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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. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Brandon williams miss

  2. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Williams with the miss of the century

  3. Tasty Jerk
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Should be Man Utd 4-0 up, what a miss

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

    Williams miss of the decade

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

      Poor Mark

  5. Party time
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Anonymous Martial can't stop scoring

      1. Pacer.
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        He's had a good game.

        I don't know what game the naysayers were watching

        1. Party time
            4 years, 2 months ago

            Shame on them tbh 🙂

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

          Linking very well today.

      2. Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Richarlison, Abraham, Rashford, Martial all scoring.

        Own none, could be seeing a big drop from 50k 🙁

        1. Niho992
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          me too. What a GW...

          1. Big boy Bowen
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            Yup, praying my new recruit Alli saves me!

      3. Regin
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Martial vs rashford is like Salah vs mane

        1. Mambino
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Kind of although Martial gets 5 for a goal and rash only gets 4

          1. Mambino
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 10 Years
            4 years, 2 months ago

            and Martial is less expensive than Rashford

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

        Come on Jimi

      5. Niho992
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Worst GW ever...

      6. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        He’s needed after Liverpool.

      7. SB8
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        This looks bad for Norwich

        1. Sif
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          They've been so solid up until now...

      8. Cantona's Kung Fu Kick
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        also have martial, he needs another

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

        Anyone considering upgrading Soyboy?

        1. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Thinking of downgrading to Williams

        2. T.Henry14
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Maybe Everton's wing backs..

        3. Ady87
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Yep to Robertson as part of double up with TAA.

        4. Big boy Bowen
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Who to though? He's an awkward selling price, I'm half tempted to go something like:

          TAA | Lundstram | Rico | Kelly | Hanley

      10. OPTA FPL
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        DCL what a trap

        1. Tiki-Taka
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          should've learned

        2. Jolly Good
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Moved Tammy to him 🙁

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

        Jimenez and Vardy need some goals soon.

        Maddison one wouldn't hurt either...

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

        Any chance Wolves and Leicester win their games?

        1. Limbo
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          Hope so. Part of my ACCA

      13. Pukki Party
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Rashford subbed 59th minute

      14. Zilla
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Ole out

      15. Team Cruel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Rash doesn't make 60 🙁

      16. Skalla
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Nooooo Rash 58min...

      17. bialk
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Rashford no 60 mins

      18. Woy_is_back
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Bringing in Williams on the wild card before gw 24

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

        Vardy miles from BAPs

        1. Tiki-Taka
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          until he bags a brace

      20. ZeBestee
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Rashoff

      21. La Roja
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Rashford subbed on 58th min

      22. The Sociologist
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Are we all going to sell Rashford still?!

        1. Zladan
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 2 months ago

          I am. Need cash.

      23. SirStevieG
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        He brings him off NOW??????? WTF

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

          Game won and he was almost limping

      24. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Rash doesnt make 60

        Straight down the tunnel

      25. Regin
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Rashford subbed before 60

      26. Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 2 months ago

        Rashford captain fail...