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Tight calf for absent Aubameyang as Everton host Arsenal

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.4m) is absent for Arsenal as they travel to Everton in Gameweek 14.

The Fantasy Premier League midfielder misses out due to a tight calf, replaced in the starting line-up by Eddie Nketiah (£5.5m).

Willian (£7.6m) and Nicolas Pépé (£7.6m) flank the former Leeds loanee, as Mikel Arteta continues with 3-4-3, despite the return of Hector Bellerín (£5.1m) on the bench, whose suspension triggered the return to that shape last time out.

Bukayo Saka (£5.2m) and Ainsley Maitland-Niles (£4.6m) are the wing-backs with Kieran Tierney (£5.3m), David Luiz (£5.4m) and Rob Holding (£4.4m) the three-man defence.

Everton make an enforced change of their own, Tom Davies (£5.2m) coming in for Allan (£5.3m). André Gomes (£5.4m) might have claimed the Brazilian’s place had he not sustained an injury of his own in the build-up to Gameweek 14.

Having collected two clean sheets in the last two matches, Carlo Ancelotti retains faith with Ben Godfrey (£5.0m) and Mason Holgate (£4.8m) at full-back although Robin Olsen (£4.5m) drops back to the bench for Jordan Pickford (£4.8m) to start in goal once again.

Everton XI: Pickford; Godfrey, Mina, Keane, Holgate; Sigurdsson, T Davies, Doucouré; Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin, Iwobi.

Arsenal XI: Leno; Tierney, D Luiz, Holding; Saka, Elneny, Ceballos, Maitland-Niles; Willian, Nketiah, Pépé.

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  1. Captain Vantastic™
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Everton will riot against that Arsenal team.

    1. bench boost for every gamew…
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Not sure. No fullbacks and allan absent.

    2. acidicleo
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Likely to win 1-0

  2. Amey
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Look @ BPS from City game.
    It's like Christmas. Points for everyone 😎

  3. Rolls-Royce
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    No Pool or City defenders gonna hurt rank big time 🙁

    1. Amey
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Pool are very expensive ...
      City one's are nice !

    2. Forever In Our Shadow
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Just 40k for me so far. This is much better than I thought it would be. Still got 9 to play and Kane c

  4. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Tight calf. Sore tooth. Broken nail. Modern footballers are absolutely pathetic.

    1. el polako
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      They are but you really need to get over it now, man up.

      1. Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        I wont stop whining as long as overpaid prima donnas skip games because they got a superficial cut on the chin during their tri-weekly trip to the barber

        1. el polako
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          They don't go barbers but beauty saloons where they can flash their Gucci "man" handbags.

    2. DGW blindness is for Kinnea…
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Soon it will be 'not enough likes on Instagram' leads to player not playing due to not in right frame of mind

    3. Sanchit
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      That's logical. Why would they risk him? What if his calf gets worse during the match and he's suddenly out for a couple of weeks?

  5. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Dias! What a buy!

  6. DGW blindness is for Kinnea…
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    The Alex Iwobi derby

  7. Pacer.
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Honestly can't remember the last time I was so disappointed by a player that I transferred them out while they were playing

    City are garbage

    1. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      They need a finisher/target man

      1. Pacer.
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        It won't solve KdB problems. He needs 13 goals not a target man

      2. Party time
          3 years, 4 months ago

          + Unnecessary rotation

      3. dunas_dog
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        But knee jerk with Newcastle home next week. And who did you get in his place?

    2. The Senate
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Dias 3 baps confirmed?

      1. el polako
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Hope so, we owners deserve it after last game week own goal decision.

    3. seewhyaxe
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Would you guys prioritise chasing potential upside or put out a potential fire ?

      1. Ragabolly
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        put out fire

      2. Forever In Our Shadow
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Fire

      3. seewhyaxe
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Cheers guys

    4. Werner Bremen
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      That confirms it. KDB and Werner to Kane and Son for free. I don't care for the Newcastle game.

      1. acidicleo
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Spurs are away to wolves though.

    5. Flair
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      City defenders such excellent value, am sure the goals will come for Ruben too

    6. HippY
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Another rollercoaster week! 29 from 3 would normally equal dreamland, instead it's the world's smallest green arrow

    7. Champ
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      So 9 out of 10 Liverpool outfield players with goal/assist returns?

      Is that an FPL record?

      1. Camzy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        It's not out of 10 though.

        Keita, Fabinho and Wijnaldum got nothing.

        1. Champ
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Fair kop

    8. FER FUSCH AKE
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Cancelo 2 baps confirmed??

    9. Parsnips
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      I’ll take the cancelo clean sheet

    10. ivantys
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Those ppl trashtalking kdb don't realize that southampton away is never an easy game and they did enough to win a difficult game. When spurs does this 1-0 shite nobody complains.

      1. Pacer.
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        He was clear on goal and he rolled the ball at the keeper.

        Yeah. 11.8m

        13 goals, 11 from open play last season. Zero from open play this season.

      2. el polako
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Nobody cares about Spurs in general.

      3. Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Spurs won 5-2 at St. Marys lmao

        1. Pacer.
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          And are 9m and 10.5m base price. Not 11.5

        2. Plant Based FPLer
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Last year Leicester 8 or 9 - 0 Saints away. Saints a man down but...

      4. Flair
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        People complain about Spurs defending all the time lol

        1. ivantys
          • 3 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          At least they aren't sitting back 24/7 like spurs

      5. Klaren
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        United scored 3, Spurs scored 5 against them. Liverpool haven’t played them yet but it tends to be one of the easier fixtures for them in recent years.

        1 goal against Southampton is simply poor attacking performance from a fpl perspective, especially given prices of City attackers.

    11. AnfieldLad
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Fpl towers giving out about 14 bonus points to city defenders is a joke

      1. Party time
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Screw fpl tower. They should be ashamed of themselves.Eagerly Stealing baps.

          What a shame!

        • Dr. Ante Pavlovic
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Yup

      2. Pedram
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        KDB badly needs a rest, wonder when Pep will give it to him, could be next week.

        1. Captain Vantastic™
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Midweek

        2. Klaren
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          They have a week until next PL game which gives him plenty of rest. The following GW after that could be an issue though.

      3. King of Kings.
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Didn't see the game. How did KDB look? May have finally lost patience in him even with a nice fixture next.

        KDB > Son, Lamptey > Trent/Robbo for free?

      4. Cruyff Turn
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Bringing in Cancelo, Dias and Mahrez for GW10 (with a De Bruyne swap since) has propelled me from 750k to 200k.

        So, I'm bullish on City with a bias.

      5. FDMS All Starz
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Would you do Mane to Salah(c) for West Brom? Playing WC in gw16

        1. Zimo
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Yes

      6. MGD
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Salah Cappers Unite

      7. Muchentuchel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        bringing in KDB and Mahrez has ruined my season. Went from 80k to 260k in just 2 gws.

        1. Salah’s Sonnet
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          That’s ruined your season? Really? Gtfo

          1. Muchentuchel
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 5 Years
            3 years, 4 months ago

            was aiming for top 50k

      8. BeWater
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Really trying to resist doing the 'GTFO of my team' thing with KDB.

        1. JohnnyRev7
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Do it! Better options elsewhere.

      9. lugs
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        hedged my bets and played Cancelo but benched Dias for Lamptey, now hoping Lamps is MIA tomorrow

      10. Patio Kev
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Great to see Martinelli back on the Arsenal bench today, could be a great option if he can get fit and firing.

        1. Qaiss
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Ufff keep it down will ya

        2. Flair
          • 3 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Really? Hope he comes good

      11. Qaiss
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Unfortunately, taking out KDB never ends well.

        1. Forever In Our Shadow
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          So this.

      12. Mr.K
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Ok, so the risky Jota -> Mahrez clearly didn't pay off. The question is, who to get then?

        I have Salah, Son, Soucek, Mendy so Bowen doesn't sound like a great choice either. Zaha's in poor form and Grealish's fixtures are getting tough. I'm all out of ideas! 🙁

        1. Holmes
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Upgrade to Bruno

          1. Mr.K
            • 10 Years
            3 years, 4 months ago

            Can't yet. Going towards that could be an option but I'm not gonna take a hit for Bruno so that'd take 2-3 weeks.

      13. Steve The Spud
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Shouldn’t have checked live fpl

        250k red arrow

        1. Flair
          • 3 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Don't check it if it doesn't help mentally

        2. Holmes
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Only way is up. Was surprised to see only 300k drop after Salah haul...

          1. Steve The Spud
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 4 Years
            3 years, 4 months ago

            300k? Ings 1 pointer must have saved me

        3. Forever In Our Shadow
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Wow. I thought 40k was bad. You must have lots of players left though?

      14. seewhyaxe
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Can imagine Arsenal winning without auba today