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Vardy starts as Leicester continue their push for a Champions League place

The last of four Premier League matches to take place on Sunday sees Leicester City head south to take on relegation-threatened Bournemouth.

Kick-off at the Vitality Stadium is at 19:00 BST.

Jamie Vardy (£9.8m) was the second-most-bought Fantasy Premier League asset of Gameweek 35+ and he starts this evening, with his non-involvement in training on Friday proving to be a lot of fuss about nothing.

Vardy has three goals in his last two starts and comes up against a Bournemouth side who had the worst post-restart defensive record before this weekend.

The Cherries did register their first clean sheet of 2020 on Thursday evening, however, holding Spurs to a goalless draw.

It’s wins and not draws that Howe’s troops need, with the south coast club six points adrift of safety with just four matches to play.

The Foxes sit fourth in the Premier League table, meanwhile, with only two points separating the two sides immediately above and below then.

Brendan Rodgers has made one change to his starting XI that featured in the midweek draw with Arsenal, with defender Christian Fuchs (£4.2m) brought in to replace Ryan Bennett (£4.8m).

Harvey Barnes (£5.9m) is once again among the substitutes.

Bournemouth have made three changes to the side that drew 0-0 with Tottenham, with Arnaut Danjuma (£5.8m), Dominic Solanke (£5.1m) and Jack Stacey coming into Howe’s starting XI.

Junior Stanislas (£5.8m) drops to the bench, while Joshua King (£6.1m) and Adam Smith (£4.3m) miss out through injury.

The reverse fixture between these two sides ended 3-1 to Leicester back in Gameweek 4, with Vardy involved in all three of his club’s goals and emerging with a 16-point haul.


Bournemouth XI: Ramsdale, Stacey, Ake, Kelly, Rico, Brooks, Gosling, Lerma, Danjuma, Solanke, C Wilson.

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel, Fuchs, Soyuncu, Evans, Justin, Albrighton, Tielemans, Ndidi, Perez, Iheanacho, Vardy.

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  1. Salah’s Sonnet
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    VARDY!!!!!!!!

  2. NATSTER
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Vardy 🙂

  3. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Party is on!

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

    Wtf is wrong with this place I live, broadband down, phone data going down. Different providers...

    1. Ginkapo FPL
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Lots of phone providers use the same networks

  5. Forza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Bye bye Bournemouth, good riddance.

  6. PrettyDick
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    VARDY! lol

  7. Twisted Saltergater
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Vardy!!

  8. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Redd arrrow

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

    ARE YOU READY TO PARTY

  10. SH1M1
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    AWFUL defending

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

      Well it is Bournemouth, do they know anything other than terrible defending?

  11. Party time
      3 years, 8 months ago

      VARDYYYY

    • Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Yessss

    • Pep Roulette
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Nacho assist?

      1. InSaneMan-e
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Don't think so. Defensive calamity after his ball in

    • MiLK2018
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Vardy party!

    • Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Party
      Is
      On!

    • Danstoke82
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Yes Vardy(c)!!!!

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

      Yessssssssssssa

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

      Vardinho! (awful defending)

    • Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Nice one

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

      Vardy party!

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

      We need more of that talk from Bubz 😎

    • Chucky
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      PARTYYYYYYYYY

    • Party time
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Let us PARTY Lads

      • DAVESAVES
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        PAAAARTYY

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

        Vardy(c) 😎

        1. Chucky
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          😎

      • thes7s
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Vardy looks very lively grab that match ball J.

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

        Is there a party starting?

      • Zilla
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Nice one Vardy, more please

      • PrettyDick
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Was just typing what a poor decision it was to get Vardy in. They really are awful going forward without Maddison.

      • Magic Zico
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Need 3 MCI attackers next week