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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. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Ding in Ollie off

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

    I knew sticking with DCL for 37 weeks would pay off

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

    Ings screamer nearly

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

    SightINGS

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

    Vardy off

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

    Ings on for the winner

  7. GoonerGirl
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Come on Ings, even if just the one goal! Gerrard, should have started him.

  8. Geriatric Unathletic
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    I guess this means Vardy on the bench Sunday? Now what to do? keep or sell?

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

      He injured?

    2. Geriatric Unathletic
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Oh he's off. Small rest then .

  9. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Mount captain next week it is then

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

    Pickford yellow incoming

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

      100%

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

    Ings winner incoming

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

    omg Ings so close

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

    Hoooooooold, Richa.

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

      Off Richa

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

    Funny seeing James as a left-sided central midfielder now.

  15. CostaCoffee
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    White -2 points off the bench, fantastic. Pukki sitting behind him on 8

    1. Bury94
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Havertz coming on has blocked Pukki for me, annoying

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

    Here come Palace leveller in pitch invasion add on time

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

    Isn’t ings a Burnley lad ?

  18. SouthCoastSaint
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Dewsbury hall winner please now no Mount !

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

    Richy off

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

      Too late 🙁

  20. GoonerGirl
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Had C on Richarlison for so long but swapped to Ings. Obviously wrong decision.

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

    into 7 mins of added time at Goodison

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

    Richarlison DGW hero!

  23. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    On 110 atm, what a gameweek!

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

      111 😛

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

        Link up

      2. DBW - Slug's Mortgage …
        • 3 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        112

      3. Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        1 year, 10 months ago

        131 I mean!

        1. Big boy Bowen
          • 7 Years
          1 year, 10 months ago

          *130

          Bloody hell

    2. Nanoelektronicar
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      101

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

      127 here without bonus fpr today yet. Maddison and Buendia

    4. AIRMILES
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      110 also

    5. Yank Revolution
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      97...I'll frickin take it- into the Top 50K for first time this season!

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

    Pope may keep them up one his own

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

    Richarlison or Toney?

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

      I'm possibly selling Rich for Kane.

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

        Might keep and do Coutinho to a Chelsea mid

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

          Yeah that's far more sensible lol. I wouldn't want Coutinho.

  26. pjomara
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    I'm on 30 pts for the GW.
    You're welcome.

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

    got to say Alli is actually played well today

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

      has*

  28. Bury94
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    42 points, eeesh. Disaster week. 11k to 25k. Top 10k dream dead

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

    Do you think Havertz will start next game?

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

      Yes.

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

    Southgate looks so uncomfortable next to Kenwright 😆