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A match with limited Fantasy interest rounds off a busy Sunday afternoon of Premier League football.

Arsenal v West Bromwich Albion gets underway at the Emirates at 19:00 BST.

Not one player from either side has a double-digit Fantasy Premier League ownership.

Looking at the top 10,000 as a better gauge of interest among the ‘active’ FPL managers, one name stands out.

Rob Holding‘s (£4.3m) effective ownership – which takes into account captaincy and benchings as well as general popularity – of 17.03% in the top 10k is greater than the rest of the Arsenal and West Brom squads put together.

The budget Arsenal defender has managed to swerve Mikel Arteta’s now-customary rotation after a UEFA Europa League tie and starts tonight.

The Gunners boss has made six changes to his side that started the goalless draw with Villarreal on Thursday.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.3m) is among those to make way, with Kieran Tierney (£5.2m), Hector Bellerin (£5.0m), Thomas Partey (£4.9m), Pablo Mari (£4.4m) and Martin Odegaard (£5.7m) the others to drop out.

All bar the injured Mari of that contingent are on the bench.

Gabriel Martinelli (£4.9m), Willian (£7.5m), Gabriel Magalhaes (£4.9m), Mohamed Elneny (£4.2m), Dani Ceballos (£4.7m) and Calum Chambers (£4.5m) come into the side in their stead.

Alexandre Lacazette (£8.4m) is once again only a substitute, with match-fitness evidently still an issue following his recent return from injury.

Granit Xhaka (£5.2m) and David Luiz (£5.4m) are absent with muscle problems.

As for West Brom, Sam Allardyce makes two changes to the side that drew with Wolverhampton Wanderers last time out.

They’re attacking alterations, too, with Matt Phillips (£5.1m) and Callum Robinson (£5.2m) coming in for Dara O’Shea (£4.2m) and Ainsley Maitland-Niles (£4.6m).

Loanee Maitland-Niles is ineligible to face his parent club.

Albion will be relegated if Arsenal win tonight and even a draw will all but confirm their drop to the Championship, such is the disparity between their goal difference and Burnley’s.


LINE-UPS

Arsenal XI: Leno, Chambers, Holding, Gabriel, Saka, Elneny, Ceballos, Pepe, Smith Rowe, Willian, Martinelli

West Bromwich Albion XI: Johnstone, Furlong, Ajayi, Bartley, Townsend, Phillips, Yokuslu, Gallagher, Robinson, Pereira, Diagne


PREVIOUSLY IN TRIPLE GAMEWEEK 35…

Aubameyang and Lacazette among the substitutes as Arteta rotates once again
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A goal for Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£7.5m) and an eighth away clean sheet of the season for Everton’s Jekyll-and-Hyde backline saw the Toffees’ Double Gameweek 35 off to a satisfying start.

Only Manchester City have kept more shut-outs and conceded fewer goals than Everton on the road this season, with Carlo Ancelotti’s men conceding at a rate of less than a goal per game on their travels.

Contrast this with their form at Goodison Park, where they have recorded only two clean sheets and almost half as many points.

There was only really one major scare against a below-par West Ham, with Vladimir Coufal (£4.7m) striking the post and Jarrod Bowen (£5.9m) unable to tap home the rebound.

Jesse Lingard (£6.6m) blanked for the third match in a row, with his repeated dropping into a deeper position as much of a sign of frustration as his late booking for dissent was.

Aaron Cresswell (£5.6m) and Yerry Mina (£5.5m) both limped off, with David Moyes confirming that the former merely had a dead leg.

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  1. JBG
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Pereira to the rescue.

  2. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Sold Perreira this week too.

  3. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Arsenal CS wiped

    1. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      It was always just a matter of time. Sigh.

    2. Gizzachance
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Holding on b boost! They got Chelsea next !

    3. Lieutenant Frank Columbo
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Lovely jubely

  4. Duke Silver ☑
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Pereira goal. Vintage Arsenal defending.

  5. Qaiss
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Pereira is such a good little player.. needs to be snapped up by a PL club next season

    1. Gudjohnsen
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Palace or Newcastle?

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Watford

      2. Qaiss
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Aston Villa, Wolves, Everton he’d do well

        1. Qaiss
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          They wouldn’t sell to wolves tho

    2. FPL Theorist
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      He should go to Leeds. Guys like Tyler Roberts and Klich just aren't good enough.

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

    Sigh.

  7. TheDragon
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Pereira is a player I’ve continuously overlooked as he plays for West Brom

    He has been immense FPL wise second half of the season

    A lesson for me to learn

  8. Digital-Real
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    disgusting defending from Arsenal. Worst piece of defending i've seen in the league all season.

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

      Yeah it was awful.

  9. Duke Silver ☑
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    At least his EO in top 10k is only 0.87%

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Holding at 17 is more important.

      1. Lieutenant Frank Columbo
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Yup ... delighted to see Holding CS gone

  10. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 16 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    3 - Pépé (32)
    2 - Smith Rowe (29)
    1 - Saka, Townsend (28)

  11. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Pereira has more double digit hauls than Salah this season.

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Had him last week 🙁

      WCed him out this week...

  12. Digital-Real
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    If this game ends 2-2
    Arteta should be sacked with immediate effect.

    1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      What are the odds for it ending 2-2, Bookmaker?

      1. Digital-Real
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        you're asking the wrong person

      2. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Impossible now.

  13. Gudjohnsen
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Why was Pepe so expensive?

    1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Hype

    2. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Youtube highlights.

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

      Scored loads of penalties inflating his goal stats

    4. Cheeto__Bandito
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Arsenal recruitment

    5. Qaiss
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Instalments. Tbf lots of clubs wanted to buy him at that point. But we should have signed Zaha, as Senor Emery wanted but wasn’t allowed to sign him..

    6. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Arsenal Director of Football at the time took a percentage of the fee, was all very dodgy & cost him his job

  14. Paqueta Rice
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Sold Pereira as part of a -4

  15. Hect.OR 98th
    • 16 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Left Pereira out of my FH team and got Auba.

    Hopefully he'll do the business in the last three games.

  16. gonzalocampos
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Who to get next week?
    a) Calvert Lewin (Sheffield) and Struijk (Burnley), or
    b) Antonio (Brighton) and Coleman/Keane (Sheffield)

    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Mmh b slightly

  17. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Willy finally delivers

    1. Qaiss
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Lol

  18. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Willian rewards keepers

    1. Rassi
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Sellers in tears with nowhere to hide.

    2. dark91
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Keeper*

  19. Duke Silver ☑
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Good riddance West Brom.

    1. Qaiss
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      They improved a lot since Feb. But defenders they have are atrocious.

    2. BeaversWithAttitude
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Why would you say that? West Brom have showed fighting spirit in their final days. Teams get relegated each year, that's just the way it is. No need to be nasty about it.

  20. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    And Allardyce finally has a relegation on his CV.

    1. Duke Silver ☑
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Wouldn't put it past him to tender his resignation before full time 😆

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Lol!

  21. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Allardyce's face is like "even Willian?"

  22. Differentiator
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Willian sellers brutally punished. I hate GW35

  23. Gudjohnsen
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Smith-Rowe and Saka now nowhere near a bap

  24. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Fulham will complete the set tomorrow.

  25. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    WBA attack and Brighton defence could be a decent team.

  26. tropicain
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Is Watkins suspended for the next game?

    1. Messiah Hazard
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Yup but not for BGW36

    2. _Ninja_
      • 15 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Yes midweek but back next game week.

    3. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Yes

    4. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      vs Everton, yes.

    5. bitm2007
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Yes but back for GW36

  27. Messiah Hazard
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Foden Mahrez Bale - who would you rather have for BGW36?

    1. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Mahrez

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

      Mahrez.

  28. Bobby Digital
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    WBA out.... Salah cap next week.

  29. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Perreira safe, knowing he'll still be a Premier league player next season.

  30. Dirty_Harry
    • 16 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    I guess it's definitely Bamford over Antonio?

    1. Messiah Hazard
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      DCL over both of them for me

    2. Rassi
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Both good options.