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Wilson back in Bournemouth squad as Hanley starts for Norwich

Callum Wilson (£7.4m) returns to the Bournemouth matchday squad ahead of a Gameweek 18 meeting with Burnley.

After missing out against Chelsea, the centre-forward is named on the bench this afternoon.

Joshua King (£6.1m) leads the line in the starting line-up though, supported by a five-man midfield with Lewis Cook (£5.0m) and Ryan Fraser (£6.9m) on the flanks.

Meanwhile, Charlie Taylor (£4.2m) has shaken off his hamstring problem to start for Burnley, while Chris Wood (£6.2m) is good to start despite a knock to his Achilles tendon reported by Sean Dyche on Thursday.

Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder has made two changes for the trip to Brighton, one enforced, the other a tactical switch.

Luke Freeman (£5.1m) comes in for the suspended John Fleck (£4.9m) while Lys Mousset (£5.1m) finds himself benched for Oli McBurnie (£5.7m) to start alongside David McGoldrick (£5.4m).

Brighton line-up exactly as predicted in our team news section, as do Wolves who travel to Norwich.

The Canaries are forced to bring Grant Hanley (£4.0m) back into the side sooner than Daniel Farke would have wanted.

The centre-back has been named in the starting XI alongside Christoph Zimmermann (£4.4m) following the recent long-term injury to Ben Godfrey (£4.4m).

Todd Cantwell (£4.7m) starts on the left flank of attacking midfield while Teemu Pukki (£6.6m) has recovered from him his toe problem to lead the 4-2-3-1 formation as the lone centre-forward.

Jack Grealish (£6.2m) leads the Aston Villa attack from the left of the front-three again while Wesley (£5.7m) retains his starting berth through the middle.

A strong performance against Liverpool’s youth side in the EFL Cup midweek has not been enough for Dean Smith to consider bringing Jonathan Kodjia (£5.4m) in for Wesley.

For the second match in a row, it’s Matt Targett (£4.4m) and Frédéric Guilbert (£4.4m) named in the full-back positions.

Villa host a Southampton side still lined up in a 4-4-2 formation under Ralph Hasenhüttl.

An injury for Moussa Djenepo (£5.2m) sees Stuart Armstrong (£5.3m) come into the team on the right flank, which means James Ward-Prowse (£5.9m) can retain his central midfield role.

Danny Ings (£6.4m) and Shane Long (£4.6m) are the preferred centre-forward pairing for the fourth match in a row.

Crystal Palace welcome back Patrick van Aanholt (£5.5m) to the left-back. berth as their injuries mounted over the last week, while Martin Kelly (£4.4m) starts for the fifth consecutive match.

The Eagles travel to face a Newcastle side that has somewhat recovered from their most recent bout of absences as Jonjo Shelvey (£5.1m) and Miguel Almirón (£5.8m) make much-needed returns to midfield.

Aston Villa XI: Heaton; Targett, Engels, Hause, Guilbert; McGinn, Douglas Luiz, Hourihane; Grealish, Wesley, El Ghazi.

Southampton XI: McCarthy; Bertrand, Bednarek, Stephens, Cedric; Redmond, Hojbjerg, Ward-Prowse, Armstrong; Long, Ings.

Bournemouth XI: Ramsdale; Rico, Mepham, Francis, Stacey; Fraser, Billing, Lerma, Gosling, L. Cook; J King.

Burnley XI: Pope; C Taylor, Mee, Tarkowski, Bardsley; McNeil, Westwood, Cork, Hendrick; A Barnes, Wood.

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Ryan; Burn, Webster, Dunk, Montoya; D Stephens, Pröpper, Mooy; Trossard, Maupay, Groß.

Sheffield United XI: Henderson; O’Connell, Egan, Basham; Stevens, Freeman, Norwood, Lundstram, Baldock; McBurnie, McGoldrick.

Newcastle XI: Dúbravka; Dummett, Fernández, Lejeune, Schär, Manquillo; Almirón, Hayden, Shelvey; Joelinton, Carroll.

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita; van Aanholt, Tomkins, Kouyaté, M Kelly; McCarthy, McArthur, Milivojevic; Zaha, Benteke, Ayew.

Norwich City XI: Krul; Byram, Zimmermann, Hanley, Aarons; Tettey, Trybull; Cantwell, McLean, Buendía; Pukki.

Wolves XI: Patrício; Saïss, Coady, Dendoncker; Jonny, Neves, Moutinho, Doherty; D Jota, Jiménez, Traoré.

1,528 Comments Post a Comment
  1. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Come on Raul. Make my day.

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

    Buendia a little way clear with 3 BAPs without a single contributions

  3. Bruce Lee
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    what's the score for liverpol vs west ham?

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

    Ings just needs to stop

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

    come on Zaha, you the only one not over 5 points for me

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

    Ings dispossesed Jack Grealish and then nearly scored his third.. Omg

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

    Ings season keeper?

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

      Forward

    2. Cilly Bonnolly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Nah, he's a forward isn't he?

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

    Rico has Boxing Day off. Crafty.

    1. Pukki Party
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Christmas is a big holiday for spanish people

    2. Gizzachance
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Banned ?

  9. Bruce Lee
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    do you think playing fpl can be good for tranferable skills when picking stocks and idices to invest in?

    1. TheDragon
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      No

    2. Lacabacca
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      No

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

      possibly, if you understand FPL (Most dont)

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

        Yed

  10. tm245
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Buendia correctly leading the BPS without a return in a 1-1.

  11. JONALDINHO
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Bought Sterling for Mane with FT to burn and forgot to start him. Cantwell playing instead. Don't know how I should I feel

    1. Yank Revolution
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Smartly stupid?

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

    It’ll feel like a fail now if Ings doesn’t get the hatty.

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

      Would only make 4 pt diff

      2nd goal for forwards is the big one

  13. Kaiser123
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Come on Grealish get something!

  14. El Matador
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Burnley need to score

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

      * Newcastle, Bournemouth and Jimenez

    2. Cilly Bonnolly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      I disagree.

  15. Ajax Hamsterdam
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Keep Willems or sell ?

  16. mad_beer ✅
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    After review, Henderson has been awarded the assist for McBurnie's goal. Dunk's touch did not significantly alter the destination of his kick upfield

    1. Zilla
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      You love to see it.

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

      Well it definitely did but ok they felt bad about the random Guaita points last GW

  17. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Francis yellow

    Hendrick yellow

    What a game I'm watching

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

      2 shots in this whole game, both off target

  18. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Liverpool team: Allison, TAA, Gomez, VVD, Robbo, Hendo, Keita, Ox, Mane, Salah, Firmino

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Good to see they are going for it.

  19. 1zverGGadeM
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Moutinhooo

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

      Assisted Sais..

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

    Tammy keepers killed by Inggs

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

      Have both

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

    Trent & Mane start.

    No autosubs for anyone!

    1. DGW blindness is for Kinnea…
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Why did FPL spread fake news?

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

    Grealish making a silly foul and debating it with the referee

  23. Nightcrawler
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Ings 10 goals in 12 is crazyyy considering he does usually play all 90

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

      Ings being fit for 12 games is the real news.

  24. MagicMessi
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Pukki lad come on throw a party here man it's xmass

  25. Deulofail
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Double Bournemouth and double Sheffield United defence clean sheets still intact. 😎

    Still Sweating

    Holy cow 😐

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

      Good luck from a not holy cow.

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

      30 minutes left.

  26. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Wilson sitter

  27. Rinseboy
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Glad I started Target over Cantwell.Cheers

  28. 1zverGGadeM
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    How is Jimenez performing?

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

      Not worthy as a FPL captain. Too much pressure from the FPL community

  29. tisza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Going to end badly - injury time goals - with all these 60 minute CSs

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      5 CSs, but two on bench.

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

      This

  30. Niho992
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Main rival has returns from all his six players so far. Nice.

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

      Name them

      1. Niho992
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Hendo, O connel, Kelly, Rico, Cantwell, Ings