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Willian and Pulisic keep their places as Chelsea host Norwich in Gameweek 36+

Frank Lampard has rung the changes for Chelsea following their 3-0 defeat at Sheffield United, but it’s mostly good news for Fantasy Premier League managers.

Despite making five alterations to the previous line-up, the Chelsea boss has found a place for Willian (£7.4m) and Christian Pulisic (£7.3m) once again.

The pair have scored 48 and 39 points respectively since the restart and get the chance to extend that impressive run of points from the flanks of the front-three against Norwich.

This time, they are joined there by Olivier Giroud (£6.7m), the former Arsenal man reclaiming his spot from Tammy Abraham (£7.4m), who drops to the bench.

There will be plenty of attention on the Frenchman tonight too, who has four goals in his last five Premier League starts.

The inclusion of Jorginho (£4.9m) for the second match in a row might be troubling to owners of Willian as the Italian has previously taken penalties for the club, but the Brazilian has, of course, scored three since the Premier League returned.

Meanwhile, Lampard has also made changes in defence, handing a first start since Gameweek 32+ to Marcos Alonso (£6.1m) in the place of Reece James (£4.9m) and Antonio Rüdiger (£5.9m) comes in for Andreas Christensen (£4.8m) at centre-back.

Those invested in the Chelsea defence will be encouraged a little by Norwich’s line-up.

The Canaries have scored just once in the Project Restart fixtures and come to Stamford Bridge with this season’s top-scorer Teemu Pukki (£6.4m) on the bench.

Josip Drmic (£5.3m) has been chosen to lead the line with Todd Cantwell (£4.5m), Lukas Rupp (£4.4m) and Onel Hernández (£5.3m) chosen to support from attacking midfield.

That means a place on the bench for Emi Buendía (£6.0m) alongside Pukki.

Chelsea XI: Kepa; Alonso, Rüdiger, Zouma, Azpilicueta; Loftus-Cheek, Jorginho, Kovacic; Pulisic, Giroud, Willian.

Norwich City XI: Krul; Lewis, Klose, Godfrey, Aarons; Tettey, McLean; Hernández, Rupp, Cantwell; Drmic.

2,270 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Pep Roulette
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Get a goal Puli. I'll be really happy with that!

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

      He will
      Should have had one

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

        Amen Amey

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

    Giroud such a donkey though. And I own him.

  3. MiLK2018
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Pulisi(c)!

  4. Amey
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Points

  5. Keep Calm and Play On
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Pulisic turning that frustration into points! Love it

  6. TheSteel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Hows Alonso(c) looking?

    1. Keep Calm and Play On
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Very attacking, Norwich parking the bus. Could be a good second half if they get tired of defending

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

        Ty

    2. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Advanced as usual, but wide as opposed to getting in the box as he often does.

    3. FPL_Devil
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Good

  7. Bubz
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Chelsea triple uppers suddenly sitting pretty

  8. Wilshere Knowledge
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    How does that man get paid to be a centre back?

  9. Party time
      3 years, 8 months ago

      GIROUD GIROUD GIROUD Hell YeAh

    • Sancidino
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Giroud EO?

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

        12

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

          Nice. Thanks

    • Duke Silver ☑
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      That wasn't the best clearance from Giroud. Not what he intended at all.

    • stevieme
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Giroud
      Seriously good player

      1. Tinkermania
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        LOL

    • FPL_Devil
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      GIROUD

    • Zebrahimović
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      You just knew Giroud was going to score a headed goal tonight.

      1. The Train Driver
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Didn't do so good with his feet so he had to switch it up

    • SackWenger
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Unusual time for Chelsea to score.

    • Budweiser
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Depressed Willian capper over here

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

        Norwich look weak at set pieces, he may come good

      2. Utopsis
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I'm with you!

      3. Botman and Robben
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        o/

    • Cpt Crunch Scott talent
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Help us out here VAR

    • The Left Duke #3
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Pulisic to GRU

    • The_FF_King
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      So many sulkers on here moaning about their Chelsea assets, all changed now!

      1. The_FF_King
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        .....apart from Willian owners

      2. The Left Duke #3
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Exactly. Said the same earlier. Bloody painful this site at times

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

      get in giroud, thanks fpl rockstar

    • lordkippe
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Alonso could have had somtething here... Hopefully its coming

    • Gerd Mueller’s thighs
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Klose is a donkeys

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

        He is World cup all time best goalscorer

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

      Puli + Giru. Yayy

    • Niho992
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      One of rivals played FH and bench Giroud. WTF?

    • Stormbringer22
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Willian to Sterling for free next week if Sterling benched looks very likely. Tasty City triple up in the cards

    • Rains of Castamere
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Klose is the weakest centre half I've ever seen. Bullied every game.

    • Rainer
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Giroud is world class.

    • TheTinman
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Nice one for the masses. Not for me though

    • Party time
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Giroud is such a flop. Why would he score? Crap player!

      • Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        This always seems to happen when a team is down, it’s like with the pressure off they can perform a bit better