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Vardy starts as Maguire misses out on Leicester’s trip to Huddersfield

Three Premier League matches take place today, all of which kick off at 15:00 BST.

Bournemouth entertain Burnley, Crystal Palace head north to face Newcastle United and Leicester City make the trip to relegated Huddersfield Town.

Jamie Vardy starts for the Foxes, following concern about his absence from training ground photos on Thursday.

Harvey Barnes, James Maddison, Youri Tielemans, Ben Chilwell and Ricardo Pereira all start but there is no place for Harry Maguire, who was available after suspension but who fails to make the match-day squad – the Leicester Mercury claim that Maguire has had a “disrupted week” after the birth of his first child.

Brendan Rodgers’ only change sees Caglar Soyuncu replace the injured Jonny Evans at centre-half. Evans reportedly has an issue with his hip.

Huddersfield Town have only made one change, with Jon Gorenc Stankovic coming into the starting XI at the expense of Juninho Bacuna.

Isaac Mbenza returns after a lengthy lay-off and is among the substitutes.

DeAndre Yedlin and Isaac Hayden have recovered from minor injuries to start for Newcastle but Mohamed Diame misses out, so Ki Sung-yueng takes the place of the Senegalese midfielder.

Fabian Schar is back after a two-game ban and replaces Paul Dummett at centre-half.

Salomon Rondon, Ayoze Perez and Miguel Almiron again form the Magpies’ three-man attack.

Andros Townsend is back in the Crystal Palace team after dropping to the bench in midweek, meanwhile, so Cheikhou Kouyate makes way.

Wilfried Zaha, Michy Batshuayi, Jeffrey Schlupp and Aaron Wan-Bissaka all start.

Adam Smith is fit to return for Bournemouth and replaces the injured Charlie Daniels at left-back but the Cherries are otherwise unchanged.

Asmir Begovic lines up in goal again ahead of Artur Boruc, while David Brooks, Ryan Fraser, Josh King and Callum Wilson are all in Eddie Howe’s starting XI as expected.

Sean Dyche has only made one alteration to his team, with Matthew Lowton replacing the injured Phil Bardsley at right-back.

Bournemouth XI: Begovic, Clyne, Mepham, Ake, Smith, Brooks, Gosling, Lerma, Fraser, King, Wilson.

Burnley XI: Heaton, Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor, Cork, Westwood, Hendrick, McNeil, Wood, Barnes.

Huddersfield Town XI: Hamer, Smith, Schindler, Kongolo, Durm, Hogg, Stankovic, Pritchard, Mooy, Löwe, Grant.

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Morgan, Söyüncü, Chilwell, Ndidi, Gray, Tielemans, Maddison, Barnes, Vardy.

Newcastle United XI: Dubravka, Schar, Lascelles, Lejeune, Yedlin, Hayden, Ki, Ritchie, Perez, Almiron, Rondon.

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita, Wan-Bissaka, Kelly, Tomkins, van Aanholt, McArthur, Milivojević, Schlupp, Townsend, Batshuayi, Zaha.

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  1. DAZZ
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Wilson down.

    1. DAZZ
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Hes fine 🙂

  2. Alan Watts
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    So have Vardy, not captained do I want him to score?

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Yes unless it hurts you in ML (i.e. competitors have Vardy(c))

    2. F_Ivanovic
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      He's less than 100% EO in top 10k and elsewhere so unless you have several major ML rivals that captained him then yes you do.

  3. Mo Mané Mo Problems
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Barnes booked

    1. Mo Mané Mo Problems
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Of the Ashley variety

    2. El-Kloppico
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      -2 ?

      1. Mo Mané Mo Problems
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        For now. Could be subbed early I guess. Always had him down as a hot head, but his red card record isn’t too bad. Then again, pretty criminal for strikers to get sent off.

  4. Mini Mahouse
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    If Palace by some miracle get a clean sheet, Guaita will have a big haul ..

  5. denial
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Jesus wept

    1. Yoshioka
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Aguero nailed then?

  6. Andrew
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Barnes booked, ouch

  7. Gobigorgohome
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Barnes YC 🙁

    1. Iwantmorepointsthanks
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      next penalty miss.
      then red card

      1. Alan Watts
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Then kung fu kicks fan on way off.....

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

      Which Barnes ?

  8. fr3d
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Gray misses sitter. Would've been Vardy assist

    1. Royal5
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      10min ago?

      1. fr3d
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Fiber?

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

    Does this mean Boruc will soon be number 1 again ?

    1. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      it means theyre buying a new keeper in the summer

  10. Yoshioka
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Too early to call it a bullet dodged, but already feeling kind of relieved that I didn't go with that Vardy TC punt.

  11. L'Aeroplanino
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Barnes impossible to ignore

  12. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Barned yellow now? What the hell is going on

  13. Garlana
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Quaner goal!!!

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

      Quaner I have an Amen

    2. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      For Ipswich though. Championship is his level tbf.

  14. Differential C (Mark)
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Guaita doing all he can to preserve AwB's cleanie.

  15. HollywoodXI
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    I’ll bet you good money that Ashley Bar es gets sent off in this game to accompany his red card. That would sum up my season perfectly. Plan for weeks, get precious little reward.

    1. HollywoodXI
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      *own goal

  16. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Barnes -10 BPS. Probably needs a hatty to get amongst the baps

    1. Mo Mané Mo Problems
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Of own goals?

    2. Les Bleus
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      So he needs 12 points to get an additional 3?

  17. twoplustwo
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Where are my points 🙁

  18. Kevin 11
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    played Westwood twice benched 3 times 3 halls on bench not sure if im dumb or have been trolled

    1. George Sillett
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      The answer to this is obvious.

      1. Kevin 11
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        trolled?

  19. DAZZ
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Mods im sorry to complain again, but i’m getting redirected to all sorts of sites every minute now, im struggling to go from page to page, maybe it isnt everyone having problems as bad as i am, but it’s getting unbearable 🙁 anyway i can stop it? IOS Safari im using.

    1. F_Ivanovic
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      IOS Safiri => there's your problem

      1. jtreble
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        No it’s not. Look below.

    2. Richd
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      I have the same on iOS chrome. It’s the adverts. Been doing it two days now.

    3. Richd
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      I’ve flagged to the mods.

      1. EMBOLOFAN
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        cheers

    4. Skid Vicious
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Maybe use chrome. Safari likes to go hunting all over the shop.

      1. EMBOLOFAN
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        likes to go on safari

    5. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Sounds like you picked up something dodgy on a porn site, nobody else has the problem 😉

      1. Futile Tinkering
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        😆 the hub

    6. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      same

    7. George Sillett
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Been watching too much porn ?

      1. Now I'm Panicking
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Is that possible?

    8. Piggs Boson
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Sounds like adware. Try downloading this for free and scanning:
      https://www.malwarebytes.com/

      1. Piggs Boson
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        IOS link: https://www.malwarebytes.com/ios/

      2. EMBOLOFAN
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        is happening to lots of people on mobile/iphone

        1. Piggs Boson
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Worth a try.

    9. jtreble
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      This problem is caused by malicious advert code. The solution is simple: block the ads or install and ad blocker.

  20. tm245
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    The glitch scores.

  21. The Ejiptian King
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Barnes is gonna get sent off, isn't he?

    1. HollywoodXI
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Its guaranteed. That’s the reward we get for planning weeks in advance.

    2. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      hopefully

  22. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    As soon as FPL 19/20 opens, I’m gonna get Wood.

    1. El-Kloppico
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      West one? Or east one?

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

      Because of Zohore

    3. grooveymatt65
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Yeah I'll be pretty excited when it opens as well!

    4. The Wise Owl
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      The player or?

  23. L'Aeroplanino
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    I am done with this GW, see you next week

    1. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      See you on the next page mate

  24. Differential C (Mark)
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Newcastle's attacks have been far superior to Palace's. Just cant finish their chances. And Guaita getting in the way.

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      That is Guaita's job tbf

  25. Richd
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Barnes eliminating Firmino’s efforts.

  26. EMBOLOFAN
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    G routledge

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Are you a Swansea fan?

      1. EMBOLOFAN
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        no just enjoying a throwback to the mid 2010s

    2. Hotdogs for Tea
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Yeeeeesssssss 🙂

  27. Powers106
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Any CS points for Boruc? lol but not spending -4 to replace him seems fine so far!

    1. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Only a -2.

    2. The Wise Owl
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      From the bench, no.

  28. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Barnes is going for the Jon Walters record

    1. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      He is indeed

  29. Hotdogs for Tea
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Maguire, Barnes, Boruc ... i just can’t catch a break lol

    1. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      bad luck mate

    2. Futile Tinkering
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Sorry man

  30. camarozz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Had a fiver at 80/1 winner at the grand national today.!!!

    Just practicing for later.

    One, two or three exclamation marks??

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      LOL. Valseur Lido?

      1. camarozz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Yep.
        Had an 80/1 winner few yrs ago too. Nearly a grand. Same tipster.

        1. diesel001
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Got a chance. Finished 8th last year, but is much better off in the weights this year. Drying ground should help stamina wise too.