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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.

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

    Really need Mount to come on to block rival's 6 points off Davies.

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

      I need him to come on for a point

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

        Me too. Have Söyuncu third on bench. Not doing him to Matip for the DGW has cost me massively!!!

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

    Coutinho on

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

      Now please score Cout

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

    Big 1 point for Cout owners

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

      *2

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

      It’s like he played a SGW and kept a CS!

  4. Zenith UK
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    I could've had an outstanding week this week, but super happy with how it looks currently

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

    Get ready for the fastest hatrick of the season and a Countinho 19 pointer

  6. Mr. O'Connell
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    HOLD COUTINHO

  7. Stranger Mings
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Sorry if being thick but why won’t Stevie put ings on ?

    1. FPL Emu
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Rested for the helping hand to Livarpool on Sunday

    2. Cilly Bonnolly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Because he knows I got him on my free hit.

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

    Boring Everton winner =[

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

    zaha red coming soon

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

      I hope so

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

    Dcl g

  11. asr
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Gray A

  12. Scholes Out For Summer
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    How has Jota and Mahrez not hauled this week I'll never know 🙁

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

    Scenes

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

    Fair play, Everton.

    That's some turnaround!

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

      Yep

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

    3-2

  16. asr
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Pitch invasion lol

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

      Points deduction ASAP

  17. estheblessed
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    What to do here? Salah and VVD out?

    Schmeical
    VVD, Rudiger, Clyne
    Salah, Son, Madison, Saka
    Weghorst, Kane, Mateta

    Pickford, Burn, Holgate, Ramsey.

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

      Wrong time to ask

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

    I'm guessing there is no chance of a Vardy brace hat trick

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

      So ... 6 goals??

  19. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    scenes

    pitch invasion at goodison

    1. Cilly Bonnolly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Dock them six points.

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

    DCL bap hogger

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

    Everton!! Lampard is a genius!

    1. Cilly Bonnolly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      He really isn’t. He’s almost got them relegated.

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

    Dcl

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

    Points for nobody

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

      Burnley haters

    2. keefy59
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      3 points for Everton !

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

    Ouch... Alonso giving corner and sofascore gives goal sound... And then it is Richa 🙁

    1. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Dont understand

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

        My stream has often been late and sofascore informs about goals with sound.

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

      From green to red, but not complaining.

  25. BeaversWithAttitude
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Woo-hoo! Hahaha!

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

    3 - Calvert-Lewin (35)
    2 - Mateta (29)
    1 - Ayew (27)

    Richarlison (26)
    Eze (25)

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

      🙂 Looks fine now

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

    Arsenal easy ride Sunday

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

      Yeah, decent for Saka and Nketiah

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

    You'd laugh if var disallowed it for something after that pitch invasion.

  29. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Palace you had one job....

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

    Ings on

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

      Finally 🙁