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3 May 2025 205 comments
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There are only two Premier League matches getting underway at 3pm BST this afternoon.

There’s not a huge deal of Fantasy interest in either fixture, with only Everton and all three relegated clubs in action.

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Everton’s David Moyes makes two changes to the side that lost at Chelsea last weekend.

Dwight McNeil gets his first league start of 2025, while Carlos Alcaraz jumps up to the starting XI.

Jack Harrison drops to the bench as Abdoulaye Doucoure misses out entirely with a personal issue.

The fit-again Dominic Calvert-Lewin is among the substitutes: he is back in the Toffees’ squad for the first time in over three months.

Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna makes two changes following last Saturday’s 3-0 defeat at Newcastle United.

Ben Johnson is suspended and Jack Clarke benched as Omari Hutchinson and Conor Chaplin get the nod to start.

Kalvin Phillips and Axel Tuanzebe are on the bench after missing out in Gameweek 34.

At the King Power Stadium, Leicester City manager Ruud van Nistelrooy makes five changes.

Four of them are enforced as Mads Hermansen, Ricardo Pereira, Bobby De Cordova-Reid and Facundo Buonanotte miss out with injuries.

Jakub Stolarczuk, James Justin, Jordan Ayew and Kasey McAteer replace them.

Opponents Southampton, by contrast, are unchanged.

Paul Onuachu is back on the bench after recovering from an ankle injury.

LINE-UPS

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

Subs: Virginia, Keane, Calvert-Lewin, Harrison, Chermiti, Young, Broja, Coleman, Iroegbunam.

Ipswich Town XI: Palmer, O’Shea, Wolfenden, Burgess, Greaves, Hutchinson, Morsy, Taylor, Chaplin, Enciso, Delap.

Subs: Walton, Phillips, Cajuste, Luongo, Hirst, Tuanzebe, Godfrey, Clarke, Boniface.


Leicester City XI: Stolarczyk, Justin, Faes, Coady, Thomas, Ndidi, Skipp, McAteer, Ayew, El Khannouss, Vardy.

Subs: Iversen, Okoli, Kristiansen, Daka, Soumare, Coulibaly, Golding, Evans, Monga.

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

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


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  1. SomeoneKnows
    • 9 Years
    7 months, 14 days ago

    Isn't Evalinson with a red card? How come he's in the Bournemouth lineup?

    1. Bobkat
      • 3 Years
      7 months, 14 days ago

      Was rescinded after the game

    2. TitusShambles
      • 10 Years
      7 months, 14 days ago

      Bournemouth appealed and it was overturned. Incidentally, FPL momentarily returned his points as if the red card never happened but then reapplied the -3

  2. Drexl Spivey
    • 7 Years
    7 months, 14 days ago

    That's me and Everton finished now, for FPL eternity.

    Like never playing on a slot machine ever again. Or buying a can of Vimto.

    1. The Big Fella
      • 9 Years
      7 months, 14 days ago

      1) Nothing wrong with Vimto 2) great avatar/name/character/film

    2. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      7 months, 14 days ago

      Yep, we fell hook line and sinker for it!

  3. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    7 months, 14 days ago

    Moyes AM.

    Everton home banker indeed.

    Just about sums it up.

  4. The Big Fella
    • 9 Years
    7 months, 14 days ago

    Saka to punish the sellers

    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      7 months, 14 days ago

      Big time !!! Can't believe he starts ...c'est la vie...

    2. el polako
      • 8 Years
      7 months, 14 days ago

      More likely he’ll punish Arteta.

    3. CoracAld2831
      • 4 Years
      7 months, 14 days ago

      Probably.

  5. Rwilliams90
    • 14 Years
    7 months, 14 days ago

    If Saka gets injured Arteta should be sacked

    1. CoracAld2831
      • 4 Years
      7 months, 14 days ago

      Only if they lose, he might be.