Dugout Discussion

Richarlison and Hazard fit to start as Barkley and Pedro are benched

The second of four Premier League matches to be contested on Sunday kicks off at 14:15 GMT, as unbeaten Chelsea welcome Everton to Stamford Bridge.

The release of the teamsheets brought positive news for Richarlison‘s (£6.9m) owners, with the Brazilian fit to start after having been an injury doubt in the build-up to Gameweek 12.

Eden Hazard (£11.3m) is also back in the Chelsea starting XI for the first time in the Premier League since Gameweek 9.

The Belgium international had been restricted to a 24-minute cameo against Crystal Palace last weekend and continued his recovery from a back injury with an hour-long run-out against BATE in midweek.

There was disappointment for Ross Barkley‘s (£6.0m) owners, however, as the England midfielder was only named among the substitutes for the visit of his former employers – Mateo Kovacic (£5.9m) replacing him in the centre of the park.

Pedro (£6.3m) made way for Hazard in Chelsea’s only other change to the team that defeated Palace.

Cesc Fabregas (£6.3m) has returned from illness and is back among the substitutes.

Marco Silva has made one, enforced alteration to his starting XI, meanwhile: Yerry Mina (£5.4m) in for loanee Kurt Zouma (£5.0m), who is ineligible to face his parent club.

The Toffees haven’t kept an away league clean sheet in 2018/19, with only four clubs having conceded more big chances on the road than Marco Silva’s side.

Chelsea (81) and Everton (65) were the two Premier League clubs who had registered the most attempts on goal in the four Gameweeks preceding this one.

No striker had recorded more big chances or shots on target than Alvaro Morata (£8.7m) during this four-match spell, meanwhile.

Chelsea XI: Arrizabalaga, Azpilicueta, Rudiger, Luiz, Alonso, Kante, Jorginho, Kovacic, Willian, Morata, Hazard.

Everton XI: Pickford, Coleman, Keane, Mina, Digne, Gueye, Andre Gomes, Walcott, Sigurdsson, Bernard, Richarlison.

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1,351 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Dosh
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Digne 8 points sitting on the bench

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

      It'll only be 6, if that helps.

      1. Dosh
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Anything better than the Barkley cameo

        1. FPL Pillars
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          Barkley yuck, I take my unlucky back lol

    2. FPL Pillars
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      unlucky dosh

  2. Mithrandir, the Grey Pilgri…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    OMG Agueros hair

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      He looks like he's from the year 3000.
      Not much has changed
      But they lived underwater
      And your great, great, great granddaughter
      Is pretty fine
      Is pretty fine.

      1. Sánchez
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Surely living underwater was an enormous change given people must have evolved significantly and the earth probably submerged due to global warming and buildings, vehicles, internet, and more, would no longer exist

        1. Fred54
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          Ern...er...Its what I go to school for....

          1. Sánchez
            • 11 Years
            5 years, 5 months ago

            I'm glad you crashed this website

    2. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Silver Fox in the Box.

      1. 4-4-who?
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        More like blue rinse...

  3. 1zverGGadeM
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    If Giroud is a donkey, then what is this creature Morata?

    1. FPL Pillars
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      A pony

    2. Podge
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      a moose ?

    3. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Chicken

    4. Kepa's at the wheel
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      A fairy

    5. JamieC180
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      A bison with some kind of sclerotic disorder.

  4. Rusty71
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    51 pre baps with Dilva and Kun to play.

    1. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      * tumbleweed*

    2. Zladan
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Weird flex but okay.

  5. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Hahaha. Heard on an NBC Sports 'Man City Match Watch Party' interview:

    "Support is great. Best place on the East Coast. There weren't many of us 15 years ago, but now it's great"

  6. DA Minnion (Former great)
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Couldn't have worked out better with only Alonso.

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

      Could have easily been a 21 pointer 🙁

    2. FPL Pillars
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      he hit the post and had a shot saved so it could have easily been better

  7. Egg noodle
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    That man United attack is laughable after seeing how much they spend every season

    1. Podge
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Do other teams not spend money ?

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

      What's ridiculous is that United paid 40% less for their front 6 than City did for their back 5

  8. Greenbackbøøg…
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Its great that Alonso is actually good with bonus this year

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

      Yeah his baseline BPS make him the full package. Azpi used to always destroy him in games neither got attacking returns.

    2. Over Midwicket
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Yeah he's great on bones. He's so essential it's not even funny.

  9. Don Kloppeone
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    53(-4) with Kun, Mendy and Martial to play. Small green?

    1. Garlana
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      For sure

  10. SweeSwee
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Could someone attempt to describe Aguero’s hair in words?

    1. Black Knights
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Silver?

    2. Zladan
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Shite.

    3. Dr. Mantis Toboggan
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Ag-hair-o

      OR

      A-grey-ro

    4. FPL Pillars
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      grey

    5. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      I just did.

    6. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto.

    7. Mithrandir, the Grey Pilgri…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      My wife always had a theory about Torres....

      When he cut his hair he was never the same!

      At least Aguero is not pineapple head or that Nigerian lad with a plant on his head.

      1. Ghost Gooner
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        I'd put it down to his knee injury but go on

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

      Like a shiny thatch woven from golden sunlight

  11. Mithrandir, the Grey Pilgri…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Have Pickford Alonso Haz Rich so loving that 0 0

  12. seewhyaxe
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    1 or 2 pointer from Mendy would be gold. 🙂

    1. Podge
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      reasonable chance

    2. Dr. Mantis Toboggan
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      * 1 or 2 goals

    3. FPL Pillars
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      mendy on for another 15 pointer

  13. drughi
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Alonso is really annoying me, always worthless when I own him. Now he alone is basically killing my season.

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Killing. I see what you did there...

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

      He’s a buy & hold - goes through boom-bust cycles regularly

    3. Whats the Huth
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      What’s he done wrong today?

  14. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    2 bonus for Alonso?

    1. FPL Pillars
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      should be yeah

      1. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Wicked! Cheers

    2. Shatner's Bassoon
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      If it stays as is, yes. But dunno about deductions post match.

  15. Rover
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Who do you think wins:
    A) 49 points + Aguero
    B) 36 points + Martial, D.Silva, Lacazette

    1. FPL Pillars
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      a

    2. R.C
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      b

    3. Dosh
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      B

  16. JustPark
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Surprise element that United mids which might win this.

  17. R.C
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    RAM essential

    1. Dr. Mantis Toboggan
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Worth the investment. I quite like CRAM or DRAM with Chilwell or Doherty and AWB to rotate

    2. Podge
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Drama with doherty and awb

  18. drughi
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Laporte up to you now, match alonso please

    1. 4-4-who?
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Martial brace please...

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        This so much!

  19. JRO093
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Anyone know good legitimate websites for buying premier league tickets? I want to buy tickets for mid-December Huddersfield-Newcastle and Pool-United...

  20. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Alonso to lose baps?

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

      Should stay with 2.

      1. Chucky
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        cheers. hope he gets none

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

    Mendy to make it a clean sweep for RAM

    1. FPL Pillars
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      TRAM got derailed but only the first carriage. ram on track 🙂

      1. Fred54
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Get Peltier for TRAMP.

        1. Chenku╰☆╮
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          Oh my

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

          Hahaha

  22. fantasyxprt11
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Mourinho looks lost

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      And so are you, new article ahoy!

  23. Sandy Ravage
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Sorry for ever doubting Raul Jimemez. Think I would have benched him in the last 2 games anyways