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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. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Ndombele got a heavy ass

    1. SuperMane Returns
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Who scored the goal?

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

      He thiqq

  2. SuperMane Returns
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Budget Rico currently on max BAPS

    1. MGD
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      So a Lamela goal with no assist to hope for then

  3. Bobby Digital
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Lol Aurier 🙄

  4. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Rico > TAA

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

    After much deliberation this week I decided to sell Mane and DCl, bench Jimenez and bring in Foden and Kane.

    What a waste of time all that thinking turned out to be.

    1. Zimo
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      I mean u didn't really lose anything

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

        Yep. It's strangely comforting really.

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

    Look at this. The old fodder favorite, Diego Rico on for maximum baps.

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

    Rico on a mad one.

  8. La Roja
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Spurs goal imminent

    1. Champions League Varane
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Son pls

    2. Pedersen
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Spurs 0 shots on target

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

      Doubt it.

  9. Wilshere Knowledge
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Kane looks suicidal with this service. 😆

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

    Not for the first time Lamela tries to dribble too far rather than pass and has the ball taken from him. It’s happens the majority of the time he gets the ball in the final third, he’s awful.

    1. Young Lingard
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      I really want to ask Roy Keane any question about lamela
      Fire to gasoline

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

    Congratz on 9 points Aurier owners!

    1. Bun Rab
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Spurs will not keep a cleanie.

  12. Bury94
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Just doing some early planning for next season. Can't decide if to have Van Dijk or Kane as my premium defender

    1. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      VVD for goal threat

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

      Van Dijk has more goal threat from se pieces plus keeps more clean sheets

  13. SkeletONv01
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Ings and Digne on my bench 🙁

    1. Rains of Castamere
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Sorry but that's silly

    2. Camzy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      You benched Digne at home against Southampton? Your defense is way too expensive...

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

      Who did you bench them for?

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

        TAA Doc Aurier

    4. Saint Channon
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Pope Willian and Egan on mine

      1. Hy liverpool
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Oh my

      2. Saint Channon
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Benched for Antonio and Doherty

  14. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Time to give this game a break and enjoy the summer.

  15. Camzy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    I'm definitely playing Martinez this week over Pope. Spurs are anemic.

    1. Royal5
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Arsenal not much better. Don't forget about Luiz.

  16. Rains of Castamere
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    One of these days Aurier will actually pick someone out

  17. Champions League Varane
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Please Bou score and Son goal

  18. Shineonme
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Bottomed sorry
    Would you make this move
    -4 Son > Pulisic Jimenez > Vardy ?

    Pope/
    Egan/ / Docherty/ stevens
    Salah/ KDB/ Son/ Bruno/
    Rashford / Jimenez/ DLC

    Subs 3.9 (G) Cantwell / Fernández / Taylor /

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

      I would rather ditch DCL than Jimenez

  19. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Rico a terrible defender all of a sudden playing out of his skin, typical

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

    I feel for Spurs fans. Wasn't long ago United were in exactly the same spot. Things can change quickly!

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

      United was 6th and now they re 5th. Big difference !

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

      Yes except it was so bad at United that when Mourinho came it was actually an improvement at first.

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

    Incidentally, Kane literally just had his first touch in the box a couple of minutes ago. Admirably disciplined in that DM role.

  22. Winners900
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Aurier is basically a winger!

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

      Who can’t cross

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

        Imagine selling Trippier and not replacing him...

    2. Coys96
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Doesn't matter if your final delivery is awful

  23. Woy_is_back
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Damn, wish I had remembered doing the dcl-greenwood transfer. Need a blank from him

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

    Bournemouth giving the ball away on the edge of their own box every 5 minutes trying to give me a heart attack. Eddie Howe must be going grey on the sidelines.

  25. teddypicker
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Bou given up... Aurier 9pts are locked in

  26. Young Lingard
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    VAR needs to have a look at the injury time a decide against it

  27. Dacra
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Please Son, gimme a goodbye pressie.

  28. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Kane punt gone waste.

    2 options.
    A)Kane to vardy and after 2 weeks vardy to auba
    B)Keep kane for 2 gws and then kane to auba

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Vardy for 2 then Ings on fixtures and form.

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

      Vardy all day

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

    Spurs goal coming in the 102nd minute.

  30. Amey
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Corner Ake Behind Corner