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Vardy back for Leicester as Southampton visit King Power Stadium

Jamie Vardy (£10.0m) is set to make his first Premier League appearance of 2020 after being named in the Leicester line-up to face Southampton.

He comes into Gameweek 22 heavily backed for the captaincy, both among the top 10,000 Fantasy managers and our own community.

Not only has Vardy been in exceptional form when starting this season but today is also his first outing since becoming a father again and it’s his birthday too.

Brendan Rodgers has made some changes to his Leicester side with the injured Wilfred Ndidi (£5.0m) missing out, replaced by Hamza Choudhury (£4.3m), and Youri Tielemans (£6.3m) consigned to the bench by Harvey Barnes (£5.9m) returning to the starting line-up.

Meanwhile, opponents Southampton line-up largely as predicted in our Team News tab, Danny Ings (£6.7m) leading the attack in a week where plenty of owners left him on the bench.

The all-important Fantasy assets start for Manchester United with Anthony Martial (£7.9m) up-front and Marcus Rashford (£9.2m) on the flanks.

They are also boosted by Harry Maguire (£5.2m) coming through his recent injury problems and the fact that Teemu Pukki (£6.5m) is absent for Norwich, replaced by Adam Idah (£4.4m).

Chelsea shape-up in a 4-3-3 system with Callum Hudson-Odoi (£5.3m) coming in for the injured Christian Pulisic (£7.0m) on the left flank of attack.

Meanwhile, Fikayo Tomori (£4.7m) misses out for the second match in a row, this time on the bench with Kurt Zouma (£4.7m). Antonio Rüdiger (£6.0m) and Andreas Christensen (£4.9m) are the chosen centre-back pairing.

Sean Dyche has made a rare deviation from his favoured 4-4-2 formation as Burnley prepare to face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, lining the Clarets up in a 4-5-1.

Chris Wood (£6.2m) leads the attack with Aaron Lennon (£4.7m) and Dwight McNeil (£6.0m) providing the width from midfield.

Matt Lowton (£4.2m) makes his first start since Gameweek 16, coming in for the benched Phil Bardsley (£4.3m).

Wolves are another team lined-up how we predicted, with Pedro Neto (£5.0m) and Adama Traoré (£5.7m) either side of Raùl Jiménez (£7.5m).

Carlo Ancelotti looks to have gone with a 4-4-2 formation for his fourth Premier League match in charge of Everton with Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£5.9m) joined up-front by Richarlison (£8.1m).

Bernard (£6.4m) and Theo Walcott (£6.2m) look to be providing the width in midfield which may lead to less advanced roles for Lucas Digne (£5.7m) and Djibril Sidibé (£5.4m).

Brighton hand a first start of the season to Alireza Jahanbakhsh (£5.8m), who starts on the flanks of attack, joined by Neal Maupay (£5.8m) and Leandro Trossard (£5.8m) in a front-three.

Line-ups in Full

Chelsea XI: Kepa; Azpilicueta, Christensen, Rüdiger, R James; Mount, Jorginho, Barkley; Hudson-Odoi, Abraham, Willian.

Burnley XI: Pope; Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, C Taylor; Lennon, Westwood, Cork, McNeil; Hendrick; Wood.

Everton XI: Pickford; Sidibé, Keane, Holgate, Digne; Walcott, Davies, Sigurdsson, Bernard; Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison.

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Ryan; Webster, Duffy, Dunk; Montoya, Pröpper, Stephens, Bernardo; Jahanbakhsh, Maupay, Trossard.

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel; Chilwell, Söyüncü, Evans, R Pereira; Choudhury; Barnes, Maddison, Praet, Pérez; Vardy.

Southampton XI: McCarthy; Cédric, J Stephens, Bednarek, Bertrand; Armstrong, Ward-Prowse, Højbjerg, Redmond; Long, Ings.

Manchester United XI: De Gea; Wan-Bissaka, Lindelöf, Maguire, Williams; Fred, Matic; A Pereira, Mata, Rashford; Martial.

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

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

Newcastle United XI: Dubravka; Dummett, Fernández, Clark; Hayden, S Longstaff, M Longstaff, Willems; Almirón, Gayle; Joelinton.

2,342 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Captaining Vardy over Rashford is annoying, but I never trusted United enough to captain Rashford anyway so

  2. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Feck. Main rival captained him

  3. My heart goes Salalalalah
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rashford killing me

    1. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      the same thing that makes me feel alive

  4. goriuanx
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rashford G
    Hudson Odoi G

  5. Limbo
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    CHO goal.

  6. SirStevieG
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rashford captain YESSSSSSSS!!!!!

  7. RAFA THE GAFFA
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    CHO

  8. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hudson G

  9. FPL Blow-In
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Krul close well done Rashy damn I had a gut feeling with Rashford and played safe with Vardy

    1. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Took it off him to cap KdB

  10. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hard to sell him now.

    1. FPL Blow-In
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      I know it’s tough but I feel Manè is more important for the foreseeable

  11. tm245
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    CHO goal

    1. UnitednationsXI
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      assist?

      1. Sandy Ravage
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Tammy

      2. tutankamun
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Azpi

  12. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rashford juhuuuuu

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

    Ings looks so dangerous, might have to finally get him in after all

  14. Sandy Ravage
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Fleck & Williams 2nd & 3rd on bench

  15. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    3-0 Chelsea

    CHO

    1. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Let’s gooo. Not an owner but good for his confidence!
      Was it a good goal?

    2. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Burnley in trouble.

  16. No_Mo_Salah?
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Went Martial over Rashford... oh well!

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Have both

  17. ZimZalabim
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    what a joke of a pen

    barley any contact williams psuhs his leg out to snick krul and falls over

    1. ZimZalabim
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      willians also not a pen

      dangling legs rubbish

    2. Gudjohnsen
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Agreed

  18. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    CHO essential

  19. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    CHO Chelsea yeaaaahhhhhh

  20. tm245
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Azpi a

  21. Bartowski
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Doherty off the line

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

    Tammy assist?

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Nah

  23. HonestBlatter
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Out of CUP due to Vardy (C) vs. Rash (C)...DAMN

  24. Zilla
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    CAPTAIN

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Rashford? Well done. I wasn't brave enough

  25. Tasty Jerk
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Norwich are terribad, think its safe to captain anyone playing them right now.

  26. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Weak pen

    1. Royal5
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Bit lucky there

  27. Bury94
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Was planning on ditching Richarlison and Abraham to fund Salah, not making this easy to do!

  28. La Roja
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Tammy touch for Cho goal?

  29. BobbyDoesNotLook
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Krul...

  30. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    How on earth is that given... VAR blind, big club bias and English bias as usual. Not even surprised at this point.

    1. Pumpkinhead
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      k