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Fit-again Vardy only a substitute as injured Podence and Boly miss out

Jamie Vardy (£10.0m) makes his return from hernia surgery this afternoon but the Leicester City striker is only among the substitutes for the Foxes’ clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Kick-off at Molineux is at 14:00 GMT.

Brendan Rodgers again trusts Kelechi Iheanacho (£5.6m) to lead the line in the West Midlands and has indeed named an unchanged side from the one that defeated Fulham in midweek.

As for Wolves, Nuno Espirito Santo hinted at injury problems in Friday’s press conference and has made a pair of enforced alterations to his starting XI.

Willy Boly (£5.4m) and Daniel Podence (£5.3m) miss out with hamstring and adductor problems respectively and are replaced by Jonny (£5.4m) and Leander Dendoncker (£4.6m).

This will be Jonny’s first appearance since suffering an injury in August and his return at left-back, coupled with Boly’s absence, means that Max Kilman (£4.0m) moves over to his more favoured centre-half position.

Romain Saiss (£4.9m) is also back from injury but is only among the substitutes.

FPL’s most-popular defender starts in this fixture: James Justin (£5.2m) features in almost 30% of Fantasy squads, with his ownership figure further swelled by a 15-point haul in Gameweek 22.

Both he and James Maddison (£7.4m) were transferred in by over 200,000 FPL managers ahead of Saturday’s deadline.

Justin also has the highest effective ownership among defenders in the top 10,000 Fantasy squads.


Wolves XI: Patricio, Semedo, Kilman, Coady, Jonny, Neves, Moutinho, Dendoncker, Neto, Willian José, Traoré.

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel, Justin, Soyuncu, Evans, Pereira, Choudhury, Perez, Maddison, Tielemans, Barnes, Iheanacho.

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1,141 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Party pending.

  2. DAZZ
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Wolves are actually useless.

    1. ivantys
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Their attacks are mainly just kick and run past the defender and just cross blindly.

  3. Shark Team
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Ederson -vs- Allison
    Cancelo Dias Stones Laporte -vs- TAA Fabinho Kabak Robbo
    Rodri Gundo Bilva -vs- Hendo Gini Thiago
    Foden Jesus Sterling -vs- Salah Firmino Mane

    It's close, Liverpool has a lot of quality but I'm unsure about their defence, on the other side Man City has a solid team

    1. 3 A
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Hendo not Kabak

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

    Maddison YC

  5. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Maddy YC

  6. Limbo
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Maddison YC. Balls.

  7. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Kick Adama next, Justin.

  8. Sif
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Choice now seems like: Strong GW26 team with second keeper, Son, Grealish & Watkins, Bruno, Salah, 3x City etc.

    Or Kane

    1. Sif
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Bench Boost team that is

    2. ivantys
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Leeds in 25 making things tricky.

      1. Sif
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Think you have to keep Leeds (at least Bamford) given 25 & the blank 29. Too many transfers to spent to to play hokey cokey with them.

        1. ivantys
          • 3 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Yeah it's stopping me from tripling Leeds. I'll keep Dallas and Bamford then switch Dallas for someone in 26.

  9. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    3 - Kilman (27)
    2 - Patrício, Coady (25)

    Söyüncü (22)
    Evans (22)
    Semedo (20)
    Justin (19)

    1. Mr. O'Connell
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Justin to play 5 mins of 1-2s with Evans to get his passing % up and take all 3 bonus

      1. ivantys
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Or towers just give it to him.

    2. THFC4LIFE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Barnes to nick 3 baps with a late goal and assist

  10. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Should have bench boosted

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      With Kane, Vardy and KDB out the time to bench boost was this last 2 game weeks, forgot the distraction of the doubles.

  11. Bury94
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Really could do with some Barnes points here, looks destined to finish goalless this

  12. DAZZ
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Not sure whether to go for Riedewald > Gundo. The funds used would make getting Kane back difficult.

  13. Duke Silver ☑
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Stupid from O'Mahony. Game over now.

    1. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Yep

  14. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Vardy on?

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

    Just checked baps, what happened to Justin?

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      He will jump to 3BP for sure. He always does

      1. ivantys
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        He only got BP twice when he doesn't get any attacking returns.

  16. Vazza
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Would you make these moves for free

    Mane, Brewster => Kane, ESR

    Bearing in mind that Mane has Leicester and Kane has City next...

  17. BeWater
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    FFS Moutinho. How clear a chance do you want.

  18. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    LMS safety score up to 27

    1. dark91
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Hmmm. Might be a tricky GW for LMS this week

  19. potatoace
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    This game is shockingly bad

  20. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Is Sterling starting?

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      6 mins

  21. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Wolves are never scoring here.

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      No chance, Leicester 1-0 soon

    2. BeWater
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Best hope is Hamza Choudhury doing something stupid in the box.

  22. DAZZ
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Who are your essentials for DGW26?

    1. Make United Great Again
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Kane Son

  23. Duke Silver ☑
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Rockstar drip feeding team news on Twitter. Jesus on the bench.

  24. Flair
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Henderson at CB is fantastic news for us. Lineup rumours in the mud.

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

      Interesting. The usually reliable one I wrong. He never posted with the recent BS ones either.

    2. Cantona's Kung Fu Kick
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Henderson could be playing GK, what difference does it make? You can't change your team now anyway

  25. Bounce
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Not sure what to do with my wildcard. I already have the template team that everyone wants.

    1. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      I know. I will save it for later use. No need to waste it.

  26. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Soyboy outscoring Pereira again?

    Don't bring back those memories!

  27. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Wolves need Jimmy’s clinical finishing

  28. camarozz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    How has Peirera looked? Brought him in this wk for Robbo

    1. Duke Silver ☑
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Still getting up to speed. Slightly off the pace.

  29. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    #LFC v Man City:

    Alisson, Trent Fabinho Henderson Robertson, Wijnaldum Thiago Jones, Salah Firmino Mane

  30. dogtanion
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Standard is awful here