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Gameweek 36 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) kicks off with four fixtures at 3pm BST, including the match that dominated pre-deadline discussion on site: Southampton v Manchester City.

The rumours were true about Erling Haaland starting, with the Norwegian set for his first appearance since Gameweek 29.

And the pre-deadline speculation about a benching for Omar Marmoush and a start for Kevin De Bruyne were also spot-on.

In total, Pep Guardiola has made five changes to his line-up today.

Haaland, Rico Lewis, Manuel Akanji, James McAtee and Phil Foden come in, with Marmoush, Nico O’Reilly, Matheus Nunes, Jeremy Doku and Ilkay Gundogan ousted.

As for Southampton, their three changes see Welington, Tyler Dibling and James Bree replace Kyle Walker-Peters, Ryan Manning and Ross Stewart.

There’s just one alteration across the two sides at Portman Road, where Ipswich Town take on unchanged Brentford.

Axel Tuanzebe replaces Luke Woolfenden for the hosts.

At Molineux, Vitor Pereira brings in Goncalo Guedes for Jeanricner Bellegarde in his only tweak.

Brighton and Hove Albion are missing Lewis Dunk, so in comes Adam Webster. Tariq Lamptey and Yasin Ayari also replace Jack Hinshelwood and Simon Adingra.

Finally, at Craven Cottage, there are five changes across the two sides.

Andreas Pereira and Emile Smith Rowe get recalls, with Saka Lukic and Antonee Robinson both missing out. Ryan Sessegnon will move back to left-back.

Ashley Young, Jack Harrison and Abdoulaye Doucoure replace Nathan Patterson, Iliman Ndiaye and Dwight McNeil for the Toffees.

LINE-UPS

Fulham XI: Leno, Tete, Bassey, Andersen, Sessegnon, Berge, Pereira, Smith Rowe, Wilson, Iwobi, Jimenez.

Subs: Benda, Cairney, Adama, Vinicius, Cuenca, Willian, King, Diop, Godo.

Everton XI: Pickford, Young, Keane, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Garner, Gueye, Harrison, Doucoure, Alcaraz, Beto.

Subs: Virginia, Patterson, McNeil, Calvert-Lewin, Ndiaye, Chermiti, Broja, Coleman, Iroegbunam.


Ipswich Town XI: Palmer, Tuanzebe, O‘Shea, Burgess, Greaves, Morsy, Taylor, Hutchinson, Chaplin, Enciso, Delap.

Subs: Walton, Woolfenden, Cajuste, Johnson, Luongo, Hirst, Godfrey, Clarke, Boniface.

Brentford XI: Flekken, Kayode, Collins, Van den Berg, Lewis-Potter, Norgaard, Yarmoliuk, Mbuemo, Damsgaard, Schade, Wissa.

Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Pinnock, Jensen, Thiago, Mee, Konak, Maghoma, Nunes.


Southampton XI: Ramsdale, Harwood-Bellis, Bednarek, Stephens, Bree, Downes, Ugochukwu, Welington, Dibling, Fernandes, Sulemana.

Subs: McCarthy, Manning, Wood, Sugawara, Aribo, Smallbone, Stewart, Archer, Onuachu.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Lewis, Akanji, Dias, Gvardiol, Kovacic, De Bruyne, Bernardo, McAtee, Foden, Haaland.

Subs: Ortega Moreno, Marmoush, Grealish, Doku, Nico, Gundogan, Savinho, Nunes, O’Reilly.


Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Sa, Semedo, Doherty, Agbadou, Toti, Ait-Nouri, Andre, J.Gomes, Munetsi, Cunha, Guedes.

Subs: Bentley, Djiga, Bueno, R.Gomes, Traore, Bellegarde, Sarabia, Mane, Strand Larsen.

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Verbruggen, Lamptey, van Hecke, Webster, Estupiñán, Baleba, Wieffer, Minteh, O’Riley, Ayari, Welbeck.

Subs: Steele, Igor, Cashin, Gruda, Mitoma, Gomez, Hinshelwood, Howell, Adingra.



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  1. Nightcrawler
    • 6 Years
    7 months, 12 days ago

    Wood(c) looking okay so far. Mbuemo assist is annoying tho

    1. _Ninja_
      • 15 Years
      7 months, 12 days ago

      Hope Wood smashes it for you since i have him.

  2. Differentiator
    • 10 Years
    7 months, 12 days ago

    Very surprised at how low ownership Watkins is

    Could've bagged a major haul last week

    1. TOLV TUMS
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 months, 12 days ago

      Hoping he and Rogers have a banner day today

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        7 months, 12 days ago

        Rogers is in my bench, but Watkins is starting for me.

  3. Bonus magnet
    • 9 Years
    7 months, 12 days ago

    At least TC KdB scored more points than TC Sadio Mane

    1. TOLV TUMS
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 months, 12 days ago

      Or TC Carlos Tevez

    2. LOS BLANCOS
      • 10 Years
      7 months, 12 days ago

      Or TC Andy Carroll

  4. gooberman
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 months, 12 days ago

    Imagine ripping your team apart and taking hits just to accommodate Haaland.

    1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
      • 9 Years
      7 months, 12 days ago

      It was silly

    2. The-Red-1
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 months, 12 days ago

      Some don't need to imagine, sadly

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        7 months, 12 days ago

        Oh dear!

    3. Punned It
        7 months, 12 days ago

        My rival TCd Haaland B)

        1. RedLightning
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 15 Years
          7 months, 11 days ago

          So did Mark.

    4. Punned It
        7 months, 12 days ago

        Well, billocks so far. Wissa, Mbuemo cap and Marms.

      • Andy_Social
        • 13 Years
        7 months, 12 days ago

        Bit rubbish that, although 9 points from differential Dias are not to be sniffed at.

      • DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
        • 9 Years
        7 months, 12 days ago

        19 from 3. The only disappointment, Wissa scored exactly half of what Haaland managed.

        1. bitm2007
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          7 months, 12 days ago

          33 from 6 with my two new recruits (Wiisa & Cunha) scoring a point combined.

        2. Zalk
          • 14 Years
          7 months, 12 days ago

          18p from 4/12

        3. Silecro
          • 8 Years
          7 months, 12 days ago

          15 from 4. Bad.

      • gooberman
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        7 months, 12 days ago

        So much for attacking the relegated teams. Ipswich and Southampton ruining the party. Hope Leicester dont continue that trend.

        1. Gubby-Allen
          • 4 Years
          7 months, 12 days ago

          You should be attacking Arsenal, Man Utd and Tottenham for having minds on other things.

          Add West Ham to that who have nothing to play for since about September

          1. Atimis
            • 9 Years
            7 months, 12 days ago

            Arsenal?

            1. AC/DC AFC
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 10 Years
              7 months, 12 days ago

              They might have a Wednesday night Paris hangover effect tbf for the wrong reasons.

          2. gooberman
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            7 months, 12 days ago

            well the relegated teams don't have anything to play for and are also awful.

            1. have you seen cyan
              • 6 Years
              7 months, 12 days ago

              Nah, they do have something to play for, the fans. That's why they normally perform better once relegated and the pressure is off. They obviously know they had a bad season, so the only logical thing left to do is try and give something back to the fans.

              I'm actually getting Enciso in this week. 2 Nice fixtures.

              1. have you seen cyan
                • 6 Years
                7 months, 12 days ago

                Also, some players from relegated teams probably play a bit better hoping a PL team might them?

              2. x.jim.x
                • 11 Years
                7 months, 12 days ago

                Yeah I've seen this "nothing to play for" nonsense a few times on here and it winds me up a bit. There's plenty of motivation for players regardless of table position - fans, personal pride, goal bonuses, putting yourself in the shop window, cementing your place next season, etc.

                1. Scapegoat Salah
                  • 9 Years
                  7 months, 12 days ago

                  Yeah but that’s largely motivation for individual players rather than collectively as a team

                  1. x.jim.x
                    • 11 Years
                    7 months, 12 days ago

                    Almost as if the individual players are part of the same team

                  2. have you seen cyan
                    • 6 Years
                    7 months, 12 days ago

                    IDK, I can picture someone like Vardy in the dressing room giving a speech about putting in performances for the fans.

                    In regard to teams performing better with no pressure, you see this all the time in other sports and competitions too.

      • Merlin the Wraith
        • 9 Years
        7 months, 12 days ago

        C'mon then Demba, where are ya?

        1. Hazz
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          7 months, 12 days ago

          Oof

      • BobbyDoesNotLook
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        7 months, 12 days ago

        Verbruggen mega points! I deserve that after losing last second differential Kepa mega haul on FH.

      • ball c
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        7 months, 12 days ago

        Took the risk of bringing Haaland in.. didn’t pay off but no loss in that as chasing. Probably have to move him on to Watkins next

      • Flynny
        • 10 Years
        7 months, 12 days ago

        Thoughts on haaland starting the Bournemouth game 3 days after fa cup final?

        With champs league in the line I guess he will....

      • Eightball
        • 5 Years
        7 months, 12 days ago

        AM on Pep instead of Frank, Cunha instead of Wood. Got both my decisions wrong this week 🙁

      • Sun Jihai
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        7 months, 12 days ago

        Watkins G