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3pm team news: Dango starts, Schade, Richards + Wilson subs, no Struijk

17 May 2026 252 comments
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Four more Premier League matches follow on from Manchester United’s clash with Nottingham Forest, all kicking off at 3pm BST.

TEAM NEWS

Keith Andrews makes two changes to the Brentford side that lost 3-0 to Manchester City.

Vitaly Janelt and Dango Ouattara get the nod over Aaron Hickey and Kevin Schade, who drop to the bench.

Oliver Glasner has handed recalls to Chadi Riad, Adam Wharton, Daichi Kamada, Ismaila Sarr and Jorgen Strand Larsen.

Chris Richards, Will Hughes, Jefferson Lerma, Brennan Johnson and Jean-Philippe Mateta make way.

On Merseyside, Everton are unchanged from last weekend’s 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace.

There is just one alteration for Sunderland from Gameweek 36.

Nilson Angulo returns in place of Chemsdine Talbi.

It’s one change apiece at Elland Road: Sebastiaan Bournauw is in for Pascal Struijk for the hosts, while Fabian Hurzeler recalls Joel Veltman for Kaoru Mitoma.

At Molineux, Rob Edwards has made four changes for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Dan Bentley, Toti Gomes, Pedro Lima and Hugo Bueno drop to the bench.

Jose Sa, Ladislav Krejci, Rodrigo Gomes and David Moller Wolfe all start.

As for Fulham, Issa Diop, Sander Berge, Oscar Bobb and Alex Iwobi come in for the benched Tom Cairney, Harry Wilson and Samuel Chukwueze. Joachim Andersen is suspended.

LINE-UPS

Brentford XI: Kelleher, Kayode, Ajer, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Yarmoliuk, Janelt, Dango, Jensen, Damsgaard, Thiago

Subs: Valdimarsson, Hickey, van den Berg, Pinnock, Henderson, Schade, Dasilva, Nelson, Furo

Crystal Palace XI: Henderson, Riad, Lacroix, Canvot, Munoz, Wharton, Kamada, Mitchell, Sarr, Pino, Strand Larsen

Subs: Benitez, Lerma, Johnson, Mateta, Clyne, Hughes, Richards, Guessand, Devenny

Everton XI: Pickford, O’Brien, Tarkowski, Keane, Mykolenko, Iroegbunam, Garner, Rohl, Dewsbury-Hall, Ndiaye, Beto

Subs: Travers, Patterson, Coleman, Dibling, Alcaraz, Armstrong, McNeil, Barry, George

Sunderland XI: Roefs, Geertruida, Mukiele, Alderete, Reinildo, Xhaka, Sadiki, Hume, Le Fee, Angulo, Brobbey

Subs: Ellborg, Cirkin, Rigg, O’Nien, Diarra, Talbi, Mayenda, Isidor, Ta Bi

Leeds United XI: Darlow, Rodon, Bijol, Bornauw, James, Ampadu, Tanaka, Justin, Stach, Aaronson, Calvert-Lewin

Subs: Perri, Longstaff, Piroe, Nmecha, Byram, Gnonto, Chadwick, Cresswell, Lienou

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Verbruggen, Veltman, van Hecke, Dunk, De Cuyper, Baleba, Gross, Kadioglu, Hinshelwood, Minteh, Welbeck

Subs: Steele, March, Rutter, Kostoulas, Milner, Boscagli, Gomez, Ayari, O’Riley

Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Sa, Mosquera, S Bueno, Krejci, R Gomes, Andre, J Gomes, Wolfe, Armstrong, Mane, Hwang

Subs: Bentley, H Bueno, Tolu, Lima, Toti, Bellegarde, Tchatchoua, A Gomes, Edozie

Fulham XI: Leno, Castagne, Diop, Bassey, Robinson, Lukic, Berge, Bobb, Smith Rowe, Iwobi, Muniz

Subs: Lecomte, Tete, Jimenez, Wilson, Cairney, Cuenca, Chukwueze, Kevin, King

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:

252 Comments Login to Post a Comment
  1. Brosstan
    • 11 Years
    15 hours, 56 mins ago

    Zzzz.. another instance of losing rank because of players you own (Bruno). Remove captaincy already so I can celebrate every point in my team.

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    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      15 hours, 38 mins ago

      You'd still find a way to moan about it

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      1. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        15 hours, 32 mins ago

        Find something to moan about sure, whine about EO, no.

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  2. Irish Villan 1985
    • 9 Years
    15 hours, 55 mins ago

    Lads, gonna take Watkins out for last GW - If Villa win the cup, they'll be playing in flip flops against City....So Haland TC and Watkins out!

    Who would you bring in for a sh1ts & gigs signing? This is gonna be a transfer for a bit of fun on the final day...Any thoughts?

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    1. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      15 hours, 54 mins ago

      Zian Flemming

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  3. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    15 hours, 54 mins ago

    That’s virtually a blank for Bruno FFS

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    1. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      15 hours, 54 mins ago

      Expected 10 minimum really

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      1. Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        15 hours, 53 mins ago

        Oh he’s now been given the first assist! Mad surely it was Mbeumo, won’t complain though!

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    2. OneTeamInBristol
      • 2 Years
      15 hours, 47 mins ago

      I'd be surprised if he doesn't get more bonus points after review

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    3. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      15 hours, 41 mins ago

      That's not a blank

      Mate

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      1. Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        15 hours, 41 mins ago

        Yeah thought only given the one assist at first

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  4. SpaceCadet
    • 12 Years
    15 hours, 53 mins ago

    Need welbeck to out score Thiago and Beto. Chances?

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    1. SpaceCadet
      • 12 Years
      15 hours, 52 mins ago

      And also dcl and Gyokores

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    2. #1 Arne Engels Fan
      • 1 Year
      15 hours, 45 mins ago

      Around the same chance of Amad Diallo & Zirkzee converting when Bruno puts them through 1v1

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  5. Brosstan
    • 11 Years
    15 hours, 50 mins ago

    Because of EO I basically have 7 players in my team this GW. Fun game.

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    1. OneTeamInBristol
      • 2 Years
      15 hours, 48 mins ago

      Transfer in players that are owned less then.

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      1. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        15 hours, 41 mins ago

        Transfer in bad players? Great strategy.

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        1. Mr. O'Connell
          • 13 Years
          15 hours, 41 mins ago

          Can confirm it does not work

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    2. FantasyTony
      • 8 Years
      15 hours, 41 mins ago

      Sounds like you’re playing a template and then getting salty about it.

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      1. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        15 hours, 39 mins ago

        Who doesnt own Bruno, Haaland, Gabriel and Saka? ... The issue is that EO makes it so you own players and then cant even cheer for them doing well. Its absolute garbage and the solution shouldnt be "hey maybe just transfer out the good players and pick crap instead".

        Captaincy needs to be removed.

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        1. Brosstan
          • 11 Years
          15 hours, 38 mins ago

          Only reason its worse for me than others is that Im chasing so I went with a differential captain punt even though I know Bruno/Haaland/Saka were better captain picks on paper.

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    3. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      15 hours, 40 mins ago

      The solution is to not be able to see other’s teams, I recommended this and got a resounding no, even though that would be a potential solution

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      1. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        15 hours, 34 mins ago

        It wouldnt solve anything. Reality would still be that you lose points if 100+ EO players in your team get points.

        It would also be an extremely boring change to not be able to scout other teams in your leagues.

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        1. Naatie
          • 1 Year
          15 hours, 30 mins ago

          Maybe, just maybe you'll do better at this if you stop whining at every opportunity

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          1. Brosstan
            • 11 Years
            15 hours, 26 mins ago

            Maybe your opinion would be worth anything if you dared post on your main account instead of your "moan about everything" side account.

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        2. Scapegoat Salah
          • 9 Years
          15 hours, 26 mins ago

          You’d still be able to see their total points, and it would encourage to ‘pick the best players’ irregardless of differential in ML etc

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        3. Scapegoat Salah
          • 9 Years
          15 hours, 25 mins ago

          And remember under my suggestion you wouldn’t know EO of players…

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          1. Brosstan
            • 11 Years
            15 hours, 15 mins ago

            Im not sure how you realistically want this to work. How would leagues exist without being able to check other teams? As long as you are able to view other teams, its possible for external sites like LiveFPL to present EOs.

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  6. OneTeamInBristol
    • 2 Years
    15 hours, 48 mins ago

    Surely Bruno will end up with more than 1 bonus point? He created several big changes in stoppage time

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  7. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    15 hours, 42 mins ago

    I thinking that I should have started Stach over Welbeck here ...

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  8. FOREST FOREVER 2
    • 1 Year
    15 hours, 40 mins ago

    Bruno (C) Rogers VVD 42 (-4) . decent start. Sold Watkins for Gyko though. Didn't expect Pool defence to be so fragile.

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    1. RICICLE
      • 3 Years
      15 hours, 32 mins ago

      k

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  9. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    15 hours, 40 mins ago

    Thiago just loves an early goal to settle the nerves bless him

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  10. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    15 hours, 37 mins ago

    Palace pen inncoming

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    1. Haa-lala-land
      • 5 Years
      15 hours, 36 mins ago

      Kellehet is good at saving them

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      1. Haa-lala-land
        • 5 Years
        15 hours, 35 mins ago

        *used to be good

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  11. Haa-lala-land
    • 5 Years
    15 hours, 37 mins ago

    A few ideas for changes for next season Id like.

    Dont amend any of the stats after the final whistle, just stick with it as it lands. Including Defcons ,assists, Baps. Its been horrid seeing your player losing their defcon points or assist 2 or even 3 days after they played.

    Award 4 points for a defender assist

    Break up the defcons into thresholds.
    Eg 1 point for a defender getting 9, and 2 points for reaching 13, and 3 points for getting 16 or more, and same sort of thing for mids.

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    1. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      15 hours, 27 mins ago

      Agree with all of these plus the bench rule where you only have it when you play BB and not be able to others teams, would be massive positive changes for sure

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  12. fusen
    • 14 Years
    15 hours, 35 mins ago

    Van Hecke on 3 defcon in 5 minutes

    The defender version of Anderson

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  13. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    15 hours, 34 mins ago

    Goal

    Sarr

    Palace

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    1. Fifa las vegas
      • 13 Years
      15 hours, 30 mins ago

      My f**king god, come on Thiago, get going!!

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  14. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    15 hours, 31 mins ago

    It looks like Sky Sports had dropped the goal rush channel ...

    Limited demand?

    Or can anyone find it via the Now Sports menus?

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    1. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      15 hours, 24 mins ago

      Probably removing it for a period so they can reintroduce it under a new payment tier.

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    2. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      15 hours, 21 mins ago

      Wacthing multiveiw on Now, coming up as channel skysports+

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      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        15 hours, 16 mins ago

        Cheers

        They hid it in the middle of the Live Premier League menu screen

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  15. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    15 hours, 29 mins ago

    Yes Sarr

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    1. Bluetiger1
      • 3 Years
      15 hours, 20 mins ago

      congrats

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  16. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    15 hours, 29 mins ago

    Munoz needs to do something asap

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  17. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    15 hours, 24 mins ago

    Palace look bright so far, Sarr especially

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    1. fusen
      • 14 Years
      15 hours, 23 mins ago

      A bright Starr?

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  18. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    15 hours, 21 mins ago

    Need some Van Hecke points today.

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    1. Bluetiger1
      • 3 Years
      15 hours, 20 mins ago

      Ditto

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  19. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    15 hours, 21 mins ago

    Alderete struggling

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    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      15 hours, 20 mins ago

      And coming off

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  20. Mr. O'Connell
    • 13 Years
    15 hours, 19 mins ago

    KDH struggling

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    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      15 hours, 18 mins ago

      He looks fine

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      1. Bluetiger1
        • 3 Years
        15 hours, 16 mins ago

        phew

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  21. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    15 hours, 17 mins ago

    Where the goals at?

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    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      15 hours, 16 mins ago

      One at each end of the pitch

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    2. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      15 hours, 14 mins ago

      Molineux

      Fired it in from the edge of the box

      Fulham busted

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  22. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    15 hours, 16 mins ago

    Goals struggling

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  23. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    15 hours, 16 mins ago

    Goal at Wolves v Fulham

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    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      15 hours, 15 mins ago

      To the old gold

      mane

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    2. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      15 hours, 15 mins ago

      (Please don’t be Wilson)

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      1. The Bandit
        • 15 Years
        15 hours, 15 mins ago

        He’s on the bench

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

          He's not always paying attention

          Neither am I tbf

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      2. My heart goes Salalalalah
        • 9 Years
        15 hours, 14 mins ago

        Read the article headline

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        1. Scapegoat Salah
          • 9 Years
          15 hours, 9 mins ago

          With my luck it wouldn’t have surprised had he come on and scored already!

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  24. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    15 hours, 14 mins ago

    Wloves busting Fulham

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    1. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      15 hours, 9 mins ago

      no Andersen, was expected

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  25. fantasist
    • 16 Years
    15 hours, 12 mins ago

    Damn got rid of Sarr, he was too much of a rotation risk

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    1. Bluetiger1
      • 3 Years
      15 hours, 9 mins ago

      yep - ditto - dam it

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  26. fusen
    • 14 Years
    15 hours, 12 mins ago

    Fulham aren't just on the beach, they are asleep in the hotel

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    1. Bluetiger1
      • 3 Years
      15 hours, 9 mins ago

      (lol)

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  27. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    15 hours, 8 mins ago

    Sky Sports multiview with commentary on BBC radio 5 at least gives you some ground atmosphere

    Cheers

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  28. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    15 hours, 6 mins ago

    Played Kelleher over Verbruggen. Got that one wrong a few times

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    1. Gazwaz80
      • 6 Years
      15 hours, 3 mins ago

      Got him in for Dub for my benchie…

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  29. Fifa las vegas
    • 13 Years
    15 hours, 5 mins ago

    Brentford are such a patchy team, better as underdogs nearly, just seem shite every time you expect them to dominate and kick on

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    1. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      15 hours, 3 mins ago

      Same with most teams tbf, if expectancy is low they will perform better, it’s psychology

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  30. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    15 hours, 2 mins ago

    Tarkowski with 5 defcons already

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    1. fusen
      • 14 Years
      14 hours, 50 mins ago

      He should have way more, Sunderland have had almost complete possession for most of the first half. Problem is so many sideways passes

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