{"id":460079,"date":"2026-03-06T04:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460079\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:39:12","slug":"tottenham-v-palace-team-news-xavi-gallagher-benched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460079\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham v Palace team news: Xavi + Gallagher benched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gameweek 29 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) concludes with Tottenham Hotspur hosting Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>TEAM NEWS<\/p>\n<p>The Champions League side enters this match just one point away from the relegation zone after being winless in 10. Therefore, Igor Tudor is shaking things up with four changes to the starting XI.<\/p>\n<p>Out go Xavi Simons (\u00a36.5m), Conor Gallagher (\u00a35.3m), Yves Bissouma (\u00a35.2m) and Radu Dragusin (\u00a34.5m), making way for Mathys Tel (\u00a36.2m), Pape Matar Sarr (\u00a34.5m), Kevin Danso (\u00a34.2m) and Joao Victor de Souza (\u00a34.0m). It\u2019s the latter\u2019s first start for Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>Centre-back Cristian Romero (\u00a35.0m) is serving the final match of his suspension, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk\/2026\/03\/01\/fpl-notes-bruno-haul-sesko-again-lacroix-ban\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palace\u2019s Maxence Lacroix (\u00a35.1m) is also banned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Glasner has changed two spots from Sunday\u2019s defeat at Manchester United. Chadi Riad (\u00a34.0m) and Evann Guessand (\u00a36.2m) replace Lacroix and Brennan Johnson (\u00a36.5m).<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Philippe Mateta\u00a0(\u00a37.5m, knee) will return to training next week, whereas\u00a0Eddie Nketiah\u00a0(\u00a35.4m, hamstring) is out until April.<\/p>\n<p>LINE-UPS<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham Hotspur XI:\u00a0Vicario; Porro, Danso, van de Ven, Souza; Gray, Palhinha, Sarr; Kolo Muani, Solanke, Tel<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Kinsky, Austin, Olusesi, Kyerematen, Xavi, Bissouma, Richarlison, Rowswell, Gallagher       \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crystal Palace XI:\u00a0Henderson; Richards, Riad, Canvot; Mu\u00f1oz, Wharton, Kamada, Mitchell; Guessand, Sarr; Strand Larsen<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Benitez, Lerma, Sosa, Clyne, Devenny, Hughes, Yeremy, Johnson, Uche        \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/FFScoutEditorial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250820-WA0000-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"price change predictions\" class=\"wp-image-144736 webpexpress-processed\" style=\"width:600px\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gameweek 29 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) concludes with Tottenham Hotspur hosting Crystal Palace. TEAM NEWS The Champions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[165400,165401,164243,49,50,74658,51,47,52,48,43744],"class_list":{"0":"post-460079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crystal-palace-team-news","9":"tag-fpl-team-news","10":"tag-gameweek-29","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-spurs-team-news","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-tottenham-team-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}