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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

    SOyuncu get in the fcking bin you imbecile

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

    OMG 😆

  3. jonnybhoy
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Anyone watching Vardy playing? If so hows he doing is he likely to score?

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

    Pen Sou

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

      Or not

  5. Differential C (Mark)
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    PENOO

  6. phineedle
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Which one?

    1) Evans + DCL + Mane
    2) Robertson + Rashford+ Maddison

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

    Penalty for Ings. Waiting on VAR

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

      JWP?

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

    Played Soy over Lund hahahahaha

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

    Long offside no penalty i think

  10. Zladan
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    34 from 5 and I’m falling in rank lol

    TAA Mane KDB (c) Dilva Moura Ramsdale to play

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

    What happened with Soyu?

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

      Playing poorly

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

    Who is taking the SOU pen?

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

      No one.

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

      Ings surely

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

        Or maybe JWP

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

      JWP

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

    Carnage!

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

    Soyuncu gonna be on 0.

    Should've sold for Holgate, rip.

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

      -1 with another goal.

  15. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Soy is very poor there. Could get lucky

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

    Var says no

  17. Hy liverpool
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Not a YC.. Offside

  18. Differential C (Mark)
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    VARmpit

  19. Zladan
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    No Ings goal. Nice.

    1. Zladan
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      For now...

    2. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      JWP is on pens

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

    V
    A
    R

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

    8 mins til SCENES

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

    Vardy ain't scoring here.

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

    Soooo...what's happening?

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

    One of the most exciting (positively and negatively) GWs so far this season

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

    Up the VAR!

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

    Ings still can't score

  27. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Leicester have been awful

    1. ‘Tis the Season
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Sou are playing well to be fair

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

    So Soyuncu has got away with murder?

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

      Ryan losing another €500

  29. HamezMace
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Worth noting, JWP would have taken that if it was given, not Ings.

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

    Was Ings going to take it?

    1. Ask Yourself
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Never in a million years

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

        As expected.