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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. Vamos Los Celeste
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Please Wolves.

  2. Dele
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    James Justin the casuals favourite. Destroying ranks weekly.

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

      with his 7 blanks in last 10?

    2. Benjustjamin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Casually owning a 4.5 leicester defender

  3. Pep Roulette
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Score a goal Wolves!

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

      Yeah right

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

    My team currently:

    Starting players: 21 points
    Bench players: 22 points

    Probably my worst week in many seasons. Can't wait for it to be over!

    1. Scots Gooner
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Same numbers as me. Losing top spot of ML as it stands. A horror gameweek.

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

        Hold me

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

    3 - Kilman (27)
    2 - Patrício (25)
    1 - Justin, Coady, Semedo (23)

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

      Come on Kilman

      1. Leonard hatred
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        i'm sure you will if he holds onto the baps.

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

    Adama on his side probably ruining Justin's BP chances.

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

    Best non Justin owners can hope for is a Wolves clean sheet and Justin 6 pointer.

    1. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Agreed.

  8. fedolefan
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    I think I'm going to have to intervene in a couple of weeks and bring Justin into my team to stop all this ruckus.

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

      Sold him weeks ago, not sure why, I think it was double gameweek fever. Terrible decision .

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

    Wow

  10. Pep Roulette
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Silva WTF

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

    Fabio huge miss

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

    Big miss Fabio

  13. My heart goes Salalalalah
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    WTF Silva?

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

    Cannot believe what Fabio Silva has just done there. Incredible miss.

  15. Shultan
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Pleaswe score wolves

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

    Great save but awful miss.

  17. ‘Tis the Season
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    F Silva a total waste of money...

  18. MoSalalalalalalalalah
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Did Jurgen just sign the CBs for fun? 1 should be starting to free up in Henderson in midfield

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

    Silva has Justin in his FPL team...

    1. Pep Roulette
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      This

  20. MoSalalalalalalalalah
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Blaming Silva if this Leicester clean sheet isn't wiped

  21. JJO
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    F off Justin owners
    How lucky can you be every gw?

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

    4/4 starting, expect 8 points

  23. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Need that Justin CS wiped

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

    3 - Kilman (27)
    2 - Patrício (25)
    1 - Semedo (24)

    Evans (23)
    Coady (23)
    Justin (23)

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

      Justin surely going for 3BP. This is just temporary illusion

  25. JONALDINHO
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Every week every little decision has to go against me. Antonio(C) blanks, Bruno scored a long shot that goes in once in a blue moon. Kane arises from the dead to help Son. Had to bring in either a Burnley defender or Bamford this week. Wasn’t comfortable benching Martinez so I benched DCL and he hauls away to Utd. Now Justin is going to send me flying down the ranks again

    1. Nanoelektronicar
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Same here Jonald, don't beat yourself. Surely, week like this sets you back big, but it's difficult to have all rounds decent, bad rounds have to happen.

    2. Leonard hatred
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      after a crap start i'd been clawing my way back up - dropped out of the top 100k all the way down to 400k with a couple of 20-pointers on the bounce.

      this season has been a struggle.

  26. Gerd Mueller’s thighs
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Believing FPL flags this year has proven extremely detrimental.....moving Mane to Soucek is just the latest example.

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

      What colour was Mane’s flag? He trained Friday.

      1. Gerd Mueller’s thighs
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        I believe he was yellow, but same as the week before when he didn’t play.

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

    Gilt Edged in Silva

  28. seewhyaxe
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    I’ve not owned Justin at all this season.

    Is he really that good an asset?

    1. Cruyff Turn
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      YES.

    2. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      More points than KdB

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

      Second highest scoring defender who started the season at 4.5m?
      That guy?

  29. 3 A
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Line up City with Sterling as false 9. Maybe Pep think this is the strongest but Laporte is on the bench.

  30. ameenkw
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Justin jump in the bps system starts now .. watch him overtake everyone now ..

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

      Only the casuals without him