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Mourinho benches Son and Lucas as injured Holgate misses out for Everton

There are two Premier League matches kicking off simultaneously at 18:00 BST, with Bournemouth hosting Tottenham Hotspur and Everton facing Southampton.

There is bad news for owners of Son Heung-min (£9.7m) and Lucas Moura (£7.1m), with both of those wide-midfielders dropping to the bench at the Vitality.

Steven Bergwijn (£7.2m) and Erik Lamela (£5.7m) come in for those two players.

The suspended Eric Dier (£4.8m) will be unavailable until Gameweek 38+ and is replaced by Jan Vertonghen (£5.2m) at centre-half, meanwhile.

Two more popular Fantasy Premier League purchases, Serge Aurier (£5.1m) and Harry Kane (£11.0m), keep up their post-restart ever-present records.

Kane, Aurier and Son all have double-digit ownerships in the top 10k, with almost one in four of these managers owning the Korean.

For the hosts, Callum Wilson (£7.4m) returns from a two-match ban and replaces Dominic Solanke (£5.1m) in attack.

Dan Gosling (£4.8m) for Lewis Cook (£5.0m) is the only other change for Eddie Howe’s side following their 5-2 defeat by Manchester United.

At Goodison Park, Mason Holgate (£4.4m) misses out for Everton with an injury he picked up on Monday evening.

Yerry Mina (£5.3m) replaces the sidelined centre-half, while Anthony Gordon (£4.5m) for Gylfi Sigurdsson (£7.3m) is Carlo Ancelotti’s only other alteration from the starting XI that lost at Spurs in Gameweek 33+.

Alex Iwobi (£5.6m) recovers from a hamstring injury to start, while the fit-again Theo Walcott (£6.2m) is among the substitutes.

Ralph Hasenhuttl has unsurprisingly kept faith with the same 11 players who beat Manchester City on Sunday, with Danny Ings (£7.3m) again leading the line.

This fixture features the second-most-bought FPL forward of Gameweek 34+, Ings, and the second-most-sold striker, Everton’s Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£6.3m).

Both of those players are owned by more than one in five of the top 10k.


Bournemouth XI: Ramsdale, Smith, Kelly, Aké, Rico, Lerma, Gosling, Brooks, King, Stanislas, C Wilson.

Tottenham Hotspur XI: Lloris, Aurier, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Davies, Winks, Sissoko, Lo Celso, Lamela, Bergwijn, Kane.

Everton XI: Pickford, Coleman, Mina, Keane, Digne, Iwobi, Gomes, Davies, Gordon, Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison.

Southampton XI: McCarthy, Walker-Pieters, Stephens, Bednarek, Bertrand, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Armstrong, Redmond, Adams, Ings.

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  1. DycheDycheBaby
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Salah to Son worked out well! Sums up my gameweek

  2. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Seen softer given, Kane denied pen.

    1. @persecuted_by_mods
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Very soft

    2. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Two hands in the back of Kane and no pen?

    3. Pep Roulette
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      That's a pen? Looks like it.

    4. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Kane clear pen denied

    5. Lucy2019
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      That was a pen. Pointless VAR.

      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        They don’t give them, they don’t even look at them normally

    6. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      1-1 both games

    7. Greek Freak
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Doesn't matter if it was unintentional, there was definitely a decent shove on Kane there.

    8. Scholes Out For Summer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      must be a pen. Totally unbiased as a Kane owner. Totally.

      Martial assist. Pulisic touched it too

      1. Threat Level Midnight
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Hahahaha well played here

        1. Scholes Out For Summer
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          Martial assist is going to be a huge meme in FPL lol

          1. Threat Level Midnight
            • 5 Years
            3 years, 9 months ago

            Yes no doubt about it. Lol

    9. Threat Level Midnight
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      How the hell was that not a pen? Non Kane owner lol

    10. Paul Psychic Octopus
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      In which order to put the rubbish out? (Bin day is Friday)

      A. Jimenez
      B. Lascelles
      C. Son
      D. Holgate
      E. Mane

      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Hire a skip

        1. Twisted Saltergater
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          😆

        2. Paul Psychic Octopus
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          Sell me a wild card plse!

      2. SHOOTER MCGINN
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        A, C, E, B, D

        Cheap defenders probably fit soon not worth moving around IMO

      3. BobbyDoesNotLook
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Mane will start and haul

    11. 20LEGEND
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Defo a Pen, var slags

    12. @persecuted_by_mods
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Stupid challenge but too soft to be a pen imo

      • Mr. O'Connell
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        He would have missed anyway. Happy with just 2 points tonight as a Kane owner.

      • Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Mark doesnt own Kane I guess...

      • Smurf
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        If VAR can't call a pen there then it's a pointless system.

        1. Hulk Smash
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          The ref should look at the monitor

      • JonSnow
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        VAR is so inconsistent it baffles me, can only think the Bou player had nowhere to go as he was squeezed in towards Kane?

      • TheTinman
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        VAR a disgrace

      • Rainer
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Kane’s diving reputation likely went against him there.

        Streetwise.

      • Threat Level Midnight
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Ake going to be a perfect fit next to Maguire for us

      • Ze_Austin
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        I have Aurier in this match

        That's either a haul or negative points. Exciting times

      • Greek Freak
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Armstrong offside goal.

        1. Greek Freak
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          Would've been Adams assist and Ings assisting the assister.

      • Karan14
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Sterling (bha, BOU, wat) or Salah (BUR, ars, CHE) for the next 3 games?

        Will probably need both GW38 definitely Salah.

      • Hulk Smash
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Rival has Kane captain but that is a clear pen.

        My issue though is wild inconsistency between what constitutes a penalty in open play vs pushing at set pieces. Pens either have to be given in every game for all the pushing that goes on from corners or none of them.

        1. TheTinman
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          It’s bullish!!t. Ruining the game.

          1. Hulk Smash
            • 8 Years
            3 years, 9 months ago

            There was a big push at one point to stop all the shenanigans at set pieces by giving loads of penalties. What happened to that policy? Apparently it died a death.

            1. TheTinman
              • 8 Years
              3 years, 9 months ago

              Premier league officials. That big push was in the World Cup really and they did a far better job of officiating with VAR. I was a fan of it then, but now......

      • evilfish
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Please come on Son and save me from Nketiah's -2.

        1. Wild Rover
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          I’d be amazed if he didn’t come on

          1. TheTinman
            • 8 Years
            3 years, 9 months ago

            Good chance of a late goal too.

          2. evilfish
            • 8 Years
            3 years, 9 months ago

            It would be just my luck. Nobody was rested when I had Greenwood's 12 points on my bench.

            1. Paul Psychic Octopus
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 13 Years
              3 years, 9 months ago

              Rest = 15 minutes with so many subs allowed.

              1. evilfish
                • 8 Years
                3 years, 9 months ago

                True, I hadn't considered that. Thanks for cheering me up. Can you feel a Son goal in your tentacles?

        2. FPL_Gyarados
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          Same!

      • Twisted Saltergater
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Richarlison would become a great player if he didn’t feel hard done by all the time.

        1. TheTinman
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          He’s still a kid

          1. Twisted Saltergater
            • 14 Years
            3 years, 9 months ago

            true

        2. The 12th Man
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          You mean like Zaha

          1. Twisted Saltergater
            • 14 Years
            3 years, 9 months ago

            Similarities definitely

      • Traction Engine Foot
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Where's my DCL hattrick?

        1. The 12th Man
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          9 min hat trick! Impressive

        2. Twisted Saltergater
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          Iwobi - Davies - Gomes - Gordon

          That’s Everton’s midfield. Good luck.

          1. Traction Engine Foot
            • 6 Years
            3 years, 9 months ago

            Well I'd like an assist or two as well but wouldn't want to be greedy.

        3. Piggs Boson
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          I benched him so it's coming don't worry.

          The world revolves around me.

      • Digital-Real
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Armstrong nearly!

      • jdp219
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Been doing this FPL thing for several years, but I've only just started seeing this term: bus team. It doesn't seem to be a team heavy on defense, so what's it mean?

        Excuse my ignorance.

        1. Brosstan
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          Team you set up long before the deadline in case you are stuck on the bus and cant change it closer to deadline.

          1. Team Cruel
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            3 years, 9 months ago

            Struck by a bus*

          2. Hulk Smash
            • 8 Years
            3 years, 9 months ago

            I thought it was in case you were hit by a bus...

        2. Corgz Dark side of the Loon
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          To get your team ready for the next GW in case you get hit by a bus......

        3. diesel001
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          A team you put in place and just leave alone (i.e. don't make transfers).

          Like parking the bus. Once it is parked, you leave it.

        4. Greek Freak
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          There you go, that cleared it up 😆

        5. jdp219
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          Thanks, all! I guess I've been doing bus teams all along, then. 🙂

        6. circusmonkey
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          It means what you set your team up as when you are on the bus. First reaction.

        7. SomewhatPleasing
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          My meteorite team is set for the weekend.

        8. circusmonkey
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          I learnt something about how others mean it but I prefer my version.

      • Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Aurier bossing the baps

        1. Digital-Real
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 9 months ago

          not for long, Spurs will concede

          1. _Ninja_
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            3 years, 9 months ago

            Nah