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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. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Saka G

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

      Quickfire brace?

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

    Finally Saka gets a pen, can't remember the last one he got

  3. Debauchy
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Get innnn

  4. WVA
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Ederson is such a crap keeper

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

    Heart in my mouth when Odegaard picked that up lol

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

      Think more teams are getting a random to hold the ball before a penalty whilst VAR checks happen so the opposition don't get in the face of the actual taker.

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

      Same as that lol

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

    Luck factor intensifies

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

      I think Mahrez & KDB owners have had their fair share this GW, it's only fair.

  7. brianutd-why always we? 20
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    No points for me there

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

    Love you Bukayo!!!

  9. Hughes Your Daddy
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Nketiah assist, great

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

    Where is second yellow for this ugly clown?

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

      Ref chickened out

  11. BobbyDoesNotLook
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Ouch. No Saka, no Kdb.

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

      And I have both as differential in my mini league. Woo!

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

    Hpw the hell did Wderson not get a second YC!?

    1. ☈☾
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Double whammy

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

        You're thinking of red cards (when player is going for the ball)

    2. Deulofail
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I never know when or why a yellow is or isn't given when giving away a pen. This seemed like it should have been a yellow to me but clearly I don't know the rules

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

    Here we go!

  14. putana
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    SAKA AND NKETIAH DOUBLE UP BABY

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

    Not selling Martinelli for Saka is a season killer 🙁

    1. AgentRed
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Yeah I’ve got this headache too. Gabriel not doing anything for me either.

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

    Can't help but think Ederson isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer

  17. bombonera
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Do that anywhere else on the pitch and it's a definite yellow card. Ederson very lucky to still be on the pitch

  18. TomSaints
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    6 players in this game. Looking like 9 points tonight =[

  19. Milk, 1 Šuker
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Ederson punts are going well then lol!

  20. Gudjohnsen
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    That's an assist for Eddie rignt?

  21. Saka_me_sideways
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Ederson finally getting me some points

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

    Eddie get a helper for that?

  23. gooberman
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Im sorry but Ederson really is an absolute liability.

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

    Ode spotted in the celebrations

  25. Steve McCroskey
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    KDB, Nketiah, Saka

    Just hook those points to my veins

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

      Oh yeah baby

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

    Good game so far

    1. ☈☾
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Terrible game

  27. villa_til_i_die
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Finish em Arsenal!

  28. Bartowski
    • 15 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    I mean he went exactly where Edersen was pointing, not sure why he then jumped the other way.

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

      Ederson is so stupid

  29. WVA
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    White Martinelli Odegaard owner

    Season over

  30. tikitaka123
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    SON OF GOD