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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. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    DCL is really pants.

    1. Rinseboy
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      will he ever score again I keep thinking I'm keeping him for last 3 games. Really need something today for him to get going again!

    2. Pep's Money Laundry
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Donkey

  2. Mr Arsenal
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Ole is such a predictable manager. An FPL dream.

    He will just keep playing the same team until the end.

    1. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      It wasn't like this when he kept saying Martial might be fit for a month earlier in the season, not that I'm bitter or anything.

    2. sully29
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Best way to approach it with all the subs available, I think. Try to wrap games up as quickly as possible then take nearly half the team off, as opposed to rotating heavily between games and making them more of a battle.

      Especially when there's such a glaring gap between first choice attackers and back-ups.

  3. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    NDombele looks knackered after 10 mins.

    1. Van der Faart
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Agree but still been Spurs best player 😆

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

      Been playing Fortnite with Ozil

  4. HashAttack
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Thankfully there will be another water break in about 5 minutes

  5. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Bournemouth are down. Let Kane score.

  6. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Dat front 5 for Utd

    There’s goals in them thar hills

    Goals I tells ya

    1. Piggs Boson
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Fingers crossed.

      4 United attackers as well? 🙂

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Could only fit in 3 lol

        But it’s the expensive three!

        Need a big performance out of Rashford tonight

        1. Piggs Boson
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Didn't captain one? 😯

        2. Niho992
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          thissss! Rashy hattie lets go !

  7. FPL Pillars
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Spurs 0 shot on target.

    Nonces!!!

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

      They haent played a minute since half time

    2. George Sillett
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Not sure that nonses is the best word.

  8. Cok3y5murf
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    DCL should retire.

  9. Mr Arsenal
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Spurs should cash in on Kane.

    He's the English Fernando Torres.

    1. Tcheco
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      He is world class. Mourinho is killing this team

  10. Iggypop
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Haha dcl, what are u doing

  11. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Ole the anti-fraud

  12. Party time
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Greenwood, Martial, Fernandes, Let’s go!

      1. HashAttack
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        same combo as 17% of the top 10k

    • Rolls-Royce
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      0-1 Harry Maguire FT

      1. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I’d take a 15 pointer

      2. Rinseboy
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        please harry! couple disallowed recently and scored in Cup! and Awb killing us owners. Would LOVE that

    • Niho992
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      1-0 Villa win would be sweet !

      1. popey
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I would be ecstatic to rock 6 points from Rash, Martial & Bruno if we blagged a win!

        I suspect that i'll be settling for FPL points 🙁

    • Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Smith locks up CS points

    • Tcheco
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Pochettino is coming back, surely

      1. Zimo
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        That'd be morale boosting for everyone i think

    • FPLtfs
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      I dont know what it is, but Kane looks so bad every time I bring him in. Always grabs a goal when I sell him though.

      1. Revival
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Don't sell him ahead of the NLD

        1. have you seen cyan
          • 4 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Probably this, Kane was expelled from the Arsenal youth academy. Its personal

    • Utopsis
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Digne approaching must have status

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Essential for 38.

    • Niho992
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Congratz Adam Smith owners on CS !!

      1. Mr. O'Connell
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        dark

    • Rolls-Royce
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Let Mou have his players of choice and then judge him.

      1. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Good managers work with their existing players and make a few improvements (e.g. Klopp and Poch). Mourinho has the players, he has just fallen behind the management curve and been overtaken by the new managers.

        1. Zimo
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Exactly

      2. Zimo
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Wish it was a fairytale land but its not. Could say the same for every manager in the world.

    • ElliotJHP
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      I've only got myself to blame for still having DCL, see ya

    • Jet5605
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Phew. Martial, Bruno and Rash starting keeps Nketiah's negative haul on the bench. Well relieved.

      1. The Ejiptian King
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        You shouldn't have even been worried there!

        1. Jet5605
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          You'd think right but this is what happens when you think you have no luck of late. This week's chapter was Salah > Sterling and captaining KDB.

          1. The Ejiptian King
            • 5 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            Try Salah > Foden(C) instead, painful evening.

            1. Jet5605
              • 9 Years
              3 years, 8 months ago

              You've trumped me there. Ouch!

    • JONALDINHO
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Digne assist and son on. Things on the up thank lord

    • Bubz
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Aurier is hilariously bad at crossing

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

        Full bonus magnet

    • Crouching Tiger
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Bournemouth goal would be sweet.. take out that Aurier CS please.

    • Vlad Tepes
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Williams u better stay on that bench, dont want you to block my Egan points

      1. HashAttack
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        He's already blocking a Man U slot .. that's expensive enough

    • Niho992
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      That was close by Winksie

    • Champions League Varane
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Bournemouth SCORE

    • Mr Arsenal
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Aurier is hilariously bad at playing football

    • SuperMane Returns
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Pick one for GW35 please....

      a) Elvis Juice
      b) Dead Pony Club
      c) Punk IPA

      1. BobbyDoesNotLook
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        C