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Lacazette, Luiz, Ceballos and Pepe on the bench for Arsenal

There are two Premier League matches kicking off at 14:00 BST today.

Arsenal head north to take on Newcastle United at St. James’ Park, while Leicester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers meet at the King Power Stadium.

The headline team news from Tyneside is that Alexandre Lacazette (£9.5m) – who had been a doubt for this game with an ankle knock – is only a substitute, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.0m) leading the line for the Gunners.

David Luiz (£6.0m), Nicolas Pepe (£9.5m) and Dani Ceballos (£5.5m) also have to make do with a place on the bench.

Youngsters Reiss Nelson (£5.5m) and Joe Willock (£5.0m) start behind Aubameyang.

Joelinton (£6.0m) makes his competitive Newcastle debut and will be joined by an out-of-position Miguel Almiron (£6.0m) in attack, with Steve Bruce keeping faith with the wing-back system that Rafael Benitez favoured in 2018/19.

Matt Ritchie (£5.5m) has recovered from injury and will line up on the left flank.

There are no major shocks at Leicester, with Ayoze Perez (£6.5m) making Brendan Rodgers’ starting XI as expected.

Perez joins Jamie Vardy (£9.0m) and James Maddison (£7.0m) in the Foxes’ line-up but Marc Albrighton (£5.5m) drops to the bench as Wilfred Ndidi (£5.0m) is brought in to bolster central midfield.

Wolves are at full strength, with Raul Jimenez (£7.5m) and Diogo Jota (£6.5m) again paired together in a two-pronged attack.

Jimenez and Matt Doherty (£6.0m) both returned from injury lay-offs in the Europa League on Thursday night and the Irish wing-back also makes Nuno Espirito Santo’s first starting XI of the 2019/20 campaign.

Newcastle United XI: Dubravka, Schär, Lascelles, Dummett, Manquillo, Shelvey, Hayden, Longstaff, Ritchie, Almirón, Joelinton.

Arsenal XI: Leno, Maitland-Niles, Chambers, Sokratis, Monreal, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Mkhitaryan, Willock, Nelson, Aubameyang.

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel, Ricardo, Söyüncü, Evans, Chilwell, Ndidi, Choudhury, Tielemans, Maddison, Pérez, Vardy.

Wolves XI: Patricio, Coady, Bennett, Boly, Doherty, Dendoncker, Moutinho, Neves, Jonny, Jota, Jimenez.

Lessons learned from Gameweek 1

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  1. Party time
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Dendoncker jammy

    • Bubz
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Bench points for everyone

      1. svasei - Up (?) the Rovers
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Bilva says hello.

    • LosBlancos
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      WGTA? 😆
      Donkey benched as with most.

      1. Business Cat
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Autosub jam for me 😉

    • SPorting
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Anyone actual start Dendoncker?

      1. 7shadesofsmoke
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        I did 😎

        1. SPorting
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 8 months ago

          Sorry about the VAR

    • robt
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Dubravkas distribution is as bad as his beard

    • Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Remove Mkhi ffs, useless player. Laca and Pepe still on the bench with that donkey playing.

    • Rainer
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Autosubs!

      1. dark91
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Last on my bench 🙁

    • Ricky - it doesn\'t ta…
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Dendoncker!! Well in trossard

    • Four Hit Wonder
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Dendoncker you bench plonker!

    • Piggs Boson
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Donck coming off the bench for Trossard.

      Intended 😎

      1. Business Cat
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Same...masterstroke 😎

    • SEXY SOLO SAUCE
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      As if

    • Herman Toothrot
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Plenty will have played Trossard with Donkey 1st sub.

    • Danstoke82
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Oh no Deondocker had to score didn’t he. Sat on my bench.

      1. Four Hit Wonder
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Value rise

        1. FPL.team
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 8 months ago

          Do you get points for that now?

      2. *sigh*
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Coming off mine for Taylor 🙂

        1. *sigh*
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 8 months ago

          Bloody hate VAR

    • Saxe-Gotha
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      No Trossard, no problem. Thank you, Dendonker!!!!

      1. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Not for long 🙁

      2. Saxe-Gotha
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        wow

    • ChickenTikkaMoSalah
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      The good old bench points...

    • Red Star Toro
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Dendo off the bench for Trossard, loving it

      1. Macam Dave
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Same for me for b Silva

    • Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Dendoncker very highly owned here it seems but how many of those managers had him in their starting 11 i wonder?

    • Joel_J
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Who assisted?

      1. Make Arrows Green Again
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        No goal

    • Chandler Bing
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Very Capoue-esque

    • Guy Demel
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      VAR Review

    • Party time
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Dendoncker ruled out

      • ChickenTikkaMoSalah
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        VAR! NO GOAL

        1. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
          • 14 Years
          4 years, 8 months ago

          I love VAR

          Keeping the Trossard owners in check

      • Make Arrows Green Again
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Ruled out

      • SEXY SOLO SAUCE
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Norwood to Dendoncker?

      • SPorting
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Thanks Mr. VAR

      • Tshelby
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        No goal

      • MITHRRANDIRR
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        VAR NO GOAL !!

      • Gringo Kid
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Dissalowed

      • La Roja
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Var says no goal lol

      • adibo
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Vaaaaaarrrrr