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Wednesday team news: Alonso and Mount start, Havertz benched again

Four Premier League matches take place on Wednesday evening as a mammoth Gameweek 36 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) slowly winds its way to a conclusion.

The north London derby will draw the Gameweek to a close tomorrow but there is plenty of Fantasy interest in tonight’s fixtures, with eight of the 12 ‘doublers’ in action.

Leeds United v Chelsea gets us underway at 19:30 BST, with Leicester City v Norwich City and Watford v Everton kicking off a quarter of an hour later. Finally, Wolverhampton Wanderers v Manchester City starts at 20:15 BST.

As for the team news, Thomas Tuchel has made four changes from the Blues’ disappointing 2-2 draw with Wolves.

Mason Mount is recalled along with Jorginho, Andreas Christensen and Trevoh Chalobah, as Cesar Azpilicueta, Thiago Silva, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Timo Werner drop to the bench.

Marcos Alonso keeps his place as Tuchel attempts to draw a line under the tiff that he and the Spaniard had in the first half of Saturday’s game, while Kai Havertz has to again make do with a place among the substitutes.

Jesse Marsch has matched his opposite number and made four changes from the 2-1 defeat at Arsenal.

Rodrigo, Liam Cooper, Lewis Bate and Pascal Struijk come in for Junior Firpo, Mateusz Klich, Joe Gelhardt and the banned Luke Ayling.

The changes are plentiful at the King Power Stadium, too. Brendan Rodgers has made five of them, with James Maddison and James Justin both returning from injury to start.

Jamie Vardy, Harvey Barnes and Ademola Lookman also come into the team, as Wesley Fofana, Kelechi Iheanacho, Patson Daka, Ayoze Perez and Nampalys Mendy drop out. Fofana doesn’t even make the bench.

Dean Smith recalls Angus Gunn, Lukas Rupp, Dimitris Giannoulis and full debutant Tony Springett at the expense of the benched Tim Krul, Brandon Williams, Jacob Sørensen and Kieran Dowell.

Roy Hodgson has beaten all of the above managers for team tinkering, making seven alterations – six of which are enforced.

Jeremy Ngakia, Joao Pedro, Adam Masina, Ken Sema, Dan Gosling, Christian Kabasele and Samuel Kalu all start at Vicarage Road.

Craig Cathcart drops to the bench, while Kiko Femenia, Hassane Kamara, Tom Cleverley, Ismaila Sarr, Josh King and Emmanuel Dennis are absent through either suspension, illness or injury.

Frank Lampard, by contrast, makes just one tweak to his starting XI, and that too is enforced.

Yerry Mina is ruled out because of a minor calf injury, so the Colombian is replaced by Michael Keane at the back.

In the late kick-off, expected recalls for Fernandinho, Bernardo Silva and Phil Foden have materialised. The benched Jack Grealish and Gabriel Jesus and the injured Ruben Dias drop out.

There is again no place in the starting XI for Riyad Mahrez, however; that’s a fourth straight Premier League benching for the Algerian.

A ‘working from home’ Bruno Lage, still ill with Covid, has kept the Wolves changes to a bare minimum, as Chiquinho makes his first Premier League start in place of the injured Romain Saiss.

GAMEWEEK 36 LINE-UPS

Leeds United XI: Meslier, Koch, Cooper, Llorente, Struijk, Bate, Phillips, Harrison, Raphinha, Rodrigo, James.

Subs: Klaesson, Firpo, Gelhardt, Hjelde, Cresswell, Greenwood, Klich, Shackleton, Gray.

Chelsea XI: Mendy, Chalobah, Rudiger, Christensen, Alonso, James, Kovacic, Jorginho, Pulisic, Mount, Lukaku.

Subs: Kepa, Silva, Werner, Loftus-Cheek, Barkley, Ziyech, Azpilicueta, Havertz, Sarr.


Leicester City XI: Schmeichel, Justin, Amartey, Evans, Castagne, Maddison, Tielemans, Dewsbury-Hall, Vardy, Lookman, Barnes.

Subs: Ward, Soyuncu, Albrighton, Iheanacho, Perez, Mendy, Daka, Thomas.

Norwich City XI: Gunn, Aarons, Hanley, Byram, Giannoulis, Rupp, Gilmour, Springett, Lees-Melou, Rashica, Pukki.

Subs: Krul, Gibson, Dowell, Placheta, Tzolis, Sorensen, Williams, Gibbs, Rowe.


Watford XI: Foster, Masina, Kabasele, Samir, Sema, Ngakia, Gosling, Sissoko, Kayembe, Kalu, Pedro.

Subs: Bachmann, Etebo, Ekong, Cathcart, Sierralta, Morris, Çukur, Blake, Grieves.

Everton XI: Pickford, Iwobi, Coleman, Keane, Holgate, Mykolenko, Gordon, Doucoure, Delph, Gray, Richarlison.

Subs: Begovic, Kenny, Allan, Calvert-Lewin, Gomes, Davies, Branthwaite, Rondon, Alli.


Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Jose Sa, Boly, Coady, Jonny, Chiquinho, Dendoncker, Neves, Moutinho, Ait-Nouri, Jimenez, Neto.

Subs: Ruddy, Hoever, Marcal, Trincao, Mosquera, Silva, Toti, Hee-Chan, Cundle.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Cancelo, Fernandinho, Laporte, Zinchenko, Rodri, Gundogan, Sterling, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Foden.

Subs: Steffen, Ake, Jesus, Grealish, Mahrez, Egan-Riley, Mbete, Palmer, Lavia.

1,909 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Salan
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    100% done in ML.

    One KDB ruins my whole FPL season

    1. jason_ni
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Saved mine..rival was 4k, 90 points ahead of me going in.
      I'm now ahead of him.

      1. Rohirrims
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        Nice one

      2. Patio Kev
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        Wow, nice one, well done.

    2. Philosopher's Stones
      • 3 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Yeah, my ML might be done as well. Need a crazy FH next week.

    3. Patio Kev
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Utter Nonsense, you have 35 previous game weeks to win it.

      You don’t lose your league because of 1 bad game week.

  2. DycheDycheBaby
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    This was the week to free hit, not bench boost 🙁

    1. Philosopher's Stones
      • 3 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      BB done well for me, but yeah, FH would've had a higher yield.

    2. Patio Kev
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Depends who you picked on the free hit though. I still wouldn’t have picked KDB.

      1. DycheDycheBaby
        • 8 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        Anyone on free hit would pick KDB with City having 2 games

    3. Threat Level Midnight
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      39 on a bench boost and 170 overall with Kulu to play. Make your statement make sense to me.

  3. @FPL__Engineer
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Hello top 10k(db)

  4. BobbyDoesNotLook
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Foster got 4 points more this gw than my bb bench in gw 33. 😀

  5. Philosopher's Stones
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    The is turning out to be GW9 part 2, but this time Salah is Havertz.

    1. Rohirrims
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Haha, i had gone for KdB (C) in GW 9 as well only for him to cameo off the bench

  6. HonestBlatter
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Who scores 4 or 5 next GW?

    1. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Salah probably after everyone shifts him for KDB this GW

      1. Patio Kev
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        Salah will play FA Cup Final, GW38 and CL Final. I doubt he even starts in GW37.

    2. NorCal Villan
      • 2 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Shelvey

  7. Hands Guber
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    I was punished for gambling away from Salah(C) so often this season.

    Tonight is reward,finally.

    1. Patio Kev
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Yeah I did the same earlier in the season too. Lost Salah on GW31 Wildcard and haven’t looked back since.

  8. Boomerang V
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    we want more Kdb!

  9. GE
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Salah (C), KDB (VC), can’t complain though!

  10. Atimis
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Was Foden given an assist for that ?

  11. THFC4LIFE
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Foden assist?

  12. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Very skilful move by kdb tc’ers

    1. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      I doubt their OR is very high, in general...

  13. Nightcrawler
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    KDB one more attacking return away from Breaking all time fol record of DGW

    Current is Rooney with 32

  14. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Mark owns Foden?

    Not intended target (Sterling) or area (back post)...

    1. Duke Silver ☑
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      WTF, they've given that? Some shady shiit going on.

    2. Granville
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Nope

  15. jackruet
    • 2 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    108 so far. 32 k overall. Should have just fun and sell salah for kdb which i thought but Chickened out

  16. Riverside Red
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    FH this week , 37 pts to date on bench

    1. Ady87
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      BB, 15 to date on bench lol

  17. HonestBlatter
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    107p and 5 left (captain blank Salah)

  18. Atimis
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    If Foden got an assist it’s another disgrace

  19. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    This is absolutely horrible without kdb not going to lie

    1. jackruet
      • 2 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Could have been a season changer

  20. Sif
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Foster in, 14 points! The stuff Bench Boost dreams are made of!

    1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      \o/

    2. bitm2007
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      37 point BB here.

      1. Rohirrims
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        Lovely

  21. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    That Foden assist took me over the century mark. Unbelievable, all things considered.

  22. jackruet
    • 2 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Wtf kdb

  23. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    2nd in ML behind me tonight has KDB cap, James, Foster, Maddy, Myko thats getting near a ton right there

  24. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    KDB has never scored so many goals in one season

    15 atm

    1. Nate(U)dog(ie)
      • 3 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      He's been encouraged to score more goals of late, probably because nobody finishes off the chances he makes for them

  25. shirtless
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Worst week of 16 FPL seasons! KdB out for Salah(c)! Utter disaster.

    1. JammySprat
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Now that's some Champions League Pep thinking

  26. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Big Gordon & Richarlison fails vs that Watford XI...

  27. BrockLanders
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    107 with Mahrez (c)

    That's quite the achievement

  28. bitm2007
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    37 point BB (Foster, Matip, Gordan, Wadkins), but just 64 from the rest of the team.

  29. Danstoke82
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Literally screaming that I captained Mo over KDB but will happily take the points. Fair play to the TCers.

  30. JammySprat
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Just 1 assist away from KDB Triple Cappers breaching 100points