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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. Skalla
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Wow guess Ole does not like FPL 🙂

  2. Moose™
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Cmon Vardy. Please need a goal from you capt

    1. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      so much

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

    Touched his hip/back

    Protected for Wolves

  4. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Bit Rash from Ole there

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

    Yous got the lucky pen, take it and run

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

    Keep Rashford and sell Vardy?

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

      ahhh nah

    2. DAZZ
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Tempting!

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

    Rashy off already wow

  8. Dthinger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Auba still in for Bonus, even after being sent off?

    1. Niho992
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      game is broken

    2. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Don't think it's that many -BPS for red cards

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

    Martial maybe on Pens now

    1. bialk
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Mata

  10. OPTA FPL
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rash injured?

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

      fatigue

    2. Forza Papac
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Sounds like it

  11. sunzip14
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Williams second on bench. Great he didn't score

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

    Leicester going through a bad patch atm.

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

    Lescott says slight injury for Rashford!

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

      Like he has a clue.

  14. Twisted Saltergater
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hudson-Odoi get in!! Nice punt on my wildcard

    1. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Yep, very nice mate, I considered as a two week punt but went for someone else in the end.

    2. Dthinger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Nice one

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

    This is planned. Going to pretend Rashford is injured, rule him out of the Liverpool game then he'll start.

    Ole has done this with 3 or 4 players prior to Liverpool.

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

      Wolves to worry about 1st.

    2. Niho992
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      who cares. Easy 4-0 Liverpool

    3. Sailboats
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Whats the point of playing mind games?

  16. Make United Great Again
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Martial time to fill your boots son

  17. SB8
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Martial time

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

    Has to be an niggle surely?

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

    Lennon YC

    1. Ze_Austin
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Stunned

  20. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rashford to Ings confirmed nae bother. Cheers for the sendoff

  21. pakornk
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    does Rashford not making it to 60 minutes affect his points?

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

      of course

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

      -1 point

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

      sure does

    4. Herman Toothrot
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      -twelvety

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

      Yes 1pt less, 2pts for Captain..

    6. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      One less appearance point and no clean sheet.

      1. Zenith UK
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Clean sheet only relevant for BAPS? Right?

    7. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      -2 (Captain) ffs

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

      Just 1

  22. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rashford off?? Wtf?!

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

      lol he's being rested

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

      Games won.

      Wolves then Pool.

  23. EL_FENOMENO
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Ings has hit the bar two times and 7 shots.

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

      Wow

    2. Herman Toothrot
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      He may struggle to finish his tea too

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

    Todd could be done here.

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

    Please Vardy one goal

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

    How is the top 10k average 33??

    1. Zenith UK
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Vardy C. Lei def (blank)
      Pool and City to play

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

        What I was trying to say was how is it so high??

  27. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Holy crap CHO is only 5.3m

    Tempting Maddison replacement while Pulisic is out!

    1. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      *looks at fixtures* wellll

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

      At your own peril. Check our fixtures after Newcastle.

    3. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      It’s a trap

    4. Twisted Saltergater
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      \o/

  28. Niho992
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Soyuncu lol

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

    Soyuncu brain fart

  30. 1justlookin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    No Rashford, no Martial, no Abraham. Bug red arrow this week then.

    Here's hoping for a Sterling(c) worldie tomorrow then. :-/