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Alonso absent for Chelsea as Saïss comes in for Bennett

Marcos Alonso (£6.4m) misses out on a place in the Chelsea starting XI for the second Gameweek in a row this weekend.

That’s the first time he has not played a single minute in back-to-back Gameweeks all season.

In his place is Emerson Palmieri (£5.2m) who makes his second start in a row, having played all 90 minutes against Fulham in Gameweek 29.

Joining the Italian in Chelsea’s back-line is the usual suspects of David Luiz (£5.9m), returning after a Gameweek 29 benching, Antonio Rüdiger (£5.9m) and Cesar Azpilicueta (£6.3m).

With Eden Hazard (£10.8m) and Gonzalo Higuaín (£9.6m) coming back into the side following a rest in the Europa League, they are joined in the front three by Pedro (£6.3m).

The key Wolves assets are all in the starting line-up with Matt Doherty (£5.4m) restored to the starting line-up on the flanks of midfield.

Raúl Jiménez (£6.8m) and Diogo Jota (£6.1m) lead the two-man attack while Rui Patricio (£4.5m) reclaims the goalkeeper jersey from John Ruddy (£4.2m).

As Ryan Bennett (£4.2m) serves the first of a two-match suspension, Romain Saïss (£4.2m) fills in for him at centre-back.

Chelsea XI: Kepa; Emerson, Rüdiger, D Luiz, Azpiliceuta; Kovacic, Jorginho, Kante; Hazard, Higuaín, Pedro.

Wolves XI: Patricio; Boly, Coady, Saïss; Jonny, Neves, Moutinho, Dendoncker, Doherty; Jota, Jiménez.

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  1. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Doherty camarasa Boruc benched for AWB Felipe Fabianski

    Ouch!

    1. Garlana
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Got those exact three player on my bench too... guiata, son and Pereira played...

      1. Top Lad Dakes.
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        Pereira played here too - was never gonna bench him though, or Robertson.

        Just a shame that the above 3 were all up in the air and I went the wrong way for all of em

        1. Garlana
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 19 days ago

          I'm most anoyyed by boruc...I really went back and fourth with that, the others seemed logical to me. Oh well hopefully it's swings in the opposite direction another week.

    2. Kabayan
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Same here.
      + Digne for Pereira, hiks..

    3. Fpl Richie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      I benched them all too - for Guaita, Fanny and Pereira

  2. FPL_Gyarados
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Raul you beauty!
    Might need to see about getting Jota too soon.

  3. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Honestly more tempted in Sterling > Fraser than Sterling > Haz. Chelsea remains a joke with occasional brilliance.

    1. Paul Psychic Octopus
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Was also going to do Sterling > Hazard.

      Could even bench Sterling. BGW31/33 players are cheap, and you will want Sterling back for Man C DGW32. Could then cost 0.2-0.3 more in price rises/lost TV.

  4. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    CHO get in there lad.

  5. Don Kloppeone
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Higuaout?

    1. Fpl Richie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      I can't take another blank build up failure

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        I know. Got him, Salah, double ‘pool defence to worry about

    2. LǝgleSs e|even
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Atm just NoSalah

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        Just can’t take him out though not when he plays all those games

  6. Rian23
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    what website can i find out how many points i've benched this season?

    1. i am jose mourinho
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      http://www.howmanypointsi've benchedthisseason.com

    2. AVFCChris1984
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      FPL Web page

    3. FPL DONKEY
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      just look at your gameweek history

      1. Sterling Malory
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        This.

  7. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Get another one Jimi

  8. The Train Driver
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Chelsea all over the place

  9. tafrère
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Luiz in my XI.
    Sold Jiménez for King.
    Doherty, Jonny and Camarasa in my bench...

    Cheer up little soldiers, GW30 is almost over, it won't hurt us anymore lmao.

  10. Sterling Malory
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    24 points on my bench currently

    1. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Better than me - I only have 23

      1. Sterling Malory
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        By better, you mean worse...

  11. Richd
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Jiminez has put me just 5 places off a grey arrow ! Come on

  12. Slow regard for silent thin…
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Do Chelsea look like scoring?

    1. yakirh
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Not really, Wolves defending well

  13. Bobby
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    can someone remind me again what the main elements of sarriball is. I have forgotten

    1. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      The Emperors New Clothes

      1. Mambino
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        Emperor's

    2. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Hope Jorginho does something he is probably incapable of

  14. JoeSoap
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Potential transfers this wk included bringing in Mane, Vardy, Fraser, Brooks & TAA. Decided on TAA which meant benching Jiminez. Gotta luv this game.

  15. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Sarri seems to be the hardest word

  16. Marmalade Forest
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    With this season basically over for many of us, anyone care to speculate with little basis about next season’s FPL?

    Jiminez up at 9?
    Rashford and Lukaku both at 10 with Sanchez at 9?
    Salah a 12m forward?
    Robertson the only 7m defender?
    Zaha back to mid?

    1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      If Zaha is a mid Salah is a mid, no?

    2. F_Ivanovic
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Sanchez should be no more than 7.5m

      1. Mambino
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        At the very most

  17. Dont_Win_Friends_With_Salah…
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    In preparing for GW31, has anyone put together a more 'out-of-form' XI?

    Alison
    Lascelles Kola Maguire
    Salah (C) Hazard Anderson Pogba
    Rondon Rashford Lukaku

    Hamer Brooks Doherty Bennett

    It's only my Man Utd players in form, and they don't even play next week!

  18. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    As Bewitched once sang... "The pain goes on. On and on again."

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Your restraining order means you have to live in 1990s Ireland?

      1. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        You're thinking of the brother from the corrs

    2. Gregor
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      C’est la vie.

  19. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    For goodness sake score Higuain!!!

    1. Don Kloppeone
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Looking pants. Really disappointed

  20. adams_6
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Laca and Auba both start with Ozil

    1. i am jose mourinho
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Nice

    2. Mysterion
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      No Mustafi, Arsenal CS locked in

      1. adams_6
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        Absolutely right!
        He’s best sat behind Steve Bould.

  21. fiveyears
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Might play Jiminez in GW31, I still back him to score despite not having a game

    1. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Wouldn’t put it past the lovely guy

    2. Numb
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      He does seem fixture proof

    3. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      yes, a sly pitch invasion and slot one in

  22. Sandy Ravage
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Got Jota to cover Jimenez, but benched him last week and sold this week for Brooks. Transfer fails

  23. Numb
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Shouldn’t that have been a Chelsea pen when they got a FK just outside the box earlier? Should have been Chelsea advantage for foul outside the box and then Hazard was fouled again in the box.

    1. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      I thought that too when i first seen it.

  24. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    ⚽ Team News 📰
    ARS: Leno, Sokratis, Monreal, Koscielny, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Ramsey, Maitland-Niles, Özil, Aubameyang, Lacazette
    Subs: Cech, Mustafi, Elneny, Iwobi, Suárez, Guendouzi, Nketiah

    MUN: De Gea, Lindelöf, Young, Smalling, Matic, Dalot, Shaw, Fred, Rashford, Lukaku, Pogba
    Subs: Romero, Rojo, Bailly, Pereira, McTominay, Mason Greenwood, Martial

    1. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Cheers Sim

  25. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Downside - Jimenez will be like 8m next season

    1. Gregor
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Still seems like decent value at that price even.

    2. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Don't worry, Pukki at 5m or lower.

    3. fiveyears
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      It'll be around 7 based on similar players in previous years you'd think

      Depends on how Wolves strengthen I guess!

  26. Champ
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Plenty of people were offloading Jiminez for the blanks. Not straightforward if value built up in him...

    1. Numb
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Not seen many selling him tbh

    2. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Not i!

    3. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      I won’t be. Of course that’s why I didn’t have Vardy or Rondón this week hmm. I also blame Aguero for this

  27. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Auba starts. Shock

  28. KOKAK
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Eden Hazard overrated?

    1. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      No, just one foot in Madrid

    2. Dannyb
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      No, just in a bang average team.

    3. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      On the metaphorical beach

  29. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Emery actually playing all his best players together?

    Wow!

  30. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Pogba and Rashers, come on boys

    1. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      this

      1. circusmonkey
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        Everyone has got them, what's the point? Would prefer a hammy in the warm up and get Camerasa off my bench.

        1. Mambino
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 19 days ago

          I'm a united fan