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22 April 2026 518 comments
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Double Gameweek 33, the largest of this Fantasy Premier League (FPL) season, is about to conclude with two matches involving lots of currently popular assets: Bournemouth v Leeds United, and Burnley v Manchester City.

Both kick off at 20:00 BST.

TEAM NEWS

FPL notes: “Amazing” Rayan, £4.2m goalkeeper starts + Summerville scores again

Apart from Burnley’s three adjustments that bring Josh Laurent, Bashir Humphreys and Loum Tchaouna in for Marcus Edwards, Lesley Ugochukwu and Florentino Luis, there are very few changes to the lineups.

In fact, by replacing the slightly injured Rodri with Rayan Ait-Nouri, Man City have seemingly moved Nico O’Reilly into central midfield.

That’s their only change, as Bournemouth’s one alteration brings in David Brooks for Rayan.

Opponents Leeds have the same XI from Saturday’s 3-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers. Therefore, centre-back Joe Rodon begins on the bench.

Following Chelsea’s shock Tuesday team news, FPL owners should be pleased to see starts for Erling Haaland, Antoine Semenyo, Rayan Cherki, Marcus Tavernier, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, James Justin, Jaka Bijol, Gabriel Gudmundsson, Marcos Senesi and James Hill.


LINE-UPS

Bournemouth XI: Petrovic; Jimenez, Hill, Senesi, Truffert; Scott, Christie; Brooks, Kroupi Jr, Tavernier; Evanilson

Subs: Mandas, Gannon-Doak, Adams, Smith, Diakite, Adli, Toth, Rayan, Unal

Leeds United XI: Darlow; Justin, Bijol, Struijk; Bogle, Ampadu, Tanaka, Gudmundsson; Aaronson, Okafor; Calvert-Lewin

Subs: Perri, Rodon, Bornauw, Longstaff, James, Buonanotte, Gnonto, Piroe, Nmecha 


Burnley XI: Dubravka; Walker, Esteve, Ekdal, Humphreys, Hartman; Anthony, Ward-Prowse, Laurent, Tchaouna; Flemming

Subs: Weiss, Worrall, Ugochukwu, Foster, Edwards, Florentino, Lucas Pires, Broja, Tresor 

Manchester City XI: Donnarumma; Nunes, Khusanov, Guéhi, Ait-Nouri; Bernardo, O’Reilly; Semenyo, Cherki, Doku; Haaland

Subs: Trafford, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Kovacic, Nico, Savinho, Foden


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:

8pm team news:

FPL Marc Broadcaster, writer and overthinker. Hoping that ‘differential potential’ will catch on.

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  1. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Struijk and Scott piling up the defcon

    1. RICICLE
      • 3 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      A goal from Struijk would be delightful

    2. Count of Monte Hristo
      • 12 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Ampadu for me also 😉

  2. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Dubs racking up the saves

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Darlow racking up the cleanies 😉

    2. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Now down

  3. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Struijk 8 defcons already

    1. tutankamun
      • 16 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      9

    2. Pompel
      • 12 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Love it. Could really do with a 0-0 in this match, and defcons for everyone!

  4. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Nouri pathetic corner

    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      And shot

  5. The Knights Template
    • 12 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Who will replace Roseiseignior?

    1. Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Me. Can't do any worse and I'll do it for half the money

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

        What would you cap your pay off at?

        £1m

        Apparently Liam pocketed just the £4m, pre tax

        1. Biggsy
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          1 day, 3 hours ago

          It probably won't surprise you that I'm not measuring my salary in millions so I'll happily take one

        2. g40steve
          • 8 Years
          1 day, 3 hours ago

          Sounds better, only in job & nothing performance related even close.

          Some terrible records reached in opposite end of scale 🙁

    2. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Iraola would be good fit?

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

      Calum McFarlane

      Again

      Sort of

    4. Doug McCasual
      • 6 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Big Sam to save the day!

    5. Hughes Your Daddy
      • 13 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Igor Tudor

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

    Haaland seems to understand that Cherki only passes when absolutely necessary

  7. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Cherki is a baller

    1. JBG
      • 7 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Need him to score or assisr Semenyo

      1. FPL Blow-In
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        Have Semenyo captain too. Would like Nunes or MOR to assist instead please

  8. tutankamun
    • 16 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Struijk DEFCON

  9. Biggsy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Strujik 35 minute defcon

  10. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Struijk looking like an 11 pointer
    Models smashing it again!

  11. The Knights Template
    • 12 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Parker chewing the cud, as per usual!

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

      😆

      Pretty much all he does

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

    Struijk + Ampadu DEFCON before HT 😎

    1. fusen
      • 14 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Ampadu needs 2 more due to MF

    2. Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Ampadu? Needs 12 doesn't he?

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

        Apologies! He is a CB in my head 😆

        2 more so should be locked in.

  13. Royal5
    • 14 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Doku is a headless chicken

    1. ‘Tis the Season
      • 7 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Sounds like a Chinese dish I used to buy in China town

  14. Count of Monte Hristo
    • 12 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Doku’s horrible pass selection needs to be studied.

  15. NZREDS
    • 12 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Struijk smashed one those defcons quick!

  16. JBG
    • 7 Years
    1 day, 3 hours ago

    Do you guys think they will keep defcons next season? I hope so personally, despite bot using players that get them that much

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

      I know some people really don’t like it but I don’t mind it. Do you think the threshold should be increased?

      1. JBG
        • 7 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        Thresholds for def should, but for attackers it should decrease imo.

        1. JBG
          • 7 Years
          1 day, 3 hours ago

          But also liked Biggsys idea of stacking tbh

    2. Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      I don't see why not.

      only change should be that they stack, so defender gets 4 at 20 etc etc

      1. NZREDS
        • 12 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        That would be something, let em stack!

      2. g40steve
        • 8 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        That’s decent idea 😉

    3. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      I don’t mind them but need to review the threshold. People mowed for a long time that DM’s were irrelevant picks and needed to be rewarded through defensive contributions. Should mint be given to defender also imo considering they already get 4 points for a clean sheet versus one for a midfielder. Either remove from defenders or increase to 15 and leave the 12 for midfield

      1. FPL Blow-In
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        *moaned
        *shouldn’t

    4. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Keep but make it harder to get. Waaay to easy now. Def mids should be the highest scorers in a fantasy game

      1. Royal5
        • 14 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        Should not be*

      2. FPL Blow-In
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        I thought it was to make defensive mids relevant picks though. They had no use in the game otherwise. Defenders already have more routes to points, I don’t think they should get it so easily

    5. Absolutely Muñozed
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        just increase the price of def con magnet players

        1. Royal5
          • 14 Years
          1 day, 3 hours ago

          Also this

        2. Count of Monte Hristo
          • 12 Years
          1 day, 3 hours ago

          Yup

      • Pablitto
        • 16 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        who are they? fpl towers? it has a pretty big impact on points and ultimately it's another good trait to focus on...

      • thegaffer82
        • 14 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        Loving Defcons. It’s made the game so much more interesting and opened up the pool of players who are worthy of consideration for our teams.
        There’s been seasons gone by where there’s very little room to differentiate and we all had basically the same 10 players in our squads.
        Now I see a nice variety and when I look at teams to pick from, there are a lot more names jumping out at me.
        Love it! Don’t change it at all imo

        1. Bigbars
          • 15 Years
          1 day, 3 hours ago

          I agree.. It allows the pool of possible squad players to be larger and encourages differing tactics and selections, unlike in previous years where everyone gravitated to the main points scorers, haaland, salah etc.

        2. Jafooli
          • 14 Years
          1 day, 3 hours ago

          Agreed…

    6. brianutd-why always we? 20
      • 14 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Struijk defcons incoming

      1. Biggsy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        That was soooo 7 minutes ago

    7. mixology
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Truffert hasn’t blanked since GW25

    8. NZREDS
      • 12 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Dennis (TC) here

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

      Truffert really making Senesi seem like a dud pick lately.

      1. Utopsis
        • 6 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        DGW fever

    10. Count of Monte Hristo
      • 12 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      What’s happened to Semenyo?

      1. WVA
        • 9 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        Apologies, I own and rival has Cherki

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

          😆

    11. Kaneyonero
      • 9 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      It's a DefCon frenzy in the Bou vs Leeds game

    12. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Safety score 101 pts 🙁

      1. WVA
        • 9 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        For last man standing? Currently on 122 with NOR Semenyo Haaland(C) Darlow Justin DCL Senesi Hill
        Tav still playing.

      2. thegaffer82
        • 14 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        It was Wildcard or complete destruction this week.
        Guy who is second in my ML is trailing me by 80 points in this GW alone

    13. Pep Roulette
      • 8 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      This has to be the biggest bottle ever from the biggest bottlers ever

      1. x.jim.x
        • 11 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        I don’t think anyone expected Burnley to win?

    14. thegaffer82
      • 14 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      It won’t happen, but 0-0 in the Leeds v Bou game would be absolutely spiffing!
      Could break 150 if all goes well today

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        Anyone look like scoring in that game? 0-0 would be glorious….

        1. thegaffer82
          • 14 Years
          1 day, 3 hours ago

          Bournemouth have had their moments, but Darlow having a blinder

          1. Jafooli
            • 14 Years
            1 day, 3 hours ago

            Hold Darlow, hold…

    15. PartyTime
      • 4 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Palmer cappers, my absolute condolences. I've been in a similar situation. Mané(TC) v Wolves & west ham iirc. You can't beat that.

      1. WVA
        • 9 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        Off injured after 3 mins of first game

    16. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Starting to believe Semenyo is very overrated

      1. Babit1967
        • 9 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        Think I’ll leave out of Wildcard 35 & probably just go Haaland and Double D

      2. x.jim.x
        • 11 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        Technically very poor, not good enough for an elite team imo. He’ll be replaced after next season

    17. Count of Monte Hristo
      • 12 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Ampadu 1 more DEFCON!

      Hill 2 more DEFCON!

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        Bournemouth vs Leeds is a DefCon orgy…

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

          😆

          Iraola, Farke and their squads have well and truly put their keys in the bowl.

          1. Jafooli
            • 14 Years
            1 day, 2 hours ago

            DefCon swingers…

      2. Gizzachance
        • 11 Years
        1 day, 2 hours ago

        Hill so far pick over senesi

    18. Count of Monte Hristo
      • 12 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Typical Burnley trying their tiny little hearts out to be pests in the this game and serve up dung the rest of the season.

    19. Babit1967
      • 9 Years
      1 day, 3 hours ago

      Scott’s been on 9 defcons for what seems like ever - Cmon man get a hold of yourself!!!

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

        Hahaha love this

      2. Utopsis
        • 6 Years
        1 day, 3 hours ago

        12 needed