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There are only three 3pm GMT kick-offs this afternoon – but one, above all, is a very significant one from a Fantasy Premier League (FPL) perspective.

Manchester City’s hosting of 20th-placed Wolverhampton Wanderers is the headline act from this trio of matches:

TEAM NEWS

There’s only one place to start with the team news today.

As per the pre-deadline rumours, Erling Haaland and Phil Foden are only among the substitutes for Manchester City this afternoon.

They are among five players to make way from the team sent out to face Bodo/Glimt.

Omar Marmoush starts up front, Antoine Semenyo returns to the side after being ineligible in midweek, and Marc Guehi gets a debut in defence.

Matheus Nunes has recovered from the flu, while Bernardo Silva is back in the side after being suspended in Norway.

Rayan Ait-Nouri, Max Alleyne and Rico Lewis drop to the bench.

Wolves make one alteration, bringing in Jhon Arias for Tolu Arokodare.

At Turf Moor, Burnley are unchanged for their meeting with Tottenham Hotspur.

The Lilywhites welcome back Micky van de Ven, Yves Bissouma and Conor Gallagher after they were unavailable for the midweek win over Borussia Dortmund.

Destiny Udogie and Archie Gray move down to the bench, while Lucas Bergvall is injured.

Dominic Solanke keeps his place, however.

There are two changes for Fulham today: Kevin and the returning Alex Iwobi take the places of Ryan Sessegnon and Sasa Lukic. Lukic is injured.

Brighton’s three alterations see Oliver Boscagli, Carlos Baleba and Yasin Ayari replace Joel Veltman, Jack Hinshelwood and Brajan Gruda.

LINE-UPS

Burnley XI: Dúbravka, Tuanzebe, Esteve, Humphreys, Walker, Ugochukwu, Luis, Pires, Edwards, Anthony, Broja.

Subs: Weiss, Ekdal, Sonne, Mejbri, Laurent, Bruun Larsen, Foster, Tchaouna, Barnes.

Tottenham Hotspur XI: Vicario, Porro, Romero, Danso, van de Ven, Spence, Gallagher, Bissouma, Odobert, Simons, Solanke.

Subs: Kinsky, Drăgușin, Udogie, Byfield, Gray, Williams-Barnet, Tel, Kolo Muani, Scarlett.


Fulham XI: Leno, Castagne, Andersen, Cuenca, Robinson, Berge, Iwobi, Wilson, Smith Rowe, Kevin, Jiménez.

Subs: Lecomte, Bassey, Reed, Cairney, Kusi-Asare, Chukwueze, King, Sessegnon, Diop.

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Verbruggen, Dunk, Van Hecke, Boscagli, Kadioglu, Baleba, Ayari, Gross, Mitoma, Gomez, Welbeck.

Subs: Steele, Rutter, Minteh, Hinshelwood, Kostoulas, Milner, De Cuyper, Veltman, Coppola.


Manchester City XI: Donnarumma, Nunes, Khusanov, Guéhi, O’Reilly, Rodri, Bernardo, Reijnders, Semenyo, Cherki, Marmoush.

Subs: Trafford, Ake, Haaland, Doku, Ait-Nouri, Foden, Mukasa, Alleyne, Lewis.

Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Sa, Tchatchoua, Mosquera, S Bueno, Krejci, H Bueno, Gomes, Andre, Mane, Arias, Hwang.

Subs: Johnstone, Doherty, Wolfe, Agbadou, Lima, Gomes, Larsen, Arokodare, Lopez.


LIVE GAMEWEEK PAGE!

New to Fantasy Football Scout this season is the Live Gameweek page, which you can see on the side menu.

Here you can follow the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DefCon) points roll in, see who the leading players are for xG and more as the games play out, as seen below:

Foden Haaland benched

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  1. Effe
    • 15 Years
    1 day, 47 mins ago

    Hoping for goal involving Haaland and Foden now they are both on

    1. Philosopher's Stones
      • 5 Years
      1 day, 46 mins ago

      Ban

      1. Effe
        • 15 Years
        1 day, 46 mins ago

        🙂

    2. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      1 day, 46 mins ago

      If you don’t ask you don’t get!

  2. fantasist
    • 15 Years
    1 day, 47 mins ago

    Foster 2-1

    Spurs being Spursy

  3. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    1 day, 46 mins ago

    Didn’t Welbeck score?

    1. Effe
      • 15 Years
      1 day, 46 mins ago

      Disallowed I think

    2. Sgt. Schultz
      • 9 Years
      1 day, 46 mins ago

      ruled offside

    3. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      1 day, 46 mins ago

      Offside

      1. Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        1 day, 46 mins ago

        Ah thanks all

    4. Zilla
      • 8 Years
      1 day, 46 mins ago

      VAR'd

    5. fantasist
      • 15 Years
      1 day, 46 mins ago

      Disallowed

  4. Mr. O'Connell
    • 13 Years
    1 day, 46 mins ago

    No serious players captained Haaland

  5. F4L
    • 11 Years
    1 day, 46 mins ago

    frank ➡ the door?

  6. Make United Great Again
    • 13 Years
    1 day, 46 mins ago

    Thomas Frank is surely getting sacked after this..

  7. Sailboats
    • 10 Years
    1 day, 46 mins ago

    Spurs losing LMAO

  8. JBG
    • 7 Years
    1 day, 46 mins ago

    Cherki out will be the most pleasant transfer I do this season

    1. Flynny
      • 10 Years
      1 day, 43 mins ago

      CHerki and ekiteke! Migh Ltd take a hit. Worst w transfers in a long time

  9. Mr. O'Connell
    • 13 Years
    1 day, 46 mins ago

    Cherki CS point. Nice.

  10. Zilla
    • 8 Years
    1 day, 46 mins ago

    OOFF Semenyo hits the post!

    1. Zilla
      • 8 Years
      1 day, 45 mins ago

      would have been a foden assist

    2. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      1 day, 43 mins ago

      🙁

  11. F4L
    • 11 Years
    1 day, 45 mins ago

    dub be a legend and get 1 more save

    1. Sgt. Schultz
      • 9 Years
      1 day, 44 mins ago

      we were surely joking lol. legend our Dub

    2. riot
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      1 day, 44 mins ago

      surely

  12. FCH
    • 5 Years
    1 day, 45 mins ago

    If you already got Gabriel and Saka, who would be your third Arsenal player?
    A - Rice
    B - Timber
    C - Saliba
    D - Other

    1. Ze_Austin
      • 7 Years
      1 day, 44 mins ago

      Rice

      1. Ajax Hamsterdam
        • 11 Years
        1 day, 44 mins ago

        this

  13. Ajax Hamsterdam
    • 11 Years
    1 day, 44 mins ago

    do you think semenyo is becoming a bit of a must have? would you get him on wc? cheers

    1. OneTeamInBristol
      • 2 Years
      1 day, 43 mins ago

      100%

    2. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      1 day, 43 mins ago

      100%

    3. Sailboats
      • 10 Years
      1 day, 43 mins ago

      I would buy him on a WC, yes.

      1. Ajax Hamsterdam
        • 11 Years
        1 day, 41 mins ago

        thanks

    4. riot
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      1 day, 43 mins ago

      city midfield is just such a minefield but surely right now he is ahead of most of Foden/Doku/Cherki/Reijnders

    5. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      1 day, 43 mins ago

      that's what I thought. what a fool not to get him this gw..cheers both

      1. riot
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        1 day, 41 mins ago

        I wouldn't say that, yes he looks good currently but will for sure be an unexpected benching here and there

    6. Old Bull
      • 12 Years
      1 day, 42 mins ago

      Yep

    7. jacob1989
      • 3 Years
      1 day, 38 mins ago

      Probably and yes

    8. Scotty Dog
      • 6 Years
      1 day, 31 mins ago

      Feel he is getting played regularly now due to no champs league but thats about to change soon.

  14. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    1 day, 43 mins ago

    Ah man Semenyo so close

  15. fantasist
    • 15 Years
    1 day, 43 mins ago

    Haaland yellow card would be nice, every point matters

  16. bso
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    1 day, 43 mins ago

    Ekitike not starting? Really sucks. So few decent fwd options

  17. Capocannonieri
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    1 day, 43 mins ago

    Note to self:

    Phil Foden is a pile of trash, never, never have this rubbish in your squad. Delete him from your algorithms so he never even appears in stats. Code his name as Basura.

    He joins Sterling, Morata, Martial, Trashford, and Alonso in the heap

    1. fantasist
      • 15 Years
      1 day, 41 mins ago

      Those who had him during those double digit gws prob disagree lol

    2. jacob1989
      • 3 Years
      1 day, 36 mins ago

      U didn't have him when he got the 15 pointers?

  18. Babit1967
    • 9 Years
    1 day, 42 mins ago

    Cmon Anderson 1 more dc

    1. Drizzle
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 2 Years
      1 day, 41 mins ago

      If you're talking about Andersen, he's been on 9 for ages

      1. Babit1967
        • 9 Years
        1 day, 38 mins ago

        Yes that’s the guy haha

    2. ball c
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      1 day, 40 mins ago

      Think he’s got it now

      1. Babit1967
        • 9 Years
        1 day, 38 mins ago

        Woohoo

      2. Gizzachance
        • 11 Years
        1 day, 38 mins ago

        Yeah, first on bench, then foden an haaland both come on !

  19. Albrightondknight
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    1 day, 42 mins ago

    Must be a lot of Semenyo C

    1. TallestJohn
      • 8 Years
      1 day, 38 mins ago

      I'm still wondering why he isn't in more teams. It felt like he was close to 100% EO earlier in the season. Was it just that one game he missed that made people sell?

      1. Albrightondknight
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        1 day, 36 mins ago

        I can’t understand why he is not 100% owned.

  20. fedolefan
    • 11 Years
    1 day, 42 mins ago

    Damn man had Haaland (c) Semenyo (vc)

    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      1 day, 40 mins ago

      sorry bout that

  21. Biggsy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    1 day, 40 mins ago

    ML leader had Bowen VC. Must be steaming about that Haaland sub...

  22. F4L
    • 11 Years
    1 day, 39 mins ago

    dub i love you

    1. F4L
      • 11 Years
      1 day, 38 mins ago

      * 9 saves

  23. #1 Salah Hater
    • 1 Year
    1 day, 38 mins ago

    Ekitike benched for Gakpo? What goes on inside Arne Slot's big fat bald head must be studied

  24. Albrightondknight
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    1 day, 38 mins ago

    Some save from Dub

  25. jacob1989
    • 3 Years
    1 day, 38 mins ago

    Wilson useless since i got him

  26. The Mandalorian
    • 13 Years
    1 day, 37 mins ago

    Thomas Frank currently being mass sold.

    1. jacob1989
      • 3 Years
      1 day, 36 mins ago

      Lost vs west ham and now burnley. Surely fired now

  27. bso
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    1 day, 36 mins ago

    Who are the three best forwards for now?

  28. Mr. O'Connell
    • 13 Years
    1 day, 36 mins ago

    Dubravka currently on 8 times as many points as Haaland

  29. fantasist
    • 15 Years
    1 day, 36 mins ago

    Ekitike being benched is disappointing for my last minute captain switch. Must've been a false leak that he's definitely starting

  30. F4L
    • 11 Years
    1 day, 36 mins ago

    dont own but andersen on for a haul