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The penultimate match of Gameweek 25 sees Brighton and Hove Albion play host to Crystal Palace.

Kick-off is at 14:00 GMT.

TEAM NEWS

Fabian Hurzeler makes some surprise calls, with three changes from last week’s 1-1 draw with Everton.

There’s no Jan Paul van Hecke and Yasin Ayari in the matchday squad due to injury, while Danny Welbeck drops to the bench.

Olivier Boscagli, Harry Howell and Charalampos Kostoulas come in.

Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner gives a debut to Jorgen Strand Larsen, while Adam Wharton is back in central midfield after suspension.

Chadi Riad and Brennan Johnson are consequently demoted to substitute duty.

Jean-Philippe Mateta is once again absent as he waits to find out if he needs surgery on his knee.

LINE-UPS

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Verbruggen, Kadioglu, Dunk, Boscagli, De Cuyper, Baleba, Gross, Howell, Rutter, Mitoma, Kostoulas

Subs: Steele, Igor, Minteh, Hinshelwood, Welbeck, Milner, Gomez, O’Riley, Veltman

Crystal Palace XI: Henderson, Richards, Lacroix, Lerma, Munoz, Wharton, Hughes, Mitchell, Sarr, Pino, Strand Larsen

Subs: Benitez, Johnson, Uche, Clyne, Kamada, Canvot, Sosa, Guessand, Riad

LIVE GAMEWEEK PAGE!

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

Here you can follow the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DefCon) 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. x.jim.x
    • 11 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Munoz should have gone then

  2. Ze_Austin
    • 7 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Muñoz close to a second YC. Ref showed leniency

    1. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Biased

  3. Mr. O'Connell
    • 13 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Bit stuck with the DGW. I have 2FT and 3 options. Currently just 2 Arsenal (Gabriel and Rice).

    A) Collins, Sels > Raya, 3.9 Def (Hill)
    B) Ekitike > Gyokores hokey-cokey
    C) Roll and play with 2 Arsenal

    Captain will be Gabriel and I'll be cheering on him to concede if I go with B or C, so not ideal. But might be better for my team longer term than being stuck with Raya.

    1. Admiral Benson
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      A

    2. Ze_Austin
      • 7 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      A replaces two non-starters, so I would

      1. Mr. O'Connell
        • 13 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        When you look at it this way...

    3. The Tonberry
      • 2 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      I'd do A.

      Sels is a dead space in the team especially with Ortega signing for Forest. No point holding onto him if you have keeper issues and you have an opportunity to attack a DGW

  4. Admiral Benson
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Verbruggen save point.

  5. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Any chance of Munoz bonus?

    1. Admiral Benson
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Lucky to still be on the pitch

      1. Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        Would take the RC if he’d still get clean sheet points lol

      2. g40steve
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        Should be off

        1. Scapegoat Salah
          • 9 Years
          2 months, 4 days ago

          Do defenders who get sent off still get clean sheet points?

          I know they still carry deductions for goals conceded but what about other way round? Actually don’t know

          1. Dubem_FC
            • 10 Years
            2 months, 4 days ago

            Yes, they do. If their team kept a CS at end of game.

            1. Scapegoat Salah
              • 9 Years
              2 months, 4 days ago

              Thank you! Have always wondered!

  6. The Tonberry
    • 2 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Verbruggen has to go. That goal going in off his face is the straw that has broken this camel's back.

    Have the FTs and the money to do one of the following:

    A - Verbruggen & Timber to Raya & Munoz
    B - Verbruggen & Rice to Raya & Semenyo

    Getting Raya in also helps in navigating BGW31

  7. Hughes Your Daddy
    • 13 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Lovely. Well done lads.

    1. Dubem_FC
      • 10 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Nice name.

  8. Count of Monte Hristo
    • 12 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    What transfers would you prioritise in my squad for the next 4-6 weeks? I like Palmer, Mbeumo, Ekitike but that would realistically require selling Haaland.

    Any advice appreciated.

    0.4 ITB

    Raya Dubravka

    Timber Gabriel Chalobah Guehi Andersen

    Bruno Enzo Rogers Semenyo Anderson

    DCL Thiago Haaland

  9. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Hendo must believe the derby hype!

    1. Hughes Your Daddy
      • 13 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Rivalry, not derby

  10. ZeBestee
    • 11 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Any chance Munoz gets defcons?

  11. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Bps
    Lacroix (CRY) (32)
    Henderson (CRY) (27)
    Richards (CRY) (27)
    Sarr (CRY) (25)
    Mitchell (CRY) (22)
    Muñoz (CRY) (22)
    Groß (BHA) (19)
    Boscagli (BHA) (16)

    Def. Contributions
    Lerma (CRY) (19)
    Lacroix (CRY) (15)
    Dunk (BHA) (12)
    Boscagli (BHA) (11)
    Groß (BHA) (10)
    Hughes (CRY) (10)
    Kostoulas (BHA) (9)
    Muñoz (CRY) (9)

    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      munoz on 9 🙁

      1. Magic Zico
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        Thanks Richards 8 pts are helpful 😛

    2. Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Harsh for Sarr

    3. Traction Engine Foot
      • 8 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Ugh, played Tarkowski and Gudmundsson over Richards

    4. F4L
      • 11 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      long gone for me, but well done to anyone who held on lacroix

      1. F4L
        • 11 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        *onto

  12. Ajax Hamsterdam
    • 11 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    by the sound of it, I am lucky with munoz 5 points...fine margins again....

    1. Qaiss
      • 10 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      He could have had an assist today and yellow card was harsh. Not true

      1. GENERATION X
        • 12 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        Could also have been sent off

  13. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    • 9 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    ML rival started Esteve over Lacroix, ouch

  14. Letsgo!
    • 9 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Not even 1 bonus for the goalscoree. What a shitttt game

    1. Qaiss
      • 10 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      “But defcon has brought more players into the game”

      1. Letsgo!
        • 9 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        Not for bonus point???

  15. pundit of punts
    • 13 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    11 points from Richards and Verbruggen. Richards so close to DEFCON as well.

    Not too shabby

    92 (-4) with Ekitike to go now 🙂

    1. Traction Engine Foot
      • 8 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      The news we've all been waiting for

      1. pundit of punts
        • 13 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        😀

        Thanks for being patient

      2. Ajax Hamsterdam
        • 11 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        lol 🙂

    2. Letsgo!
      • 9 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Wow no bragging at all? Whats that for? Hahahha

      1. pundit of punts
        • 13 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        😀

    3. x.jim.x
      • 11 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      I think I speak for everyone when I say a big “who cares”

      1. pundit of punts
        • 13 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        I hope everyone does 😀

      2. Admiral Benson
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        Amen

    4. Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      USA USA

    5. GENERATION X
      • 12 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      And finally a 6 figure rank get the champagne out

  16. WVA
    • 9 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    FFS Verbruggen, do you have to concede 1 every week

    1. Hughes Your Daddy
      • 13 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Come on it was v Sarr, hard to keep clean sheets v him.

      1. WVA
        • 9 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        Fricking awful player and even worse FPL asset

        1. Hughes Your Daddy
          • 13 Years
          2 months, 4 days ago

          Strange take, scored 2 in 2 now since back from winning afcon.

  17. JBG
    • 7 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Consistency is a foreign word for most PL teams this season it seems.

    Anyone can beat anyone, but also almost everytime the losing team are surprisingly shite that day.

    1. x.jim.x
      • 11 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      There is only one constant and that is Carrickball

  18. Pep Roulette
    • 8 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    A. Roefs to Raya
    B. Mbeumo to Rice

    1. JBG
      • 7 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      A, if you have to

    2. Ze_Austin
      • 7 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      A

      B goes against form. Only an option if Mbeumo's limp is more serious than a dead leg

      1. Ajax Hamsterdam
        • 11 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        this. a for sure.

  19. Old Wulfrunian
    • 9 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Bad result for Brighton.1 win in the last 12 and tricky schedule until the end.

    1. Hughes Your Daddy
      • 13 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Lovely, glad to have continued that run for them.

  20. putana
    • 7 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    im expecting Richards to concede against burnley and wolves now that I need to play him

    1. Traction Engine Foot
      • 8 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Yes it's inevitable

  21. Jet5605
    • 11 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Do Liverpool have any RBs coming back from injury soon? Not sure I can keep Szob if he's stuck playing there.

  22. Qaiss
    • 10 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    So will it be fair when Munoz gets awarded 10 defcons by Opta tomorrow but they can’t change it on FPL?

  23. Jet5605
    • 11 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Sarr blanking in the next two plum games is nailed on. That's what he does.

    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      yep I agree.

  24. CoracAld2831
    • 5 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Little gutted i didn't get Sarr in the end.

    1. CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Hopefully having 2 FT is better.

  25. SomeoneKnows
    • 10 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Which is a better move?

    A) Andersen > Timber
    B) Roefs > Raya

    Roefs
    Gabriel, Chalobah, Lacroix, Andersen
    Bruno, Rice, Enzo, Guimaraes
    Haaland, Eketike

    (Dubravka, Wilson, Gudmundsson, Guiu)

    1. CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Are you free hitting 31?

  26. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    2 months, 4 days ago

    Save me Salah!

  27. Absolutely Muñozed
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Thiaw to Munoz for free?

      1. Ajax Hamsterdam
        • 11 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        gw31 is a long way to go, I would do it yet

        1. Ajax Hamsterdam
          • 11 Years
          2 months, 4 days ago

          yes, not yet

      2. Ignasi M
        • 8 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        I'm thinking this. Munoz at home to Burnley and then Wolves.

    • Ignasi M
      • 8 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      City's midfield is so weak: Silva, Rodri and O'Reilly??? What is Pep thinking??

    • Atimis
      • 9 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Verb HWilson to Raya Sarr for free?
      Or would you rather punt on some Arsenal mid for DGW? Raya means triple def.

      1. Atimis
        • 9 Years
        2 months, 4 days ago

        While getting Raya I could upgrade HWilson to mid up to 7.3.

    • fedolefan
      • 11 Years
      2 months, 4 days ago

      Need only about 40 points from Wirtz and Semenyo so that I can do my own score check.