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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.




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  1. Nabs Kebabs
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    The hot topic earlier in the week from the poster "minus four" was very interesting. His proactive approach of taking hits got him a top 300 OR finish last season. Last season, I played too cautiously and ended up slipping down the ranks from being in the top 10k most of the season to finishing around 64k.
    Anyway, I'm taking a more aggressive approach this season and moved Kane, Rashford -> Kun(c), Haller (-4). Usually, I would've just saved FT especially as I WC'ed last GW. This way of playing is already very satisfying.

    1. Maddi Son
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      All my patient picks have done nothing so far.

      1. Nabs Kebabs
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Yep, I'm thinking the days of being patient are over. I'm happy I WC'ed after GW2 as my GW1 team had the likes of Siggy, Robinson, Adams, Kings, Barkley. Was a huge mess and I had I not WC'ed would be stuck with a load of kak

    2. Cok3y5murf
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Depends on the moves.

    3. Zenith UK
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      People are so scared of a -4 but so long as your two in score five or more than your two out you're making profit so it makes sense.

    4. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Minus 4 got a 300 OR. Wow he never told us

  2. COLLIN QUANER
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    What's everyones current overall rank?

    I'm sat at 1 million. Possibly my worst ever start to FPL

    1. Zenith UK
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      1.8m including WC used and a -12 this week...

      1. Peter Ouch
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Ouch

        1. Zenith UK
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Believe me, 51K OR last season and 14K OR last season. Shocker this year, made my biggest mistake to date (not trusting my gut).

    2. Bobby Digital
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      No worries, youll rise.

    3. Nightcrawler
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      3k

    4. Royal5
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      It's probably onley 10 points between 1 mill and 100k

    5. Dakers
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      200k. Likely to drop to like 600k if nothing changes

    6. DeathoftheParty
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      7k... Big reds this week I'm thinking though...

    7. Nabs Kebabs
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      1 mil is not bad at all after 3 GWs.

    8. Daddy Kev
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      6k

    9. Reeker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      73k but expecting a big drop this week

  3. HurriKane
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Wow so many inform mid price forwards. (
    Tammy
    Pukki
    Haller
    Barnes
    Wilson

    Picking 3 will be extremely hard. (And this is excluding kun/vardy/auba)

    1. JELLYFISH
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      3 from those is the way to go. No need for premium forwards this season

    2. Skalla
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Nice and I have Rashford and Kane oops..

  4. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Vardy and De Bruyne doing good for my team...the rest not so much yet

  5. sully29
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    As long as he stays fit it's hard to see KDB stop getting returns.

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      You can spend the money elsewhere just like Marc and still get pts

      1. IRBOX ⚽
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Mark*

  6. Peter Ouch
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    I bought Pukki last week, you can blame me

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Still a lot to go... he scores late goals.

  7. FPL Daniel
    • 15 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Halftime talk. What did our rivals did/didn't do?

    My local rival brought Tammy for a hit and gave him the armband. WOW, well done.

    My ultimate rival Mr. Sutterns kept Wilson and brought Hailer (I think for a hit), both scored of course.

    My man KDB exploding. if we were brave and gave him the armband.

    What are your rivals doing?

    Halftime talk.

    Thanks,

    1. Podge
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      One triple captained Kun 🙁

    2. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Juuuuhhhuuu....hic

    3. IRBOX ⚽
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Sutherns*

    4. Coys96
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      One has Tielemans and Vardy.

  8. diesel001
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Just putting this out there....

    Liverpool have only kept 1 CS against Burnley since Burnley got promoted to the PL (6 games). In 5 of those 6 games, Burnley scored first.

    https://twitter.com/FPLVinnie/status/1166977310022688768

    1. Mike2795647
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      I’ve got 2 pool defenders so that’s almost a guarantee that they will concede

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        But I have Barnes and TAA, so both bases covered.

        That'll be 4 points for me then. 🙁

  9. Random Name
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Haller or Abraham

    (Rashford's gone in a few hours)

    1. Camzy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Tammy looking really good.

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

      Haller for me. Abraham won't play Norwich and Sheffield United every week.

    3. diesel001
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Haller for me. Better fixtures. Abraham always does well against Championship teams, but he has played two of them already.

    4. Podge
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Both ?

      1. Random Name
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        don't have that kinda money im afraid

    5. Cok3y5murf
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Haller

    6. F4L
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      West Ham look awful so Abraham. Haller very lucky to have a goal today

    7. JELLYFISH
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Haller looking likely to rise tonight

  10. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Vardy been quite good 🙂

    1. Yank Revolution
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      His first goal was a joke...complete defensive breakdown

  11. The Big Fella
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Just read this on the BBC and I agree completely:

    Saqib Rao: This is good management from Lamps. He’s given Tammy starts against two teams who he played against last season which will now give him a lot of confidence going into future games.

    1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      So Was it bad management starting him v Man Utd?

      1. The Big Fella
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        No but I think building his confidence up against familiar teams is good management. Playing him against other teams isn't necessarily bad management. They're not mutually exclusive. To be honest, from a tactical perspective I think I would have played Giroud against United.

    2. Skalla
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Could also mean he 'rests' him again vs tougher opponents?

      1. The Big Fella
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Could be. I am talking about the real life aspect and not from an FPL perspective. He is still young.

  12. Tev
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Proof that Sterling can’t cover De Bruyne

    1. The Overthinker
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Wait for the match to end

      1. Tev
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Just joking around, it’s what was being said on here very smugly by Sterling owners in GW1. Obviously they’re not going to score the same every week.

  13. Colonel Shoe 肝池
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    tempting to downgrade kane to haller/tammy then upgrade midfield

    but spurs have such great fixtures 🙁

    1. Random Name
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      do it

    2. The Overthinker
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Also Kane has great record against 3 of the next 3 teams

  14. teddypicker
    • 15 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Who have all the scout picks captains been so far? I'm working something out

    1. diesel001
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      GW1 - Salah
      GW2 - ????
      GW3 - Sterling
      GW4 - Sterling

      1. diesel001
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Think GW2 was Salah

        1. teddypicker
          • 15 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Thanks

  15. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Just saw Vardy goal - wowsers

  16. el polako
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Didnt had the cojones to captain KDB, guess just gonna have to take the points and further proce rises.

    1. Podge
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      I had it on Haller until about 11:20

    2. Bobby Digital
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Didn't have the cojones to bring KDB in for McGinn or Ceballos.

  17. The Overthinker
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Just tried to see how my WC team will look like. Must say , can have a great team with .8 ITB

    Pope
    Robertson Digne Walker
    Salah kdb Maddison James
    Haller Abraham Wilson

    Button mings AMN cantwell

    1. Podge
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Pukki over Wilson imo

      1. Yankee Toffee
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        obvs

      2. The Overthinker
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        After Wilson's res fixtures, I'll do this

  18. FPL Daniel
    • 15 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    On the other hand, Leicester way better with Albrighton instead of Perez. Nice noticed Jonty on one of the previous scoutcasts.

    1. Make FPL Casual Again
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Yeah Tilemans and Vardy good options again...

  19. manu4life99
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Very early days but is this worth saving FT (assuming no injuries)?

    Pope
    TAA VVD Digne Montoya
    Salah Sterling Mount KDB
    King Pukki

    Heaton,Soyuncu,Dendonker,Greenwood

    £0.3m ITB

    1. Mike2795647
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      King to Barnes

  20. Yankee Toffee
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Kun basically guaranteed to score at home

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      yes, easily the best home captain if you have him. If I own him at home I captain him, simple as that

      1. Yankee Toffee
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        agreed

  21. Budweiser
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Pukki train derailed

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Isn't he the top-scoring player in the game?

    2. Dakers
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Been 45min

    3. Bobby Digital
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Choochoo

  22. KUNingas
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Martial + Ings + King -> Mount + Abraham + Barnes (-4)?

    1. Ghost Gooner
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Wait on Martial imo.

    2. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Steady on Mount - I’ve actually been disappointed in him today after being impressed v Man Utd & Norwich

      He did make a good run for Abraham’s first goal but wasn’t spotted and had a bit of a chance a while later too though

      1. KUNingas
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Thanks

  23. FPL Daniel
    • 15 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    any assist for second Tammy goal?

    1. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Jorginho

    2. Rainer
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Jorginho, with thanks to the two shocking defenders.

      1. FPL Daniel
        • 15 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        oh my, first in history, actually he wasn't side passing. who would have thought? it's a miracle

  24. FPL Daniel
    • 15 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Vardy first goal was a cracker

  25. The Chosen One...
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Sterling due a blank tbf. Scored in 3 straight games

    1. Cok3y5murf
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Lol that's not how it works

    2. FPL Daniel
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      we give him the armband next week then

  26. d1g2w3
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Do I need to wildcard? Concerned at the lack of coverage of the teams with easier fixtures and my strikers are a little bit of a mess.

    It looks like an ok team to field just not world beating

    Heaton (pope)
    Digne, lundstrom, Montoya (rico, hanley)
    Martial, de bruyne, sterling, Salah, Cantwell
    King, kane (greenwood)

    1. FC Hakkebøf
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Nope. Use your FT and take a hit and problem solved

  27. Emiliano Sala
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Damn I own laporte
    Is he injured? How bad was it?

    1. Ghost Gooner
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Looked bad tbh

    2. Yankee Toffee
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      stretchered off m8

    3. F4L
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Stretchered off. Didn’t look great

  28. The Overthinker
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Kdb perma captain tbh

    1. Shuko
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Indeed, capped him last week, but had no balls to do it this week. So, hopefully Sterling will get some as well.

      1. FPL Daniel
        • 15 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        only at home. away he is max 5-6pts

  29. Make United Great Again
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    And that’s why I’m selling all United assets. Inconsistent

    1. Skalla
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Tbf they have been very consistent in the last 3 games

  30. Drip Doctor
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Will this be the ned of Pukki. It was bound to happen sooner or later.

    1. Dakers
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Ned Stark?

    2. FPLtfs
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      I'll give him another 45 minutes

    3. Bartowski
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      How many goals did you think he was gonna score this season, 50?