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

    LOL SOLANKE BRACE

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

    Solanke TC confirmed

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

    Haha Bournemouth 4 Leicester 1! What on earth!

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

    Vardy owners stunned.

  5. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Solanke in a Messi mode 🙂

  6. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Leicester 😆

  7. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Crazy!

  8. Chandler Bing
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    4 lol

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

    Wow Dom! 3 BAPS now

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

    Holy Moly

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

    Solanke essential

  12. George Agdgdgwngo
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Megs

  13. fr3d
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    HAHAHHAHAHAHAAH

  14. jason_ni
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Wow... vardy capt...all the juicy baps are gone!

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

      Still on 2 I think lol

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

    Evans and Soy owners in proper tears.

    1. Mr. Sitter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Can confirm

  16. MiLK2018
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    4-1 FFS

  17. Kno
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Targeting Bmouth these last couple of weeks really went well for people. Glad I dodged that wagon

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

      I did say there is too much anecdotal stuff around this 'relegation chasing'. Which is why someone at FFS needs to do the analysis:

      https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2020/07/11/antonio-starts-up-front-for-west-ham-and-saint-maximin-returns-to-newcastle-side/?hc_page=8&hc_sort_by=comment_date#hc_comment_22078291

  18. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Vardy 0 BP?

    1. FPL_Devil
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      On 2 somehow

  19. Dannyb
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    What an absolute shambles

  20. NIKO.
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Leicester showing great character!

  21. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    relegate Leicester!

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

    LMAO imagine conceding 2 goals to DOMINIC Fing SOLANKE 😆

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

      He took the second like a boss to be fair to him

  23. Sgt Frank Drebin
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Knowing Magnus Carlsen he probably has Solanke in his team

  24. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Nutmeg Schmeichel 🙂

  25. DandyDon
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Vardy lucky with 1bps at this rate!

  26. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Disaster LEI!

  27. Bubz
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    If someone had told me at half time this would be the final score 😆 football is mad

  28. Deulofail
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Solanke for golden boot

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

    Vardy >> Ings or Jesus is an easy move now.

  30. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Lampard air punching 🙂

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

      Leicester rally wanted to out-do us, huh.