s buster more than a scuffed Palmer g/a atm

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

      I thought you did ??

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

        My bad sorry 🙂

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

        Nah, really wasn’t convinced by any Chelsea pick, and I think Sanchez is just a bad player this season

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

          Kepa should do well. Gl

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

      I think 3-1 to Chelsea FT

    4. Gizzachance
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Sanchez on my bench

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

    Glad I benched Robinson now lol

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

      Wouldn't have mattered

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

        I was going to vice him

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

    Thought Robinson was the safe pick over Sessegnon...

  16. Thanos
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Wow Robinson not even in the squad!

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

      Smells like he’s off in the summer

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

        Liverpool at a guess

    2. Gizzachance
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      I had in on bench in case sess no show!

    3. F4L
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      pulled out injured from the usa squad last int. break. hasnt looked great since, probably just needs the rest

  17. Boz
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Cucurella auto subbing in for Robinson on FH. I'll take but now no Fulham

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

      Soton will draw 1-1

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

    Yikes, Robinson out completely is an odd one

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

      I think he’s leaving in the summer

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

      Yep so weird . People on FH should have cover though

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

    Wolves XI: Sá, Doherty, Agbadou, Gomes, Semedo, André, Gomes, Aït-Nouri, Cunha, Munetsi, Larsen

    Subs: Bentley, Bueno, Djiga, Sarabia, Bellegarde, Hee-chan, Gomes, Forbs, Guedes

    Leicester City XI: Hermansen, Pereira, Faes, Coady, Thomas, Ndidi, Soumaré, Buonanotte, El Khannous, Decordova-Reid, Vardy

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

    Brighton XI: Verbruggen, Hinshelwood, Baleba, Dunk, Estupiñán, Ayari, Wieffer, Adingra, O'Riley, March, Welbeck

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

    West Ham United XI: Areola, Mavropanos, Todibo, Kilman, Wan-Bissaka, Ward-Prowse, Souček, Emerson, Paquetá, Bowen, Kudus

    Subs: Fabianski, Cresswell, Coufal, Soler, Rodríguez, Irving, Füllkrug, Guilherme, Ings

    Newcastle United XI: Pope, Trippier, Schär, Burn, Livramento, Guimarães, Tonali, Willock, Murphy, Isak, Barnes

    Subs: Dúbravka, Ruddy, Botman, Krafth, Longstaff, Miley, Wilson, Gordon, Osula

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

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

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

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

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

    Subs: Benda, Cuenca, Castagne, Reed, Cairney, Lukić, Smith Rowe, Traoré, Vinícius

    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Nice

    2. Twisted Saltergater
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Mitoma benched. There goes my differential ffs

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

      Wilson starts! Sess owners lucky about Robinson no show

  20. F4L
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    big save from sanchez

  21. Nightcrawler
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Sessgnon starting in Def ughhh

    What a waste of a FH pick

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

      Are you joking? He'd be in my XI if I knew he was starting in any position, period. Southampton have 11 points.

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

        I wanted him for his attacking threat. Would rather have gone Cucurella otherwise

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

    Sanchez save !

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

    Massive save from Lampard

  24. Quality Quality Qualit
    • 16 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Branthwaite is good, is he on the move next season?

  25. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Brighton v West Ham

    XI: Verbruggen, Dunk, March, Adingra, Welbeck, Baleba, Ayari, Wieffer, Estupinan, O’Riley, Hinshelwood

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

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

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

    1. F4L
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      dont get the mitoma benchings, bit odd

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

    Suddenly Everton have a goal threat

  27. KanuLenoMeeMoCash
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Sess LB damn

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

      At least he starts...

  28. Nightcrawler
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Robinson keepers in non FH teams muddled big time

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

      Very very unlucky

    2. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Yes, that’s me

      1. FPL Blow-In
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        1 year, 1 month ago

        He has played 90minutes in every game this season excluding gw27… decide to keep my FH for 36 and this happens. So typical

    3. Sun God Nika
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Dw Greaves will save me and get goal
      Right ?

  29. Releasebreaks
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    I need an assist from Sanchez to Palmer to save my GW

    1. HadiSLIM
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 1 month ago

      Save it from what? Everyone captaining Jackson?

  30. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Where is Palmer? 😛

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

      Checked the line-ups and he starts

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

      He's actually played well today but most on here will think I'm mad for saying that