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Iheanacho starts for Leicester as highly-owned Antonio leads West Ham attack

There are three Premier League matches kicking off at 14:00 BST today – Crystal Palace v Leicester City, Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa and West Ham United v Brentford.

Crystal Palace manager Patrick Vieira names an unchanged starting XI after Monday night’s 1-1 draw with rivals Brighton and Hove Albion. The Eagles are unbeaten in their three Premier League home matches this season, conceding just one goal at Selhurst Park so far.

For Leicester, Kelechi Iheanacho (£7.0m), who was unable to feature in Thursday’s UEFA Europa League game due to an issue with his travel documents, starts alongside Jamie Vardy (£10.4m), with Hamza Choudhury (£4.5m) and Ademola Lookman (£6.0m) also featuring.

Ricardo Pereira (£5.5m) drops to the bench, with Jonny Evans (£5.4m) and Wilfred Ndidi (£4.9m) unavailable.

Elsewhere, Tottenham Hotspur are looking to avoid a fourth straight Premier League defeat, and make three changes from last weekend. Emerson Royal (£5.0m), Cristian Romero (£4.9m) and Oliver Skipp (£4.5m) all come in, replacing Japhet Tanganga (£4.6m), Davinson Sanchez (£4.5m) and Dele Alli (£6.5m).

Son Heung-min (£10.0m), who has netted three of Spurs’ four Premier League goals this season including both at home, is involved, as is the 5.1% owned Harry Kane (£12.1m).

Opponents Aston Villa, who are going for a third win on the bounce, are unchanged. As a result, Leon Bailey (£6.4m) and Morgan Sanson (£5.0m) both miss out, with Dean Smith hopeful the pair will return after the international break.

West Ham United name the same starting XI that began their 2-1 win at Leeds United in Gameweek 6. Vladimir Coufal (£5.0m) returns after missing their European tie against Rapid Vienna with a groin injury, and starts alongside the highly-owned Said Benrahma (£6.6m) and Michail Antonio (£8.0m)

For Brentford, head coach Thomas Frank makes two changes, as Mathias Jorgensen (£4.5m) and Shandon Baptiste (£5.0m) replace Kristoffer Ajer (£4.5m) and Frank Onyeka (£4.9m).

GAMEWEEK 7 LINE-UPS

C Palace XI: Guaita, Ward, Andersen, Guehi, Mitchell, Milivojevic, McArthur, Gallagher, Ayew, Zaha, Edouard

Subs: Butland, Tomkins, Kelly, Clyne, Kouyate, Hughes, Schlupp, Olise, Benteke

Leicester XI: Schmeichel, Castagne, Soyuncu, Vestergaard, Bertrand, Choudhury, Tielemans, Barnes, Lookman, Vardy, Iheanacho

Subs: Ward, Amartey, Pereira, Dewsbury-Hall, Soumaré, Albrighton, Pérez, Maddison, Daka


Tottenham XI: Lloris, Royal, Romero, Dier, Reguilon, Hojbjerg, Skipp, Ndombele, Moura, Son, Kane

Subs: Gollini, Doherty, Sanchez, Rodon, Winks, Lo Celso, Gil, Alli, Scarlett

A Villa XI: Martinez, Konsa, Hause, Mings, Cash, McGinn, Luiz, J Ramsey, Targett, Ings, Watkins

Subs: Steer, Tuanzebe, Young, Nakamba, Buendia, El Ghazi, Philogene-Bidace, Traore, Archer


West Ham XI: Fabianski, Coufal, Zouma, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Rice, Soucek, Fornals, Benrahma, Bowen, Antonio

Subs: Areola, Johnson, Dawson, Diop, Masuaku, Kral, Lanzini, Yarmolenko, Vlasic

Brentford XI: Raya, Zanka, Jansson, Pinnock, Canos, Baptiste, Norgaard, Janelt, Henry, Mbeumo, Toney

Subs: Fernandez, Goode, Jensen, Forss, Wissa, Ghoddos, Onyeka, Bidstrup, Roerslev

1,049 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Joey Tribbiani
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    JOTAAAAA

    1. DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Will probably punish me.

    2. TheBiffas
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      scored in warm-ups?

  2. TomSaints
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Urghhh as if jota starts. Nightmare week

  3. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
    • 14 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    That guy Borges top of the FFS hall of fame has Son

    https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/380968/event/7

    Form is temporary class is permanent

  4. fish&chips
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Great subs from Patrick

  5. dunas_dog
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    What has Torres done to upset Pep?

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      False 9 preferred in tough games.

    2. Ligdon
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Aw Im also very interested in this, pure ignorance

    3. WVA
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Only scored in one game all season for Manchester City

  6. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Foden in the false 9 to inflict another Anfield special today?

  7. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Salah must score a brace, simple as that

  8. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    cr7 reload for next week to punish sellers

  9. Grand Thibauto
    • 9 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    How is Son on 0 bonus here

  10. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Leicester’s DF is woeful, Ronaldo could have a field day

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      So will Greenwood

  11. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    my 29 points is holding up, as the fantasy misery continues into a second day

  12. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Purely for entertainment, which one of the three games do I watch the last 10 minutes of?

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      West Ham v Brentford or Palace v Leicester

  13. WVA
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Gallagher will probably be benched from now on too

    1. Steinburg FC
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      why is that?

      1. WVA
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        They were losing until the took him off and I've brought him in!

        1. Fish up a tree
          • 2 Years
          2 years, 6 months ago

          You ever thought of taking up bridge..

    2. grumpyman
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Why would he be benched?

  14. One More Hit
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    What an FPL weekend

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Not.

  15. TheTinman
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Stars aligning for a Jota brace

    1. JBG
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Hopefully that brace is from YCs.

  16. DycheDycheBaby
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Jota to punish sellers. Including me!!

  17. MGD
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Jotagod starts!!

    1. @persecuted_by_mods
        2 years, 6 months ago

        Its DioGOAT

    2. FPLtfs
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Jota -> Raph (-4).. have mercy

      1. WVA
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        Jota to ESR
        To be very I was very unlucky not to get anything from ESR and was under the impression Jota wouldn't start

    3. DycheDycheBaby
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Rivals all captained Lukaku and Ronaldo. This will be a hard pill to swallow if Antonio blanks 🙁

      1. TomSaints
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        It’s so annoying, just a bad week all round

    4. Woy_is_back
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Come on Antonio, score ffs

    5. TheBiffas
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      grab the winner vardy

    6. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Own Jota, but if he gets anything more than 2 points it will be fortunate.

      That people are happy he is starting shows how unreliable of a FPL asset he is.

      1. Gabistuta
        • 5 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        Or how unreliable taking any notice of this place is. Jota, at that price, looking more and more a season keeper.

    7. Tasty Jerk
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      "Jordan Ayew: 0 goals in his past 36 games (2,364 minutes) for Palace. Michael Olise: 1 goal in his first 22 minutes for Palace" - hopefully Olise starts next game, looks class! 🙂

      1. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        Honestly, fantastic recruitment this year. Eze to come back too!

        1. AC/DC AFC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          2 years, 6 months ago

          Are you really a Palace fan at heart?

        2. Tasty Jerk
          • 11 Years
          2 years, 6 months ago

          Yeah, indeed - can imagine the havoc they will both cause on the pitch together 🙂

      2. Duke Silver ☑
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        In fairness to Ayew he always puts a shift in.

        1. Tasty Jerk
          • 11 Years
          2 years, 6 months ago

          True, he works his socks off - got us through some dark times last season when he was scoring as well. Just liking this progression with more young players coming in. We had the oldest squad for many seasons.

      3. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        Was brilliant for Reading last season, hope he flourishes!

    8. THFC4LIFE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Schmeichel has to be my worst pick on WC. Might bite the bullet and ship him this week

      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        If you have WC worth resection in the nets there.

        1. THFC4LIFE
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          2 years, 6 months ago

          Huh?

          1. AC/DC AFC
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            2 years, 6 months ago

            Reslecing the keeper. As you say.

      2. Puntillimon
        • 8 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        Same boat as you. It has been a disaster.

    9. Grand Thibauto
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Spurs goal given an OG. Who gets the assist then?

      1. @persecuted_by_mods
          2 years, 6 months ago

          The scorer gets the assist

        • Hazz
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          2 years, 6 months ago

          Son because the cross was originally thought to be tapped in by Moura, but it wasn't.

          https://streamja.com/p6mqm

          1. @persecuted_by_mods
              2 years, 6 months ago

              Ahh good spot

        • fish&chips
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          2 years, 6 months ago

          Could do with a Guaita pen save honestly

        • Rainer
          • 7 Years
          2 years, 6 months ago

          Vardy clattered.

          1. g40steve
            • 6 Years
            2 years, 6 months ago

            Not looking good deliberate foul

        • MGD
          • 7 Years
          2 years, 6 months ago

          A guy in the possibly largest derby in Sweden scores in the 45th and removes his shirt just to receive….

          …his second yellow. Hahaha

          https://twitter.com/siavoushf/status/1444669069521719298?s=21

          1. MGD
            • 7 Years
            2 years, 6 months ago

            What an idi*ot

        • tbos83
          • 3 Years
          2 years, 6 months ago

          C'mon Benny do something pleeeeease

        • jackruet
          • 2 Years
          2 years, 6 months ago

          2 assists, 1 CS for me in this gameweek

          1. Steinburg FC
            • 9 Years
            2 years, 6 months ago

            more then me... and on a -8

          2. Fish up a tree
            • 2 Years
            2 years, 6 months ago

            There’s always one giving it the Charlie big potatoes!