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15 February 2023 1537 comments
FPL Marc FPL Marc
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The final match of Double Gameweek 23 takes place at the Emirates Stadium, where Arsenal host Manchester City in the 19:30 GMT kick-off.

This huge top-of-the-table clash was originally meant for Gameweek 12 but had to be rearranged due to Queen Elizabeth II’s death and the subsequent moving of a Europa League match.

It means that we’ve reached February without the league’s two best sides having faced off, a chance to see if the student – Mikel Arteta – can overcome his master Pep Guardiola.

Visitors Man City can overtake their hosts tonight and have made one change to the side that beat Aston Villa 3-1 on Sunday – Nathan Ake (£5.1m) replaces Aymeric Laporte (£5.7m).

That means Erling Haaland (£12.2m) has shaken off the knock which resulted in his half-time withdrawal and there are also starts for Kevin De Bruyne (£12.4m) and Riyad Mahrez (£7.8m). However, owners of Manuel Akanji (£5.0m) and Rico Lewis (£3.9m) will be frustrated to lose at ‘Pep Roulette’ for both parts of Double Gameweek 23.

Arsenal had the same starting XI for the previous six league matches but have made two changes here. Popular FPL defender Ben White (£4.7m) is on the bench and midfielder Thomas Partey (£4.7m) misses out because of “a tight muscle.”

In comes Takehiro Tomiyasu (£4.2m) and Jorginho (£5.8m), which is good news for Gabriel Martinelli‘s (£6.6m) owners – he keeps his place despite Leandro Trossard‘s (£6.7m) weekend goal.

Bukayo Saka (£8.3m), Eddie Nketiah (£6.8m), Martin Odegaard (£7.0m), Gabriel (£5.2m) and William Saliba (£5.3m) start too.

GAMEWEEK 23 LINE-UPS

Arsenal XI: Ramsdale; Tomiyasu, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko; Odegaard, Jorginho, Xhaka; Saka, Nketiah, Martinelli

Subs: Turner, White, Tierney, Kiwior, Holding, Trossard, Fabio Vieira, Nelson, Cozier-Duberry

Manchester City XI: Ederson; Walker, Dias, Ake, Bernardo; Rodri, De Bruyne, Gundogan; Mahrez, Haaland, Grealish

Subs: Ortega, Laporte, Lewis, Akanji, Sergio Gomez, Phillips, Palmer, Alvarez, Foden 



FPL Marc Broadcaster, writer and overthinker. Hoping that ‘differential potential’ will catch on.

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

    Tomiyasu owns Ben White.

  2. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    6% of teams in the top 10k own Lewis and Shaw… nervous 45 mins!

    1. lilmessipran
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Lewis missed the first game completely?

      1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Yes

  3. Tonyawesome69
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    White might be on before 60

    1. Jimmers
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      So?

  4. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Felix post 🙁

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Bar even. Should have scored one so far.

  5. DycheDycheBaby
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Tomiyasu YC. Get White on now!

  6. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Forum is screwed never seen so many error messages

    1. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      How many to times in a game is acceptable?

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      1. Nate(U)dog(ie)
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        This has been going on for a lot longer for a lot of us lol

  7. EDUARDO DA SILVA
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Racism from taylor, why yellow?

    1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      What?

    2. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Wasting time

      1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Is that two yellows for time-wasting before 50 min???

    3. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I seem to the only one who got the joke 🙂

      1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Everyone got the joke - it just wasn't a very good one.

  8. Count of Monte Hristo
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Remember when Phil Foden used to play for Manchester City?

    1. Jimmers
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Phil who?

    2. McGurn
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Yeah he was class. I hear he is still involved with the club in some capacity.

      1. FantasyTony
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Living statue in front ofthe Ethiad

    3. Hairy Potter
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Preferred Rosler and Walsh.

    4. OverTinker
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Used to be great in his prime

    5. veedub1989
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      What actually has happened to him? He's completely fallen out of favour which is odd considering he was floated as the golden boy for many years. He's not even making the squad nowadays.

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

    White nailed again then

  10. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Thought KDB was gonna get a YC for that lol

    1. Zimo
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Nah Arteta shouldn't be kicking the ball away like that. He's not one of the players

  11. FantasyTony
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    KDB has no respect for Arteta.

    1. lilmessipran
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Do you work for a tabloid?

      1. FantasyTony
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Lets just say I hold a Mirror up to society.

    2. Wenger's Warriors
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      TakepArteta

  12. Mom, Butters just gave me a…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    I just can't stand Arteta.

  13. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Arteta. That's my manager

    1. BeaversWithAttitude
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Bang out of order.

      1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Maybe

  14. TheTinman
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Does KDB get some +bps for that

  15. Free Hat
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Arteta shouldnt be doing stuff like that, no trainer should...

    1. TheTinman
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      It's just dumb and petulant. Makes him come across a total arse

      1. Wenger's Warriors
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Naughy...

      2. Free Hat
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Indeed. Very petty and beneath you.
        You are the head coach of a pl team for christ sake, you should be an example.

    2. PogChamp
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I like him. He’s quirky

  16. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 15 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Haaland has been awful

    1. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Lol

    2. JBG
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I wouldn't trust him to pass the pepper.

  17. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    A nutmeg on KDB would have been even better.

  18. Saka White Rice
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Mahrez plays way too wide...don't see him in my team for long

  19. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Ode do something FFS

  20. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Akanji coming on

  21. Thanos
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Akanji coming on soon

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

    Lewis owners are going to get lucky here!

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

      Argh that is very annoying

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

    Arteta should have megged him

  24. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Some Lewis jam!

  25. Mr. O'Connell
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Mahrez pen incoming

  26. BUZZBOMB ♡
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Been fretting because ML rival TCd Rash last GW. I TCd Haaland thisweek. Only 15pt difference thus far really. Not worth getting annoyed.

  27. Thanos
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Pen Haaland

  28. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    That's not Rico

  29. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Haaland pen, Gabriel YC

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      How are White > Gabriel (-4) owners doing now?

  30. Tonyawesome69
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    City pen