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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. Planet Head
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Vardy cappers rejoice!

    1. pundit of punts
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      😎

      1. Planet Head
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Wow Pundit, you're had an even better one that me!

    2. Danstoke82
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      \o/

  2. jia you
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Loads of Vardy cappers on here I see...sweet 🙂

  3. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Huddersfield and Fulham have been the worst teams I've ever seen in the premier league

    1. Legendary!
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Worse than Derby County?

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

        I never seen them in the league, proper bad?

        1. Yank Revolution
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Yup

    2. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Add in Cardiff aswell. The bottom 3 have played 31 games against the top 6 so far this season and lost every single one of them.

    3. Yank Revolution
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Birmingham were also putrid

  4. Ode
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Mane (c) Vardy vc 🙁

    1. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Ooof... That's tough

  5. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hands up who has,
    Vardy C
    Maddy
    Pereira

    🙂 🙂 🙂

    1. Dannyb
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Tielemans

    2. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Tielemans over Mad here

  6. One More Hit
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Vardy you wonderful man

  7. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hold Palace!

    Want that AWB CS!

    1. TheTinman
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Will be probably 8 mins added time or so

  8. twoplustwo
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Lei taking the stink off of Bou

  9. Burger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    C'mon one more for the road. Bury those non-owners 😎

  10. Srv210
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    BUT it's a fluke how many penalties Palace get....Mili has 11 goals mostly from penalties which is better than a lot of forwards in the game...It's insane

    1. Tempestic
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      same happened last season though

  11. The 12th Man
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Come on Newcastle

  12. ZeBestee
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Cant Bou even not help themselves against Burnley?

    Lost 4-0 in the reverse fixture as well

  13. GuillermoDickero
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Damn those rumours that vardy wasn't pictures in training the last few days!

    1. Klein
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Not rumors. He wasnt pictured in training. Don't know what caused people to panic. Its just training.

    2. Richd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      I posted the ITK tweet. I was never dumping Firmino for him but we knew he’d play

  14. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    NEED pts from Wilson, McNeil, Fraser pls

    1. JohnnyMagrinho
        5 years, 1 month ago

        OK mate I'll sort it for you.

    2. Danstoke82
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Get in Vardy (c)!

    3. BobbyDoesNotLook
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Vaadiiiii!

    4. Feeling_blue
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Buzzing as a Vardy (C) although still wish I hadn't wimped out of TC last minute. Having said that I would have been miserable at HT

    5. Tempestic
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Whats Vardy's EO?

    6. FPL Pillars
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Vardy (c) party in the house

    7. Dannyb
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Come on Newcastle, smash that cleanie

    8. aborg
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Have Mili and Vardy (c). Could not be happier

    9. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Come on Almiron, wipe the CS

    10. BEEZUS
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Worth keeping Vardy on my GW34 WC?

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

        wont play shuddersfield every week

    11. Richd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Damn penalty and an fpl assist 🙂

    12. Bruno Bruno!!
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Last week Hazard (C) this week Vardy (C) 🙂 🙂 🙂

    13. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Vardy crashed LiveFPL

      1. Now I'm Panicking
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Ragabolly has got his python out

        1. Sim Simma
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Eric Idle disagrees

      2. Rotation's Alter Ego
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        My bad. Repeatedly refreshing to see my live rank 😆

    14. OldBenKenobi
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      ML rival went vardy(c) and I went Hazard!
      Not looking good now...ffs

      1. Sim Simma
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Same here

      2. Weasel Boy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Now no.
        Come Monday night who knows.

      3. Tempestic
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        I've gone hazard also, u never know he may pull through

      4. g40steve
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Always better to points in bank than dream of them.

    15. Weasel Boy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Any assist for Vardy's penalty?

      1. Bruno Bruno!!
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Vardy got fouled himself

      2. Sim Simma
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Technically a Vardy assist

      3. Weasel Boy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Thanks

      4. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        No. He won the penalty himself.

    16. Tempestic
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      I'm so glad about this, I need Vardy to rise 0.1 so I can afford my WC team 🙂

    17. XabiAlonso
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Jammy vardy cappers

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

        i believe its spelt jamie

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

          😉

      2. FPL Pillars
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Woooooohoooll!