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15 February 2023 1537 comments
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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. TheTinman
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    I'd give Tomiyasu MoM

  2. Babit1967
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    James looking dangerous, could have got 2 in 2nd half already

    1. Babit1967
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      And Dortmund ran up and scored lol

  3. bombonera
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Enzo fernandez rinsed

  4. ☈☾
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Chelsea concede. Potter out

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

    Chilwell injured again

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

      Or maybe not?

  6. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Adeyemi WOW
    Enzo mud

  7. Ze_Austin
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Adeyemi with a great goal for Dortmund

  8. Weak Become Heros
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Eddie the new Nunez?

    1. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Gonna be huge transfers in now the official stats has added xG stats

      1. Sun Jihai
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        *official site

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

      His scoring rate for the chances he got was ridiculous, just natural regression.

    3. TheTinman
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Nunez is the new Mbeumo

  9. TheTinman
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Who finishes higher in the league

    A) Gooners
    B) Newcastle 'The Mighty' Newcastle

    1. TheTinman
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Errrrm Newcastle 'The Mighty' United......

    2. Hairy Potter
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Haha, unfortunately I think A.

      1. TheTinman
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Least we will win more trophies

        1. Hairy Potter
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Hope so!

    3. BeaversWithAttitude
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Arsenal. But, Toon finishing in the top five would be excellent.

      1. TheTinman
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        It would it would. At this stage would be gutted if we missed top 4. But would accept. 8th if we won the league cup

        1. BeaversWithAttitude
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Agreed!

  10. Paqueta Rice
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    *Pops in to room

    “Good result for United this”

    *Runs away

    1. Mirror Man
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Good chance Saka moves to United in the summer after this collapse. It's all panning out nicely.

        1. Paqueta Rice
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Lol, you’re dreaming mate

          1. villa_til_i_die
            • 14 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            Too right, why would he take a step back?!

            1. Paqueta Rice
              • 5 Years
              3 years, 1 month ago

              *sideways

            2. Mirror Man
                3 years, 1 month ago

                It wouldn't be a step back at all. More like a massive leap forward.

      • dshv
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Maybe will go martinelli for mydruk ?

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

          Mudryk hasn't looked amazing yet, and we can't score yet

      • dunts1
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Lewis not playing means I've jammed my way into Shaw's points, undeserved but i'll take it.

        1. Paqueta Rice
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Yuck, I’ve a bloody Perisic 1 pointer blocking them. Never get this ham

        2. DycheDycheBaby
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Disgusting. My rival gets the same jam.

      • Rainer
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Arsenal to finish 3rd in a two horse race, Man United 2nd.

        1. TheTinman
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Can't believe Newcastle did the League and Cup double!

      • Patio Kev
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Arteta has nobody to blame other than himself here here for experimenting with Tomiyasu over White in your biggest game of the season.

        1. Zimo
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Learned it from Pep

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

          He learnt from the best.......

        3. Qaiss
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          We don’t have Partey and Jesus, who no-one can deny, make our team play at a level higher. This wasn’t really a full strength Arsenal unfortunately

          1. Zimo
            • 7 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            So what? United haven't been at full strength all season. Its part of the game.

            1. Qaiss
              • 10 Years
              3 years, 1 month ago

              No-one asked about Man Utd who spend 200m every season and have nothing to show for it. His post was about this particular match and I replied. So your post is pointless

      • Lord of Ings
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        99 all out. De Bruyne the saviour!

        1. Paqueta Rice
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          I’d have cracked the 100 barrier had I played Shaw. Well done though

        2. BUZZBOMB ♡
          • 11 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          So youwould have had 84pts and a player in hand without your 'Saviour'. Jog on.

          1. Lord of Ings
            • 10 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            Well I capped De Bruyne, So..

            1. Pepeye
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 5 Years
              3 years, 1 month ago

              Smart move Lord of Ings. Arteta collecting touchline bottles this morning as 3 big supermarkets offering 10p per bottle returned

        3. tim
          • 16 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          89 here, too bad went with nketiah instead of saka, well doing marti to saka now.

      • FantasyTony
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Be interesting to see how Arteta handles a top 4 battle while still in the Europa league.

      • Nate(U)dog(ie)
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Get Saka up to 2 bonus for those 2 late tackles!

        1. Paqueta Rice
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Yummy baps

      • Zimo
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        No bonus Haaland back at it again

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

          Lucky he wasn't booked tbh

      • DycheDycheBaby
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Odegaard in for -4 and he still gets outscored by Martinelli lol

      • TheBiffas
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        No idea what a good score is this week. What's everyone on?

        1. TheTinman
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          78

        2. Gudjohnsen
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          88

        3. Pat Bonner
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          68

        4. villa_til_i_die
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          77

        5. Planet Head
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          98

          1. Planet Head
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            and 22 on the bench

        6. Nate(U)dog(ie)
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          74

        7. dunas_dog
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          88

        8. Dthinger
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          77

        9. BeaversWithAttitude
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          87

      • Mr. O'Connell
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        What to do with the triple Arsenal duds then?

        1. Planet Head
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Nothing. If, like me, you haven't planned for GW25

      • Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        70 all in, looks like. Looked a sight worse at the beginning of the afternoon, I must say.

      • Silecro
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Save ft here? Dont have any obvious transfer for gw24

        Ederson
        Trippier, Gabriel, Shaw
        Kdb, Marti, Ode, Rash
        Kane, Haaland, Mitro

        Ward, Andreas, Bueno, Amartey
        0.6itb

        1. Sun Jihai
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Marti needs to go but maybe worth rolling for BGW

          1. Silecro
            • 8 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            And probably will for Brighton asset after gw25

      • Sun Jihai
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        3 - De Bruyne (42)
        2 - Grealish (30)
        1 - Saka (28)
        Haaland (22)

        1. Zimo
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Saka is on 30 as well now

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

            Woohoo!

      • ☈☾
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Arteta out

      • Bucket Man
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Back outside the top 10k. Desperately trying to get my first top 10k finish but have been free falling other then last week. Experts what to do. Was going to roll to have 2FT to get an 11 in theory next game week. Martinelli in particular a problem though.

        1FT 3.4ITB

        Kepa
        Trippier, Shaw, Ake
        Bruno, Rashford, Mahrez, Odegaard, Martinelli*
        Kane, Haaland
        Ward, White, Patterson, Greenwood

        1. TheTinman
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          What chips do you have left?

          1. Bucket Man
            • 7 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            Free Hit and Bench Boost plus 2nd Wildcard

            1. TheTinman
              • 10 Years
              3 years, 1 month ago

              You will be fine for top 10k, in my experience the ranks become easier to gain in the last 10 or so gameweeks. There will be a lot of players above you who have used all chips and won't plan for the DGWs properly.

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

          My advice would be to roll the transfer. Stay calm.

          1. Bucket Man
            • 7 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            Thanks TinMan. Hopefully it works out that way.

      • Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Kev making up for the weekend, good man!

      • Zimo
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Bonus:

        Kevin 3
        Grealish Saka 2

      • Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        WARD matches Ederson -> HERO

      • Rainer
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Kick someone in the tunnel, Grealish!