Dugout Discussion

Richarlison and Zaha start up front in Sunday’s only FPL fixture

Everton take on Crystal Palace at 16:00 BST in the day’s only match in the English top-flight.

The headline team news concerns one “out-of-position” midfielder playing up top and a recently reclassified Fantasy Premier League forward who seems to be back in a more central role after a spell out wide.

Richarlison (£6.8m) was the third-most-bought FPL midfielder of Gameweek 9 and for the second league match running the Brazilian will line up as the spearhead of the Everton attack, with Bernard (£5.9m), Gylfi Sigurdsson (£7.4m) and Theo Walcott (£6.5m) playing just behind him.

Andre Gomes (£5.4m) makes his first Everton start in central midfield, while there is also a return from injury for Seamus Coleman (£5.2m) at right-back. Tom Davies (£5.3m) and Jonjoe Kenny (£4.3m) are the men to make way.

Crystal Palace’s team news announcement suggests Wilfried Zaha (£6.9m) will – as he was against Wolves in Gameweek 8 – be back in a striker’s role again today, either alongside Andros Townsend (£5.8m) in a 4-4-2 or as the spearhead of a 4-3-3 flanked by Townsend and Jeffrey Schlupp (£4.5m). Jordan Ayew (£5.8m) misses out as Roy Hodgson recalls Cheikhou Kouyate (£4.8m) to central midfield in his only change.

Zaha had been a slight doubt for this match but has passed a fitness test on his adductor problem.

Two names returning from injury make the bench today: Yerry Mina (£5.4m) for the hosts and Connor Wickham (£4.9m) for the visitors.

Having scored four league goals in as many matches, Sigurdsson is one of FPL’s form players. Eden Hazard (£11.4m)  was the only midfielder to have been bought by more Fantasy bosses than Sigurdsson ahead of Gameweek 9.

The Icelandic midfielder also scored in this fixture last season, which ended in a 3-1 win for the hosts.

Zaha was the most-sold FPL forward of this Gameweek but the Ivorian forward has delivered an attacking return (three goals, one assist) in every one of Palace’s four away league matches this season.

Everton XI: Pickford; Coleman, Zouma, Keane, Digne; Gueye, Gomes; Walcott, Sigurdsson, Bernard; Richarlison.

Crystal Palace XI: Hennessey; Van Aanholt, Tomkins, Sakho, Wan-Bissaka; Schlupp, Kouyate, Milivojevic, McArthur; Townsend, Zaha.

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1,512 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Zilla
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    pickford

  2. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Mili is so last season

  3. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Pickford saves penalty.

  4. jtreble
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Wow.

  5. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Wowowow

  6. Rash
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Never a pen

    1. CloudSky
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Of course it was.

    2. DAZZ
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Joking? It was a clear penalty

      1. Kavorka
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        should be pen? yes.
        did zaha dive? yes.

  7. circusmonkey
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Oh no, sold AWB for Jonny, had been an OK week up until now. Still, over the 6 fixtures including this week, I stand by that. Trade people on multi gw runs of good and bad. Trippier going next week even though he's done me proud. Then btw, have you seen Tottenham fixtures gw15-27!

  8. Dr. Ante Pavlovic
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Milivojevic is one of the worst penalty takers I've seen. Why is he on pks still?

  9. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Zaha +BPS

  10. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    NOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo

  11. Camzy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    lol. That's an awful penalty.

    1. DLL18
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Don't think it was, he saw Pickford was diving that way so tried to whip it back to the middle. Just a good save.

  12. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Pickford stealing AWB baps noooooo 🙁

  13. ⭐ ABHISHEK - THE CURIOUS …
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Why Zaha didnt take pen ??? WTF

    1. Ha.
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Erm...

    2. IRBOX ⚽
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Because he never does

    3. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      The teams penalty taker usually take the penalties.

  14. AccountAnt80
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Finally Pickford delivers me points!

  15. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    When you need a Hennessey peno save

    1. MTPockets
        5 years, 5 months ago

        this

    2. Jimmers
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Woy can't believe it!

    3. internal error
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Glad that didnt go in. There's not much thats more painful than a player you sold, getting points.

    4. Konstaapeli
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Palace clean sheet needed. Tomkins + bissaka superduo coming in for Mane & TAA.

      1. circusmonkey
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        B*ollcks to that, AWB needs to concede (we could be here all day like this).

      2. Tasty Jerk
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Tomkins been one of our best players this season. How West Ham let him go i will never know.

    5. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      If only Pickford had saved it last year vs mili

      1. XabiAlonso
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Could have done with stopping his spawn points last year

    6. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Scenes

    7. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Wally 😆

    8. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Pickford saves penalty weeks after I got rid

    9. Zilla
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Henno big save

    10. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Wally 🙁

    11. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Pickford to have the most points this GW

    12. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      3 - Pickford (37)
      2 - Tomkins (26)
      1 - van Aanholt, Wan-Bissaka, Digne (24)

      1. Albrightondknight
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        I was going to ask why to banned me from LMS 🙂 then I noticed I took a -8 in GW6 - out by 1 point that week. Did not even notice at the time was wondering why the league was not in my list anymore 🙁

    13. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      James Egersdorff spewing at that Mili pen miss as a Zaha owner.

    14. Piggs Boson
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      f**k sake Wally!! 🙁

      1. Albrightondknight
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Split milk ?

    15. Ha.
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      wen r goal?

    16. internal error
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Everton are lucky that Pickford is only 4ft 6. Diving to his left means he is still relatively close to the middle of the goal

      1. Albrightondknight
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        🙂

      2. XabiAlonso
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Trex arms