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25 October 2026 191 comments
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On a very windy afternoon, last-placed Sunderland are welcoming Leeds United to the Stadium of Light, closing out Fantasy Premier League (FPL) Gameweek 8.

It kicks off at 16:30 GMT.

TEAM NEWS

When speaking to the media on Friday, Daniel Farke raised doubts over the fitness of Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Anton Stach and Noah Okafor.

Well, the highly-owned FPL forward starts, while the other two are on the bench, replaced by Harry Wilson and Brenden Aaronson. Leeds also bring in Jaka Bijol for Nico Elvedi.

Meanwhile, Sunderland make their own three changes from Gameweek 7. Brian Brobbey is back, having missed the latest two league encounters. Luke O’Nien and Nilson Angulo come in, with Omar Alderete, Tymur Tutierov and the banned Kevin Danso making way.

LINE-UPS

Sunderland XI: Roefs; Hume, Mukiele, O’Nien, Reinildo; Xhaka, Sadiki; Le Fée; Rigg, Brobbey, Angulo

Subs: Ellborg, Methalie, Alderete, Diarra, Ahoka, Talbi, Fofana, Riquelme, Tutierov

Leeds United XI: Trafford; Justin, Bijol, Muharemovic; Bogle, Ampadu, Tanaka, Gudmundsson; Wilson, Aaronson; Calvert-Lewin

Subs: Zetterer, Cresswell, Bard, Longstaff, Gruev, Stach, Okafor, Bahoya, Nmecha


LIVE GAMEWEEK 8 PAGE + MATCH CENTRE

You can follow all the day’s action via the Live Gameweek page, which you can find in the FPL Toolkit section.

Here you can track 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.

And there’s also the all-new Match Centre to explore. Here, you’ll find stats, heatmaps, rolling xG graphs and more on every Premier League fixture.

A lot is free for all, with Chief Scout Members getting full access.


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

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  1. Dynamic Duos
    2 hours, 23 mins ago

    Gwk9 is a poor gwk for fh

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      2 hours, 17 mins ago

      I'd quite like mine back to use.

      1. Dynamic Duos
        2 hours, 13 mins ago

        No chips left?

        1. AC/DC AFC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          1 hour, 49 mins ago

          Yeah

          TC and BB

          Used WC the other week

  2. g40steve
    2 hours, 12 mins ago

    Wilson looks lost in this team

    1. panda07
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 hour, 40 mins ago

      Wilson was in Castaway not Lost mate!

  3. panda07
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    2 hours, 12 mins ago

    Bijol robbing all the DEFCON on Muha makes me a sad panda.

  4. Dynamic Duos
    2 hours, 10 mins ago

    Snoozefest zzzzzzzZZZ

  5. g40steve
    2 hours, 10 mins ago

    Reni YC

    1. Not again Shirley
      1 hour, 9 mins ago

      Allo allo

  6. Defcons are for Kinnear
    2 hours, 8 mins ago

    1-1 written all over this

    1. Not again Shirley
      2 hours, 3 mins ago

      More like nil nil

    2. Warby84
      1 hour, 59 mins ago

      0-1 Leeds smash and grab

  7. Digital-Real
    2 hours, 3 mins ago

    How is Muha only on 2 DEFCON when I've counted 4.

    1. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 hour, 16 mins ago

      I bet Bijol is on more. The centre of a back three is the one to reap the major defcon rewards.

  8. Baps Hunter
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    2 hours, 2 mins ago

    Carrick fired? Commentator said something about him...

    1. JBG
      1 hour, 28 mins ago

      He is gone, just not confirmed yet

      1. Baps Hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        1 hour, 28 mins ago

        That we all knew before the game today.

        1. JBG
          1 hour, 26 mins ago

          No but he's actually done this time. They're probably making a statement or something stupid. Like they care

        2. Three Pints of Schlager
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          1 hour, 1 min ago

          Are you one of these disgraceful ManU players?

  9. Dynamic Duos
    1 hour, 58 mins ago

    Can wait to eventually do DCL(dogger) to Isak

  10. The-Red-1
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 hour, 51 mins ago

    6 points in total from 8 players in my starting lineup...

    Verbruggen
    De Cuyper
    Calafiori
    GroB
    Mbeumo
    Palmer
    Rogers
    Pedro

    1. Gandalf
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 hour, 18 mins ago

      The advantage of going template, everyone in the same boat

  11. Gandalf
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 hour, 51 mins ago

    A. Keep Pedro and DCL > Isak next GW (ruling out possibility of Gabriel next GW)

    B. Keep Pedro and DCL > Jackson

    C. Keep DCL and Pedro > Jackson

    1. Bobby Digital
      1 hour, 14 mins ago

      C

  12. Bobby Digital
    1 hour, 47 mins ago

    This a decent enough WC?

    Raya
    Gabriel Konsa VanHecke
    Mbeumo Rogers Gross Tavernier
    Haaland Isak Jackson

    Bentley Davis Muha

    1. Bobby Digital
      1 hour, 47 mins ago

      Hughes

    2. Dynamic Duos
      1 hour, 44 mins ago

      Looks great

  13. Dynamic Duos
    1 hour, 44 mins ago

    DCL is such a terrible pick

    1. Bobby Digital
      1 hour, 43 mins ago

      Yeah not passing the eye-test even if he's scored a few goals this season

    2. Monklane
      1 hour, 41 mins ago

      Close.

      1. Dynamic Duos
        1 hour, 40 mins ago

        No points for that

    3. Three Pints of Schlager
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 hour, 30 mins ago

      Well. He only costs 6.1m...

      It's like with these people who book a cheap.3 star hotel and then expect the full monty with sugar on top.

    4. denial
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 hour, 17 mins ago

      He wasn't last week

  14. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 hour, 43 mins ago

    The Old Trafford regulars backed Carrick off the pitch and gave the players pelters, as it should be.

    Plus the owners.

  15. g40steve
    1 hour, 41 mins ago

    Muki off

  16. Bobby Digital
    1 hour, 35 mins ago

    Tempted to go Barcola over Mbeumo on WC, but maybe wise to keep Mbeumo and hope for a new manager bounce.

  17. waltzingmatildas
    1 hour, 32 mins ago

    Saka and Pedro to Tav and Isak?

    1. Bobby Digital
      1 hour ago

      Yes

    2. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      58 mins ago

      Absolutely, I took a hit last week to sell Saka and get in Tav before Bouremouth played Utd and it paid off

    3. waltzingmatildas
      57 mins ago

      Cheers guys. Got two frees so I'll plan to do that!

  18. Gizzachance
    1 hour, 28 mins ago

    Leeds making hard work of trying to keep cs

  19. g40steve
    1 hour, 25 mins ago

    Bogle YC

  20. The Philosopher
    1 hour, 25 mins ago

    Dog stole my phone right before deadline and started Verbruggen over Kinsky as a prank. Would like to reverse the move, FPL towers. Cheers.

  21. JBG
    1 hour, 24 mins ago

    Had to be Bogle -_-

  22. Three Pints of Schlager
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 hour, 23 mins ago

    This match is so poor.

    Wrong throw-ins, Sunderland players rolling on the floor like pussays, wasted set-pieces, wasted commentators on Sky,...

    The best part is still the weather. .

  23. grooveymatt65
    1 hour, 22 mins ago

    Hey guys what do you think about this team?

    Really need some surgery on it as i'm missing a few key players, JP news is assuming he's out for a couple of weeks.

    Verbruggen
    Konsa Calafiori* Gvardiol
    Palmer Rogers MGW Mbeumo Odegaard
    Haaland JP*
    Petrovic Egan Thomas* Furo*

    £0.0 itb 4ft

    1. Odegaard,JP, MGW and Furo to Tavernier, Jackson, Isak and a 4.5 mid.
    2. Odegaard and JP to Tavernier and Jackson
    3. Odegaard, JP and Calafiori to Tavernier, Jackson and Hall
    4. Odegaard, JP and Furo to Tavernier, Jackson and Evanilson
    5.Odegaard, MGW and JP to Mazambi, Tavernier and Jackson
    6. Other?

  24. Capocannonieri
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 hour, 20 mins ago

    I wasted my FT on DCL

    Is it too knee jerk to replace him with Nick Jackson.

    This comes from having Gonzalo for 2 weeks. I am struggling with this 3rd forward slot.

    1. The Philosopher
      24 mins ago

      I might go Pedro -> Jackson this GW.

      1. Capocannonieri
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        4 mins ago

        Do we know what's wrong with Pedro? Seems he is the best Chelsea. You can dump all the other losers and keep Pedro.

  25. JBG
    1 hour, 19 mins ago

    Bogle lost 3pts now because of that YC :@.. Muha gained 2pts. Rival has him.

    1. He’ll probably score again lol, so attacking, makes De Cuyper look like a sweeper

      1. g40steve
        21 mins ago

        Cheat code

  26. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    1 hour, 19 mins ago

    Man Bogle is just something else

  27. g40steve
    1 hour, 16 mins ago

    Is that a pen

  28. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    1 hour, 16 mins ago

    Pen surely

    1. Warby84
      1 hour, 15 mins ago

      Never

  29. Warby84
    1 hour, 15 mins ago

    Hold Leeds Muha/Trafford dbl up!!

  30. The Mandalorian
    1 hour, 14 mins ago

    DCL has been playing hide-and-seek with the Sunderland fans