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There are five Premier League matches kicking off at 3pm BST this afternoon on a scorching day of weather up and down the country.

Manchester City v Bournemouth and Arsenal v Leicester City are the stand-out matches from a Fantasy Premier League (FPL) perspective, with Brighton and Hove Albion v Newcastle United, Southampton v Leeds United and Wolverhampton Wanderers v Fulham also getting underway at the traditional kick-off time.

There are no real shock team news calls from Pep Guardiola at the Etihad, where Erling Haaland leads the line for the hosts.

Haaland was not just the most-bought FPL asset of Gameweek 2, attracting 1.2 million new owners, but also the most-captained, having been handed the armband by over three million of us.

Guardiola’s only tweak from last weekend sees Riyad Mahrez replace Jack Grealish, meaning that Phil Foden will switch back to the left flank.

Bournemouth are without Dominic Solanke and Jordan Zemura today, with those absences accounting for two of Scott Parker’s three changes. Phillip Billing drops to the bench, as Lewis Cook, Ryan Christie and Jack Stacey all come into the side.

Arsenal are unchanged for the fourth match in a row, including pre-season friendlies, while Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers also goes with the same team that drew with Brentford.

Continuing on that theme at Molineux, both managers have resisted making any changes from Gameweek 1.

That’s also what Leeds boss Jesse Marsch has done at Elland Road but opposite number Ralph Hasenhuttl has made four changes, with Armel Bella-Kotchap, Mohamed Elyounoussi, Stuart Armstrong and Che Adams recalled at the expense of Yan Valery, Oriol Romeu, Adam Armstrong and Joe Aribo.

At the Amex, there’s yet another unaltered line-up as Graham Potter keeps faith with the same Brighton team that defeated Manchester United last weekend.

Newcastle’s only change is enforced as Sven Botman replaces the absent Matt Targett, with Dan Burn moving to left-back.

GAMEWEEK 2 LINE-UPS

Arsenal XI: Ramsdale, White, Gabriel, Saliba, Zinchenko, Partey, Xhaka, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Jesus.

Subs: Turner, Tierney, Smith Rowe, Nketiah, Holding, Tomiyasu, Pepe, Sambi Lokonga, Elneny.

Leicester City XI: Ward, Amartey, Fofana, Evans, Justin, Ndidi, Tielemans, Maddison, Dewsbury-Hall, Castagne, Vardy.

Subs: Soyuncu, Albrighton, Iheanacho, Perez, Daka, Mendy, Praet, Iversen, Thomas.


Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Sanchez, Veltman, Dunk, Webster, Gross, Mac Allister, Caicedo, March, Lallana, Trossard, Welbeck

Subs: Steele, Lamptey, Colwill, Mwepu, Alzate, Sarmiento, Undav, Mitoma, Van Hecke.

Newcastle United XI: Pope, Tripper, Schar, Botman, Burn, Willock, Guimaraes, Joelinton, Almiron, Wilson, Saint-Maximin

Subs: Dubravka, Dummett, Lascelles, Ritchie, Manquillo, Wood, Murphy, Anderson, Longstaff


Manchester City XI: Ederson, Walker, Dias, Ake, Cancelo, De Bruyne, Rodri, Gundogan, Foden, Haaland, Mahrez.

Subs: Ortega, Stones, Grealish, Alvarez, Bernardo Silva, Delap. Mbete, Lewis, Wilson-Esbrand.

Bournemouth XI: Travers, Mepham, Lerma, Kelly, Cook, Christie, Stacey, Pearson Smith, Tavernier, Moore.

Subs: Marcondes, Neto, Lowe, Stanislas, Dembele, Hill, Senesi, Billing, Anthony.


Southampton XI: Bazunu, Walker-Peters, Bednarek, Bella-Kotchap, Salisu, Djenepo, Ward-Prowse, Lavia, S Armstrong, Elyounoussi, Adams.

Subs: McCarthy, Lyanco, Stephens, Romeu, Aribo, A Armstrong, Mara, Diallo, Valery.

Leeds United XI: Meslier, Kristensen, Koch, Llorente, Struijk, Roca, Adams, Aaronson, Rodrigo, Harrison, Bamford.

Subs: Klaesson, Forshaw, Summerville, James, Sinisterra, Hjelde, Drameh, Greenwood, Klich.


Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Sa, Ait-Nouri, Collins, Neto, Neves, Podence, Hwang Hee-Chan, Gibbs-White, Jonny, Kilman, Dendoncke.

Subs: Sarkic, Boly, Guedes, Semedo, Toti, Ronan, Traore, Cundle, Campbell.

Fulham XI: Rodak, Tete, Adarabioyo, Reed, Kebano, Mitrovic, Ream, De Cordova-Reid, Pereira, Palhinha, Robinson.

Subs: Leno, Duffy, Cairney, Chalobah, Muniz, Mbabu, Diop, Francois, Stansfield.


GAMEWEEK 2 RESULTS SO FAR

Aston Villa2 – 1Everton

CHECK YOUR LIVE FPL SCORE

3pm team news: Mahrez in for Grealish, six sides unchanged

If you haven’t seen already, the beta version of our new Premium Members Area gives you a customised dashboard detailing your latest points and where you rank in the world.

You can find it via this link and you only have to type in your FPL ID number (so no password/email) to see the visuals.


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  1. Piggs Boson
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Haaland looks upset his team is winning 3-0.

    The man just wants goals.

    1. SH1M1
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      All Fodens fault

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I sense a Salah-Mane related between Haaland & Foden...

    2. Berkshire Hafaway-Line
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Mentality monster

    3. DRIZ ✅
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      No interview today

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

        And now Fodens off, next time he'll square it to Haaland 🙂

  2. The Senate
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Where has our Martinelli assist gone?

    1. Santi sensei
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Vardy was an assister

      1. The Senate
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Deflected cross no?

        1. Zladan
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Yep. Will be given most likely. Salah got the assist last week in similar circumstances.

        2. Paqueta Rice
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Should be intended target, would be harsh

  3. DRIZ ✅
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Martinelli assist got taken back WTF ?

    1. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Will be added back

  4. Zimo
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Why has fpl crashed? Are people making transfers already?

    1. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      FPL erasing Martinelli assist

    2. Fish up a tree
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Yeah the Jesus sellers are putting him back in!

    3. Champ
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Cos FPL towers are basically useless. They've failed for years to manage peak load on their systems. On the funny side Oracle are the cloud computing sponsor. You couldn't make it up.

    4. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      It usually does.

  5. pundit of punts
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Already on 40 points with that Martinelli assist

    Glad I didn't hesitate to WC 😀

    1. GENERATION X
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Look at me mummy

      1. MYNAMEISBigtopmark.sman
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Lol

      2. pundit of punts
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Why so jealous?

        You should look at me when I went against popular opinion and WCed.

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

          Lol. We demand you to be banned

          1. pundit of punts
            • 13 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            Will never happen

      3. Paqueta Rice
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Hahaha the amount of upvotes for this cracks me up

        1. pundit of punts
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Too many followers of mine 😎

      4. TheBiffas
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        That's a lot of upvotes

        1. Scots Gooner
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Must be a record

    2. Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Say goodbye to the Marty helper

    3. RICICLE
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Oh dear…..

    4. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      How come your team isn’t linked like last year when you were top 1k?

      1. pundit of punts
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I forgot

        Will link it now

  6. Esalman
    • 16 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Jesus+Haaland(C) up top. Happy forward days again. Suarez/RvP vibes.

    1. Fabreghastly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Remember S A S ?

    2. Danno - Emre Canada
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Like everyone else I’m afraid

    3. Tomerick
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Darwin to complete the holy trinity on Monday

  7. Moose™
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    How’s Saka?

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Not getting involved enough, it's annoying.

      1. Moose™
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Sheeshhh. Martinelli much more involved yeh?

    2. Fabreghastly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Giving the ball away a bit and not penetrating the box

  8. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Martinelli's corner was headed by Vardy at the near post, to Jesus at the far post.

    Martinelli won't be getting that assist.

    1. pundit of punts
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      He will

      It will be sdded

      1. Rainer
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Take a few deep breaths.

    2. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Jesus was his intended target so nothing changes

  9. tim
    • 16 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Could use a Leicester goal to knock out that cleanie

    1. The Senate
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Yes please

  10. MJF
      3 years, 8 months ago

      The Pro Pundit who removed Jesus for a hit sitting pretty.

      1. Athletic Nasherbo
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Sadly, I called it. Jesus home debut after being unlucky last week.

      2. Utopsis
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        How anyone can remove him after watching that 1st game is beyond me

      3. Tomerick
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        “Pro pundit” lol

    • Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Luke's assist added...

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        *Lukaku lol

    • beric
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Gunna be hard to drop one of son, kdb or Sarah to get haaland

      1. beric
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Salah*

        1. maglia rosa
          • 15 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Perma cap Haaland could mean Salah goes tbf

      2. RICICLE
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Why?

        1. beric
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Well I don't want to lose any of them

          1. RICICLE
            • 3 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            Miss out on Haaland’s hauls then?

            1. beric
              • 14 Years
              3 years, 8 months ago

              Well I don't want that either. Hence the hard part

              1. Rupert The Horse
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 13 Years
                3 years, 8 months ago

                😆
                Schooled

      3. DRIZ ✅
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Wish i had KDB, looks monster this season

        1. beric
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Captain today 😎

          1. Berkshire Hafaway-Line
            • 5 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            vice 🙁

            1. beric
              • 14 Years
              3 years, 8 months ago

              Still time for whoever you picked

      4. Sim Simma
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Sarah Connor ?

        1. beric
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Trent Alexander Arnold Schwartzeneger

      5. Hairy Potter
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I saved a FT so I could move KDB to Haaland if it felt necessary. Hopefully captaining KDB will pay off and I can worry more about shipping Bailey.

        1. beric
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Haha exactly the same boat mate!

    • tryf88
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Best mid replacing Bailey for £5m?

      1. BrockLanders
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        The million dollar question

      2. Mweene
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        KDH probably.

      3. beric
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Same question here, dunno really. Shot ourselves in the face with that pick haven't we

      4. Hairy Potter
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I might punt on Willock.

      5. svgcr
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Downgrading and playing 5 in the back

    • Rainer
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Never back against Salah!

    • JONALDINHO
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Did Haaland get any assists?

      1. RICICLE
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        One

        1. JONALDINHO
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Hopefully subbed off after 60.

          1. RICICLE
            • 3 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            Let’s no

    • Kaneyonero
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Surely Kane is claiming that assist?

      1. Halftime
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I think Lukaku got a touch

    • Count of Monte Hristo
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      How can I switch back to mobile version of this site? Stuck on desktop.

      1. Count of Monte Hristo
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Solved!

        1. Count of Monte Hristo
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Well done Count!

      2. Rainer
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Bottom left of screen there should be a phone icon, press it.

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

      Well pee'd off going Saka over Foden this week. Oh well!

      1. Cok3y5murf
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Good choice

        1. Hazz
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Not yet 😆

        2. TheBiffas
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Is that what you also did by any chance

          1. Cok3y5murf
            • 9 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            No. Saka from GW1

    • FPL Daniel
      • 16 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Come ooooon Netooo

    • Zladan
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Just saw Neto miss. What a clown.

    • chaser123
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Hope I’m not too punished for going against my original plan of selling Kulu for Foden this week…

      1. Firminooooo
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Same. Always the plan to go Foden GW2. We deserve the pain.

    • Piggs Boson
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      15% to 20% more goals and xG are registered in the 2nd half of Premier League games compared to the first.

      Expect more goals.

      1. Andy_Social
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Especially when City's 5 subs come up against Bournemouth's.

    • Cok3y5murf
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      FPL crashed because people went to check points from the most irrelevant player?

      1. Rupert The Horse
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Yes. Because he’s kind of a new option.

      2. Keep calm and hoof me the b…
        • 16 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Looking at Livefpl, Jesus's EO in top 10k is only 55%.

        1. Cok3y5murf
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Top 10k this early will include a lot of casuals using chips already

    • Budweiser
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      How are Wolves playing? Got a bet on them

    • Andy_Social
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      As the only ML player with no Arsenal defence, I was hoping Vardy would win that undeserved penalty. Oh well, second half to come.

    • Londongeezaa
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Why are the Arsenal and City scores the only ones being updated?

      1. Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I thought that

      2. Tabasco
        • 15 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Lol

    • Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      BREAKING:
      It’s rumoured there are 2 halves in a football match so there will inevitably be more football to follow if true.

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Ban

      2. Piggs Boson
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        The football is officially going on forever. It will never be finally decided who has won the football.

    • Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Has FPL completely collapsed?

      1. Rainer
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        You wish 😉

        1. Andy_Social
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          They overexerted themselves updating too quickly after the deadline and now they've collapsed.

        2. Jafooli
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          😛

      2. Santi sensei
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Admin got drunk and deleted the whole game

        1. Jafooli
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Hopefully

    • bso
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Did Martinelli get an assist? Site down here.

      1. Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Yes he did 🙂

      2. Rainer
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        He did for a few minutes. Won't be getting it back.

      3. WVA
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Nope Vardy assist

    • Lingard’s Shin Guards
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      martinelli got his assist taken away

      good