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Benched Werner comes in for Pulisic following warm-up injury at Burnley

Timo Werner (£9.3m) was initially the latest victim of Frank Lampard Roulette as the Chelsea manager makes six changes from the side that won 4-0 at Krasnodar midweek.

The former RB Leipzig forward played 90 minutes in Russia, finally getting his hands on a penalty and assisting for good measure – but Lampard followed through on his ominous concerns about a “tired group”.

Fresh from the conversion of a Champions League spot-kick, Werner owners had been patiently waiting for Jorginho (£5.3m) to miss a first game since Gameweek 3, so that he could take one in Fantasy Premier League. It just so happens that he joins the Italian on the bench today.

However, there was drama even before kick-off at Turf Moor as Christian Pulisic (£8.3m) picked up an injury in the warm-up – Werner chosen to replace him in the starting line-up.

Tammy Abraham (£7.2m) originally came in for the German international as the apex of Chelsea’s front-three at Turf Moor, Pulisic and Hakim Ziyech (£7.9m), making his first Premier League start for the club. It seems likely that Werner will occupy the left-winger role with Abraham staying in the middle.

Mason Mount (£6.8m) is back for only his second start since Gameweek 4, joined in central midfield by Kai Havertz (£8.4m) and N’Golo Kanté (£4.9m).

For all the concern about which Chelsea defenders would start, that area of the team has provided little in the way of frustration, especially in comparison to the Werner benching.

In fact, the three most popular Blues defenders all start at Burnley today.

Signed by more managers for Gameweek 7 than any other player, Ben Chilwell (£5.9m) is at left-back once again, Reece James (£5.0m) is on the right, while Kurt Zouma (£5.1m) keeps his place in the middle where he is joined by Thiago Silva (£5.5m).

Interest in Burnley assets is mostly budgetary, with 7.5% currently in possession of non-playing defender Jimmy Dunne (£4.1m) and central midfielder Dale Stephens (£4.4m).

Nick Pope (£5.4m) is still the most fashionable Claret, owned by 11.2%, his backers hoping he can make a slew of saves today.

Burnley XI: Pope; C Taylor, Tarkowski, K Long, Lowton; McNeil, D Stephens, Westwood, Brownhill; Wood, A Barnes.

Chelsea XI: E Mendy; Chilwell, Zouma, T Silva, R James; Havertz, Kanté, Mount; Pulisic, Abraham, Ziyech.

LESSONS LEARNED FROM FPL GAMEWEEK 7

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

    Cross it to the back post! Chilwell is always camping there

    1. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      *dogging

  2. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Apparently there was a clash in the warm up between Cabalero and Pulisic and the injury happened

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      So unlucky

    2. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      ‘We don’t need another hero....we have Willy Caballero’

      1. Jafooli
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        To the tune of Tina Turner‘s classic...

      2. FPL Daniel
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Hahaha those lyrics

    3. Lazaretti
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Caballero passed bottle to Pulisic when it accidentally dropped..., broken toe?

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

      Two willy injuries in the PL this week then

    5. Camino Aleatorio
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      In America we are changing the dictionary to add “Pulisic” as an alternative way of saying

      “Fragile”
      “Brittle”
      “Weak”
      “Limp”
      “Deflated”
      “French”
      “Dainty”

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

        Synonym

  3. Camino Aleatorio
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Pulisic is worthless to Lampard

    Chelsea should send his fragile body to Bayern in exchange for somebody, anybody from Bayern

    Those BM boys are WARRIORS and Real Men

    1. OverTinker
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      have you tripple captained Puli or what?

  4. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Bring Giroud in asap

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      As I said. Tammy clumsy

  5. The Gambler.
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Anyone had enough of this season? If its not Antonio its Pulisic. Why cant it be the players that everone owns instead of my differentials?

    1. J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Exactly this.

      So annoyed, I’m just logging off at this stage

    2. Abra Dubravka
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Yep. 100% agreed. Only one in my league to have Pulisic. Stuck by him last few weeks. Gutted.

      1. Sloane426
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Awful pick

  6. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Ziyech juhuuuuu

    1. MagicMessi
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Abraham asist

      1. FPL Daniel
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Yes but I still don't fancy him

  7. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Ziyech

  8. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    ZiyechG
    Tammy A

  9. Ze_Austin
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Ziyech G
    Tammy A

  10. La Roja
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Get in to my team Ziyech

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Chelsea attack very much the Man City merry go around of yester year. Ride at your discretion.

  11. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Puts Hakim on the watchlist.

    He was wonderful in CL too

  12. Bobby Digital
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Ziyech G
    Tammy A

  13. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Pope finished.

    1. MagicMessi
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Easy shot weird from Pope

  14. ivantys
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Almost got it right, had predicted Tammy G Ziyech A

  15. Puntillimon
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Ziyech out of nowhere

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

    i might get mendy to go with chilwell and leave Guaita at the side of the road

  17. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Bandwagon starts

  18. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    I was so close to doing Hamez to Ziyech for -4... 🙁

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      No you weren't

      1. Chucky
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        😛

      2. Steve The Spud
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Haha

    2. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Be ballsy chucks

    3. Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      I was hovering over Jimi to BamBam last week
      Left it for Jimi's 2 great fixtures
      Cue up another hatty for Bam this week

  19. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Ziyech is cheap as chips too

  20. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Foden or Zaha to ziyech ?

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Foden

    2. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Foden

    3. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Lol

      1. Steve The Spud
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Haha, seriously I came into this weekend hoping 1 Chelsea mid would emerge as a good buy, could be him !

        1. Big boy Bowen
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Too many options for my liking, smells like rotation.
          Chilwell for me if I do go for a Chelsea player (Werner further down the line)

    4. Camino Aleatorio
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Who has the worst Haircut? Foden, Zaha, or Ziyech?

      Clearly Foden - gotta go Foden with Mahrez and Ferran not looking good

      But Liverpool next week

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

        Social media would say Foden is commiting cultural appropriation with that haircut

  21. mgilbert86
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    chelsea should be playing tammy more, sorry but werner isn't a target man from what I've seen

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      *Giroud

      1. mgilbert86
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        yea but he's not mobile enough for me with the way they probably wanna play with the pace in that team

  22. Phaze 1
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    The Puli news actually made me genuinely sad for like 15 mins or so. Shows just how dumb this game is when it can affect you in real life. Who am I kidding? I'll likely feel sick for the rest of the weekend. Hate FPL right now.

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Go for a walk or take a beer mate. This game can be cruel sometimes I agree

    2. Joey Tribbiani
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      🙁

    3. Pukki Blinders
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Thank Willy Cabalero for that nonsense

    4. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Alcohol is a great solution in such cases

    5. Homer21
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Or pure luck - see below!

    6. mixology
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      What I’ve started doing is not setting up my weekend around the games. I won’t stay in and watch most of the matches on weekends anymore as one of the highlights of my Saturday/Sunday. It’s just so unpredictable/random this season. I’ll check the scores when I’m out at the park, errands,etc.

      1. Homer21
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Mix it up?

        1. mixology
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Try to!

      2. Phaze 1
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Sounds good. I may just try and work through the weekends to avoid even thinking about football.

        1. mixology
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Different time zone for me. I’m in New York. Almost noon here. So nowadays with COVID I’m usually outside at the park, farmers market, etc. while my fiancé tells me to get off my phone and stop looking up fantasy football stuff

          1. mixology
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            3 years, 4 months ago

            I enjoy doing the research during the week but when the deadline ends, it’s all random. It’s tough spending 2 hours to watch your FPL players do nothing-it happened a lot after the restart. Very anticlimactic. So I try to just check the scores off-hand when I’m out doing something

    7. Mr. Chimes
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Was looking forward to this one too.. and now the few Ziyech owners are popping up full of joy

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

      its all about captains so wait

  23. Kloppcorn
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Aha someone called ziyech and Abraham getting the returns further up

  24. Pukki Blinders
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Ziyech is the E word

  25. Homer21
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    So I was 0.1 short for Puli so took a punt on Ziyech, can't exactly call it a stroke of genius but I'll gradly take the points 🙂

    1. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Nice luck, reminds me of last season when I played my FH and was just short of Fernandes, so picked Martial instead and he got a hat trick!

      1. Homer21
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Yep, there is alot of luck attached to this game despite what some say!

  26. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Get in Abraham!

  27. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    A to Z right there

  28. Nanoelektronicar
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Sterling and Barkley > Rashford and Zyech, for free?

    1. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Why would you consider to sell Sterlo? Very unlucky today

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

        He was completely out of the game at the end. Just three shots in the last two games. I hoped he'll be great differential, so feel disappointed now. Keeping for Liverpool is tempting, so I'll probably keep him when I cool off a bit.

  29. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    When Burnley don't have both Mee and Tarkowski they are stuffed.

  30. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Zouma is going to ruin Chilwell akin to Pickford ruining Digne.

    Massive liability.

    1. Pukki Blinders
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      How?