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17 August 2019 1753 comments
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Unai Emery has made three changes to Arsenal’s opening Premier League win against Newcastle with David Luiz (£6.0m) Dani Ceballos (£5.5m) and Alexandre Lacazette (£9.5m) starting for the Gunners against Burnley. 

The Spaniard has opted to drop Callum Chambers (£4.5m) to give Brazilian Luiz his Arsenal debut, whilst handing Ceballos his first start.

Lacazette also joins the Arsenal attack with Henrik Mhikitaryan (£7.0m) dropping to the bench. 

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.0m), selected by 29% of managers and who came second in our Gameweek 2 captaincy poll with 17.84% of the vote, has retained his started berth.

He found the net on opening weekend at Newcastle and will have the expectation of many a Fantasy manager on his shoulders this lunch-time.

Arsenal academy duo Joe Willock (£5.5m) and Reiss Nelson (£5.0m) will also start their second successive league games for the club after impressing at St. James’ Park.

Alongside Ceballos, Willock and Nelson could offer value for money if they can start racking up some Fantasy points – so there will be plenty of attention on them this afternoon.

Meanwhile, for Burnley, Sean Dyche has opted to name an unchanged starting XI following the Clarets’ impressive 3-0 victory over Southampton last weekend. 

Dyche’s backline of Matt Lowton (£4.5m) James Tarkowski (£5.0m) Ben Mee (£5.0m) and Erik Pieters (£4.5m) will be marshalled by keeper Nick Pope (£4.5m) as the Clarets bid to keep yet another clean-sheet.

Striker Ashley Barnes (£6.5m) scored a brace last weekend, and Dyche will be hoping his talismanic striker can have a similar impact against Emery’s Arsenal.

Arsenal XI: Leno; Monreal, Sokratis, D Luiz, Maitland-Niles; Willock, Guendouzi, Ceballos; Nelson, Lacazette, Aubameyang.

Burnley XI: Pope; Pieters, Mee, Tarkowski, Lowton; McNeil, Westwood, Cork, Gudmundsson; Barnes, Wood.

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  1. Differentiator
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Got to save that Pope

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Shouldn't have been allowed to get the shot off. Great from Lacazette but really poor from Pieters.

  2. Random Name
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Lacazette ending everyone's week with pope already. My guy

    1. Pacer.
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Nobody owns Pope for away clean sheets. 4 years on the board you should know that

      1. Random Name
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        the sorta thing a salty pope owner would say

    2. Ha.
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      He’s still got more points than Button

  3. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Peters will be out of the team next week for that.

  4. Smurf
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Ceballos would be a great pick but surely Ozil, Mhki and Pépé (formation change) are a threat. Regardless of what you think of Ozil there no way he doesn’t get a game.

    1. SADIO SANÉ
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Ramsey role, could be nailed

    2. Four Hit Wonder
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      That's not his competition. He's a Xavi, a Ramsey, a Modric, a Dilva.

  5. MTPockets
    6 years, 11 months ago

    You can see other's transfers - just add /transfers to their link
    ie.. https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/xxxx/transfers

    1. Bolivian Seaman
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Thanks!

    2. Jimmy Boy
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Nice one

    3. gamesmad11
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Holy...

    4. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Whoever runs this website is a joke.

      1. soup natsi
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        not sure if they actually meant to hide transfer after gw update

        1. Sponge-worthy
          • 13 Years
          6 years, 11 months ago

          No transfers for you!

        2. Hazz
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          6 years, 11 months ago

          Yeah - very high possibility they just have 'switched-on' a component.

    5. gamesmad11
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Does this work only after a deadline?

    6. thomas19390
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Doesn't work

      1. bitars
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        "Page not found"

      2. Root
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        It does

    7. camarozz
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Nice

    8. ENZO SZN™
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      How can this be useful if we can only see the transfers after the deadline?

    9. thomas19390
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      page not found

    10. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Mark’s not made any transfers yet

      https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/21074/transfers

  6. Egg noodle
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Goalkeeper error

  7. Ha.
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    I wish Emery would always start Laca

  8. Differential C (Mark)
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Now to shamelessly brag that I captained Lacazette haha

  9. S.Kuqi
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    5.5 Arsenal mid taking set pieces. I'm interested

  10. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Onions at 5.5, essential?

    1. Ha.
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Makes me cry

    2. GOTHAM City F.C.
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      I don't do onions

    3. Marvin.
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Onions is cebollas not ceballos dude.

      1. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
        • 10 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        Yes, the point is it's close, and an obvious joke to make...

    4. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      It's not chalot of money

      1. GoonerSteve
        • 16 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        Boom boom

      2. Das Boot
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        lol. Did that just "spring" to mind

  11. OPTA FPL
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Cannt see rival trade even after deadline??

    1. SADIO SANÉ
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      nope

    2. Epic Fail
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Yes. Look at who they had last week and look at who they have this week.

  12. jtreble
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Pope poor on that goal.

  13. how now brown cow
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    How I've missed that having the wrong arsenal striker feeling

    1. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Awesome isn't it? 😎

  14. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Leno CS locked in, well played those who started him. Start counting his bonus points as well.

    1. GOTHAM City F.C.
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Can you pls say Auba cappers got it right as well?

    2. 1zverGGadeM
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Now Burnley's goal incoming then..

    3. Four Hit Wonder
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      What a save!!!

  15. FOO FIGHTER
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Lacazette seems to be stealing the show. Who captained Auba?

    1. GoonerSteve
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Yep

  16. Kenny Dogleash
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Can you still see transfers made by other players in your mini league? Seems to have disappeared

    1. Differentiator
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Change name to Kennel Dogleash pls

  17. Differential C (Mark)
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Ceballos taking corners? Now we're talking

  18. teddypicker
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Now I need Pope pen save to recover this awful gwk

    1. George Sillett
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      It's the first game.

      1. teddypicker
        • 16 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        😀

    2. Random Name
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Your buddy up there chewed me out about my 4 years because "Pope is only for home games" and you've got 9

      But you're right to be angry - who picks an fpl gk just for home games? LMAO

      1. teddypicker
        • 16 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        Chill dude, I'm messing. I'm Pope and 4m

  19. Random Name
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    No striker in the world is better facing away from goal than lacazette, did it a few times last season too notably against Liverpool

    1. Zilla
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      HE'S BACK

  20. Zilla
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    damn that's close af

  21. Pacer.
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    You can see team history in the third party app. You just click on their points on the team sheets page and go to game week history

  22. @persecuted_by_mods
    6 years, 11 months ago

    How's Ceballos doing? He was my only punt this year

    1. SADIO SANÉ
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      playing well, kinda deep

      1. @persecuted_by_mods
        6 years, 11 months ago

        Nice thanks, looked Cazorla esque from what I saw so went for him

    2. Fred54
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Bit harsh...oh punt.

    3. FOO FIGHTER
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Taking corners

    4. Forza Papac
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Pulling the strings.

  23. HurriKane
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    FPL losing its fun element

    - Cant see other teams TV
    - Cant see other teams transfers

    What next? ,#SaveUsMark

    1. Davido989
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      I understand transfers, but why would you care about someone else's team value?

      1. Team Cruel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        So you can laugh at them when you realise they can't make certain moves without taking hits

      2. HurriKane
        • 13 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        Trying to predict their transfers before gw based on tv to stay one step ahead mate. crucial at later stages in ml

    2. Pacer.
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Yes you can see TV. Explore it

      1. Pacer.
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        And yes you can see transfers

    3. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Probably Mark that changed it because of all the stalkers trying to copy his moves

    4. @persecuted_by_mods
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Fpl becoming more fun now awful players have to make their own moves instead of copying good players

  24. ALegendJ
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Even now you can't view the transfers made by rivals?

    1. ALegendJ
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Sorry, saw similar posts above

      1. Down with this sort of thin…
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        Thanks, just seeing this now also. Bit convoluted no?

    2. Down with this sort of thin…
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Was just about to ask that, do you now have to manually check their previous gameweek to see what transfers your rivals have made?

  25. The Overthinker
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Wood has been. Useless

    1. Pacer.
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      He gets goals though

  26. Valar(Keith)
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Luiz joined arsenal so that if guendouzi does any good work in the box ppl would credit it to luiz

    1. Davido989
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Or maybe he joined Arsenal so that when he makes his usual errors, people blame Guendouzi.

      1. Valar(Keith)
        • 16 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        Genius either way 🙂

  27. Four Hit Wonder
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Ceballos essential.

    1. Nomar
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      This week’s £5.5m must have.

      Last week it was McGinn

      1. Four Hit Wonder
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        So McGinn to Ceballos is a no brainer then 🙂

        1. Hairy Potter
          • 11 Years
          6 years, 11 months ago

          Then Ceballos to Sissoko after next week...

  28. Differentiator
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Ceballos is the new Xhaka

    1. Fred54
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      How dare you insult the latest FFS fad?!

  29. Poseidon.
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Lucky Arsenal

  30. Pacer.
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    PLAY UP POMPEY!!!!!!