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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, 1 month ago

    Saka G

    1. TheBiffas
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Quickfire brace?

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

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

  3. Debauchy
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Get innnn

  4. WVA
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Ederson is such a crap keeper

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

    Heart in my mouth when Odegaard picked that up lol

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

      Same as that lol

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

    Luck factor intensifies

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

    No points for me there

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

    Love you Bukayo!!!

  9. Hughes Your Daddy
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Nketiah assist, great

  10. EDUARDO DA SILVA
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Where is second yellow for this ugly clown?

    1. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Ref chickened out

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

    Ouch. No Saka, no Kdb.

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

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

  12. Royal5
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

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

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

      Double whammy

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

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

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

    Here we go!

  14. putana
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    SAKA AND NKETIAH DOUBLE UP BABY

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

    Not selling Martinelli for Saka is a season killer 🙁

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Ederson punts are going well then lol!

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

    That's an assist for Eddie rignt?

  21. Saka_me_sideways
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Ederson finally getting me some points

  22. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Eddie get a helper for that?

  23. gooberman
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Im sorry but Ederson really is an absolute liability.

  24. lilmessipran
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Ode spotted in the celebrations

  25. Steve McCroskey
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    KDB, Nketiah, Saka

    Just hook those points to my veins

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

      Oh yeah baby

  26. PogChamp
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Good game so far

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

      Terrible game

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

    Finish em Arsenal!

  28. Bartowski
    • 15 Years
    3 years, 1 month 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, 1 month ago

      Ederson is so stupid

  29. WVA
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    White Martinelli Odegaard owner

    Season over

  30. tikitaka123
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    SON OF GOD