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Chilwell misses out as much-captained Vardy aims to continue fine away form

Gameweek 23’s second-most-popular captaincy option is in action this afternoon as Burnley entertain Leicester City.

Kick-off at Turf Moor is at 14:00 GMT.

Jamie Vardy (£10.1m) was handed the armband by over 1.3 million Fantasy Premier League managers for this weekend’s set of fixtures, with 32.12% of the top 10,000 doing likewise.

Only Kevin De Bruyne (£10.7m), who blanked yesterday, was a more popular captaincy candidate in this current Gameweek.

Vardy starts this afternoon and is aiming to maintain his excellent run of form against the also-rans of the Premier League: the Leicester striker has (when fit) yet to blank in a fixture against a side ranked ninth or below.

He has amassed 60 FPL points in his last five away appearances, too.

While well-owned FPL options such as Vardy, James Maddison (£7.7m), Caglar Soyuncu (£5.1m) and Ricardo Pereira (£6.4m) all start, there is no place in the visitors’ starting XI for Ben Chilwell (£5.7m).

Still owned by 10.4% of Fantasy bosses, the out-of-form Leicester left-back isn’t even in Brendan Rodgers’ matchday squad – the reason for which is still to be officially confirmed but reportedly because he hasn’t completed a full week of training.

Chilwell is replaced by Christian Fuchs (£4.3m) in defence, while Nampalys Mendy (£4.3m) is in for Hamza Choudhury (£4.3m) in the middle of the park.

Youri Tielemans (£6.3m) is once again among the substitutes.

Sean Dyche has also made two changes to his Burnley side.

Jay Rodriguez (£5.7m) has shaken off an illness to return to the hosts’ line-up, while Phil Bardsley (£4.3m) is back in the team at right-back.

Aaron Lennon (£4.6m) and Matthew Lowton (£4.2m) are the men to make way.

Ashley Barnes (£6.2m) is missing from the Clarets’ squad, of course, as he recovers from hernia surgery.

Only two members of the Burnley starting XI are owned by more than 1% of FPL bosses: Nick Pope (£4.6m) and James Tarkowski (£5.1m).

Pope has shipped 18 goals in six fixtures against the current top five of the Premier League and has yet to keep a clean sheet in any of those matches.

Burnley XI: Pope, Bardsley, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor, Hendrick, Cork, Westwood, McNeil, Wood, Rodriguez.

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel, Fuchs, Söyüncü, Evans, Pereira, Mendy, Praet, Barnes, Maddison, Perez, Vardy.

1,558 Comments Post a Comment
  1. _Ninja_
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Burnley goal

  2. Fudgy
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Maddison and Vardy been so poor recently.

    1. RAFA THE GAFFA
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Leicester in general not providing Vardy with anything

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

    Wood G

  4. Syd.
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    1-1

  5. Coys96
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Soy 🙁

  6. BNMC
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Soyuncu CS gone™

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

      Better now than late

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

    YES!!!! Leics cleanie wiped!

  8. Coys96
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Mee A

    1. BNMC
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Insert Mee/you puns here

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

    Great, wipe that Soy clean sheet.

  10. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    soy get out of my team yah mug

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

      Holgate tempting…

  11. GOTHAM City F.C.
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Burnley still whipping boys?

  12. Rust Cohle
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    This match can stop right here. Perfect.

  13. TRIPOS TOPPER
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    need to get Soy out of my team. Dreadful form

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

      Definitely. I am selling for Creswell

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

    Noooooo lost 4pts from soy, 1 pt from Maddison and potential BO from Soy. Nooooooo, fantasy gods 🙁

  15. Crystal Alice
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Bye bye Soy. Thanks for all the points

  16. Jamb0
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Hahahaha

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

    Starting to passionately hate owning Leicester players ffs.

  18. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Ok Vardy, it’s go time

  19. jason_ni
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Clean sheet gone.. the gw that keeps on giving..
    13 points from 8 players.
    Surely I'm on for some kinda record here..

    1. jonnybhoy
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      11 from 7 🙂

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

      Lucky for me I have Chillwell so did not lose my CS, best news of the GW 🙂 17 from 9 with Lundy of the bench...

  20. BNMC
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Vardy to Firmino is tempting. I still don't have my third LIV.

  21. Old Man
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    That was inevitable when I swapped Holgate and Soy for bench/playing. Sigh.

  22. Coys96
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Leicester poor

  23. Pukki Blinders
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Burnley goal = Vardy time

  24. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Cheers Burnley 🙂

  25. TomSaints
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    *********** this week is just so bad. How the hell have Burnley scored

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Leicester leaky.

  26. Coys96
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Maddison far too greedy there

    1. RAFA THE GAFFA
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      And he constantly dives week in week out

  27. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Thought SoySauce was in the baps?

    1. Coys96
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      Not anymore I bet

    2. Chucky
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 2 months ago

      😮

  28. RAFA THE GAFFA
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Greedy and diving again!

  29. The Ejiptian King
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Maddison is having a poor game.

  30. Babit1967
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 2 months ago

    Soy to Digne anyone ?