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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. DV8R
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Brighton double up locked in

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

      Ryan Duffy?

      1. DV8R
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        Probably. Then swap one for GW35

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

          This.
          Could keep Ryan for saves
          Duffy goes in 35 for me

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

    Fraser and Wilson have been a waste of space for me

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

      Same

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

      Yeah shipping Wilson out on wc

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

      Brooks and Wilson for me too. May as well have kept Jiminez 😉

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

        Hahah jinx.

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

          That’s insane. True tho

          Moving Jiminez to Wilson and then paying the increase for him made sense on paper following “points over pounds”, but hasn’t repaid us.

          Same as the Boruc hit for many. Didn’t repay when needed !

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

            I’d do it again

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

            Exactly. Thought surely that Wilson with 2 fixtures would outscore Jimenez with 0 - but just about going to break even on the -4 I took in 31 now! 🙁

            Also had I kept Jiménez, he’d have been in my FH32 team rather than Higuashite

      2. Baps hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        I have Brooks, Wilson and Fraser 🙁

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

      Yep. Would’ve been as well just keeping Jiménez ffs

  3. tm245
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Lejeune hurt his knee, doesn't look good.

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Big blow for Newcastle defensively that.

      1. tm245
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        Yep.

  4. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Played Clyne over AWB oh dear, come on you Toon wipe out that CS!

    1. 007 [RoboKlopp]
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      This

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

    Big fan of Chris Wood. He was one of the first names in my team in preseason. Bonus magnet, too.

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

    Harvey off

    1. Weak Become Heros
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Thats the last i’ll see of him. Very much a Soton Tadic about him.

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

        You’ll regret shifting him the game before his 7 assists though.

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

    Bourenmouth fans sarcastically cheering Begovic when he claimed the ball then!

  8. Colonel Shoe 肝池
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    urghh brooks and fraser come on lads score

  9. The 12th Man
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Come on Joshua

  10. Weak Become Heros
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    TAA over Robbo?

    1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      if you need the cash then yes...

    2. Yoshioka
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Not as nailed (especially with Robbo out of CL first leg and Gomez back), but can deliver similar points if not better for cheaper. Pros and cons.

      1. Weak Become Heros
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        This is why i like robbo naildness.

  11. tm245
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Stretcher is out for Lejeune.

    1. Mo Mané Mo Problems
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Cs banked for him then

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

        Cold

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

          Cold but true I suppose

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

    AWB golazo incoming

    1. Chucky
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      OG*

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

        Blasphemy

  13. Weasel Boy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    No Boruc = punishment

  14. Differential C (Mark)
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    The real question . .
    A1B or AwB?

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

      Just Aaron, he’s earned it.

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

      Obi wan kenobi

  15. Yank Revolution
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Batman off, Bentekkers on

  16. tm245
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Bats off, Benteke on - Michy my worst punt of the season, scored in FA Cup between PL appearances for me.

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

    Sounds a really bad injury

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

      Hate to see that

  18. bhh
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Hopefully Newcastle can hold out another 30 minutes to get me a Yedlin CS

  19. Yoshioka
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    AWB guaranteed a cs here.

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

      Doubt it, and I'm an owner

      1. Yoshioka
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        I'm attempting the classic non-owner's jinx.

    2. bhh
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Incoming:
      GOAL - RONDON
      ASSIST - ALMIERON

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

      It’s really not

  20. SweeSwee
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    Harvey Barnes should be given a full 90 minutes at some point.

  21. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    AWB CS confirmed

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

      Subbed?

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

      Do not jinx that sh*t

  22. Niho992
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 19 days ago

    AWB HOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDD !!!

  23. JohnnyMagrinho
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Only good thing about triple Bournemouth attack is seeing as they've already used two subs and Fraser, Wilson and King haven't been hooked yet is that at least 2 of them will definitely see out the 90 minutes barring injury/red card!

      Little victories n' that.

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

      Let's go Vardy, one more

      1. Yoshioka
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        Another goal is worth 7... 14 to captainers and a massive 21 to those brave TCs.

    • Unfathomable Ruination
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      I brought in Bournemouth players in part due to their great fixtures ... Burnley are second for most goals conceded (after Hudd) and yet now I feel I have been duped by Joe Hart ...

      1. kalmoffit
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        They lost 4-0 at Burnley..

    • boredjames
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Bit boring here today. Can we get Bread bin back? Or Ron the Bear?

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

        Bread bin. That guy

      2. Ginkapo FPL
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        Theyve all left. Scared of by the idiots who now reside in these boards

    • La Roja
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      What a save by Kasper

    • pundit of punts
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Who else with me on the Vardy(c) party? 🙂

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

        o/ need another though

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

        Yessir. Happy but would like one more G

      3. The 12th Man
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        O/

      4. grooveymatt65
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        good that hudders scored for jamies winning baps but bad for leicster defence owners

      5. Srv210
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        need one more

      6. Bruno Bruno!!
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        YES MATE, ONE MORE PLEASE MARK SUTHERNS GIVE US ONE MORE

      7. Yoshioka
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        Well done, lads. I chickened out. I know now's the time for differentials... but you spend a whole season being sensible and then tell yourself there's no point undoing all that now.

    • Mo Mané Mo Problems
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      Think BOU have made all their subs.

      1. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 19 days ago

        Yes. Brooks, Fraser, King and Wilson still on

    • HammersFan
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 19 days ago

      What happened to the users bowstring the carp or balders? I remember they always used to post really good stuff the last few seasons.