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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. Colonel Shoe 肝池
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    haller v tammy will be an interesting choice

    1. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Haller has the fixtures

      1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        tammys arent bad

      2. FDMS All Starz
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Tammy has the hair style

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

      haller vs tammy vs barnes vs pukki

      1. Pukki Blinders
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Pukki wagon derailed today

    3. Yankee Toffee
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Kun

  2. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Salah and Mane time

    1. The Legend Squad
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Salah Mane Sterling De Bruyne

  3. Yoshioka
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Is anyone else not really bothered about Sterling (c) fail because all of their long term serious rivals will have done the same today? I actually like it when occasional casuals' punts win out because it just means they'll be tempted to gamble with captaincy and take more hits through the rest of the season.

    1. Twisted Saltergater
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      He'll be my captain again next week.

    2. Qaiss
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I never once considered Aguero because of team structure and I never once thought of not captaining Sterling this week, so why would I be bothered? You can’t own them all

    3. tucaoneo
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      He is owned by 40+%. Honestly you can't handle the potential damage if you bet against him.

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

      Yep
      My © against Norwich. Hopefully bags a brace and keeps up with Aguero

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

      Yep not too worried about Sterling (c) he is my top scorer so far, it is the rest of my team with 8pts that is the problem!

    6. @ocprodigy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Not owning Sterling paid off big time for me this week. Gambles do pay off

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

        Gambles can and do pay off, but the gamblers lose out in the long run in this game imho. They end up trying to chase and recreate that first big haul.

    7. Pranav Santhosh
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      im personally not bothered cause i was set on him as captain at home instead of salah away at turf moor and i didnt want to bring aguero in cause it was too hard for me to do made my decision early on stuck by it so im not bothered. im more bothered not picking up masuaku when i narrowed it down to masuaku and guilbert as decent 4.5 attacking fullbacks and decided to change it up last minute with soyuncu to be safe and go with the stronger defence. should of stucked to my guns although if i did stick to my guns i probably would of ended up with guilbert over masuaku so cant complain too much

    8. The Legend Squad
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Have Sterling, brought Aguero in for the promise of 90 mins in the absence of Jesus. Captained him too. I guess I’m not a long term serious rival!

  4. teddypicker
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Selling King:
    A) Abraham
    B) Barnes
    C) Haller
    D) Jiménez

    1. Pukki Blinders
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      B or C is a toss up depending on what you can do with the funds

      1. El Matador
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        A. On form his place in the team is cemented

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

    Man I wish Tierney was fit! Would love to bring him in to fund my KDB move

  6. Sandy Ravage
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Rashford + Kane to Pukki + Aguero (c) for a hit should pay off...

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

    Ansu Fati 😮

  8. Yank Revolution
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Smooth: Brought in KDB and Haller this week, along with Mount. Sold Martial (injured), Kane (yet to play) and Dendoncker (yet to play, maybe injured or benched).

    Rough: Took a -8, so my rank is dropping from 118 k to 232 k. Only VVD/Salah/Digne left.

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

    Salah owners but non cappers

    What are we hoping for?

    1. THFC4LIFE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Points, less than 100% EO

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

        I suppose this. One goal max though probably. Wouldn’t the averse to a pen saved by Pope 😉

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

      Goals
      Winning pen
      Milner hitting to Pope 😀

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

      Honestly still as much as he can give. I don’t think his captaincy numbers will be as high as others and my captain delivered a goal at least so already outdone Sterling.

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

        Its irrelevant. He is in high 90% eo

  10. Kristobal
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Question:

    4-3-3 is my current formation. Perez didn’t play but all of my strikers did. First autosub is Kelly. Will he sub Perez for a 5-2-3 then?

    1. Ghost Gooner
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Yep

    2. Ragabolly
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Yes

    3. TKC07
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Kelly plays

  11. Demí
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    @SamLee
    Guardiola says City won't know about Laporte until tomorrow but he didn't sound too optimistic about it, and Laporte has gone to hospital.

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

      Get well

  12. FDMS All Starz
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    A little Firmino/Mane brace and a Salah blank will throw a spanner in the works for many...WC time is approaching fast

  13. Tsparkes10
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    A surprisingly nice 7/8 pointer from Diop.

    Did Kane, Robinson to Pukki, KDB (-4) so if Kane bangs tomz then may have been a bad move but not disappointed at all. No hate for Robo 🙂

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

    What happened to AWB? Being sold in droves?

    1. Ghost Gooner
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      No c/s and united are poor atb

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

      United

    3. Yank Revolution
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Double red arrow, so no, not droves.

    4. Cok3y5murf
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Fantastic player at a shite team

      1. All For One
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        lol

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

      I don't see a CS in the next three

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

      1 CS in their last 19 games (nothing to do with the beastly AWB but our defence is still poor enough with Young and Lindelof)

    7. Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      United can't keep cs

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

      United 1 CS in 19 games and no attacking returns either.

      1. FDMS All Starz
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        This

  15. SuperDan
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Mount or James?

  16. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    we all know Salah is gonna brace right as you all went Sterling captain..
    him or Mane one of them

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

      As long as its Mane I dont care

    2. El Matador
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Mane turn tonight Salah next week

  17. Sandy Ravage
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Next move, find a suitable replacement for AWB

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

      Otamendi if you dont already have triple city

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

      If only Tierney was fit

    3. El Matador
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Thinking of an Arsenal defender.

  18. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Welp, on the bright side, my pre-WC team would have been in the single digits. On the not-so-bright side, depending on how things go for 'pool today, I might be stuck re-thinking my premium defender strategy, thanks to Laporte's injury...

  19. Miniboss
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Let’s go Trent, transform those stats into a haul.

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

      Yesssss

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

      Please wait till next GW

  20. JayLegend
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Robertson to punish sellers today.

  21. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    I havent watched the game so I check later, but Lampard subbing Tammy was probably a stupid move

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

    Damn guys 25 point with captain players ... it’s really bad

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

      Not too bad , quite a few with less than 20pts atm 🙂

  23. KGFC
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Wow... Was out all day and couldn't check the scores.. Tielemans scored!! Almost transferred him out for a -8. Glad I resisted 🙂

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

      Was very lucky not to get a red card but well done!

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

        Oh is that? TG then!

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

    GAMEWEEK 4 – MOST-CAPTAINED PLAYERS

    1861986 - Raheem Sterling
    1082172 - Mo Salah
    702588 - Sergio Aguero
    435109 - Harry Kane

    Kun bad for the rankings

    1. Ask Yourself
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Saved mine. My only player to return out of 7

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

        Well done. Well if you have him home to Brighton with Jesus out you surely captain him. Like Granville. Surprised TM didn't do it, or why he want in the scout picks

  25. Pukki Blinders
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    I see United conceding in the next 3, time to ship out AWB after a grand total 3 points for me in 3 weeks...

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

      Same boat bro.

      Looking at downgrading him to a 4.5 and upgrading Greenwood to Barne (pending Burnley match)

    2. Ole.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      United have 1 clean sheet in 19 prem games. Thinking about ditching Maguire.

  26. Moose™
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Any nailed 4.3 def atm? Have Lundy. Is Kelly nailed?

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

      Kelly isn't nailed for long. Tomkins almost back.

      Would go for Lundstram personally, he at least has some longevity, sporadic or not.

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

        Sorry, read you had him already. Nobody is really worth it at sub 4.3m tbh.

      2. Moose™
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        VVD to Matip too risky?

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

          For me, yeah.

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

      He might be injured

    3. Pukki Blinders
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Kelly may be injured, came off early. Apart from that options are dull

      1. Moose™
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Might need to drop Heaton and upgrade a playing def. Hanley is injured atm

        1. Pukki Blinders
          • 4 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Only problem is, -4 to bring in a 4.5 defender doesn't seem very probable of paying itself off. Sometimes it needs to be done though

    4. Hairy Potter
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Kelly went off injured.

  27. Rolls-Royce
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Pukki party to resume after international break against Laporte less city.

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

      Yup, that blank was just to fool the casuals 😉

      1. Rolls-Royce
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Tough luck man. But didn't lose much as most capped Sterling.

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

      Yep, people swapping him now for Tammy meltdowns incoming

  28. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    vvd goal please would be nice

  29. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    jrod embracing his old buddy vvd from their saints days 🙂

  30. SuperDan
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Which is best?
    A) Aguero, Mount
    B) Haller, KDB