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Popular Pukki starts as Kanté misses out for Chelsea

Gameweek 2 hat-trick hero Teemu Pukki (£6.8m) embarks on his first Premier League match as a highly-owned Fantasy asset this afternoon.

He was the recipient of a huge influx of transfers ahead of Chelsea’s visit to Carrow Road, becoming the most transferred in player of 2019/20 with over 1.2 million managers signing him.

Not surprisingly, Daniel Farke has made no changes to the side that thrashed Newcastle 3-1 last weekend.

That means Todd Cantwell (£4.6m), who also impressed against the Magpies, starts again for Norwich.

Meanwhile, Frank Lampard has made two changes to the Chelsea XI with Tammy Abraham (£7.0m) and Mateo Kovacic (£5.5m) starting for the Blues ahead of Olivier Giroud (£7.0m) and N’Golo Kanté (£5.0m). 

The Blues have started the 2019/20 campaign tentatively, following up a 4-0 mauling a Manchester United with a 1-1 draw against Leicester City in Gameweek 2. 

The goalscorer from Lampard’s draw against the Foxes, Mason Mount (£6.1m), retains his place in the starting XI and will look to build on his promising attacking form against the Canaries at Carrow Road. 

Question marks continue to linger over the fitness of Kanté, and therefore Lampard’s decision to deploy Kovacic in the central midfield role is far from surprising, and potentially good for Pukki owners.

The Chelsea boss has also opted to re-call Abraham at the expense of Giroud, with the 2018/19 Aston Villa loanee yet to register a league goal for the Blues.

The 21-year-old will be hoping he can repay the faith of his manager with an impactful attacking contribution against Norwich in the lunch-time kick-off. 

Norwich XI: Krul; Lewis, Godfrey, Hanley, Aarons; Trybull, Leitner; Cantwell, Stiepermann, Buendía; Pukki.

Chelsea XI: Kepa; Emerson, Zouma, Christensen, Azpilicueta; Kovacic, Jorginho; Pulisic, Mount, Pedro; Abraham.

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  1. La Roja
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    52K people already bought Mount since deadline

  2. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Dead leg it seems for Mount.

  3. Mr. Grv
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    mount dead

    1. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Dead leg

    2. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Leg

  4. moment
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Alonso sighting

  5. Nightcrawler
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    That injury will mount even more pressure on lampard

    1. Maddi Son
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      ;(

  6. FPL Forward Thinker
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    That’s a 2-4 week injury for Mount

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Tha knyou doctor

    2. BobbyDoesNotLook
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      2-4 days

  7. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Mount injured ? Oh my

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Nah

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

    Mount 🙁

  9. soup natsi
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Perez, King > Mount, Pukki for a hit is a no brainer right?

    1. JohnBlack
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Mount just injures

      1. Warby84
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Foot got stood on, he’ll be fine

    2. Conor1
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Complete no brainer. Can you afford to wait to see how Mount is after injury? Pukki probably going up tonight though.

  10. ZeBestee
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Looks like just a knock for Mount. It's nice as the yellow flag would be a detterent for potential new owners.

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Knock hopefully

      1. ZeBestee
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Should be flagged most of the week hopefully. Need to bring him in.

  11. Salah’s Sonnet
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Mounts absolutely fine there, nothing but a dead leg

  12. S.Kuqi
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Just a knock

  13. FOO FIGHTER
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Mount transfers out on the cards?

  14. jia you
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Non-wildcarders stay strong...our time will come!

    1. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      This

    2. pingissimus
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Next season?

    3. Threat Level Midnight
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Sounds like someone forgot to get Pukki in

      1. pingissimus
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Nah Jia captained him last week - he’s just stuck on Fraser Perez

        1. Threat Level Midnight
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          What’s his SS while you’re at it?

        2. jia you
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          yup stuck with those two but hopefully they will give me 4 points between them and I'll be content 😉

          1. Threat Level Midnight
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Fraser will come good IMO

  15. dshv
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    That’s not an injury for mount!!

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Obviously 🙂

  16. Dirty Harry
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Broke back Mount

    1. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Lol

      1. FOO FIGHTER
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        That is dirty

    2. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Like this haha!

  17. Phillipsturn
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Greenwood > Pukki
    VVD > Montoya -4
    Go from a 4-4-2 > 4-3-3

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Don’t like that 433 formation

      1. Phillipsturn
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Sorry. Meant 3-4-3. Currently at 4-4-2

  18. Werner Bremen
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Okay, where are those clowns saying Abraham is too good for Championship and not good enough for the PL?

    1. BobbyDoesNotLook
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Norwich just got promoted from Championship and has awful defence.

    2. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Put the keyboard down.....

    3. Skalla
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Well Norwich came from the championship with him so that could still be true but he was good today!

    4. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Saturday usually a working day for the clowning profession.

    5. GreennRed
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      He's only a chap. Needs to be more consistent. Has loads of potential.

      1. Werner Bremen
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        He's 21 for God's sake, give the kid time

  19. Pompel
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Pukki to Abraham for a hit?

    1. soup natsi
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      And Mount to Cantwell for -8

    2. Mr. Grv
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      do it

    3. Podge
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Kane to either for a hit looks decent

  20. pingissimus
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Great statting from the Guardian

    Pukki has outscored 7 of 8 teams kicking off today and matched United with 5 goals

    🙂 🙂

    Trying to find that please bookmark post after week 1 about the most absurd bandwagon ever

  21. SkeletONv01
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Mount dead? Mount > Cantwell then.

  22. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Left room, came back to mount on the ground. What happened please?

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Just a knock, he’s fine

      1. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Thanks, zico. Phew!

    2. GreennRed
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      A disMount.

      I'll get the tumbleweeds

  23. Bruce Lee
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Chelsea really have been unlucky in their last games

    They were the better team against Utd
    They did well against Liverpool

    Now, to be fair they really have been all over Norwich, but it is somehow a close game scoreline-wise

    1. Hy liverpool
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Leicester deserved to win

    2. CARROW ROAD
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Agree. Lots of chance creators but not many finishers. Mount looks promising though

  24. Deulofail
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    I wish I had a little less Haller
    I wish he was a baller
    I wish I saw some curl from Chris Wood, score a goal, yer?
    I wish I had a rabbit in a hat, Dennis Praet
    And a six for Montoya

    1. jia you
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Nice, good to see you mate...whose your cappo this week?

      1. Deulofail
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Sterling! Cheers, feels good to captain an attacker finally! Where's our No-Salah league? 🙁

        1. jia you
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Nice, good pick! El Topo didn't renew the old one but there was one prior to GW1 but it got removed for whatever reason!

  25. moment
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Zouma dead

  26. Tshelby
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    King and Leitner -> Pukki and Cantwell (-4)

    Do it right now?

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

      Before FT to get today’s points!

      1. Tshelby
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Nah just before price rises

  27. goriuanx
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    This referee has had yet another stinker.

    Absolute awful decision making.

    1. ZeBestee
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Agree. Missed way too many decisions.

  28. juho
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Buendia is quite the looker eh?

    1. Piggs Boson
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      But he becomes Susan Boyle when he stands next to Giroud.

  29. Freaki
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hopefully mount pulled his hammy lol

    1. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Classy

    2. @persecuted_by_mods
        4 years, 7 months ago

        By name and nature huh

      • VanDijksToWatchOutFor
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Cool guy

    3. Nightcrawler
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      So 11 points for pukki

      Comments here would have made u think he was already on 20. Happy an a non owner as limited damage + He will return to average with a few blanks now

      1. g40steve
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Bookmarked

      2. CRO KLOPP
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        He's a sub 7.0 mil striker ffs

      3. Christina.
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        fine by me.

        averages 14 ppg for me

        1. Baps hunter
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          And has played against two top6 sides.

          1. Baps hunter
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            28 pts from two matches for 6.5 is good enough for me 🙂

      4. FOO FIGHTER
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Good for you

      5. Baps hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Whu next 🙂

      6. jtreble
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        ... but will probably be the best value (points/GBP) forward this season. Kinda the whole point of FPL. :).

        1. CRO KLOPP
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          This

      7. Threat Level Midnight
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Getting him was easiest decision of the year after GW1. Sub 7.0

        Speak it into existence though

      8. Business Cat
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Why are you spamming this ridiculous comment?

      9. jia you
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Oh lord what a stupid post...facepalm

        1. jia you
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          ...wish the mods would focus their attention on idiotic posts rather than deleting ones from regulars having a bit of banter!

          1. Nightcrawler
            • 4 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            So u want posts deleted that differ in opinion. Wow

      10. 1zverGGadeM
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Don't buy him ,please

      11. Salah’s Sonnet
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Are you not entertained?