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Four more Gameweek 24 matches take place this evening, with Manchester City v Brentford, Norwich City v Crystal Palace and Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton all kicking off at 19:45 GMT and Aston Villa v Leeds United getting underway a quarter of an hour later.

It’s not often that the headline Fantasy Premier League (FPL) team news comes from Palace but that’s the case tonight, as the most-bought player of Gameweek 24, Odsonne Edouard, finds himself among the substitutes at Carrow Road.

Vicente Guaita, Wilfried Zaha, Joachim Andersen and Will Hughes are brought back into the side as Patrick Vieira makes four changes from the weekend win over Hartlepool United.

Angus Gunn, Max Aarons and Teemu Pukki are back in the Norwich City XI in Dean Smith’s three alterations from Saturday, with Josh Sargent missing out through illness.

The omission of Kyle Walker is the only real surprise in Pep Guardiola’s line-up.

The City boss makes five changes to the side that beat Fulham in the FA Cup on Saturday, with Ruben Dias, Aymeric Laporte, Rodri, Bernardo Silva and Raheem Sterling replacing Walker, Nathan Ake, Fernandinho, Ilkay Gundogan and Jack Grealish.

Ivan Toney misses out with a calf injury for Brentford and he is one of three changes to the side that were beaten by Everton on Saturday. Ethan Pinnock, Frank Onyeka and Saman Ghoddos come in, as Mads Bech Sorensen and Vitaly Janelt also make way.

It’s straightforward team news from Villa Park, where both sides are unchanged from their last matches in Gameweek 23. That means a start for Raphinha, who had been flagged going into this contest.

In keeping with that theme, Antonio Conte sticks with the same Spurs side that beat Brighton in the FA Cup on Saturday – so that means new signings Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski have to be content with places on the bench.

Opponents Southampton make 10 changes to the side that beat Coventry at the weekend, with only the indefatigable James Ward-Prowse keeping his place.

There’s good news regarding Armando Broja, who recovers from a knee problem to feature, but there’s no Tino Livramento, who lasted 90 minutes on his comeback from injury on Saturday.

GAMEWEEK 24 TEAM NEWS

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita, Ward, Andersen, Guehi, Mitchell, Hughes, Schlupp, Gallagher, Olise, Zaha, Mateta,

Subs: Butland, Milivojevic, Tomkins, Ayew, Eze, Clyne, McArthur, Benteke, Edouard.

Norwich City XIGunn, Aarons, Gibson, Hanley, Williams, Placheta, McLean, Lees-Melou, Rashica, Pukki, Idah.

Subs: McGovern, Byram, Zimmermann, Gilmour, Dowell, Normann, Tzolis, Rowe, Giannoulis.


Manchester City XI: Ederson, Cancelo, Stones, Dias, Laporte, De Bruyne, Rodri, Silva, Mahrez, Foden, Sterling.

Subs: Steffen, Walker, Ake, Gundogan, Grealish, Zinchenko, Fernandinho, Delap, McAtee.

Brentford XI: Raya, Roerslav, Ajer, Jansson, Pinnock, Henry, Jensen, Norgaard, Onyeka, Ghoddos, Canos.

Subs: Fernandez, Lossl, Dasilva, Wissa, Mbeumo, Baptiste, Sorensen, Stevens


Tottenham Hotspur XI: Lloris, Royal, Sanchez, Romero, Davies, Reguilon, Winks, Hojbjerg, Son, Moura, Kane.

Subs: Gollini, Doherty, Sessegnon, Rodon, White, Bentancur, Kulusevski, Bergwijn, Scarlett.

Southampton XI: Forster, Walker-Peters, Bednarek, Salisu, Perraud, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Armstrong, Elyounoussi, Broja, Adams.

Subs: Valery, Stephens, Diallo, Smallbone, Djenepo, Walcott, Long, A Armstrong, Caballero.


Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Cash, Digne, Konsa, Mings, Luiz, McGinn, Ramsey, Buendia, Watkins, Coutinho.

Subs: Sanson, Chambers, Young, Ings, Olsen, Hause, Chukwuemeka, Iroegbunam, Chrisene.

Leeds United XI: Meslier, Ayling, Dallas, Llorente, Struijk, Koch, Klich, Rodrigo, Raphinha, Harrison, James.

Subs: Forshaw, Roberts, Klaesson, Bate, Gelhardt, Hjelde, McKinstry, Shackleton, Kenneh.


  1. Sandy Ravage
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Buendia hamstring injury, 100 days of solitude to come.

  2. HD7
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Justice is served

  3. O12
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Let's gooo soton!

  4. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    JWP A

  5. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Buendía subbed off 59 mins in
    Tough if you picked the wrong Villa midfielder this week

  6. g40steve
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Spurs lol

  7. WVA
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    SUPER SAINTS

    1. Fish up a tree
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Deserve to win this by a street

    2. DycheDycheBaby
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Well deserved

  8. Deulofail
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Oh FPL. Planned to get Coutinho & Ramsey, but the Watford DGW sucked me into triple Watford forwards and TCing Dennis's red card and now I'm homeless

  9. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Yes Saints, Spurs have been too jammy of late

  10. Free Hat
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Nice playing them on Emerson...

  11. MIGHTY JOE
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    So spursy

  12. Nate(U)dog(ie)
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Elyounoussi G
    JWP A

    Cracking cross

  13. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    So happy that all my players started ….

    & now they blank

  14. Kodap
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Eduoard coming on for this double sub?

  15. DBW - Slug's Mortgage …
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Kane pen winner I reckon

  16. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Reguilon get out my team!

  17. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Edouard ON

    1. MIGHTY JOE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      YES

  18. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Norwich looking to smash and grab on corners.

  19. Nate(U)dog(ie)
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    JWP and Coutinho making DGW26 planning on WC very difficult, really tempted to go with one over Raphinha

  20. tambourineman
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Edouard on

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      10 mins plus stoppage time.

      Eze too.

  21. Gudjohnsen
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Why do I still have Bilva and Foden in my team?

  22. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Southampton take the lead at Spurs 😀

  23. DBW - Slug's Mortgage …
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Southampton gooooooallll

    2-3

    Looooooolllll

  24. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    3 2 to Southampton

  25. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    OMG SAINTS

  26. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Diego Goal

  27. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Spursy

  28. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 15 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    OMG llorente

  29. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Yessssss 3-2 Saints

  30. g40steve
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Spurs double lol