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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:


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  1. Brosstan
    • 11 Years
    2 months, 4 hours 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.

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

      You'd still find a way to moan about it

      1. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        2 months, 3 hours ago

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

  2. Irish Villan 1985
    • 9 Years
    2 months, 4 hours 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?

    1. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      2 months, 4 hours ago

      Zian Flemming

  3. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    • 9 Years
    2 months, 4 hours ago

    That’s virtually a blank for Bruno FFS

    1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      • 9 Years
      2 months, 4 hours ago

      Expected 10 minimum really

      1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
        • 9 Years
        2 months, 4 hours ago

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

    2. OneTeamInBristol
      • 2 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

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

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

      That's not a blank

      Mate

      1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
        • 9 Years
        2 months, 3 hours ago

        Yeah thought only given the one assist at first

  4. SpaceCadet
    • 12 Years
    2 months, 4 hours ago

    Need welbeck to out score Thiago and Beto. Chances?

    1. SpaceCadet
      • 12 Years
      2 months, 4 hours ago

      And also dcl and Gyokores

    2. #1 Arne Engels Fan
      • 1 Year
      2 months, 3 hours ago

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

  5. Brosstan
    • 11 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

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

    1. OneTeamInBristol
      • 2 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      Transfer in players that are owned less then.

      1. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        2 months, 3 hours ago

        Transfer in bad players? Great strategy.

        1. Mr. O'Connell
          • 14 Years
          2 months, 3 hours ago

          Can confirm it does not work

    2. FantasyTony
      • 8 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

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

      1. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        2 months, 3 hours 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.

        1. Brosstan
          • 11 Years
          2 months, 3 hours 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.

    3. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      • 9 Years
      2 months, 3 hours 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

      1. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        2 months, 3 hours 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.

        1. Naatie
          • 1 Year
          2 months, 3 hours ago

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

          1. Brosstan
            • 11 Years
            2 months, 3 hours ago

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

        2. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
          • 9 Years
          2 months, 3 hours 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

        3. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
          • 9 Years
          2 months, 3 hours ago

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

          1. Brosstan
            • 11 Years
            2 months, 3 hours 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.

  6. OneTeamInBristol
    • 2 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

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

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

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

  8. FOREST FOREVER 2
    • 1 Year
    2 months, 3 hours ago

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

    1. RICICLE
      • 4 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      k

  9. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    • 9 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

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

  10. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

    Palace pen inncoming

    1. Haa-lala-land
      • 5 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      Kellehet is good at saving them

      1. Haa-lala-land
        • 5 Years
        2 months, 3 hours ago

        *used to be good

  11. Haa-lala-land
    • 5 Years
    2 months, 3 hours 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.

    1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      • 9 Years
      2 months, 3 hours 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

  12. fusen
    • 14 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

    Van Hecke on 3 defcon in 5 minutes

    The defender version of Anderson

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

    Goal

    Sarr

    Palace

    1. Fifa las vegas
      • 13 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

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

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

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

    Limited demand?

    Or can anyone find it via the Now Sports menus?

    1. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

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

    2. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      Wacthing multiveiw on Now, coming up as channel skysports+

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

        Cheers

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

  15. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    • 9 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

    Yes Sarr

    1. Bluetiger1
      • 4 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      congrats

  16. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    • 9 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

    Munoz needs to do something asap

  17. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

    Palace look bright so far, Sarr especially

    1. fusen
      • 14 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      A bright Starr?

  18. Nomar
    • 16 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

    Need some Van Hecke points today.

    1. Bluetiger1
      • 4 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      Ditto

  19. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

    Alderete struggling

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      And coming off

  20. Mr. O'Connell
    • 14 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

    KDH struggling

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      He looks fine

      1. Bluetiger1
        • 4 Years
        2 months, 3 hours ago

        phew

  21. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

    Where the goals at?

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      One at each end of the pitch

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

      Molineux

      Fired it in from the edge of the box

      Fulham busted

  22. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    • 9 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

    Goals struggling

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

    Goal at Wolves v Fulham

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

      To the old gold

      mane

    2. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      • 9 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      (Please don’t be Wilson)

      1. The Bandit
        • 15 Years
        2 months, 3 hours ago

        He’s on the bench

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

          He's not always paying attention

          Neither am I tbf

      2. My heart goes Salalalalah
        • 9 Years
        2 months, 3 hours ago

        Read the article headline

        1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
          • 9 Years
          2 months, 3 hours ago

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

  24. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

    Wloves busting Fulham

    1. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      no Andersen, was expected

  25. fantasist
    • 16 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

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

    1. Bluetiger1
      • 4 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      yep - ditto - dam it

  26. fusen
    • 14 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

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

    1. Bluetiger1
      • 4 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      (lol)

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

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

    Cheers

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

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

    1. Gazwaz80
      • 6 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

      Got him in for Dub for my benchie…

  29. Fifa las vegas
    • 13 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

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

    1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      • 9 Years
      2 months, 3 hours ago

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

  30. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    2 months, 3 hours ago

    Tarkowski with 5 defcons already

    1. fusen
      • 14 Years
      2 months, 2 hours ago

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