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Barnes and Pérez benched as Leicester host Man City

Harvey Barnes (£6.0m) and Ayoze Pérez (£6.2m) both find themselves among the Leicester City substitutes as Manchester City come to the King Power Stadium.

Their benchings certainly come as a surprise considering their recent form and run of starts in the team.

Barnes misses out on a place in the starting XI for the first time since Gameweek 21, while Pérez has been present since Gameweek 17.

Brendan Rodgers has gone with a different shape to usual considering the stature of Leicester’s Gameweek 27 opponents.

He has gone with a back-five featuring Christian Fuchs (£4.2m), Çaglar Söyüncü (£5.0m) and Jonny Evans (£5.2m) in the middle and flanked by Ben Chilwell (£5.6m) and Ricardo Pereira (£6.3m).

James Maddison (£7.4m), Youri Tielemans (£6.2m) and Dennis Preat (£5.3m) will form a central midfield trio behind Jamie Vardy (£9.7m) and Kelechi Iheanacho (£5.7m).

Meanwhile, the key Manchester City options are all in place with Sergio Aguero (£12.0m) leading the line and Kevin De Bruyne (£10.8m) joined by Riyad Mahrez (£8.5m) in midfield.

The Algerian comes into the side for Gabriel Jesus (£9.5m) while Fernandinho (£5.2m) replaces Nicolas Otamendi (£5.0m) and Ilkay Gündogan (£5.2m) takes David Silva‘s (£7.4m) place.

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel; Chilwell, Fuchs, Söyüncü, Evans, R Pereira; Maddison, Tielemans, Praet; Vardy, Iheanacho.

Manchester City XI: Ederson; Mendy, Fernandinho, Laporte, Walker; Roridgo, Gündogan; B Silva, De Bruyne, Mahrez; Aguero.

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  1. RAFA THE GAFFA
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    DAM!!! 🙁 🙁

  2. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Oh Vardy!

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

    Baby will be walking by the time he gets to celebrate.

  4. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Vardy you absolute flop

  5. My heart goes Salalalalah
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Dear lord

  6. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Vardy shot off target

  7. Champions League Varane
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    2FT 0.1 ITB
    what to do?
    Henderson
    TAA Gomez Cahill
    (S)alah KDB B.Fernandes Adama
    Kun Jiminez Ings

    Bench:McCarthy,Fleck,B.Williams,Lascelles

  8. Slitherene
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Is Evans worth 0.2 more than Soyuncu?

    1. Champ
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Tbh unless you have other fires to put out I would keep him for now

      1. Slitherene
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Thinking of getting one in.

  9. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Such a poor finish from vardy that

    1. My heart goes Salalalalah
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Absolutely

  10. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    As a Vardy captainer - that was goddamn painful

    1. SB007
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      ?? Captain ??

    2. My heart goes Salalalalah
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Fark

    3. KGFC
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Gilt edged chance... But should get more

  11. My heart goes Salalalalah
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    So you want to sell Vardy with upcoming fixtures?

  12. Yank Revolution
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Mahrez SOT

  13. SB007
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Vardy first sub. Vindicated.

    Mahrez come on!

    1. jason_ni
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Team link? No way your team is so good to bench vardy!

  14. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Jamie Var-doh!

    1. Differentiator
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Jamie VARdonkey

  15. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Mahrez SOT

  16. TorresMagic™
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    • 14 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    LMS safety score currently 8

    https://www.livefpl.net/LMS

    1. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      How pointless

      1. Fudgy
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        ?

  17. Stormbringer22
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Mate...

  18. KGFC
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Strange, KDB doesn't shoot much even though his accuracy is far better than some of the strikers!

  19. SB007
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    If he doesn’t do anything Maz is out of my team

  20. Forza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Leicester fans booing the guy whose player of the year performance won them a title, WTF?

    1. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Kante was better

      1. Forza
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Maybe, but Mahrez won the official award.

    2. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Same fans who wanted ranieri out

      1. davies
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        He would’ve taken us down

    3. davies
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Then cries about how we wasted 2 years of his career

      1. Forza
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Fair enough, I didn't know about that story, that makes it more understandable.

    4. el polako
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Mahrez & Kante were just as important.

  21. Fudgy
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Season over for me after that Vardy miss, time to pack it in I think.

    1. GOTHAM City F.C.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Agreed.

    2. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Was he taken off the pitch?

    3. Gnu
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Think you should, for the best.

    4. George Sillett
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Very wise , little point in continuing.

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

      Hopefully.

  22. el polako
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Rico, Lundstram, Ramsdale & 3 x Everton plus this chavy muppet Vardy - time to hit WC.

    1. The Train Driver
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      I would

  23. Epic Fail
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Tough game to watch as someone with no players from either team.

    1. KGFC
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Not even KDB!!??

      1. Tinkermania
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Yes. No one is indispensable.

      2. Epic Fail
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Nope. Just Soy last on the bench.

  24. RAFA THE GAFFA
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    I need a drink. A very strong drink to cope with thus

    1. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Vodka and some charlie?

      1. RAFA THE GAFFA
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Hahaha

    2. Ze_Austin
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Thus sayeth the Gaffa

      1. RAFA THE GAFFA
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        🙂

  25. HamezMace
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Must have been said already, but that kit is horrific

    1. TyroneGAA
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Blue with white shorts is so last season I know

      1. HamezMace
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        The sort of kit they only were in towns like Peterbough, ew.

    2. el polako
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Seen worse - United's pink one for example.

      1. how now brown cow
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        That genuinely looks like a laundry error involving a pair of red socks

    3. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Remember those fruit salad chews?

      1. Gnu
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        😆
        Bang on.
        Just missing the stick.

        1. HamezMace
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 1 month ago

          I thought it was designed to match the colour of KdBs exhaustion face

      2. George Sillett
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        4 for 1/2p ......

      3. how now brown cow
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Them and blackjack. Stuff of legend.

  26. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Pissing it down at Leicester

  27. Garfield1001
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    2 FTs for upcoming week with 1.3 ITB

    Guaita 4m
    Trent Soyuncu Stephens Holgate Rico
    Salah Traore Cantwell KDB* Grealish*
    Vardy Ings Auba*

    Depends on what Auba does but thinking of the following for a -4:

    Rico > Robertson
    Grealish > Martial
    Auba > Jiménez

    Opinions appreciated!!

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

      Popular moves, enjoy the football.

  28. The Train Driver
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    City never kept a CS with Gundogan starting

  29. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Ffs Jamie

    1. UTD - HATED, ADORED, BUT NE…
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      ?

    2. The Train Driver
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Late stream?

  30. ZeBestee
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Aguero hasnt touched the ball yet.

    1. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Those who sold for a hit will be delighted