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Gameweek 36 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) kicks off with four fixtures at 3pm BST, including the match that dominated pre-deadline discussion on site: Southampton v Manchester City.

The rumours were true about Erling Haaland starting, with the Norwegian set for his first appearance since Gameweek 29.

And the pre-deadline speculation about a benching for Omar Marmoush and a start for Kevin De Bruyne were also spot-on.

In total, Pep Guardiola has made five changes to his line-up today.

Haaland, Rico Lewis, Manuel Akanji, James McAtee and Phil Foden come in, with Marmoush, Nico O’Reilly, Matheus Nunes, Jeremy Doku and Ilkay Gundogan ousted.

As for Southampton, their three changes see Welington, Tyler Dibling and James Bree replace Kyle Walker-Peters, Ryan Manning and Ross Stewart.

There’s just one alteration across the two sides at Portman Road, where Ipswich Town take on unchanged Brentford.

Axel Tuanzebe replaces Luke Woolfenden for the hosts.

At Molineux, Vitor Pereira brings in Goncalo Guedes for Jeanricner Bellegarde in his only tweak.

Brighton and Hove Albion are missing Lewis Dunk, so in comes Adam Webster. Tariq Lamptey and Yasin Ayari also replace Jack Hinshelwood and Simon Adingra.

Finally, at Craven Cottage, there are five changes across the two sides.

Andreas Pereira and Emile Smith Rowe get recalls, with Saka Lukic and Antonee Robinson both missing out. Ryan Sessegnon will move back to left-back.

Ashley Young, Jack Harrison and Abdoulaye Doucoure replace Nathan Patterson, Iliman Ndiaye and Dwight McNeil for the Toffees.

LINE-UPS

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

Subs: Benda, Cairney, Adama, Vinicius, Cuenca, Willian, King, Diop, Godo.

Everton XI: Pickford, Young, Keane, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Garner, Gueye, Harrison, Doucoure, Alcaraz, Beto.

Subs: Virginia, Patterson, McNeil, Calvert-Lewin, Ndiaye, Chermiti, Broja, Coleman, Iroegbunam.


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

Subs: Walton, Woolfenden, Cajuste, Johnson, Luongo, Hirst, Godfrey, Clarke, Boniface.

Brentford XI: Flekken, Kayode, Collins, Van den Berg, Lewis-Potter, Norgaard, Yarmoliuk, Mbuemo, Damsgaard, Schade, Wissa.

Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Pinnock, Jensen, Thiago, Mee, Konak, Maghoma, Nunes.


Southampton XI: Ramsdale, Harwood-Bellis, Bednarek, Stephens, Bree, Downes, Ugochukwu, Welington, Dibling, Fernandes, Sulemana.

Subs: McCarthy, Manning, Wood, Sugawara, Aribo, Smallbone, Stewart, Archer, Onuachu.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Lewis, Akanji, Dias, Gvardiol, Kovacic, De Bruyne, Bernardo, McAtee, Foden, Haaland.

Subs: Ortega Moreno, Marmoush, Grealish, Doku, Nico, Gundogan, Savinho, Nunes, O’Reilly.


Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Sa, Semedo, Doherty, Agbadou, Toti, Ait-Nouri, Andre, J.Gomes, Munetsi, Cunha, Guedes.

Subs: Bentley, Djiga, Bueno, R.Gomes, Traore, Bellegarde, Sarabia, Mane, Strand Larsen.

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Verbruggen, Lamptey, van Hecke, Webster, Estupiñán, Baleba, Wieffer, Minteh, O’Riley, Ayari, Welbeck.

Subs: Steele, Igor, Cashin, Gruda, Mitoma, Gomez, Hinshelwood, Howell, Adingra.



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  1. Nightcrawler
    • 6 Years
    11 months, 10 days ago

    Wood(c) looking okay so far. Mbuemo assist is annoying tho

    1. _Ninja_
      • 15 Years
      11 months, 10 days ago

      Hope Wood smashes it for you since i have him.

  2. Differentiator
    • 10 Years
    11 months, 10 days ago

    Very surprised at how low ownership Watkins is

    Could've bagged a major haul last week

    1. TOLV TUMS
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      11 months, 10 days ago

      Hoping he and Rogers have a banner day today

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        11 months, 10 days ago

        Rogers is in my bench, but Watkins is starting for me.

  3. Bonus magnet
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 10 days ago

    At least TC KdB scored more points than TC Sadio Mane

    1. TOLV TUMS
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      11 months, 10 days ago

      Or TC Carlos Tevez

    2. LOS BLANCOS
      • 11 Years
      11 months, 10 days ago

      Or TC Andy Carroll

  4. gooberman
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    11 months, 10 days ago

    Imagine ripping your team apart and taking hits just to accommodate Haaland.

    1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
      • 9 Years
      11 months, 10 days ago

      It was silly

    2. The-Red-1
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      11 months, 10 days ago

      Some don't need to imagine, sadly

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        11 months, 10 days ago

        Oh dear!

    3. Punned It
      • 1 Year
      11 months, 10 days ago

      My rival TCd Haaland B)

      1. RedLightning
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 15 Years
        11 months, 10 days ago

        So did Mark.

  5. Punned It
    • 1 Year
    11 months, 10 days ago

    Well, billocks so far. Wissa, Mbuemo cap and Marms.

  6. Andy_Social
    • 13 Years
    11 months, 10 days ago

    Bit rubbish that, although 9 points from differential Dias are not to be sniffed at.

  7. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 10 days ago

    19 from 3. The only disappointment, Wissa scored exactly half of what Haaland managed.

    1. bitm2007
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      11 months, 10 days ago

      33 from 6 with my two new recruits (Wiisa & Cunha) scoring a point combined.

    2. Zalk
      • 14 Years
      11 months, 10 days ago

      18p from 4/12

    3. Silecro
      • 8 Years
      11 months, 10 days ago

      15 from 4. Bad.

  8. gooberman
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    11 months, 10 days ago

    So much for attacking the relegated teams. Ipswich and Southampton ruining the party. Hope Leicester dont continue that trend.

    1. Gubby-Allen
      • 4 Years
      11 months, 10 days ago

      You should be attacking Arsenal, Man Utd and Tottenham for having minds on other things.

      Add West Ham to that who have nothing to play for since about September

      1. Atimis
        • 9 Years
        11 months, 10 days ago

        Arsenal?

        1. AC/DC AFC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          11 months, 10 days ago

          They might have a Wednesday night Paris hangover effect tbf for the wrong reasons.

      2. gooberman
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        11 months, 10 days ago

        well the relegated teams don't have anything to play for and are also awful.

        1. have you seen cyan
          • 6 Years
          11 months, 10 days ago

          Nah, they do have something to play for, the fans. That's why they normally perform better once relegated and the pressure is off. They obviously know they had a bad season, so the only logical thing left to do is try and give something back to the fans.

          I'm actually getting Enciso in this week. 2 Nice fixtures.

          1. have you seen cyan
            • 6 Years
            11 months, 10 days ago

            Also, some players from relegated teams probably play a bit better hoping a PL team might them?

          2. x.jim.x
            • 11 Years
            11 months, 10 days ago

            Yeah I've seen this "nothing to play for" nonsense a few times on here and it winds me up a bit. There's plenty of motivation for players regardless of table position - fans, personal pride, goal bonuses, putting yourself in the shop window, cementing your place next season, etc.

            1. Scapegoat Salah
              • 9 Years
              11 months, 10 days ago

              Yeah but that’s largely motivation for individual players rather than collectively as a team

              1. x.jim.x
                • 11 Years
                11 months, 10 days ago

                Almost as if the individual players are part of the same team

              2. have you seen cyan
                • 6 Years
                11 months, 10 days ago

                IDK, I can picture someone like Vardy in the dressing room giving a speech about putting in performances for the fans.

                In regard to teams performing better with no pressure, you see this all the time in other sports and competitions too.

  9. Merlin the Wraith
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 10 days ago

    C'mon then Demba, where are ya?

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      11 months, 10 days ago

      Oof

  10. BobbyDoesNotLook
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    11 months, 10 days ago

    Verbruggen mega points! I deserve that after losing last second differential Kepa mega haul on FH.

  11. ball c
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    11 months, 10 days ago

    Took the risk of bringing Haaland in.. didn’t pay off but no loss in that as chasing. Probably have to move him on to Watkins next

  12. Flynny
    • 11 Years
    11 months, 10 days ago

    Thoughts on haaland starting the Bournemouth game 3 days after fa cup final?

    With champs league in the line I guess he will....

  13. Eightball
    • 5 Years
    11 months, 10 days ago

    AM on Pep instead of Frank, Cunha instead of Wood. Got both my decisions wrong this week 🙁

  14. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    11 months, 10 days ago

    Watkins G