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Injury latest as Tierney misses Arsenal’s Blank Gameweek 18 fixture

14 January 2021 1247 comments
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Kieran Tierney (ยฃ5.4m) has left his Fantasy Premier League owners with Blank Gameweek 18 frustration as he missed out on Arsenal’s Thursday-night meeting with Crystal Palace.

Fresh from an 18-point haul against West Bromwich Albion, the left-back was the most-selected defender by managers playing their Free Hit for this midweek round of fixtures (53.7%).

However, Mikel Arteta has taken the decision to leave Tierney out of his Arsenal squad to face the Eagles as a precaution due to “muscle tightness”.

Ainsley Maitland-Niles (ยฃ4.6m) comes in to the replace the Scottish international on the left-side of defence, allowing Hector Bellerรญn (ยฃ5.1m) to hold onto his right-back berth.

Tierney is not the only Arsenal defender to miss out due to muscle issues, as Pablo Mari (ยฃ4.4m) has also been rested for the same reason.

That means starts at centre-back for David Luiz (ยฃ5.4m) and Rob Holding (ยฃ4.5m), the latter now featuring from the beginning in 11 of the last 12 Premier League matches. Meanwhile, Gabriel (ยฃ5.0m) makes a return from self-isolation on Arsenal’s bench.

The Gunners line up in much more predictable fashion higher up the pitch, with Emile Smith Rowe (ยฃ4.5m) handed a fourth-straight start at number 10.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (ยฃ11.3m) and Bukayo Saka (ยฃ5.3m) flank the budget midfielder behind Alexandre Lacazette (ยฃ8.3m) who has four goals in his last three Premier League appearances.

Tyrick Mitchell (ยฃ3.9m) is one of the main Fantasy interests in Crystal Palace’s team, owned by 16.1% of managers worldwide.

And Free Hitters were also a big fan of the Eagles’ left-back, Tierney and Joรฃo Cancelo (ยฃ5.8m) the only defenders selected by more managers using that chip for Blank Gameweek 18.

Wilfried Zaha (ยฃ7.4m) has blanked in five of the last six Gameweeks but remains in 19.9% of Fantasy teams.

Arsenal v Crystal Palace – Starting Line-ups

Arsenal XI (4-2-3-1): Leno; Maitland-Niles, Holding, D Luiz, Bellerรญn; Xhaka, Ceballos; Aubameyang, Smith Rowe, Saka; Lacazette.

Crystal Palace (4-4-2): Guaita; Mitchell, Kouyatรฉ, Tomkins, Ward; Eze, McArthur, Milivojevic, Townsend; Benteke, Zaha.

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  1. pundit of punts
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Get innnnn

    Mitchell + Holding in this game

    ๐Ÿ˜€

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  2. jimmyabs1987
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Funny how Mitchell away at arsenal gets more than Son home to Fulham

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

    40 off 9 starters, all out having not played a chip. Very satisfactory.

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    1. Babit1967
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      46(-4) I’ll take that

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  4. Colonel Shoe ่‚ๆฑ 
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    all those jammy mitchel points ๐Ÿ™

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    1. Bagheri Arce
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Bit annoying eh?

      My rival and me have Tierney, but I had the foresight to spend a bit more for Holding first sub as a good back up....he has Mitchell plus fodder and gets +2pts on me.

      Have to laugh

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  5. Feanor
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    41 from 7

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    1. Twisted Saltergater
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Not bad. 64 on FH

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    2. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
      • 16 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      33 from 7
      Stones C

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  6. Twisted Saltergater
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Mitchell my only playing sub on FH. You’ve got to laugh.

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  7. Party time
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Arteta the gel hair fraud

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

      Yaaaaaaaawwwwwwwnnn

      Glad I wasn't watching.

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    • TRIPOS TOPPER
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      and of course my rival didn't FH and has Guiata and Mitchell for a 17 pointer!

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    • Silecro
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      I have been beaten in a cup from a guy who has McGoldrick, Burke, Bergwijn and Pickford in his FT team

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      1. Silecro
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        FH*

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    • DAZZ
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Previous team would have got 31 -4 with my moves for KDB and Wilson this gameweek. FH ended with 55. 28 point swing. Huge success! Happy days

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      1. Sun Jihai
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Fantastic work!

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      2. Dr Van Nostrand
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        You're happy with 28 swing. I'm not with 24. Reckon they'll be a better GW

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        1. DAZZ
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          More than happy. Would be in an awful situation now without the FH this week

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      3. mookie
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Selling players that would have had a game this week to buy DGWers and saying the FH got you 28 points is preschool maths.

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    • Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Arsenal 0-0 Palace
      xG: 0.47 - 0.82

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      1. Party time
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Wooooow!!!

          Supporting Arsenal must feel like a cactus in the butt

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      2. Tsparkes10
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Love you Mitchell :£

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      3. HonestBlatter
        • 15 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        50p (-4p) without chips. It's okay

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      4. Feanor
        • 16 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Mitchell.

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      5. Feloh
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Holding losing baps at the last minute. Same thing happened with Cancelo and Son a couple weeks back. How does a player lose baps for doing nothing?

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        1. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
          • 16 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Guaita made saves towards the end.

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        2. Nightcrawler
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Incorrect passes. Went below 90%

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          1. Twisted Saltergater
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 16 Years
            5 years, 4 months ago

            It was the one raking pass at the end. If he didn’t attempt that, he’d be on 2 or 3 baps.

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      6. pundit of punts
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        60 points all out.

        Played 10 players. No FH. 300k rise.

        All set up for FH next gw. Love it when a plan comes off. ๐Ÿ˜€

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        1. ktk_interista
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 15 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          You planned that not a single player gets more than 1 return and that only 8 goals are scored in 6 games? I'd like to know how you planned that.

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      7. SB007
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        53 points with 10 players and no chips used.

        Will take that. Leno. Bellerin. Mitchell.

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      8. โ˜ˆโ˜พ
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        150k green arrow without FH xD

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      9. Pep Roulette
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Repost

        A. Grealish + McCarthy
        B. El Ghazi + Ederson (-4)

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      10. Bourbon, Pot Still or Islay…
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Does everyone on here live on their own... or with their parent(s) ?

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      11. have you seen cyan
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Arsenal have jsut done the bare minimum to prevent relegation, back to steaming turds now

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      12. sminkypinky
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Mitchell second on the bench sucks! Who knew he should be first choice before a New defender? I obviously didn’t. 8 points missed. Well, 6 actually. Oh well, on to the next.

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      13. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Arteta the absolute joke manager, ruined my gameweek.

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      14. Nightcrawler
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Mitchellll

        49(-4)

        Not sure what colour arrow but better than wasting a FH

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        1. Twisted Saltergater
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Nice. You got lucky.

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      15. Mr. O'Connell
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Here come all the non-FH brag scores

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        1. HonestBlatter
          • 15 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          BRING'EM ON BOYS

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      16. Neevesy
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Jokes from Redknapp lol

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        1. DycheDycheBaby
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          brilliant haha

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      17. Baines on Toast...
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        This is what happens when you rest your best attacking creative player. Even if he is a left back.

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      18. TheDragon
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Hint: no one cares how many points you scored with or without free hit

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      19. Tsparkes10
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        54 point swing from the FH ๐Ÿ™‚ lovely to see. If only kdb took that pen. Happy to have a 9 point ramsdale on my bench. Now time to sort out for the dgw

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        1. DycheDycheBaby
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          that's good man

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        2. DAZZ
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          54 point swing with 48 points on the board lol?

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