Arsenal v Palace team news: Zinchenko fit, Martinelli benched

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Rogers	AVL	7.2m	117.4%	Very Likely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	94.6%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	94.4%	Unlikely
James	CHE	5.6m	94.1%	Unlikely
Woltemade	NEW	7.3m	83.8%	Unlikely
O'Reilly	MCI	5.3m	81.4%	Unlikely
L.Miley	NEW	4.4m	80.4%	Unlikely
Dalot	MUN	4.4m	76.6%	Unlikely
Mukiele	SUN	4.2m	75.7%	Unlikely
Chalobah	CHE	5.5m	75.1%	Unlikely
Ekitiké	LIV	8.9m	71.6%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.6m	73.7%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.3m	69.4%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	68.1%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	66.0%	Unlikely
Stach	LEE	4.8m	65.3%	Unlikely
Tete	FUL	4.5m	65.3%	Unlikely
Alderete	SUN	4.0m	63.1%	Unlikely
Gravenberch	LIV	5.6m	60.1%	Unlikely
Watkins	AVL	8.5m	60.7%	Unlikely
Lewis-Potter	BRE	4.8m	57.8%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.5m	58.0%	Unlikely
Cunha	MUN	8.0m	54.5%	Unlikely
Mount	MUN	5.9m	55.4%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	54.7%	Unlikely
Gordon	NEW	7.3m	52.9%	Unlikely
Raya	ARS	6.0m	53.3%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	51.6%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.8m	49.0%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	48.5%	Unlikely
Trossard	ARS	6.9m	46.3%	Unlikely
Evanilson	BOU	7.0m	45.9%	Unlikely
Flemming	BUR	5.3m	45.4%	Unlikely
Cash	AVL	4.9m	43.6%	Unlikely
Sánchez	CHE	4.9m	43.3%	Unlikely
Smith Rowe	FUL	5.6m	43.1%	Unlikely
Semenyo	BOU	7.7m	42.5%	Unlikely
Kamara	AVL	4.9m	42.8%	Unlikely
Saliba	ARS	5.9m	40.4%	Unlikely
Pickford	EVE	5.5m	39.8%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Nallo	LIV	3.8m	102.6%	Very Likely
Vicario	TOT	4.9m	102.2%	Very Likely
Strand Larsen	WOL	6.2m	102.1%	Very Likely
Mamardashvili	LIV	4.3m	101.4%	Very Likely
March	BHA	5.8m	101.4%	Very Likely
Mosquera	ARS	5.4m	101.2%	Very Likely
Piroe	LEE	5.0m	101.0%	Very Likely
Coleman	EVE	4.3m	100.6%	Very Likely
Balcombe	BRE	4.0m	100.6%	Very Likely
Kulusevski	TOT	6.4m	100.6%	Very Likely
Neave	NEW	4.4m	100.4%	Very Likely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	100.4%	Very Likely
Tasker	BHA	3.9m	100.1%	Very Likely
Nørgaard	ARS	5.2m	99.8%	Maybe
McAtee	NFO	5.1m	99.4%	Maybe
Pedro Porro	TOT	5.3m	98.2%	Maybe
Jair Cunha	NFO	4.3m	97.6%	Maybe
Barnes	BUR	4.3m	97.1%	Maybe
Tchaouna	BUR	4.9m	96.9%	Maybe
Doucouré	CRY	4.9m	95.3%	Maybe
L.Guilherme	WHU	4.9m	95.1%	Maybe
Fitzgerald	MUN	4.4m	95.0%	Maybe
Isidor	SUN	5.5m	94.3%	Unlikely
Muñoz	CRY	5.9m	94.2%	Unlikely
James	LEE	5.3m	94.4%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.3%	Unlikely
Fer López	WOL	5.2m	93.5%	Unlikely
Udogie	TOT	4.4m	93.5%	Unlikely
Webster	BHA	4.4m	93.3%	Unlikely
Nwaneri	ARS	5.1m	92.8%	Unlikely
Bevan	BOU	3.9m	92.8%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	91.2%	Unlikely
Trafford	MCI	4.6m	90.8%	Unlikely
Broggio	AVL	4.5m	90.3%	Unlikely
De Ligt	MUN	5.0m	89.4%	Unlikely
Yoro	MUN	4.3m	88.2%	Unlikely
Hannibal	BUR	4.8m	87.7%	Unlikely
Thiago	BRE	7.1m	86.9%	Unlikely
Robertson	LIV	5.8m	87.5%	Unlikely
Odobert	TOT	5.3m	85.1%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C
No Change	Alisson	LIV	B, Vs
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	B, Vs, Sus
No Change	Kelleher	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 20 Dec, 2025 12:40am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	B, Vs
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Andersen	FUL	C
No Change	Marc Guehi	CRY	A
No Change	van den Berg	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	B
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	B
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	A
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 20 Dec, 2025 12:42am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	A
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
No Change	Foden	MCI	A, Vs
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	C
No Change	Szoboszlai	LIV	B, Vs, Inj, Sus
No Change	Minteh	BHA	C
No Change	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	B, Sus
No Change	Schade	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Anderson	NFO	B, £

Last updated: 20 Dec, 2025 12:49am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Thiago	BRE	B, Vs, Inj
Up	Ekitiké	LIV	A, Vs
Up	Bowen	WHU	A
Down	Mateta	CRY	C
Down	Woltemade	NEW	B, Rest

Last updated: 20 Dec, 2025 12:51am

Dugout Discussion

Arsenal v Palace team news: Zinchenko fit, Martinelli benched

20 January 2024 821 comments

Skonto Rigga

After a week-long pause, Gameweek 21 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) resumes at the Emirates this Saturday lunchtime.

Arsenal v Crystal Palace gets underway at 12:30 GMT.

As for the all-important team news, Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko are back from injury to make Mikel Arteta’s starting XI.

Eddie Nketiah and Jakub Kiwior make way.

The one other notable change from the New Year’s Eve defeat to Fulham sees Gabriel Martinelli drop to the bench, with Leandro Trossard coming into the side to replace him.

Crystal Palace were, like the Gunners, last in league action three weeks ago.

Compared to the line-up that Roy Hodgson sent out in Gameweek 20, there are only two changes to the Eagles XI – both of which are enforced.

Michael Olise is injured and Jordan Ayew is away at the African Cup of Nations, so into the team come Will Hughes and Jeffrey Schlupp.

The fit-again Sam Johnstone is among the substitutes.

Bukayo Saka was handed the armband by over one million Fantasy managers in Gameweek 21.

Just over 44% of the top 10,000 FPL bosses did just that, making him the most captained player among the front runners.

GAMEWEEK 21 LINE-UPS

Arsenal XI: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Odegaard, Rice, Havertz, Saka, Jesus, Trossard.

Subs: Ramsdale, Smith Rowe, Martinelli, Nketiah, Kiwior, Cedric, Jorginho, Nelson, Walters.

Crystal Palace XI: Henderson, Clyne, Andersen, Guehi, Mitchell, Lerma, Richards, Eze, Hughes, Mateta, Schlupp.

Subs: Johnstone, Tomkins, Franca, Edouard, Ebiowei, Ahamada, Riedewald, Adaramola, Ozoh.

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el polako
1 year, 11 months ago
Lol at everyone.
#inclusivefpl
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Philosopher's Stones
1 year, 11 months ago
After my worst ever start to a season, pretty pleased with climbing from 4.7m -> 1.1m in about 8 GWs. Now comes the part of climbing more and trying to break into the Top 100k.
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The Mandalorian
1 year, 11 months ago
Arteta has killed off the direct fast attack from wingers such as Saka. Instead he wants the ball moved centrally through the likes of Havertz and play has slowed down

Odegaard has been pushed back or over to the right and Martinelli not normally allowed to make direct runs into space.

Arteta made a tactical change today by taking of Havertz and giving Martinelli space to attack on the counter with Smith Rowe running in behind.

As an fpl asset, Saka looks done under this system.
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1. drughi
  1 year, 11 months ago
  for sure, atleast I think there will be no hauls so you could go palmer, gordon, dluiz kdb and salah in midfield and TAA, porro and estu in the back and haaland, watkins and solanke/toney up top
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2. Tonyawesome69
  1 year, 11 months ago
  All about having the ball and wanting to control the game, less chaos through the WFs
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Scapegoat Salah
1 year, 11 months ago
I’m back
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1. Berkshire Hafaway-Line
  1 year, 11 months ago
  ...from Ladbrokes''
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2. Philosopher's Stones
  1 year, 11 months ago
  Stop the betting though, lad
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3. Count of Monte Hristo
  1 year, 11 months ago
  Two words, Betway Boost!
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Headers
1 year, 11 months ago
Saka to KDB while holding onto Salah?
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1. Tonyawesome69
  1 year, 11 months ago
  Strange selling a player that is not injured and not away on international duty
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2. Not again Shirley
  1 year, 11 months ago
  Bear in mind, even though Saka poor today, he does have Forest next up.
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3. Headers
  1 year, 11 months ago
  Strange gains
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4. GreennRed
  1 year, 11 months ago
  Sell Salah.
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Mom, Butters just gave me a…
1 year, 11 months ago
Just spotted that KDB already went up another 0.1 up again. Crazy. Compared to how slowly Haaland is dropping.

Well, good luck with that early buyers. We all know, the Spurs cup game can change things again.
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1. Baps Hunter
  1 year, 11 months ago
  KdB says he is not fit to start yet. Yes, KdB, Jota, Darwin and Martinelli can brace from bench, but it has never been sustainable.
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Tonyawesome69
1 year, 11 months ago
Arteta on injury scares:
No, (Rice) was feeling some tightness. I don’t know what muscle it was. When he says that at 3-0 then we don’t want to take any risks. The same with big Gabi he had some discomfort from a tackle so we took him off.

https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/fixtures-results/arsenal-press-conference-live-mikel-28483536
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Dammit_182
1 year, 11 months ago
Might be failing at the ‘areola/raya’ keeper combo. Honestly thought palace would get a goal in this one. Thumping win from gunners!
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1. Tonyawesome69
  1 year, 11 months ago
  Olise out has a big impact in Palace attack
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  1. Dammit_182
    1 year, 11 months ago
    Very true. Might just go back to playing one of them every week as I’ve messed up the rotation since Christmas
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  2. Eze Really?
    1 year, 11 months ago
    And the 5 goals they let in? (smile)
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The Pep Revolution
1 year, 11 months ago
I'm selling Saka to KDB, he just isn't providing returns.
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1. drughi
  1 year, 11 months ago
  Same, would be some luck if he finally returns big against forrest though. Classic fpl
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  1. The Pep Revolution
    1 year, 11 months ago
    True could happen but KDB could also match his score playing against Burnley.
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2. Perbert
  1 year, 11 months ago
  Wait till the spurs game though?
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3. Baps Hunter
  1 year, 11 months ago
  I need to see if Bowen gets any service first. Saka is hungry in next game and I expect him to bounce back.
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The Ilfordian
1 year, 11 months ago
Watford pen
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EffPeeEll
1 year, 11 months ago
swings and roundabouts
felt robbed early on in the season when Gabriel went missing one weekend...but today's 18 pointer is sweet.
he's moved me into 18k
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1. Eze Really?
  1 year, 11 months ago
  Some sympathy please. Sold him just before. Martinelli benched. Rescued last 10 minutes. My mistake but meant to cap Palmer but did not save and stuck with Saka, GRRR
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Eze Really?
1 year, 11 months ago
Can't use the t word but gambling ok.
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1. Eze Really?
  1 year, 11 months ago
  Where is Munday?
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  1. Eze Really?
    1 year, 11 months ago
    Only Skonto worth following now. Why are you guys running scared about Munday?
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PartyTime
1 year, 11 months ago
Saka cappers are starting to annoy me. Why are you acting as if he hasn’t been struggling to explode.

When was the last time Saka bagged a double digit return?! You guys should please let us breath, enough of whining already. Acting as if Saka was going to score 10 pts.
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AARON-1
1 year, 11 months ago
Trippier could well be on his way to Bayern
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Joke Insurance™
1 year, 11 months ago
Goal by Danilo

Let's get 10 more people to announce this!
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T C
1 year, 11 months ago
Steele above Estu on BPS now, Estu on projected 2.
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