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Wednesday’s match at the Emirates Stadium rounds off Gameweek 33, but there are some notable names on substitute duty this evening.

Arsenal v Crystal Palace gets underway at 20:00 BST.

Bukayo Saka, who picked up a knock in Sunday’s win over Ipswich Town, is on the bench.

Mikel Arteta has made four changes in total.

Ben White and Mikel Merino are not in the matchday squad, while Oleksandr Zinchenko is named among the substitutes alongside Saka.

In come Jurrien Timber, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Thomas Partey and Raheem Sterling.

Oliver Glasner has also decided to freshen up his starting XI.

He makes four alterations too, with Jefferson Lerma, Daichi Kamada, Justin Devenny and Eddie Nketiah replacing the suspended Chris Richards and benched Will Hughes, Ismaila Sarr and Jean-Philippe Mateta.

If Palace win tonight, it would mean Liverpool clinch the Premier League title.

LINE-UPS

Arsenal XI: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Kiwior, Lewis-Skelly, Partey, Odegaard, Rice, Sterling, Martinelli, Trossard

Subs: Neto, Tierney, Saka, Zinchenko, Butler-Oyedeji, Gower, Henry-Francis, Kabia, Nwaneri

Crystal Palace XI: Henderson, Munoz, Lerma, Lacroix, Guehi, Mitchell, Wharton, Kamada, Eze, Devenny, Nketiah

Subs: Turner, Ward, Franca, Sarr, Mateta, Clyne, Hughes, Esse, Kporha



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  1. Nightcrawler
    • 6 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Please taker sterling off

    Arteta just insulting fans by playing him over nwaneri

  2. riot
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    I've had worse dgw caps than Merino tbh

    1. Rwilliams90
      • 14 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      He's a massive success in the context of the others

  3. Nightcrawler
    • 6 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Trossard goal timber assist

    1. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
      • 16 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      Can he reach 30 pts?

      1. Utopsis
        • 6 Years
        11 months, 26 days ago

        He's no Salah

    2. brianutd-why always we? 20
      • 14 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      If only him not Saka c

  4. F4L
    • 11 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    trossard g
    timber a

  5. Gudjohnsen
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    F----- Trossard again

  6. TheBiffas
    • 5 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    No Kiwior, no Odegaard, no Eze, no Trossard, no Timber check?

  7. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Timber yes

    1. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      Nice

  8. shirtless
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Trossard my man !

  9. Atimis
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Why I have Saka over Trossard

    1. brianutd-why always we? 20
      • 14 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      And most of us

    2. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
      • 9 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      Picked Trossard, and captained 🙂

  10. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Mark killing it!

    1. brianutd-why always we? 20
      • 14 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      73 pts is not excessive

  11. Rwilliams90
    • 14 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Amazing that I have 6 players in one game and yet every goal has harmed my rank .

  12. WVA
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    seriously

    Me: Saliba Sarr, everyone else Kiwior Eze

    Sarr over Eze on WC was a joke

  13. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Thats my captain, again!!!

    1. Utopsis
      • 6 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      In 4th team?

      1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
        • 9 Years
        11 months, 26 days ago

        1st team. Linked 🙂

        1. Utopsis
          • 6 Years
          11 months, 26 days ago

          Haha that is exceptional - well done!

        2. g40steve
          • 8 Years
          11 months, 26 days ago

          Nice enjoy the points

  14. Utopsis
    • 6 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Given Arteta was clearly going to rotate, Trossard should have been given much more consideration than I did

    1. NZREDS
      • 12 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      This

  15. BUZZBOMB ♡
    • 11 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Live rank and ML lead has been in freefall since Sunday. This is a car crash.

  16. Hughes Your Daddy
    • 13 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Ha my brother in law TC Trossard this game week. Quite a differential.

  17. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Saka looks ready!

  18. The Philosopher
    • 5 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Went Sarr over Eze to afford Saka over Trossard on the WC lol

    1. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
      • 16 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      I got a little lucky wildcarding in Trossard when Saka was still uncertain.

    2. Eightball
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      It be like that sometimes. It was hard to look past Saka with these fixtures.

  19. Nightcrawler
    • 6 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    At least points for arteta AM (for now)

  20. snow pea in repose
    • 5 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Wildcarding to set myself up for DGWs 33-34 is turning out to be the dagger in my season

  21. DARE TO BISCAN
    • 7 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Kiwi goal, highlight of DGW34. Scraping the barrel.

  22. have you seen cyan
    • 6 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    I had Barnes last week, Trossard this week. And I capped Palmer and Marmoush, lol.

  23. snow pea in repose
    • 5 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Overall #1 for this gameweek is absolutely killing it

    1. Deulofail
      • 10 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      I have more than them

  24. Punned It
    • 1 Year
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Come on, Muñoz, you can still get a negative score!

    1. F4L
      • 11 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      he has absolute freedom today to attack, can see him sneaking a goal

      1. Punned It
        • 1 Year
        11 months, 26 days ago

        Yeah, an own goal.

        1. F4L
          • 11 Years
          11 months, 26 days ago

          😛

  25. HadiSLIM
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Triple up arsenal defence here.. 3 CS wiped.
    But have kiwior and eze. Cant complain much.

  26. Traction Engine Foot
    • 8 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    That Eze goal was my first attacking return in this dgw!

  27. RICICLE
    • 3 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    I must say, sitting down to see the Kiwior has nabbed me a goal has been the highlight of this whole miserable GW

    1. Eightball
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      Amen!

  28. have you seen cyan
    • 6 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    I wonder if Trossard is a pick for the rest of the season.

    1. Eightball
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      Not the best fixtures now though.

  29. chilli con kone
    • 12 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Who is likely to replace Tarkowski in the Everton defence? Will it be Keane or someone like Young with O’Brien moving to CB

  30. BUZZBOMB ♡
    • 11 Years
    11 months, 26 days ago

    Why do I constantly get adverts on here that intermittently say that it is so sad that Bradley Walsh, Gazza, Lulu and Les Dennis all live on their own in the village I do? Never ever seen any of them in the post office.

    1. One Flew Over The Goalies N…
      • 4 Years
      11 months, 26 days ago

      I've just started getting these too, weird