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A busy Sunday of Premier League football kicks off at 14:00 BST, with Aston Villa v Sunderland, Everton v Liverpool and Nottingham Forest v Burnley.

TEAM NEWS

Unai Emery makes three changes to the side that beat Bologna 4-0 on Thursday.

Tyrone Mings, Ian Maatsen and Ross Barkley come in for the benched Lucas Digne and Emiliano Buendia. Pau Torres misses out entirely.

Sunderland are unchanged from last weekend’s 1-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur.

In the Merseyside derby, Arne Slot makes four alterations to the side he sent out in Europe, with Andrew Robertson, Curtis Jones, Mohamed Salah and Cody Gakpo in for Milos Kerkez, Jeremie Frimpong and Alexis Mac Allister, who drop to the bench. Hugo Ekitike is absent.

Alexander Isak retains his starting spot up top.

David Moyes names an unchanged Everton XI.

Finally, at the City Ground, Vitor Pereira has handed recalls to Matz Sels, Nikola Milenkovic, Elliot Anderson and Dilane Bakwa.

Stefan Ortega, Jair Cunha and Nicolas Dominguez are demoted to substitute duty. Dan Ndoye misses out.

There is just one change for ‘doublers’ Burnley from Gameweek 32.

Kyle Walker returns in place of Bashir Humphreys.

LINE-UPS

Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Mings, Maatsen, Onana, Tielemans, McGinn, Barkley, Rogers, Watkins

Subs: Bizot, Lindelof, Buendia, Digne, Abraham, Sancho, Luiz, Bogarde, Bailey

Sunderland XI: Roefs, Mukiele, O’Nien, Alderete, Reinildo, Xhaka, Diarra, Sadiki, Rigg, Le Fee, Brobbey

Subs: Ellborg, Cirkin, Hume, Geertruida, Ballard, Talbi, Mayenda, Isidor, H Jones


Everton XI: Pickford, O’Brien, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Garner, Gueye, McNeil, Dewsbury-Hall, Ndiaye, Beto

Subs: Travers, Patterson, Keane, Barry, George, Dibling, Alcaraz, Rohl, Iroegbunam

Liverpool XI: Mamardashvili, Szoboszlai, Konate, van Dijk, Robertson, Gravenberch, Jones, Salah, Wirtz, Gakpo, Isak

Subs: Woodman, Pesci, Kerkez, Mac Allister, Chiesa, Frimpong, Nyoni, Ngumoha


Nottingham Forest XI: Sels, Aina, Milenkovic, Murillo, Williams, Sangare, Anderson, Hutchinson, Gibbs-White, Bakwa, Wood

Subs: Ortega, Morato, Awoniyi, Dominguez, Jesus, Yates, Cunha, McAtee, Netz

Burnley XI: Dubravka, Walker, Ekdal, Esteve, Hartman, Ward-Prowse, Florentino, Edwards, Ugochukwu, Anthony, Flemming

Subs: Weiss, Worrall, Larsen, Foster, Humphreys, Tchaouna, Broja, Laurent, Tresor


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. Sailboats
    • 10 Years
    3 days, 9 hours ago

    RIP Spurs?

    1. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Still 30m to nail it more

      1. Sailboats
        • 10 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        There you go

        1. g40steve
          • 8 Years
          3 days, 9 hours ago

          Sweet

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

      Well

      It's down to the Hammers to win a few

      Massive game at Palace tomorrow

      A draw is a decent enough result but a win would be huge

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Yeah, a W Ham win tomorrow puts them 4 clear with 5 to play.

        That will be extremely hard to come back from.

  2. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    3 days, 9 hours ago

    Salah with 10 feet of space to run on Molly on an island
    Passes it back
    A shell of what he once was

  3. JBG
    • 7 Years
    3 days, 9 hours ago

    Get the winner Everton! Would be so much more fun if Pool and Chelsea drop out of the European spots.

    1. Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      PL will get 10 CL spots to make it work out

  4. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    3 days, 9 hours ago

    Watkins seriously punishing me for selling him!

    1. Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      I have Cash to cover Villa

  5. Sgt. Schultz
    • 9 Years
    3 days, 9 hours ago

    MGW G

    1. Sgt. Schultz
      • 9 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Yates A

  6. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 days, 9 hours ago

    Is that a Hattie at the City Ground?

    1. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Yep

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

      Yes it is

      Morgan Gibbs White header

  7. JBG
    • 7 Years
    3 days, 9 hours ago

    MGW hattrick

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      FH wide open for the inform player playing Burnley at home

      The fixtures weren't so great for the wildcard and especially BB35

      1. Utopsis
        • 6 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Same could be said about Okafor. Of course I have neither

  8. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    3 days, 9 hours ago

    Mgw hatty

    1. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Yates A

    2. Sgt. Schultz
      • 9 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Cross and header proper old school

      1. g40steve
        • 8 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Buzzing, just need a couple more results to be safe

  9. Weasel Boy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 days, 9 hours ago

    MGW has single handily saved my BB.

    1. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Good for you not ditching him for DGW drek, mate.

      1. Weasel Boy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Thanks.

        Gordon and JP no show was not great so needed that.

    2. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      If you knew what you were doing, you would’ve started him and not played BB 😉

    3. Utopsis
      • 6 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      20 pointer and counting!

      1. Weasel Boy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Yup lol

    4. Moon Dog
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Very nice. You and Mark nailed it with that pick.

        1. Weasel Boy
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          3 days, 9 hours ago

          Cheers
          Best player in my team this week.

    5. fantasist
      • 16 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Watkins and MGW showing it's not all about Double GW players

    6. Danstoke82
      • 11 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Fuming. Went with MGW in my FH team only to change him to Enzo due to the DGW.

      Massive massive fail

      1. Utopsis
        • 6 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        I swapped him for Bruno as well last minute, gutting

        1. Danstoke82
          • 11 Years
          3 days, 9 hours ago

          Am gutted as needed to make ground in cash ML. This could have been massive yet I got sucked in with DGW fever and Enzo for some bizarre reason.

          Should have stuck with my gut decision MGW

      2. Kante Touch This
        • 8 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        I did the exact same thing, only consolation is he probably would have been my first sub which is probably worse

      3. Winging it
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Likewise had Gibbs-White on my FH for most of the week along Justin and Truffert took all three of them out.

      4. g40steve
        • 8 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Kept Gordon to have extra FT, know the pain.

    7. keefy59
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      MGW possibly outscoring everyone's entire dgw midfield single handily

    8. DandyDon
      • 7 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Anyone else enjoying the Gibbs White party this afternoon!? 20pts and counting…

      Be typical is my TC gets a blank later

      1. Weasel Boy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        I'm loving it.
        Needed it after a Gordon and JP no shows.

    9. Babit1967
      • 9 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Had MGW in my FH team & took out after a rate my team advice. Lesson learned, my own fault and certainly a sore one to take.

    10. mixology
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Diego Gomez blocking MGW for me if Joao Pedro doesn’t play midweek

      1. Sgt. Schultz
        • 9 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        tough luck

    11. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Had MGW but (insert sob story here) 😆

      1. Fifa las vegas
        • 13 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        I never had MGW (still going insert sob sorry)

      2. BobbyDoesNotLook
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Classic.

    12. Winging it
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Had Gibbs-White, Truffert and Justin on my FH but ended up taking them all out.

      1. Qaiss
        • 10 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        You tinkered too much

      2. The Philosopher
        • 5 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Should've kept them, mate.

        1. Winging it
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          3 days, 9 hours ago

          Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

    13. riot
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      mgw first on the fh bench with pedro in 11 it is a disaster boys and girls

      1. The Philosopher
        • 5 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Not if Pedro misses the next game.

      2. Utopsis
        • 6 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        You got it right, Tuesday is quick turnaround you could be in luck

    14. Sgt. Schultz
      • 9 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Hume G

      1. Fifa las vegas
        • 13 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Feck sake, could Mukiele not do something!

    15. tiger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Sunderland level now!

      1. tiger
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Isodor goal

        1. Fifa las vegas
          • 13 Years
          3 days, 9 hours ago

          Anything at all for Muk?

          1. Count of Monte Hristo
            • 12 Years
            3 days, 9 hours ago

            2 appearance points

          2. tiger
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            3 days, 9 hours ago

            He's very happy at being level

            1. Fifa las vegas
              • 13 Years
              3 days, 9 hours ago

              Good for him

    16. Sgt. Schultz
      • 9 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Wilson G

      1. Sgt. Schultz
        • 9 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Le Fee A

    17. BobbyDoesNotLook
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Was Alderete's injury serious?

    18. Count of Monte Hristo
      • 12 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Villa 3 Sunderland 3

      😆

      1. Fifa las vegas
        • 13 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Hon United! 😆

    19. JBG
      • 7 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Sunderland comeback! What a fun team they've been, in an otherwise meh season

    20. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 16 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      DGW blinkers were off. MGW for the win!! Legebd

      1. Utopsis
        • 6 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Well done mate

      2. Fifa las vegas
        • 13 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Nice

      3. Weasel Boy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 days, 8 hours ago

        I purposely put him in my team on WC 32 for this week.

        Never expected a 20 pointer though.

    21. Count of Monte Hristo
      • 12 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      2 goals 1 minute

      1. Fifa las vegas
        • 13 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Yet no Muk 🙁

      2. tiger
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Filth!

    22. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      O’Reilly left back it looks like

      1. BeaversWithAttitude
        • 7 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Never stopped the kid from getting in the zone.

    23. STONEROSES
      • 12 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Need a striker, £6.4M or less as a one week punt in GW34 (already got Thiago)

      Best choice?
      A Taty (EVE)
      B. Brobbey (sun)
      C. Jiminez (AVL)
      D. Others?

      Thanks

      1. GE
        • 9 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        A

      2. HuttonDressedasLahm
        • 16 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Mr Brobbey

    24. GE
      • 9 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      🙁 hoped Gibbs-White would stay quiet so I could have him as a differential on FH next week. Not anymore..

      1. Utopsis
        • 6 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        He won't do anything next week now

        1. GE
          • 9 Years
          3 days, 9 hours ago

          Excatly

    25. Fifa las vegas
      • 13 Years
      3 days, 9 hours ago

      Cherki assisting and Haaland brace would be very very satisfying

      1. The Philosopher
        • 5 Years
        3 days, 9 hours ago

        Ban

        1. Fifa las vegas
          • 13 Years
          3 days, 9 hours ago

          😆