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Thursday team news: Ings, Coutinho and Mount benched

Double Gameweek 37 comes to a conclusion this evening with three more Premier League matches.

Everton v Crystal Palace gets underway at 19:45 BST, with Chelsea v Leicester City and Aston Villa v Burnley kicking off 15 minutes later.

The match at Stamford Bridge is a bit of a glorified dead rubber but the other two fixtures are of huge importance at the foot of the English top flight, with Burnley and Everton battling to save themselves from the drop.

There is massive interest from a Fantasy Premier League (FPL) perspective, too. Of the 25 players with the highest ‘effective ownership’ (EO) figures in the top 10k, 16 have a fixture this evening (see below) – and 13 of them start:

Danny Ings, Philippe Coutinho and Mason Mount are the only three players in ‘green’ above who are among the substitutes this evening.

Coutinho and Ings drop out of the Villa XI, along with the similarly benched Marvelous Nakamba and the injured Ezri Konsa.

Emiliano Buendía, Calum Chambers, Carney Chukwuemeka and Jacob Ramsey are recalled.

Villa are tonight up against relegation-threatened Burnley, who make only one change from the narrow loss to Tottenham Hotspur.

James Tarkowski is back from injury, as Matt Lowton drops to the bench. The Clarets are again starting in a wing-back system, as they did in north London.

Over at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea make two changes from the FA Cup final as N’Golo Kante and Hakim Ziyech come into the side.

Mount is joined among the substitutes by the fit-again Kai Havertz but Mateo Kovacic and Timo Werner are injured and absent.

Kasper Schmeichel returns to the Leicester side this evening, with Kelechi Iheanacho, Daniel Amartey and Luke Thomas also starting.

Out go Danny Ward and Harvey Barnes, both of whom are on the bench, and the missing Youri Tielemans and James Justin.

Frank Lampard’s only alteration to the Everton line-up sees Michael Keane come in to replace the suspended Jarrad Branthwaite.

Patrick Vieira continues his end-of-season tinkering with Palace, as the midfield trio of Conor Gallagher, Cheikhou Kouyaté and Luka Milivojevic are replaced by Jeffrey Schlupp, Will Hughes and Jordan Ayew.

DOUBLE GAMEWEEK 37 LINE-UPS

Everton XI: Pickford, Coleman, Keane, Holgate, Mykolenko, Iwobi, Doucoure, Gomes, Gordon, Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison

Subs: Begovic, Kenny, Godfrey, Allan, Davies, Van de Beek, Alli, Gray Welch

Crystal Palace XI: Butland, Clyne, Anderson, Guehi, Mitchell, Hughes, Schlupp, Ayew, Eze, Mateta, Zaha

Subs: Guaita, Ward, Kelly, Kouyaté, Milivojevic, Édouard, Gallagher, Rak-Sakyi, Benteke


Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Cash, Chambers, Mings, Digne, Ramsey, Luiz, McGinn, Buendia, Watkins, Chukwuemeka.

Subs: Sanson, Traore, Young, Nakamba, Ings, Coutinho, Olsen, Iroegbunam, Feeney.

Burnley XI: Pope, Roberts, Long, Collins, Tarkowski, Taylor, Brownhill, Cork, McNeil, Cornet, Barnes.

Subs: Lowton, Weghorst, Hennessey, Stephens, Lennon, Bardsley, Thomas, Dodgson, Costelloe.


Chelsea XI: Mendy, Chalobah, Thiago Silva, Rudiger, James, Jorginho, Kante, Alonso, Ziyech, Pulisic, Lukaku.

Subs: Arrizabalaga, Loftus-Cheek, Saul, Barkley, Mount, Kenedy, Azpilicueta, Havertz, Sarr.

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel, Amartey, Fofana, Evans, Mendy, Castagne, Maddison, Dewsbury-Hall, Thomas, Vardy, Iheanacho.

Subs: Soyuncu, Barnes, Albrighton, Ward, Perez, Choudhury, Ricardo Pereira, Daka, Lookman.

1,600 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Muchentuchel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    really feelin sorry for merseyside blue, they just should stay up

  2. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Zaha YC

    1. Fabreghastly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Could be a good player if he ever gets his head straight

      1. JJO
        • 11 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        He is just not intelligent enough unfortunately
        Would be a cracking player

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

    Do something, Vardy!

    1. The Knights Template
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Bootscoot’n please.

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

    Get Countinho on you muppet

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

      Traore on

      Does that help ?

    2. JJO
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      +1
      And also Ings
      Cant believe he is only gonna play 60-70mins in dgw

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

    Traore on for Chukwuemeka, no Cout or Ings yet

  6. circusmonkey
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    On YouTube today, I saw 'unfair decisions against Arsenal 21-22'. I kid you not. Unsurprisingly it was completely one eyed.

    1. The Knights Template
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      One eyed snigger snigger

  7. Cinnamon Jackson
    • 2 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Mount likely to stay on bench? Need Alonso points..

    1. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Can’t see it when they are not winning

    2. Camino Aleatorio
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Should be coming on soon, might pop a cheeky goal

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

    Matty Gash.

    1. Twisted Saltergater
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      chortle

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

      Meaty Gash

  9. Tasty Jerk
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Gallagher on for Schlupp

    1. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Sweet point

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

    Pulisic WTF

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

    Desmond

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

    Richhhhhh

  13. FPL_ UP_Down
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Hopefully Villa gets absolutely Hammered!
    Deserve it

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

      I agree

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

    Scenes!

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

    RICHARLISSSSSOOON

  16. EL tridente
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Captain Richa!!

  17. MIGHTY JOE
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Rich my captain!! Get in

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

    richgoal

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

    Oh captain my captain

  20. Il Capitano
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    yessss

  21. Cruyff's Eleven
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Richarlison

    G. O. A. T

  22. TomSaints
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Urghhh

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

      Such an obvious choice in himdsight

  23. Total Foot 5 - romario 11
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Richarlison relentless ..get in

  24. COLLIN QUANER
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Richyyyyyy babyyyyyy

  25. Muchentuchel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    ohh my captain

  26. fish&chips
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Rich FFS. Ings captaincy severely punished

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

      Will he even get on pitch today?

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

    Richa C! This gw saves my season

  28. _Ninja_
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Captain points for the good guys.

    1. COLLIN QUANER
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Thanks Ninja

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

    Do i cheer as Rich owner not capper?

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

      116% EO in top 10k

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

        Damn

  30. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Richy the only decent Everton player