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Perez, Bernardo and Deulofeu among the benched FPL assets in Gameweek 4

Six Premier League matches kick off at 15:00 BST today, with Manchester City v Brighton and Hove Albion among the games taking place this afternoon.

A number of key Fantasy Premier League assets have dropped to the bench, one of whom is Bernardo Silva: the Portugal international is replaced on the right flank by Riyad Mahrez for the second time this season.

Rodri ousts Ilkay Gundogan from central midfield in Pep Guardiola’s only other change.

Raheem Sterling, Sergio Aguero, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Kevin De Bruyne all start.

Graham Potter has had a bit of a reshuffle, with Solly March joining the front three and Bernardo coming in at left wing-back.

Adam Webster replaces Shane Duffy at centre-half, while there is another start for Leandro Trossard.

Fikayo Tomori makes his first start for Chelsea in place of Andreas Christensen, who drops to the bench.

That is Frank Lampard’s only change, with opposite number Chris Wilder also making only one alteration: Oli McBurnie in for David McGoldrick.

Ayoze Perez has paid the price for a sluggish start to the season as he drops to the bench for Leicester’s match with Bournemouth.

Ben Chilwell, Wilfred Ndidi, Harvey Barnes and Marc Albrighton are recalled as Christian Fuchs, Hamza Choudhury and Dennis Praet also make way.

Harry Wilson in for Charlie Daniels is Eddie Howe’s only change.

Javi Gracia has made three changes from the West Ham defeat and appears to be going with a wing-back system: Jose Holebas, the injured Etienne Capoue and Gerard Deulofeu make way, with Christian Kabasele, Daryl Janmaat and Roberto Pereyra taking their places.

Amid all the injury talk at Newcastle, there are only two changes: Christian Atsu and Jetro Willems in for the sidelined Allan Saint-Maximin and Matt Ritchie.

West Ham have named an unchanged side from their win against Watford, while Daniel Farke has made just one alteration from Gameweek 3: Christoph Zimmermann replacing the injured Grant Hanley at centre-back.

Dean Smith and Roy Hodgson have named unchanged teams from Gameweek 3 as Crystal Palace take on Aston Villa at Selhurst Park.

Chelsea XI: Kepa, Azpilicueta, Zouma, Tomori, Emerson, Jorginho, Kovacic, Pulisic, Barkley, Mount, Abraham.

Sheffield Utd XI: Henderson, Basham, Egan, O’Connell, Baldock, Freeman, Norwood, Lundstram, Stevens, McBurnie, Robinson.

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita, Ward, Kelly, Cahill, van Aanholt, Milivojevic, Kouyaté, McArthur, Schlupp, Zaha, Ayew.

Aston Villa XI: Heaton, Guilbert, Engels, Mings, Taylor, McGinn, Douglas Luiz, Grealish, Jota, Wesley, Trezeguet.

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

Bournemouth XI: Ramsdale, Mepham, Cook, Ake, Smith, H. Wilson, Billing, Lerma, Fraser, King, C. Wilson.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Walker, Otamendi, Laporte, Zinchenko, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, D Silva, Sterling, Mahrez, Aguero.

Brighton XI: Ryan, Burn, Dunk, Webster, Montoya, Pröpper, Stephens, Bernardo, March, Maupay, Trossard.

Newcastle United XI: Dubravka, Schar, Lascelles, Dummett, Krafth, Hayden, Longstaff, Willems, Atsu, Joelinton, Almiron.

Watford XI: Foster, Dawson, Kabasele, Cathcart, Janmaat, Cleverley, Doucouré, Kiko Femenía, Hughes, Pereyra, Gray.

West Ham United XI: Fabianski, Fredericks, Diop, Ogbonna, Masuaku, Noble, Rice, Felipe Anderson, Yarmolenko, Lanzini, Haller.

Norwich City XI: Krul, Aarons, Zimmermann, Godfrey, Lewis, Leitner, Trybull, Cantwell, Stiepermann, Buendia, Pukki.




2,369 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Vardy, Haller, Pukki, Jota, Kean, Tammy, Barnes, Kane - tough to pick 3

    Sterling, KDB, Mo, Martial, Son, Pepe, Mount, Cantwell - tough to pick 5

    TAA, Robbo, VVD, Laporte, Zink, Digne, Coleman, Lundy - tough to pick 5

    Just tough full stop really

    1. Respect My Authoritah
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Auba way ahead of Kane.

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

      that is what I call a season

    3. Ambrosiana Inter
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Make your choices and have patience

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        No you

        1. Ambrosiana Inter
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          ????

          1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
            • 14 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            +&)€€?

    4. Pras (FPL)
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      How about watching/following football at 3pm on Saturday?

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        I’ve just watched 90 minutes of the never ending train wreck that is Man Utd and currently watching Chelsea and Sheffield swinging at each other like two blind drunks in an alleyway and hopefully will watch Liverpool if i’ve the stamina

        Sure what else are Saturdays for??

    5. Zladan
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Easily remove Jota Kean Pepe Robbo and Coleman.

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Coleman for example has 95 points in 18 games in 2019 - why easily remove?

  2. Top 210 Club
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Ffs Cantwell open goal headed over from 3 yards

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

      Not even

  3. HurriKane
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Cantwell misses sitter

  4. Respect My Authoritah
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Cantwell should score

    1. Respect My Authoritah
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Open goal

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

    Cantwell sitter it seems.

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

    Points dodging my team this season.

  7. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Nolan is so boring, bring back Merson

    1. Dybala10
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Where's Merse?

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

        Recovering from Poch's sliding tackle.

      2. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Pissed probably

  8. Guy Demel
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    City going to lose another clean sheet

  9. The Ejiptian King
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Gonna need a Coleman brace tomorrow I'm afraid.

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

      Has he ever got one ?

  10. Messiah Hazard
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Had to bench Cantwell. Lucky he didn’t score there.

  11. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Barkley playing is ruining Mount

    1. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Barkley No.10?

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

      🙁 freck

    3. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      He is Chelsea’s version of Lamela

      Selfish poison for everyone else’s returns

    4. Eddie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I'm not enjoying watching him getting nothing of the ball on the left.

  12. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Lol @ THAT Cantwell post - well played sir 🙂

  13. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Captaining Sterling not working well so far

    1. Greasy Grealish Gang
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Looked quite invisible so far.

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

    Laporte injures and got yc

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

      Big oof

    2. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      If it's not a bad injury, then good.

  15. Botman and Robben
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Why Laporte?

  16. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    I've ruined Raheem

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

      Rahim vs tired legs not to worry.

  17. Daddy Kev
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Point chasers getting rewarded yet again.

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

      Didnt get Haller in?

    2. LOL LINGARD SCORED
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Pick your toys up

    3. IRBOX ⚽
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      How?

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

      Amazing sometimes the drivel spouted on here.

    5. Tomerick
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Clearly the best strategy is to get all the players who don’t score.

  18. DeathoftheParty
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Wilson burning sellers thank god. Still hate the 3 o'clocks though... Or do they hate me?

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

      Well I sold him for Pukki. Not too displeased yet.

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

      Got Haller for him 2 weeks Ago so not really burning me.

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

      What if you sold him for vardy or haller

  19. IRBOX ⚽
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Laporte down.. and a YC!

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

    Pukki, can you pls start your hattrick already?

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

      Not getting a kick at all

  21. Bartowski
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Laporte with the old pretending he got injured fouling someone trick.

  22. twoplustwo
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Looked rough for Laporte

  23. Pacer.
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Ross Barkley's end product is very disappointing

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

    Hallerlujah!!

  25. Guy Demel
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Lerma YC

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

      Dammit, my captain

  26. FPL Blow-In
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Yep I have Laporte..

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

    Laporte stretched off

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

      Oh shoot

  28. The Ejiptian King
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Laporte is never gonna get a cap for France at this rate.

  29. Shark Team
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    I bought Laporte for a hit this week AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  30. IRBOX ⚽
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Stretcher for Laporte