Dugout Discussion

Aubameyang and Lacazette start together against Fulham

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.4m) and Alexandre Lacazette (£9.4m) get the nod to line up front together as Arsenal take on Fulham at the Emirates Stadium this afternoon.

That means the 12th start in a row for the Gabon international, who has played virtually every minute of the Gunners’ Christmas fixtures, minus the last 20 at Anfield in Gameweek 20.

It looks as if Aubameyang will be on the left of a front three, with Lacazette operating centrally and Alex Iwobi (£5.4m) on the opposite flank.

Lucas Torreira (£5.1m) finds himself on the bench again with Matteo Guendouzi (£4.5m) and Granit Xhaka (£5.3m) preferred in central midfield.

Sead Kolasinac (£4.9m) and Ainsley Maitland-Niles (£4.4m) are the wing-backs while Shkodran Mustafi (£5.4m) comes through his injury doubts to feature in a back-three alongside Laurent Koscielny (£5.4m) and Sokratis Papastathopoulos (£5.1m).

Fulham are without Calum Chambers (£4.2m), who is ineligible to face his parent club Arsenal, as Claudio Ranieri appears to be going with a five-man defence.

Joe Bryan (£4.8m) and Cyrus Christie (£4.2m) appear to be operating in the wide areas, either side of Tim Ream (£4.2m), Maxime Le Marchand (£4.2m) and Denis Odoi (£4.4m).

Ryan Sessegnon (£6.0m) returns to the side as Aboubakar Kamara (£4.4m) suffers for his penalty antics against Huddersfield by dropping to the bench.

Arsenal XI (3-4-3): Leno; Sokratis, Mustafi, Koscielny; Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Maitland-Niles; Aubameyang, Lacazette; Iwobi.

Fulham XI (5-2-3): Rico; Bryan, Ream, Le Marchand, Odoi, Christie; Cissé, Cairney; Sessegnon, Mitrovic, Schürrle.

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1,758 Comments Post a Comment
  1. tm245
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Kamara coming on to redeem himself.

  2. Garlana
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Aubam even looking lively?

    1. noahzark22
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      headed chance in the first half

    2. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Yes, not looking good though.

  3. DR0GBA
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Kamara coming on

    1. GOTHAM City F.C.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Surprising.

      1. Numb
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Not really. Ranieri not going to be unprofessional to satisfy his own anger

        1. SADIO SANÉ
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          agree, people going over the top with all that stuff

          1. Pierce34
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 5 months ago

            Yeah. Ranieri clarified that his problem was that Kamara didn't prioritise the good of the team. Once Kamara later apologised, Ranieri said he'll play him if it benefits the team.

            1. SADIO SANÉ
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 5 months ago

              yeah, even Mitro said it's no big deal - he's also better than Vietto so always likely to come on (people are also forgetting he didn't actually start the last game either)

            2. GOTHAM City F.C.
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 5 months ago

              Had they lost the game it might've been different reaction

  4. My heart goes Salalalalah
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Did Laca to Vardy before getting Ings and Salah. Had Laca for 4gws before

  5. Random Name
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Lacazette almost again. He's hungry.

  6. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    3 more in this for Arsenal.

    1. Chucky
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Auba hattie?

  7. Monkey Hanger
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Kola only owned by 3.9% overall.

    1. Richd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      I got rid of him and Laca. Joyous.

      1. Pierce34
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        I just got Lacazette in for a hit. First time a random hunch has paid off.

        1. AndyCook
            5 years, 5 months ago

            A hit is his goal..

      2. Epic Fail
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Xhaka only owned by 2.6%

        1. J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          Mark Noble only owned by 0.2%

    2. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Ak 47 coming on

    3. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Kamaraaaa comesss

    4. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Shirley off for Kamara

    5. LarryDuff
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Kola assist

      1. Chucky
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Ok

      2. Patch
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        How many now??

      3. KUN+10
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Dial up?

      4. LarryDuff
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Very dodgy stream apologies haha

        1. Chucky
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          lol

    6. Arctic monkeys
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Kamara on, would love a Fulham peno

      1. noahzark22
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        lol

    7. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Kola doing really well for me as I managing to play him for his hauls and bench him for his blanks.

      1. Ha.
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        You benched him against Fulham?

      2. bigwig
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        that always feels good

      3. Whats the Huth
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Why bench him vs Fulham though?

    8. tiger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Kamara career back on

    9. Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Chances my Mustafi gets an early rest to lock in the CS? Still think chances are high Arsenal will concede.

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        🙂

    10. CrouchDown
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Auba + Richarlison > Salah + Ings ?

      1. Epic Fail
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Yes.

      2. Cilly Bonnolly
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Yup. And when they blank next week, get rid of them. Keep doing that and you'll win this thing.

    11. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      3 - Kolasinac (45)
      2 - Xhaka (39)
      1 - Koscielny (31)

      Kola is the one!

      1. GOTHAM City F.C.
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Was*

      2. Whats the Huth
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Would you buy him in? I’m thinking of selling to TAA

    12. southernpacific
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Iwobi is costing arsenal so many goals. He needs replacing

    13. ☆Khaz
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Iwobi having a horrible match..

    14. gooberman
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Another fail coming up then. It seems that captaining the league's leading scorer who is playing at home against the team with the worst defence was somehow the wrong decision. Eff off FPL!

      1. grumpyman
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        85% of FPL managers worked out there were better options.

        1. grumpyman
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          Sorry that came across more harshly than I anticipated. Apologies!

      2. sozopol
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Doesn't bode well for Kane(c) does it

        1. noahzark22
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          but it DOES. he's away this week.

      3. Revival
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        His performance in the Liverpool game put me off captaining him, still hopeful of a late goal mind

      4. Business Cat
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        It was on one of the FFS videos over Xmas where it was mentioned that Fulham's defensive stats had improved in recent weeks, so they're probably not the worst defence in the league any more.

        That honour's probably now reserved for Southampton...good for us Hazard captainers 😉

    15. BenDavies
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Come on Laca lets stat pad now!

      1. Maddi Son
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Fair play for holding onto Laca this long. I thought I was patient keeping him for 4 weeks after some solid Emery trolling.

        1. BenDavies
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          He's off in the next two weeks but good to finally see a goal from him.

    16. Alli 3',17',64�…
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      U know Kola is that kind of guy where you try to chat to him and he keeps lookignat his phone all the time and is super distant

      1. Les Bleus
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        What does this have to do with him as a football player?

    17. Whats the Huth
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Been planning Kola to TAA
      Still worth doing?

    18. seewhyaxe
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      does xhaka even have a 50% pass completion rate?

    19. SweeSwee
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Mitrovic looking good?

      1. Bubz
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        No

      2. JustPark
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Different people, different taste.

    20. Chucky
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Auba capo my 2nd captain fail this season 🙁

      1. OPTA FPL
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        only 2 is very good you're greedy

      2. Arctic monkeys
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Chill Chucko, plenty of time to get a brace

    21. OPTA FPL
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Come on take Auba off

    22. Hotdogs for Tea
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      It’s like the Keystone Cops out there

    23. JustPark
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Laca elbowed!

    24. Alli 3',17',64�…
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Laca on the floor crying

      1. tiger
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        He has Auba in his FPL team?

      2. Patch
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Hopefully not injured....