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

    Tomi is one lucky crybaby, for now.

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

    Don't own saka or KDB ffs

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

    Not doing martinelli to saka for a hit is looking a bit silly now!

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

    Kepa might outscore Ederson this GW yet...

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

      He's goated

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

    Great game & atmosphere!!!

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

      Rainer post-coital...

  6. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Brilliant night of football

    and points
    points
    points

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

    No sympathy for anyone who still doesn't own Saka at this point

    1. *Reformed-Character*
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Loooool, oh dear

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

      Only casuals and deadteam don’t have him.

  8. DBW - Slug's Mortgage …
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Ederson should be off there. Second yellow.

    Weak refereeing again.

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

      Very strong refereeing to make the initial call

      1. DBW - Slug's Mortgage …
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        True, I’m just being greedy

  9. Wenger's Warriors
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    I like these little player captions after each goal

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

    NKETIAH I LOVE YOU

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

      Love him even more if he scores...

  11. Totalfootball
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    This PL refs are a joke.
    So many times the players and GK collide and even more so he had (Nketiah) had taken his shot , 0 consistency .
    That too in SUCH a big game . Absurd call by the ref

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

      Damn rules

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

      Good decision this time. Absolutely clattered him, same as a late challenge

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

      Often in similar situations when the attacking player toepokes the ball away from goal and the GK makes contact, it's given as a penalty. How is it different that Nketiah attempts a shot instead of toepoking the ball out, when the outcome is the same? Good and brave call by Taylor.

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

    Mahrez has been invisible

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

    Mahrez spotted

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

    Weird hearing the crowd at the Emirates this season. Shows having a good team on the pitch can get the fans to be vocal.

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

      Yeah it's buzzing there tonight

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

    At this point a Ben White 1 pointer from the bench is my only differential

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

    Seriously why is Silva leftback.

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

      Got to be embarrassing for the player too. Could knock his confidence for the considerable future

    2. Utopsis
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Pep is a nutter

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

    Silva has been shocking

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

      Playing Oop in a big game, never easy for any player..I still think selling Cancelo was a mistake regardless of the talent City has.

  18. Eleven Hag
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    It feels like, in this city system, Gundagon is going to go on one of those runs like last season and will start a bandwagon once again

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

      I was thinking similar

      1. Eleven Hag
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Yeah may have got him if not for the Liverpools double

  19. Count of Monte Hristo
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Salah for DGW25

    Yay or Nay?

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

      Captain!

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

        How many moves do you need to afford him?

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

          Bye bye Kevin!

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

      Two great fixtures which means he'll completely ghost both

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

        Every time I have bought him this season he has blanked every time so I am skeptical this time.

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

      For Kdb, yes

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

    Bernardo will have to be subbed before he sees red.

    Walker booked too.

    Squeaky bum time for Lewis owners!

  21. Free Hat
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Have to say first half couldnt go much better as a kdb,nketiah,saka owner with White bench and no city defense...

    May the luck continue second half

    1. Danno - Emre Canada
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Ditto, lovely feeling to have for once, I’m sure that can all quickly change in the second half.

      1. Free Hat
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Lets enjoy it while it lasts!

        Just glad kdb finally returned, because it was looking grim seeing his positioning,play again

        1. Danno - Emre Canada
          • 11 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Yep for sure, then a benching against Forest and then he’s out for Salah, so could be a decent leaving pressie or at least a cheeky second half assist.

          1. Free Hat
            • 7 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            Although Im short on gw25 players, and city play bournemouth, I will probably remove him as well.
            Salah not looking great either, but at least he gets into promising positions.

  22. The Tinkerman
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Rico coming on would be -100k rank for me 😀

    1. Eleven Hag
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Praying he won't

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

        A loss of six points for me if he does. At least until his inevitable yellow, then seven.

        1. Eleven Hag
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          All of Shaws points for me

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

            Pervis for me.

    2. SirWenger
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      He will on pitch after break

  23. Sandy Ravage
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    How's Odegaard looking?

    1. Free Hat
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      The least of the attacking trio.
      Not been involved much

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

      Do you remember Eric Djemba-Djemba?

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

        So bad they named him twice!

  24. Salan
    • 16 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    No CS is nice

    1. It's Fergie Time
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Man United legend

  25. Thanos
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Think it was a very harsh penalty.

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

      Not at all imo. Ederson can stand and block, affecting the play, but the moment he fouls a player, he loses that right. Because it's a foul. If it's not a foul, then there's no incentive for him to even go fir the ball

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

    Walker's yellow basically ensures my Rico one-pointer now, doesn't it?

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

      He's almost guaranteed to come on with both full backs carded and looking vulnerable

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

        Not like he's much of an upgrade, to be fair.

  27. rnrd
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Mahrez is having the typical game that would see him dropped from the starting 11 for 2 months

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

      Silva should be gone by now

  28. Tonyawesome69
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Pep needs to change to a flat back 4

  29. DBW - Slug's Mortgage …
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Bernardo will be off at HT. One more foul and he’s off

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

    Crossbar from rodri