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3pm team news: No Strand Larsen, Sesko a sub again

30 August 2025 935 comments
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Four more Premier League matches get underway at 15:00 BST this afternoon.

They include the fixture that many Fantasy managers are banking on – maybe more than hope in expectation – being a one-sided bloodbath: Manchester United v Burnley.

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TEAM NEWS

Ruben Amorim makes one change from the team that drew at Fulham last weekend, with Diogo Dalot coming in for Patrick Dorgu.

Benjamin Sesko is only among the substitutes as visiting boss Scott Parker named an unchanged XI from the win over Sunderland.

Also sticking with the same line-ups from Gameweek 2 are the head coaches of Tottenham Hotspur and Bournemouth for their encounter in north London.

The headline team news from the 3pm kick-offs comes from Molineux, where the sought-after Jorgen Strand Larsen is absent.

Also missing is injured £4.0m defender Ki-Jana Hoever.

Hwang Hee-chan instead leads the line for Wolverhampton Wanderers, who also bring in Jackson Tchatchoua, Santiago Bueno, Hugo Bueno and Andre.

Matt Doherty, Jeanricner Bellegarde and David Moller Wolfe drop to the bench.

Beto is preferred to Thierno Barry up top for Everton, who also welcome back Vitaliy Mykolenko to their Premier League XI after his midweek recovery from injury.

Tim Iroegbunam makes way.

Finally, at the Stadium of Light, the hosts bring in Nordi Mukiele and Enzo Le Fee for the injured Dan Ballard and the benched Simon Adingra.

Brentford are unchanged.

LINE-UPS

Manchester United XI: Bayindir, Yoro, De Ligt, Shaw, Diallo, Casemiro, Bruno Fernandes, Dalot, Mbeumo, Mount, Cunha.

Subs: Onana, Mazraoui, Maguire, Zirkzee, Dorgu, Ugarte, Heaven, Sesko, Mainoo.

Burnley XI: Dubravka, Walker, Ekdal, Esteve, Hartman, Ugochukwu, Cullen, Bruun Larsen, Mejbri, Anthony, Foster.

Subs: Weiss, Worrall, Edwards, Tchaouna, Flemming, Ramsey, Sonne, Pires, Laurent.

Sunderland XI: Roefs, Hume, Mukiele, Alderete, Mandava, Diarra, Xhaka, Sadiki, Talbi, Mayenda, Le Fee.

Subs: Patterson, Neil, Guiu, Roberts, Rigg, Isidor, Seelt, Adingra, Masuaku.

Brentford XI: Kelleher, Kayode, Collins, Van den Berg, Lewis-Potter, Yarmolyuk, Henderson, Ouattara, Damsgaard, Schade, Thiago.

Subs: Valdimarsson, Hickey, Henry, Pinnock, Jensen, Carvalho, Onyeka, Milambo, Ajer.

Tottenham Hotspur XI: Vicario, Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Spence, Sarr, Joao Palhinha, Bentancur, Kudus, Richarlison, Johnson.

Subs: Kinsky, Danso, Tel, Udogie, Gray, Bergvall, Solomon, Odobert, Davies.

Bournemouth XI: Petrovic, Smith, Diakite, Senesi, Truffert, Adams, Brooks, Scott, Tavernier, Semenyo, Evanilson.

Subs: Dennis, Christie, Gannon-Doak, Adli, Kluivert, Soler, Faivre, Kroupi, Hill.

Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Sa, S Bueno, Agbadou, T Gomes, Tchatchoua, Andre, J Gomes, H Bueno, Munetsi, Hwang, Arias.

Subs: Johnstone, Doherty, Mosquera, Krejci, Wolfe, R.Gomes, Bellegarde, Lopez, Kalajdzic.

Everton XI: Pickford, O’Brien, Tarkowski, Keane, Mykolenko, Gueye, Garner; Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish, Beto.

Subs: Travers, Coleman, Dibling, Alcaraz, Iroegbunam, Armstrong, Onyango, McNeil, Barry.

LIVE GAMEWEEK PAGE!

New to Fantasy Football Scout is the Live Gameweek page, which you can see on the side menu.

Here you can follow the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DC) points roll in, see who the leading players are for xG and more as the games play out, as seen below:

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  1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Welp, Saka + Palmer to Grealish and Bruno certainly worked itself out.

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    1. Fifa las vegas
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Massive mistake from me going with Elanga over Grealish 🙁

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      1. jacob1989
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Did the same mistake

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  2. Peteex
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Are rules changed or why was that a penalty?

    Foul clearly started before box

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    1. Strike me a Gakpose
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Haha

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      1. Peteex
        1 year, 2 months ago

        That really did'n help with my question

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    2. diesel001
      1 year, 2 months ago

      If it continues into the box it is a penalty.

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      1. Peteex
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Ok. Has the tule changed?

        Could sware that similar situations have been free kicks past years

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  3. Capocannonieri
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 year, 2 months ago

    My 5 year old asked me if he could pull for the "Red" team he pointed at Manchester United.

    I told him that was Satans team and only sad losers would ever pull for the losers in Red

    50% of my parenting job has been accomplished

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  4. Zilla
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Guess out of Bruno, Mbeumo and Cunha who I decided to get?

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    1. diesel001
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Cunha

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      1. Zilla
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Yep always feel 50/50s go this way

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        1. diesel001
          1 year, 2 months ago

          Cos you unlucky. Just have to accept it. Not your destiny to win FPL.

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          1. Zilla
            1 year, 2 months ago

            Well, I came close once.

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    2. Jet5605
      1 year, 2 months ago

      The one where the first three letters could be followed by a t?

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      1. Zilla
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Touche

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  5. Camzy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Got some really lucky bench jam with Dorgu not playing and getting Tosin off the bench. Will take it!

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    1. Bobby Digital
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Told you to play Tosin over PMS

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      1. Camzy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        1 year, 2 months ago

        You did you were right! But got both points in the end.

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        1. Bobby Digital
          1 year, 2 months ago

          Yeah, I guess it made no difference in the end 😛

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  6. Orion
    1 year, 2 months ago

    So Cunha to Grealish is the move?

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  7. ChelseaGuy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 year, 2 months ago

    United wins the 6 pointer

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  8. F4L
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Petrovic doing very solid work so far. shame about the 2 point yellow for time wasting today

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  9. Tonyawesome69
    1 year, 2 months ago

    If a defender starts holding an attacker outside the penalty area and continues holding inside the penalty area, the referee must award a penalty kick.

    https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-12---fouls-and-misconduct

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  10. Kaneyonero
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Need MUNOZ to go crazy against Villa. He's in for Dorgu

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    1. Thanos
      1 year, 2 months ago

      That game could be goal fest. Very likely Munoz gets an attacking return.

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    2. Orion
      1 year, 2 months ago

      No way mate, as i have him 🙁 Between Cunha, Mbeumo and Bruno, I chose Cunha… And I dropped Watkins out… So expect Watkins brace at least with a Munoz getting yellow…

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    3. Hughes Your Daddy
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Munoz could be involved, but hopefully you have Sarr? Really hope he continues his great record v Villa.

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  11. Rwilliams90
    1 year, 2 months ago

    It's gone from a positive start with Sanchez and João Pedro (c) to an absolute horror gameweek with VdV, Cunha, Kudus and Johnson.

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    1. Randy_Marsh
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Who's the captain?

      Similar but I have chalobah as well which helps a bit.

      Haaland(c) and wood to salvage my GW hopefully

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  12. Fiona B
    1 year, 2 months ago

    THANK YOU DORGU. Senesi 14 pointer off the bench. Jam.

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    1. _Ninja_
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Nice!

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      1. Fiona B
        1 year, 2 months ago

        It was a tense last 20 mins checking the subs.

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    2. Thanos
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Holy moly!

      Enjoy the jam 😆

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  13. Tonyawesome69
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Bournemouth's Petrovic and Senesi is the go-to cheap defensive picks

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  14. F4L
    1 year, 2 months ago

    if cunha and mount (think he got injured) are out for a while, you think thats a positive for bruno? kinda like the defcon beast pulling the strings from deep, still getting involved. loses the defcon side to his game in CAM

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    1. Tonyawesome69
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Probably sees Mainoo playing 8 and pushes Bruno to 10

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      1. F4L
        1 year, 2 months ago

        yep thats the concern

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    2. Thanos
      1 year, 2 months ago

      You still want to keep invested in United?

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      1. F4L
        1 year, 2 months ago

        for sure. they're attacking this season and have no distractions at all now in cups until the new year

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        1. Thanos
          1 year, 2 months ago

          But they are not scoring! Shots are worthless if they don’t end up in the net.

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          1. F4L
            1 year, 2 months ago

            2 today, more are coming. theyve just been unfortunate in early GWs. will just have to agree to disagree 🙂

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  15. Sgt Frank Drebin
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Was Pedro Porro injured? Or just a normal sub?

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  16. Moon Dog
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Dewsbury-Hall 12pter is wild.

    FPL has its moments... 🙂

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    1. Thanos
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Started him over Rutter 🙂

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      1. Moon Dog
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Nice. Love those moments.

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        1. Thanos
          1 year, 2 months ago

          Thanks!!

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    2. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 year, 2 months ago

      First on my bench

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    3. Bobby Digital
      1 year, 2 months ago

      I hope he continues delivering, one of my few big differentials

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  17. FantasyClub
    1 year, 2 months ago

    You guys think Grealish a good pick with Villa & Pool up next?

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  18. Feanor
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Got my first ever DC points from Tarkowski, pretty disappointing 3 pointer though

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  19. F4L
    1 year, 2 months ago

    also thats United with 48 (!) shots in 2 home matches. i dont get the dislike of their attacking assets. they will bag goals this season. cunha out might hurt but still

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    1. Thanos
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Shots are worthless if they score.
      Sesko is bench tied. Boomo more like assisted. Now Cunha injured.

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      1. Thanos
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Dont* score

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  20. Supersonic_
    1 year, 2 months ago

    What you lot doing with Bruno

    Is Salah, Wirtz and Gakpo excessive for Burnley?

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    1. Bobby Digital
      1 year, 2 months ago

      I'm selling for Salah

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    2. Total Slotball
      1 year, 2 months ago

      wait on Isak news before looking at Liverpool forwards

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    3. Moon Dog
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 year, 2 months ago

      I'll think about it after all the games are done and the window is closed. I trust future me to make a better decision with more information.

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  21. Thanos
    1 year, 2 months ago

    LiveFPL shows safety score as 25.

    Didn’t think it would be that high.

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    1. _Ninja_
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Sanchez Bruno Pedro all well owned, thats 25 pts just from those 3.

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      1. Thanos
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Yeah true dat

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  22. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Senesi or Lacroix to replace Dorgu? Oh damn it's still a long way to next GW 😛

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  23. fedolefan
    1 year, 2 months ago

    FH worked out in the end. Triple Chelsea 28, Triple United 21. Let’s see what triple forest and Haaland(c) are up to tomorrow.

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  24. Total Slotball
    1 year, 2 months ago

    whos on pens if Newcastle get one today?

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    1. adstomko
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Yes

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      1. Total Slotball
        1 year, 2 months ago

        what position does "yes" play?

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    2. Tonyawesome69
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Schar has a good chance

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      1. Tonyawesome69
        1 year, 2 months ago

        9/11 pen record

        https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fabian-schar/elfmetertore/spieler/135343

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    3. All Hail K
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Think you'd have to work hard to wrestle the ball away from Bruno G.

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  25. Evasivo
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Grealish 1pt off DC, damn

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  26. adstomko
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Changed (C) from Fernandes to Haaland.
    Fingers crossed.

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    1. Randy_Marsh
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Yup hoping for a brace at least

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    2. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 year, 2 months ago

      I thought about Bruno cap briefly but was always realistically putting it on Haaland, so I am just happy for the points

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  27. Capocannonieri
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Jack Grealish is back, glad to see it.

    I saw a documentary about how kind he was a special needs child and fans in general. Showed at the kid's game and met his whole squad. He should have gotten bonus points for it during the gameweek.

    Glad to see good things happen for good dude.

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    1. Stranger Mings
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Yeh top bloke

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  28. Traction Engine Foot
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Have just reached 100 points, what a terrible start to the season haha.

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    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 year, 2 months ago

      I thought your GW3 point is 100 ... was shocked 😛

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      1. Traction Engine Foot
        1 year, 2 months ago

        If only

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    2. Rwilliams90
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Jeez I'm not happy with 146

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  29. Atimis
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Still may be doing Bruno Watkins to Gakpo Haaland -4 next week

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    1. Bobby Digital
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Watkins is due. I plan to keep him until GW8

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  30. Moon Dog
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 year, 2 months ago

    I had a 4.0m defender filling in for Palmer for a week and he gets me 4pts. See that's fine. You really don't need money on your bench imo.

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