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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.

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  1. bench boost for every gamew…
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Alonso punt worked. Looking forward to ship him out for tarkowski next. Fredericks 11 last week so this works fine.

    1. Bartowski
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Burnley defence is a good shout.

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

      Two transfers used for 7 points.

      1. Scholes Out For Summer
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        yeah shouldve saved those transfers for next season. what a casual

  2. FOO FIGHTER
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Who would you rather have for the last day

    Martial away to LEI or Son away to Palace?

    1. Bartowski
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Probably Martial

  3. Bartowski
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Is Giroud gonna steal Alonsos bap?

    1. JURGENAUT
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Wasted too many shots, could have easily got 3/4 goals

    2. Fudgy
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      He better not 🙁

    3. squits
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 9 months ago

      Don't know. Does fpl add winning goal baps as the game progresses?

      1. Bartowski
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 9 months ago

        Thought they were added afterwards but not sure

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

    Just have that 1% hope Aurier plays

  5. JURGENAUT
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Does the fact that Giroud was the MOTM influence his BAPs?

  6. MillsAU
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Neck and neck in my ML.

    This week, would you rather have:

    Dubravka AWB Fernandes Antonio

    OR

    Patricio Gomez Foden Greenwood

  7. easy_conners
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    Save team fail!

    Brought in Silva and Jesus. Captained Willian instead of Salah and left Silva on the bench. Bugger!

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

      OMG, we can't all be bloody experts can we 😀

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

      I'm pi$$ed right off as I wanted to captain Dilva but got swayed by popular opinion!

  8. Scholes Out For Summer
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    glad I didnt do Pulisic captain now

    Come on Phil Foden! Do a mad one pls

  9. Hotdogs for Tea
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 9 months ago

    So, was everyone happy with their last minute hits after the early team news ?